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…