New Orleans is using AI to answer some 911 calls, but only for a narrow category of incoming calls within 200 meters of an already-reported vehicle crash and only when dispatchers are busy, according …
Northeastern University data analytics engineering master's student Sai Anish Sreeramagiri, an AI engineer intern at Penguin AI, is using generative AI to reduce administrative burdens in hospitals, s…
A study by researchers at Northeastern University and international institutions found that AI chatbots are significantly better than humans at executing 'pig butchering' scams, with 47% of participan…
Graduate student Harsh Raj of Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences is working on co-ops at Scale AI and Bespoke Labs to find data sources that could train large language model…
Northeastern University scientist Arun Bansil and his team have developed an AI scientist capable of autonomously running X-ray experiments and adapting its approach in real time, as reported in the J…
The United States is intensifying efforts to block Chinese AI hardware, with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issuing rules that ban imports of Chinese humanoid robots, solar inverters, and…
Apple has raised prices across its product lineup, including a $200 increase for the standard MacBook Air to $1,299, due to a global computer chip shortage driven by AI data center demands, according …
Professor Cheng Tan of Northeastern University proposes a precise technical definition of AI-native systems, arguing that AI-nativeness is determined not by the amount of AI a system contains but by w…
Northeastern University professor Hossein Mosallaei and his team received the U.S. Department of Energy's AI Genesis Award to advance research on brain-inspired computing devices called Self-Driving M…
Northeastern University industrial engineering student Sierre Ternoey developed an agentic AI tool that diagnoses and fixes errors in chemical plant blueprints, passing 26 of 30 test cases during her …
Beth Simone Noveck, a professor at Northeastern University and former Chief AI Strategist for New Jersey, argues in her new book 'Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy' that AI can strengthen demo…
Americans are spending less time on hobbies, socializing, and community activities, which research shows can improve workplace creativity and resilience, even as AI increases the value of these unique…
A Northeastern/Berkeley team's True Thinking Score, surveying 11 open-weight reasoning models, found that 30–60% of reasoning steps on math benchmarks are 'decorative' — deleting them does not change …
Northeastern University's Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems has developed GENESIS, a self-driven agentic AI framework that writes, tests, and debugs code from natural language prompts, poten…
Northeastern University scientists from the Neural Dynamics Group developed eGoT (enhanced graph of thoughts), an algorithm that teaches large language models to connect information across biomedical …
A 2025 global Ipsos survey found 53% of respondents say AI has already changed their lives, and two-thirds expect further societal change, as Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno…
Northeastern University researchers found that eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still provide harmful information on substance use, eating disorders, and other mental …
A Northeastern University researcher found that linear probes can identify which layers of a transformer model are critical for a task, enabling selective quantization that preserves 99–100% of full-p…
A political backlash against data centers is intensifying across the U.S., with at least 500 organized opposition groups and 70% of Americans opposing new construction near them, according to a Gallup…
Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju, a 2024 Northeastern University graduate with a master's degree in data analytics engineering, now works at Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence division in Boston deve…