Researchers at Princeton University and UC San Diego ran 8,135 test runs and found that AI agent 'skills' improve performance primarily through procedural grounding, which accounted for 65.7 percent o…
Google announced on Wednesday a dedicated student hub with AI study tools on its Gemini assistant and Google Search, including study notebooks, flash cards, practice quizzes, and 3D simulations. The c…
A new essay in The New York Times warns that students' reliance on AI for writing is eroding their ability to think, citing cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg, who said 'Writing is a technology …
Princeton computer-science professor Arvind Narayanan, co-author of 'AI Snake Oil,' argues that public backlash against AI stems not from fear of thinking machines but from a coalition of anxieties in…
Researchers at Princeton University and the Indian Institute of Technology have used artificial intelligence to design chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could create, according to …
A new study led by Peter Kirgis and Sayash Kapoor at Princeton University found that AI agents are not yet capable of conducting open-ended AI research, as they lack the judgment and creativity needed…
A new benchmark called DiG-bench, comprising 70 games designed to test AI systems' ability to discover hidden rules through interaction, shows that current frontier models struggle, with only Opus 5 a…
MathCode, an open-source terminal AI coding assistant from the Math-AI research community, converts plain-language math problems into Lean 4 theorems and attempts formal proofs, with a project page da…
NASA reported on August 14 that researchers in its COFFIES center developed a sliding-window Transformer to forecast solar active-region emergence from Solar Dynamics Observatory measurements, with th…
A study posted on arXiv in late July found that AI systems are not yet capable of fully automating open-ended research, with an AI system built by Princeton University researchers scoring 2/6 and 1/6 …
A new study led by the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) found that underground thermal energy storage can reduce annual electricity costs for cooling data centers by up to 70%, roughly $20 mil…
Alan Turing (1912–1954), the mathematician and logician who laid the foundations for modern computing and artificial intelligence, is remembered for his 1936 Universal Turing Machine concept and for c…
A new paper from Princeton University and UK AISI finds that frontier AI agents cannot yet conduct open-ended AI research, as expert authors rejected both agent-produced papers in two case studies. Th…
On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had produced a counterexample to the unit distance problem, a conjecture posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first historically signifi…
Researchers at Princeton University, led by Professor Ken Norman, have developed a system that reconstructs images from brain activity measured by fMRI in real time, producing reconstructions about 15…
A new study from researchers at Princeton University, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and other organizations found that frontier AI agents failed to prod…
Alcorn State University history professor Dr. Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students cheating on a midterm assignment by embedding a hidden white-font instruction that prompted AI chatbots to include t…
Tokenless, a San Francisco startup founded by Princeton PhD student Rohit Agarwal and UC Berkeley alumni Andrew Liu and Kevin W., has launched an LLM router that begins each request on multiple models…
History professor Jason Gibson caught 32 of 35 students using AI-generated answers on a midterm after hiding the word 'Madagascar' in the instructions, leading to nonsensical responses such as 'Madaga…
Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, caught 32 of his 35 students using AI to cheat on a midterm after he hid a prompt in white font instructing the AI to inclu…