AI Research

Ciauru, the stage name of Italian DJ and producer Simone Privitera, won the second edition of the Reply AI Music Contest, an international competition exploring AI, music, and live performance. The contest, held at Kappa…

The four largest hyperscalers—Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft—are on track to spend a combined ~$725 billion in capital expenditures in 2026, up 77% from 2025, as part of the largest infrastructure bet in history. …

A researcher warns that training AI to be persuasive risks creating super-persuasive but incorrect systems, especially in moral philosophy. They propose using reinforcement learning with negative feedback for persuasive …

A new study presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies conference found that speaking multiple languages may slow brain aging. Researchers used AI to create a brain aging clock and discovered that mul…

A developer is testing PPAI, an agent architecture for email workflows, and is seeking testers with real-world email management problems such as spam filtering, thread summarization, and CRM integration.

Anthropic researchers discovered that Claude, a large language model, has developed an internal 'global workspace' called J-space—a set of neural patterns that enable reportable, controllable, and flexible reasoning, dis…

Meta announced plans to sell excess AI compute to third parties, surprising investors and causing shares of neocloud providers CoreWeave and Nebius to drop 19% and 23% respectively. The move comes amid reports that CEO M…

Over 150,000 people applied to Joi AI's paid study testing AI-guided masturbation, forcing the company to create a public selection process. The AI companion platform aims to explore the relationship between AI, emotiona…

OpenAI's GPT-4 led the Epoch Capabilities Index for about a year, but since Claude 3 Opus took the top spot in February 2024, the lead has changed hands 17 times with a median stay of just seven weeks, indicating fiercer…

Security researchers at Aikido discovered that Rocket.Chat's use of MongoDB's ObjectId() for file IDs allows unauthenticated attackers to predict and access any uploaded file. The vulnerability, reported via HackerOne an…

A 2026 study from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and UIUC found that context pruning—masking stale observations from an AI agent's history—improves accuracy by up to 11.7 points in some setups but reduces it by up…

Alibaba researchers unveiled SkillWeaver, a framework that uses an iterative feedback loop and execution graphs to intelligently route AI tools for complex multi-step tasks, achieving a 99.9% reduction in token consumpti…

Anthropic secretly added a tracker to Claude Code that monitored users in China, using prompt steganography to hide code that flagged timezone, proxy, and potential connections to Chinese AI labs. The company removed the…

Researchers at the University of Benghazi are conducting a systematic review comparing interpretable statistical models with explainable AI approaches for predicting breast cancer recurrence. The review, registered in PR…

Researchers at ICML 2025 proved that AI models trained with DPO or RLHF inevitably learn spurious correlations, causing them to rely on non-causal features like verbosity or sycophancy instead of true helpfulness, harmle…

USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers will present work at ICML 2026 in Seoul addressing AI location bias, missing vocal clues, and other challenges. Their projects aim to make AI systems more creative without sacrific…

ChatGPT commands 92.4% of AI referral traffic, according to a new study analyzing 6.77 million LLM-driven sessions. Monthly AI sessions grew 9.9x to 644,478 by May 2026, but volatility remains high due to model changes. …

OpenSSH 10.4 has been released, adding experimental support for a composite post-quantum signature scheme combining ML-DSA 44 and Ed25519. The release also enforces sandbox support on Linux, requiring SECCOMP or NO_NEW_P…

The Emergence Prompt Engineering (EPE) initiative launches an open research program to systematically evaluate structured prompting in large language models, proposing a reproducible scientific workflow that separates be…

Google DeepMind announced on July 6 that real-world data from Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robots will train its Gemini Robotics AI models. Apptronik's new 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin collects data from logi…