Northwestern University engineers developed a brain-inspired electronic device that detects anomalies with 98% accuracy using 10,000 times fewer computer operations than conventional AI. The device mi…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting in the 2026-2027 academic year to foster independent critical thinking amid pervasive AI tools. T…
Economists warn that AI poses a greater threat to back-office jobs like customer service representatives, bookkeepers, and payroll clerks than to software engineers, as these roles are more vulnerable…
A study of 40 million papers found that scientists using AI publish more and advance faster, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same problems, reducing scientific diversity. The findings, publi…
Northwestern University researchers developed a cerebellum-inspired memtransistor that detects unexpected events with high accuracy while using 10,000 times fewer computer operations than conventional…
A proposal for a US-China AI safety hotline faces obstacles from mistrust and fear among Chinese American scientists, exacerbated by cases like Jane Ying Wu's suicide after an NIH investigation. The a…
Overture Games, a Chicago-based startup backed by Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, runs after-school AI workshops where students use paper-and-pencil worksheets to brainstorm ide…
Former U.S. Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras argues that bringing one's authentic self to work hinders teamwork and professionalism, advocating instead for a professional self that prioritizes team…
AI companies are offering to fund library digitization in exchange for training rights, prompting the University of Virginia to publish a 'Statement of Shared Practice' with six commitments to separat…
A machine-learning screen of 2.6 million cancer papers found nearly 10% show signs of paper mill fraud, while fabricated citations in biomedical papers have grown twelve-fold in two years, reaching on…
A new study from researchers at Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, and All Hands AI reveals that frontier LLM agents waste 28–64% of tokens on tasks they are doomed to fail. The paper, BAGEN: Are LLM Ag…
Researchers from Northwestern University, Tilde Research, and the University of Washington have introduced Parallax, a parameterized Local Linear Attention mechanism that preserves softmax attention w…