Microsoft released a public slice of GitHub Copilot coding-agent telemetry on October 1st, giving researchers 301,026 sessions covering 9.3 million LLM calls and 8.7 million tool calls, according to M…
HeyPCB founder Justin Kim launched live multiplayer editing for hardware design on September 26th, letting electrical and mechanical engineers collaborate on the same KiCad-based schematic and board i…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2026-07 on September 22, 2026, establishing the Illinois Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cabinet to assess AI risks to Illinoisans and advise state go…
A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign preprint found that Reddit's AI search feature favored formal, already-upvoted comments over those with personal-experience markers, with a one-standard-devia…
Twenty-four students from Chungnam National University completed a four-week AI and Generative Models: From Algorithms to Applications research program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign b…
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduced SLIDEFORGE, an LLM agent framework for controllable slide editing that builds a Deck State Graph to preserve layout, style, and na…
Researchers from Meta AI and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduced EvoHarness-RL, a trainable coordination layer that enables large language model agents to create and manage their ow…
Thinking Machines Lab and four academic researchers released ReViSQL-K2.6, a text-to-SQL model that scored 91.37% with 16-sample self-consistency and 88.55% with greedy decoding on the expert-verified…
A new interactive feature from MIT Technology Review presents seven puzzles—including mental rotation, Knights and Knaves, and visual challenges—that have stumped AI models, inviting readers to test t…
A team led by Ming Zhong at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Google DeepMind has introduced SWE-IF, a framework that aligns code evaluation with human preference, revealing that instruc…
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…
SK hynix and researchers from the University of Virginia, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nanyang Technological University, MIT, and Yonsei University published a roadmap for co-packaged …
A study presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium found that AI-generated spear phishing texts are nearly indistinguishable from legitimate messages, with a credit union banker unable to identif…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced 34 new recipients of its Build on Trainium research awards, a $110 million credit program supporting AI research on its Trainium chips. The Fall 2025 cycle focused …
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University introduced Explorative Modeling (XM), a training method that generates K candidate outputs per example and backpropaga…
A new study from the University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering challenges the traditional view that the brain makes decisions only after information passes through a strict hierarchy of r…
Cao Liangliang, former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, has returned to Hong Kong after two decades to join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, bringing Silicon Valley expertise i…
Syracuse University's undergraduate enrollment shortfall signals that demographic pressures are now affecting large, well-known institutions, driven by declining high-school graduates, fewer internati…