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Researchers at Arizona State University argue that calling intermediate tokens generated by language models 'reasoning traces' or 'thinking traces' anthropomorphizes the models and misleads users about their capabilities…
Seoul is hosting the fourth annual Seoul Future Lab Festival on Saturday, turning its Magok Square plaza into a hands-on science playground with interactive stations on AI, robotics, and drones for children and families.…
Agentic AI, where systems operate with increasing autonomy, is poised for mainstream adoption by 2025-2026. These intelligent agents make decisions, take actions, and adapt strategies in real-time, revolutionizing develo…
Altus Schools in San Diego spent $500,000 on two AI-powered humanoid robots named Ameca for a pilot program exploring AI in education. Critics argue there is no evidence these tools are effective or safe, and they may ca…
Frontiers research integrity manager Simone Ragavooloo argues that the research community must stop conflating all AI-related issues with misconduct, as a new whitepaper reveals inconsistent definitions and polarized vie…
Advertising experts at the StreamTV Show in Denver argued that AI can enhance video content without fully generating it, using techniques like visual overlays and camera effects to improve production efficiency and viewe…
The UK Department for Work and Pensions is increasing face-to-face assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) claims after discovering claimants are using AI chatbots like ChatGPT's 'Pippin the PIP Benefits Supp…
Billionaire Mark Cuban urged AI companies to spend billions of dollars to support towns and cities affected by job losses from artificial intelligence, calling it a 'cost of doing business.' In a post on X, Cuban said AI…
Researchers introduced Know2Guess, a contamination-aware multi-zone benchmark with 1,200 items across five domains to evaluate large language models' ability to distinguish answerable knowledge from abstention-expected u…
A new study on Llama 3.1 8B finds that helpfulness post-training (SFT and GRPO) significantly degrades animal compassion values compared to coding-domain post-training, with a 35.7% vs. 65.2% gap on the Animal Harm Bench…
Researchers released ProfileFoundry, a synthetic dataset of 100,000 person objects with 709,228 events, 40,338 households, and 52,491 employers, designed for evaluating LLM agents on memory, privacy, and tool-use tasks. …
Researchers found that applying Nonviolent Communication constraints to large language models reduces conversational escalation in conflict-prone dialogues, improving trustworthiness without requiring extensive retrainin…
Researchers introduced an LLM-powered pipeline to compare governance structures of AI agent protocols ERC-8004 (permissionless) and Google A2A (corporate-led), analyzing 4,323 governance records. They found that while bo…
A new thesis on algorithmic fairness argues that current fairness paradigms rely on deterministic point estimates and treat individuals as isolated entities, limiting their effectiveness in complex socio-technical enviro…
Researchers introduced a practical Dataset Usage Inference (DUI) framework that estimates what fraction of a dataset was used to train a machine learning model without requiring shadow models or held-out data. The method…
Researchers propose a governance model for autonomous AI agents that requires independently attested evidence before high-risk actions, rather than monitoring reasoning. The model retains agent autonomy but conditions ex…
A new paper argues that Ray Kurzweil's theory of accelerating returns applies primarily to executional and infrastructural capability, not to the qualitative reasoning essential for scientific discovery. The authors poin…
Researchers introduced narration-of-thought (NoT), a system prompt that structures chain-of-thought reasoning into five sections to improve ethical reasoning in large language models. On 100 DailyDilemmas scenarios, NoT …
A new report warns that the artificial intelligence industry is in a speculative bubble reminiscent of the 2008 housing crisis, with companies spending trillions on infrastructure while revenues lag. The report cautions …
Taiwan's retail margin debt hit a record NT$600 billion ($19 billion) on June 18, 2026, surpassing the dot-com era peak, driven by AI mania and a market that doubled in the past year. Trade defaults by securities firms r…