Two more artificial intelligence researchers told NBC News' Tom Llamas they see a potential threat to humanity from AI, following a viral tweet by AI researcher Jacob Coxon stating he believed AI coul…
Unconventional AI announced the first cohort of its 2026 Unconventional Grant, awarding $100,000 each to five projects selected from nearly 100 submissions. The winning projects are based at Stanford,…
Fetch.ai's Innovation Lab has deployed custom autonomous AI agents at San José State University and California State University, Long Beach, built on its uAgents framework, Agentverse platform, and AS…
Research presented at NeurIPS 2025 from the MAST taxonomy, developed by UC Berkeley researchers, found that 79% of multi-agent system failures stem from specification and coordination problems rather …
More than 1,300 researchers and engineers signed an open letter on AI safety whose significance UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell analyzed in a guest article for The Guardian. The letter and Russel…
UC Berkeley researchers developed GPN-Star, a genomic language model that identifies disease-linked genetic variants using whole-genome alignments instead of raw DNA sequences, slashing training time …
Emergent Ventures, a fellowship program by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, announced its 59th cohort of winners, including 15-year-old Maximilian Kornstein from the Atlanta area, who i…
UC Berkeley researchers released CUA-Lite, an open platform unifying sandboxes, data, evaluation, and reinforcement learning for computer-use agents, with Lite.OSWorld reproducing the OSWorld task sui…
Lumeria, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup, is taking $199 preorders for Lumoscope, a phone-mounted AI skin scanner that uses RGB, UV, and polarized light to track skin changes, with US shipments exp…
A new analysis from the AI Infrastructure Insight series argues that faster GPUs alone cannot deliver AI performance, citing a UC Berkeley, ICSI, and LBNL paper showing that over the past 20 years, pe…
Researchers from UC Berkeley and MIT released FreeToken, an open-source inference engine that enables frontier Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to run on consumer hardware via dynamic co-execution, ach…
Neo4j's Going Meta Season 3 recap highlights the growing industry consensus that AI agents require ontologies, as argued by Frank Coyle of UC Berkeley at the AI Engineer World's Fair. The season's epi…
Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, 73, confirmed he used artificial intelligence to write a Wall Street Journal op-ed criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's plan to double government …
Early bird pricing for RoboBusiness 2026, the leading event for commercial robotics developers, ends Aug. 31, 2026, saving attendees $200 on full conference passes and $40 on expo-only passes. The eve…
Employers are pushing employees to use public Slack channels instead of private messages so AI agents can access workplace context, with Zapier CEO Wade Foster reporting he posts 79% of his messages p…
Researchers from UT Austin and UC Berkeley released FreeToken, an edge-native Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) serving engine that adapts model execution to available hardware bandwidth, enabling a 753B GLM-5…
A UC Berkeley math professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, admitted to using AI to edit her August 15th essay that criticized students' preparedness, after the AI detector Pangram flagged the piece as 33% AI-…
Anthropic reported that AI agents consume roughly 4× the tokens of a chat interaction, and multi-agent setups around 15×, according to its production data. A UC Berkeley team built MAST, a taxonomy of…
Researchers from UC Berkeley and UT Austin released FreeToken, an edge-native Mixture-of-Experts serving engine that runs the 753B-parameter GLM-5.2 model on a single workstation GPU, achieving 35B at…
A wave of AI-detection failures has led to high-profile publishing cancellations, including Hachette's withdrawal of Mia Ballard's horror novel 'Shy Girl' and the cancellation of Jerry Falade's $2 mil…