A developer benchmarked DFlash, a diffusion-model-based speculative decoding drafter from Z-Lab, against Gemma-4-12B-it's native Assistant MTP model on an RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM using llama.cpp. DFla…
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…
The National Science Foundation launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Operations Center on Tuesday to support the NAIRR's transition from a pilot into a permanent part of the…
Moderna and Merck announced that their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, Intismeran Autogene, combined with the immunotherapy Keytruda, reduced the risk of melanoma recurrence by 49% within five years…
Microsoft's AI for Good Lab and UC San Diego's ALERTCalifornia network, comprising nearly 1,300 cameras, now processes over 7 million images daily to detect wildfires as early as 2.5 hours before the …
UC San Diego researchers, led by doctoral student Sam Crow and cybersecurity expert Aaron Schulman, demonstrated a hack into a Boeing 737's flight management computer in under 60 seconds using a quart…
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…
University of California student body president argues that the UC system's dismantling of diversity support programs and consideration of reinstating SAT/ACT requirements, in compliance with the Trum…
Shaowei Liu is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research's Fundamental Generative AI Research Group, where he focuses on video generation and dynamic world modeling. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Scie…
Inco AI released DFlash 2, an updated version of its parallel speculative-decoding method, reporting a 21% increase in average accepted token sequence length over the original DFlash, with only 1.3% a…
Biologists are creating human brain organoids—lab-grown clumps of neurons that can send electrical signals—and using them to guide robots, test psychedelics, and play video games, with researchers at …
AMD introduced VSA (Video Sparse Attention), a hardware-efficient sparse attention mechanism implemented with CK Tile, achieving a 3.31× attention kernel-time speedup at 70% sparsity over FlashAttenti…
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 …