Microsoft announced the External Red Team Alliance (EXTRA), a global initiative to expand AI safety testing beyond individual organizations by funding 18 university labs across six continents and buil…
Sperm whales off the coast of Dominica shorten their click sequences and increase use of certain vowel-like sounds when ships are nearby, according to a study published today in Ecological Informatics…
Dr. Julie Elie of the University of California, Berkeley has won the $100,000 Coller Dolittle Challenge for Two-Way Interspecies Communication for using AI and machine learning to construct an 11-word…
China's EngineAI hosted the world's first humanoid robot kickboxing competition, the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), in Shenzhen, where a T800 robot lost its head-mounted sensors during a matc…
Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi, co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has left the University of California, Berkeley to lead a new AI-driven materials research lab at Tsinghua University in Chin…
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…
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, citing cuts to …
Jaiveer Singh, a robotics software engineer at NVIDIA, leads the team behind Isaac ROS, an open-source framework that accelerates development of autonomous robots using CUDA-accelerated libraries and …
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming …
Researchers at UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tel Aviv University developed ConlangCrafter, an AI model that generates novel constructed languages with consistent rules. The model can cr…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into tes…
California has included AI-generated predictions from Anthropic's Claude chatbot in its contribution to the America 250 time capsule, which will be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026. The predicti…
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…
State Sen. Aisha Wahab leads BART Board President Melissa Hernandez in the race to replace disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell in California's Congressional District 14, with Wahab taking nearly 43% o…
Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warns that the average person cannot distinguish AI-generated deepfakes from real content, as generative AI has made manipulation effortless and visually indistingu…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated software that enables robots to learn physical, dexterous tasks autonomously through trial-and-error using reinforcement learning. Th…
NVIDIA GEAR lab researchers developed ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that enables AI coding agents to autonomously train robots to perform tasks like cutting zip-ties and installing GPUs. The syst…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researc…
LG Energy Solution held its Battery Tech Conference in Chicago to recruit top global research talent in next-generation battery technologies, energy storage systems, and artificial intelligence. CEO K…
Humanities professors at the University of California, Berkeley are assigning fewer pages, replacing full books with excerpts and rethinking coursework as students increasingly struggle to keep up wit…