AI Research

University of Ottawa researchers built an AI assistant called UbiMyTherapist that reads heart rate variability, speech tone, and text from smartwatches and earbuds to detect emotional distress and offer support before th…

Researchers at the University of Ottawa, led by Dr. Karim Alghoul, developed UbiMyTherapist, a proactive AI therapist for wearables that uses heart rate variability, speech tone, and text to detect emotional distress. Pr…

A new tool explores optimal working fluids for supercritical turbines, finding a mix of Neon and Perfluorobenzene likely best. Researchers have successfully demonstrated a laser-induced nuclear transition in Thorium-229,…

Hospitals are deploying AI-based intimate partner violence (IPV) screening tools that analyze electronic health records without patients' knowledge, raising governance and consent concerns. A 2026 NIH-funded study from M…

Researchers have developed a new type of pixel that can both emit and receive light, potentially enabling more efficient and compact display and sensor technologies. The innovation could lead to advancements in augmented…

Persistent Systems, through its subsidiary Galaxy Germany Holding SE, announced a voluntary public takeover for all shares of Nagarro at EUR 81 per share, a 140% premium over the undisturbed closing price. The deal, back…

Cerebras, an AI chip startup that bet against GPUs by designing a wafer-scale processor, went public in May 2026 at a $56 billion valuation, the largest US tech IPO since Uber. The company's confidential Series A deck fr…

Oded Rechavi of QED Science claims that papers not in the top 1% of their QED score 'suck', but a review of the company's white paper finds insufficient evidence that the AI-generated score accurately measures scientific…

A developer created a new benchmark for evaluating AI agent monitors, finding that standard scoring methods are gameable—a coin flip achieves an F1 score of 0.88. After correcting the metric to reward only detections on …

Micron, the Boise-based memory chip maker, has seen its market cap surge to nearly $1.27 trillion, briefly surpassing Meta and Tesla, as Wall Street bets on sustained AI-driven demand for its memory chips. The company's …

OpenAI released the system card for GPT-5.6, detailing three model sizes—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Sol described as a 'step function better' than GPT-5.5 but still short of Mythos. The card highlights improved performanc…

Engineers at narrivo highlight the problem of overfitting in large language models, particularly in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evaluation. They explain that overfitting causes models to perform well on test dat…

AI productivity tools that eliminate pauses between tasks may increase burnout rather than output, according to cognitive science experts. Research shows the brain needs low-demand recovery periods between high-focus wor…

A developer tested Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos, a 9B parameter model with a 1-million-token context window, on a medium-sized Python codebase. The model maintained coherence across 150k tokens, enabling reasoning across dis…

A new study published in PNAS Nexus found that teachers are significantly more likely to accept incorrectly harsh grading decisions when they believe those decisions come from an AI system rather than a human colleague, …

Frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic use offline monitoring to detect misaligned actions by internal AI agents, but current public reporting on the effectiveness of these systems is insufficient. A new analysi…

A Hacker News user questions whether the U.S. policy of preliminary vetting for state-of-the-art large language models, restricting releases to trusted parties, could slow AI research and development by limiting market s…

Persistent Systems and Nagarro announced an all-cash takeover offer at EUR 81 per share, valuing Nagarro at approximately EUR 1 billion. The merger creates a $2.9 billion digital engineering entity with 46,000+ engineers…

A survey paper by Tencent and Chinese universities argues AI systems must finish entire tasks in persistent work environments, not just generate answers, to become reliable coworkers. The key is combining persistent work…

A developer building technical dossiers warns against asking LLMs to verify their own hallucinated citations, as the model lacks access to a real database and suffers from self-evaluation bias. Instead, the developer imp…