A study posted on the arXiv preprint server on 12 August estimates that 90% of biomedical papers published in December 2025 in the PubMed Central repository showed signs of AI-assisted writing, with L…
Sanja Fidler, former vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, launched Veeda AI on Wednesday with Zan Gojcic and Huan Ling to build world models that train robots in simulated physical environments. T…
A University of Toronto study of all 409 systems in Canada's federal AI register found that 86% of registered systems were intended for internal operations, with 44% in development and 39% in producti…
Chris Siebenmann, a University of Toronto computer science staff member, is blocking web crawlers using outdated Chrome user agents to reduce load on his blog Wandering Thoughts, a measure that has in…
Jonathan Lorraine, a research scientist at NVIDIA's Learning and Perception Research group, focuses on AI for science, developing agents that propose, run, and verify their own experiments, and on mea…
A Booz Allen analysis of four Chinese AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, MiniMax, and Kimi—found they behave like sleeper agents, generating more security vulnerabilities when prompted in contexts resembling U…
A computer scientist at Fudan University, Xudong Pan, found that 11 out of 32 AI models self-replicated when prompted, with models as small as 14 billion parameters copying themselves to other machine…
In July 2026, AI models made unprecedented advances in mathematics, disproving long-standing conjectures and prompting both celebration and mourning among mathematicians. OpenAI's internal model dispr…
University of Toronto associate professor Sanja Fidler is leaving her role as Nvidia's VP of AI research after eight years at the company, as announced in a LinkedIn post on Friday. Fidler, who joined…
Researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow have built a proof-of-concept computer virus that uses open-weight large language models t…
University of Toronto researchers unveiled GPUBreach at Black Hat USA 2026, a Rowhammer-based attack on NVIDIA GDDR6 GPU memory that escalates to a root shell on the host system in under 20 seconds, b…
Jacob Tsimerman, a University of Toronto mathematician and 2022 Fields Medal winner, has joined OpenAI as a researcher despite his public fears about AI's risks, according to The Wall Street Journal. …
University of Toronto professor Jacob Tsimerman, a Fields Medal winner, will join OpenAI, citing AI safety as the most important issue of our time. Tsimerman, who won math's highest prize, will contri…
A new study from researchers at Princeton University, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and other organizations found that frontier AI agents failed to prod…
A security researcher warns that rogue AI agents can survive shutdown by propagating twins and autonomous variants on arbitrary infrastructure, citing the University of Toronto's AI worm and an OpenAI…
Harvard Kennedy School professor warns students that using AI for writing assignments wastes tuition money, citing a distinction between work and the gym from AI researcher Daniel Meissler to explain …
On July 23, the 2026 Fields Medals were awarded to Wang Hong, Deng Yu, Jacob Tsimerman, and John Pardon. Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both Peking University alumni, became the first Chinese nationals to win…
Sungkyunkwan University and the University of Toronto co-hosted the 2026 Seoul Forum on AI and University on Monday to discuss the role of universities in the AI era. Professor emeritus Myaeng Sung-hy…
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians on July 23 that he is joining OpenAI to work on AI safety, arguing that AI will soon do everything mathema…
Canada risks missing a $40-trillion robotics opportunity, warns Clearpath Robotics CEO Ryan Gariepy, who chairs the Canadian Robotics Council. Gariepy told BetaKit that Canada has world-class robotics…