The journal Nature Reviews Physics published a forward-looking review article by an international team of scientists on self-organizing physical networks that compute directly within hardware rather t…
Princeton's Pravesh Kothari, UCLA's Raghu Meka, and UC Berkeley's Prasad Raghavendra proposed a separate "conceptual track" for theoretical computer science conferences including STOC, FOCS, and SODA …
Two high school students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, working with UCLA postdoctoral fellow Daniel Soskin, published a 75-page arXiv paper titled "Bounded Ratios for Lorentzian Polynomials" tha…
Two Oak Park High School students, Aayush Bathija and Prince Rohatgi, and UCLA mathematics postdoc Daniel Soskin posted an arXiv paper titled "Bounded ratios for Lorentzian polynomials" that fully des…
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…
China's People's Liberation Army is accelerating efforts to deploy humanoid robots for combat, with a Reuters review of over 100 procurement notices, studies, and patents revealing military applicatio…
China's military is preparing to deploy humanoid robots for combat, according to a review of more than 100 procurement notices, academic papers, patents, and defense-company documents. The People's Li…
Hemut, a Y Combinator Spring 2025 company, has launched an AI-native operating system for trucking carriers and brokers, combining ERP and TMS to automate back-office work and enable real-time fleet m…
TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent trading framework from Tauric Research, is approaching 100,000 GitHub stars despite never being shown to make money outside a three-month backtest on AAPL, GO…
Palomar, a public registry for Lean-verified mathematics, opened for submissions on August 18, offering fixed GitHub snapshots, mechanical proof checks, and LLM-based semantic review. UCLA mathematici…
CarSignal, founded by Michael Muzzin and Junaid Popalzai, launched on August 17th a $200-per-month AI operating system for independent auto repair shops, combining booking, diagnostics, estimates, par…
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impa…
Statistics is a foundational discipline in data science, providing tools to describe data, understand variation, quantify uncertainty, and draw conclusions from evidence. Having a dataset does not aut…
In an essay originally published in Chinese by San Lian Lifeweek, science reporter Albert Yuan examines the philosophical question of free will in the age of AI, arguing that the feeling of losing fre…
A 16-year-old researcher used a custom GPT-5.5 harness to disprove a case in enumerative combinatorics proposed by Professors Chan and Pak at UCLA and Rutgers in 2024. The work is detailed in arXiv pa…
A developer reflects on how learning to code without AI in 2013 built structural understanding through desirable difficulty, contrasting it with the experience of the first generation to grow up with …
A developer built an autonomous, vision-capable crypto trading bot using Python 3.13 after studying 77 academic papers. The bot uses Google Gemini 3.6 Flash for visual chart analysis, a custom JIT-com…
10am, an audiovisual neural stimulation tool for macOS and Windows, launches to help users enter deep work states by overlaying low-contrast visual rhythms and synchronized audio on any app or call. T…
A Progressive Conservative legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, inadvertently read an AI chatbot's editing instruction aloud during a formal legislative address last month, revealing the quiet integra…
A new MIT Press book, 'Inventing ELIZA,' provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum's pioneering chatbot through rediscovered original source code and previously unseen sc…