More than 100 AI and cybersecurity firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft, warned the federal government that a major cyberattack wave could hit within months as AI aut…
The U.S. National Science Foundation announced a $90 million investment over five years to establish three new Science and Technology Centers, including one focused on robotics. The Center for Human a…
Open-source marketing mix modeling (OS-MMM) packages such as Google's Meridian, Meta's Robyn, and PyMC Marketing are gaining traction as privacy changes like GDPR, COPPA, and Apple's IDFA deprecation …
Anthropic, the firm behind the AI model Claude, has announced that text generated by any models launched on or after 2 August will be invisibly watermarked to indicate AI authorship, with images carry…
Researchers at Northwestern University introduced EITWatch, an open-source ESP32-S3-based smartwatch that uses planar Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) with eight electrodes on the back of the cas…
Google Cloud is collaborating with MLCommons through the MedPerf initiative to use Confidential Computing for privacy-first benchmarking of medical AI models, enabling validation on diverse real-world…
Cloudflare will block AI and search crawlers by default for new and free-tier publishers starting September 15, with Financial Times, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, USA Today, and Beehiiv among those prepa…
Two complementary Northwestern University studies published in Science Advances found that humans and mice share an ancient neural system for processing smells, despite vastly different breathing patt…
U.S. universities are rapidly expanding AI courses and degree programs beyond computer science as hiring for entry-level software developers slows and computer science enrollment drops 8% this spring,…
College enrollment in computer and information science programs has declined by more than 8% at four-year institutions from spring 2025, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center…
Engineers at Northwestern University have developed a spinning drone named 'Phantom Twist' that uses motion blur to hide in plain sight, spinning up to 25 times per second to appear as a ghostly smudg…
U.S. judges are both policing and adopting AI in the courtroom, with more than 60% of 112 federal judges surveyed by Northwestern University and the New York City Bar Association reporting they have u…
Northwestern University engineers have developed a brain-inspired electronic device that detects anomalies with over 98% accuracy using roughly 10,000 times fewer computer operations than conventional…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting the 2026-2027 academic year, part of an "AI-resilient pedagogy and assessments" strategy to foste…
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…