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…
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…
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…