The FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic, according to Axios senior AI reporter Madison Mills, who discussed the probe and her reporting on agentic security breaches involving the companies on th…
Los Alamos National Laboratory is co-designing AI infrastructure with HPE and NVIDIA, including the Venado supercomputer built on NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips that fuse an ARM-based CPU and Hopper G…
Princeton researcher Max Springer used a publicly available AI assistant to reverse the digital shuffling of Georgia's electronic ballot records and reconstruct the order of 1.52 million ballots, or 9…
Security researchers say advances in artificial intelligence make it more urgent to fix a known flaw in Georgia's Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen-and-scanner equipment that can allow voters to be …
AI tutoring startup Aristotle argues that most AI tutors are generic chatbots that fail students because they hand over answers rather than guide reasoning, and says its voice-first system is built on…
University of Michigan Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Cyrus Omar presented a vision for a "live type-theoretic computational commons," a shared monorepo where humans and swarm…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year ban on artificial intelligence tools in elementary and middle school classrooms, affecting 600,000 students and 40 educational tools, effective …
LG Electronics hosted about 100 doctoral researchers, engineers and R&D professionals from leading US universities, technology companies and startups at its North America Tech Conference in San Franci…
Kathleen Creel, formerly assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has joined the University of Michigan as associate professor of philosophy, effective August…
University of Michigan engineering professor Jason Corso reports that over 80% of students use AI for nearly everything, prompting him to flip his classroom and teach with AI tools like Perusall. Cors…
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Iván Bermejo-Moreno, associate professor at USC Viterbi's Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, to lead a multi-institutional project funded thro…
Ypsilanti Township in Michigan passed a six-month moratorium on major electric utility infrastructure on Tuesday night to delay the $1.2 billion data center backed by the University of Michigan and Lo…
Production teams are demoting retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) from a default architecture to a last-resort component, favoring deterministic lookups and agentic search, according to a postmortem …
University of Michigan professor Felipe A. Csaszar argues that generative AI can expand corporate strategy-making beyond traditional frameworks by simulating thousands of scenarios, moving from bounde…
San Francisco-based Bedrock Robotics said Monday that excavators equipped with its autonomous AI system are now working without human operators on three commercial sites in Texas and Nevada, including…
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…
The George Washington University sold its 120-acre Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va., to Amazon Data Services for $427 million, a deal that highlights how universities are convert…
Ngrok published an interactive guide on August 11 linking LLM prediction to compression, showing how prediction quality determines the bits needed to encode data. Written by developer educator Annie S…
Chandra Sripada, a professor of philosophy and psychiatry at the University of Michigan, argues that large language models (LLMs) exhibit cognition more similar to human thought than commonly assumed,…
AI-generated books now capture about 40% of observed sales in self-published categories, according to a paper by researchers at Stony Brook, Columbia, Michigan, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital E…