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…
A group of 37 researchers from top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv in May proposing that scientists stop writing papers for humans and instead create 'Agent-Native Research …
University of Michigan scientists used artificial intelligence to analyze over 170,000 skeletal measurements from more than 2,000 bird species, revealing that songbirds evolved through rare explosive …
Cornell Tech researchers have developed an optical memory link that uses QR-code-like light patterns to directly edit static random-access memory (SRAM) on AI processors, eliminating power-hungry anal…
Cornell Tech researchers have developed an optical receiver that directly alters a processor's memory using photocurrents from beamed light, enabling AI models to update parameters without power-hungr…
Automakers are adapting their electrification technologies to the home energy business, with Ford offering a new setup that allows drivers of certain F-150 models to plug their vehicle directly into t…
A punishing technology selloff erased billions in market value in the week ending July 17, with the technology sector tumbling 5.9% and the iShares Semiconductor ETF sinking 19% month to date, as inve…
Amazon researchers and the University of Michigan have developed HydroShear, a physics-based simulator that teaches robots to use tactile shear forces for complex manipulation tasks, achieving a 93 pe…
More than 30 data center projects proposed in Michigan in the past two years have sparked intense local opposition, with the Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority refusing to supply water for coolin…
Artificial intelligence is destroying white-collar jobs, particularly entry-level roles in mathematics, data analysis, and supply chain work, but University of Michigan professor Jeff DeGraff says wor…
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…