A new study published in NeuroImage found that people with migraines have reduced brain entropy, indicating less adaptable neural networks, but an active migraine attack temporarily increases neural u…
NVIDIA and academic researchers introduced ASPIRE, a self-improving robotics framework that achieves 31% zero-shot success on LIBERO-Pro long tasks. The system uses a coordinator-actor architecture wi…
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…
The Trump administration is pushing changes to federal research funding rules that would allow political appointees to override expert peer reviewers, threatening to politicize U.S. science. The propo…
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…
Ypsilanti Township board members vowed to fight a proposed nuclear-powered AI data center by the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory, citing concerns over electricity, water, and…
The U.S. National Science Foundation's NAIRR pilot program has driven over 700 research projects, with NVIDIA providing cloud-based DGX nodes and technical support. Researchers have used NVIDIA's AI i…
Muhammad Khalifa, a research scientist at NVIDIA, is advancing AI agents through his work on test-time techniques, reasoning agents, and LLM post-training. He completed his PhD at the University of Mi…
A team of computer science researchers at the University of Michigan has released ML.ENERGY, an open-source toolset that measures the real-world electricity consumption of AI models during inference. …
The misery index, which adds unemployment and inflation rates, has historically tracked consumer sentiment, but since 2021 the relationship has broken down. Despite a misery index near 8%—similar to t…
Bipartisan opposition to AI data centers is growing across the U.S., with communities in Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, and Wisconsin passing moratoriums, bans, or halting construction over concerns…
The article reports that the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey showed a troubling rise in both short-term and long-term inflation expectations, with long-term views jumping to 3.9% in…
The article highlights a growing disconnect between strong U.S. stock market performance and declining consumer confidence, as the S&P 500 rose for its eighth straight winning week while a University …