Caltrans secured a permit to build an 8-foot steel mesh barrier and install 20 AI-powered cameras on the San Diego-Coronado Bridge as part of a $145 million project to prevent suicides, after more tha…
BlueQubit and research partners received $1.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy Genesis Mission grants on July 22 for projects applying AI and high-performance simulation to quantum error correctio…
A UC San Diego professor found that KARR's anti-theft system, installed in over 2.2 million cars, can be exploited via Bluetooth to unlock and immobilize vehicles from 5 yards away using just a smartp…
Path Robotics is deploying AI-driven welding systems that use real-time vision guidance to optimize torch paths and robotic movements, improving precision and efficiency in manufacturing and shipbuild…
Ten scientists have left the US and UK for China in 2026, led by Nobel chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi, who moved to Tsinghua University. The exodus is driven by US federal funding cuts, including thous…
In a world first, surgeons at UC San Diego successfully performed gallbladder removals in large mammals using remotely controlled humanoid robots called Surgie. The proof-of-concept trial, published i…
Google.org is providing $1.8 million to UC San Diego's Societal Computing and Innovation Lab to support the Wildfire Science and Technology Commons, an AI-enabled platform for wildfire response. The f…
A 2026 study from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and UIUC found that context pruning—masking stale observations from an AI agent's history—improves accuracy by up to 11.7 points in some setups …
Cailin O'Connor (UC Irvine) and Craig Callender (UC San Diego) have published an open letter calling for philosophy journals to require authors to disclose industry ties and conflicts of interest, cit…
UC San Diego researchers are using two new awards to study women's brain health and Alzheimer's disease, which affects nearly two-thirds of women. One $50 million award funds projects on menopausal ho…
UC San Diego researchers developed DFlash, a speculative decoding method that uses a lightweight block diffusion model to draft entire token blocks in parallel, achieving up to 6.08x speedup on Qwen3-…
University of Michigan researchers released AFUN, a new affordance model that predicts both where a robot should touch an object and how it should move after contact, aiming to bridge robot perception…
Biwei Huang's Aether AI raised $20 million in seed funding on June 17 to develop causal world models for robots, aiming to enable machines to reason about cause and effect rather than just correlation…
Aether AI, a San Diego-based startup, raised $20mn in seed funding to develop causal world models that teach machines cause and effect, challenging the industry's focus on scaling larger models. The c…
Researchers from UC San Diego and Stanford University found that electrical pulses applied to sea squirts triggered long-lasting health improvements and extended lifespans, with 75% of treated sea squ…
Google Research and UC San Diego have repurposed 2,000 retired Pixel phones into a data center that matches the performance of 50 traditional servers, achieving higher per-thread CPU scores than AMD E…