A University of New South Wales study of 55 undergraduate computer science students found that those using ChatGPT-4.5 scored 89% on three introductory C programming tasks versus 69% for students usin…
The University of Manchester and the Jeremy Coller Foundation have shortlisted five finalists for the Coller AI Competition, with one winner set to receive a £100,000 equity investment for a responsib…
The University of Manchester has appointed creative technologist Andrew Melchior as an Honorary Professor in its Department of Computer Science for a three-year term focused on artificial intelligence…
Researchers at the University of Manchester trained NVIDIA's Earth-2 CorrDiff generative downscaling model to forecast air pollution across the UK, completing the training run in two days on a single …
An international team including researchers from the University of Manchester, University College Dublin, the European Space Agency, Diamond Light Source and South East Technological University captur…
A new reinforcement learning method called semi-pessimistic pseudo labelling (SPL), developed by researchers including Omar Rivasplata of the University of Manchester, has been accepted for publicatio…
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
China has implemented the world's most sweeping national rules banning AI companions for minors and restricting chatbots marketed to adults, effective 15 July, prompting ByteDance to shut down the com…
IIT Kharagpur unveiled a Rs 1,000-crore infrastructure overhaul and a five-pillar roadmap for its next 75 years, placing AI and deep tech at the core, during its Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Augus…
Mark Carrigan, Associate Dean for Digital Education in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, expressed unease after an LLM-written Substack newsletter cited his new job and paraph…
On May 20, 2026, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had produced a counterexample to the unit distance problem, a conjecture posed by Paul Erdős in 1946, marking the first historically signifi…
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown announced on August 1 that an internal version of Astra, OpenAI's next major model family, solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, includ…
Researchers at the University of Manchester's Centre for Robotics and AI are redesigning human-machine relationships by studying trust, social cues, and Theory of Mind. A study found that people trust…
Researchers at the University of Manchester are advancing neuromorphic computing, a brain-inspired approach that could make AI and sensing far more energy-efficient, with projects including the world'…
The University of Manchester and The Jeremy Coller Foundation have launched the Coller AI Competition, offering a £100,000 equity investment to one early-stage venture from the university's global com…
OpenAI announced on July 10 that its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model generated a complete proof of the 50-year-old Cycle Double Cover Conjecture in under one hour using 64 parallel subagents. Mathematician Th…
A new study published in Frontiers in Education warns that universities are failing to adapt to AI-driven workplace changes, urging a shift from plagiarism detection to teaching critical AI literacy a…
A new study from The University of Manchester argues that universities must rethink how they teach and assess students as artificial intelligence transforms education and work. The paper, authored by …
University of Manchester researchers advised Parliament on the environmental impact of AI and data centres, warning that electricity consumption could quadruple by 2030 and urging integration of data …
The University of Manchester is hiring two three-year lecturers in digital education within its Manchester Institute of Education, focusing on digital technologies, AI, and education. The first post i…