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OpenAI has been an industry leader in the large language model space, but competition is tightening with a host of other companies in the fray. After three years of breakneck growth and soaring valuations, the AI industry enters 2026 with some of the euphoria giving way to tough questions. Here is a look at what is at stake: Bubble goes pop? Money is pouring into artificial intelligence, with spending expected to reach more than $2 trillion worldwide in 20

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humanoid robots could guide travelers and manage crowds at some Chinese border crossings after Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics said it had won a multimillion-dollar contract to supply its latest models for a trial project. The company said Tuesday it had struck the $37-million deal with a humanoid robotics testing center based near China's border with Vietnam. The project will use mainly the latest version of UBTech's "Wal

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A dystopian future where advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems replace human decision-making has long been a trope of science fiction. The malevolent computer HAL, which takes control of the spaceship in Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a chilling example. But rather than being fearful of automation, a more useful response is to consider what types of repetitive human tasks could be safely offloade

Credit: Carlos III University of Madrid Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a set of innovative methods and algorithms that improve the performance and precision of vehicle design through topological optimization, a mathematical technique that allows designs to be optimized by distributing materials efficiently. The results of the research, which these scientists have applied to the design of parts for a competition motorc

Convolutional model architecture and evaluation framework. Credit: Nature Machine Intelligence (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42256-025-01142-3 Artificial intelligence systems that are designed with a biologically inspired architecture can simulate human brain activity before ever being trained on any data, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University. The findings, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, challenge conventional approaches to building A

Credit: CC0 Public Domain To make autonomous vehicles as safe, affordable and competitive as possible, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have teamed up with partners from the automotive industry to develop a centralized architecture for the software-controlled vehicle of the future. The software is largely self-generating and allows the advanced simulation of any scenario involving autonomous vehicles on a test bench. To ensure that t

Study participants were tasked with designing a virtual car on the Genetic Car Designer Game. Credit: Dr. Sean Walton, Swansea University Artificial intelligence (AI) is often seen as a tool to automate tasks and replace humans, but new research from Swansea University challenges this view, showing that AI can also act as a creative, engaging and inspiring partner. A team from the University's Computer Science Department has conducted one of the largest st

The overall PhyE2E framework. Top: the training dataset was augmented with a large-scale synthetic dataset generated by an LLM. MLP, multilayer perceptron. Middle: a variable-interaction technique was integrated to decompose the original symbolic regression problem into simpler subproblems, referred to as D&C. An end-to-end model was trained to predict the target formula using observed data points and prior physical knowledge (referred to as 'physical prio

Credit: AI-generated image As the everyday use of AI has exploded in recent years, so have the energy demands of the computing infrastructure that supports it. But the environmental toll of these large data centers, which suck up gigawatts of power and require vast amounts of water for cooling, has been too diffuse and difficult to quantify. Now, Cornell researchers have used advanced data analytics—and, naturally, some AI, too—to create a state-by-state l

Visualization of the odor discrimination process by an XAI-assisted olfactory sensor. Depending on the odorant molecule, the AI identifies the most responsive receptor materials and highlights the key sections of sensing signal curves used for discrimination. Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c13990 NIMS has been developing chemical sensors as a key component of artificial olfaction technology (olfactory sensors), with

NeuroBot TA System Architecture and Information Flow. Credit: npj Digital Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41746-025-02022-1 A new Dartmouth study finds that artificial intelligence has the potential to deliver educational support that meets the individual needs of large numbers of students. The researchers are the first to report that students may put more trust in AI platforms programmed to pull answers from only curated expert sources, rather than from ma

Two CubeSats orbiting around Earth after being deployed from the ISS. Google is looking at ways satellites can be used for data centres of the future. Credit: NASA The sun produces more power than 100 trillion times humanity's entire electricity generation. In orbit, solar panels can be eight times more productive than their Earth-bound counterparts, generating energy almost continuously without the need for heavy battery storage. These facts have led a te

The core of AIdeology. Credit: Antipode (2025). DOI: 10.1111/anti.70065 Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a mere technological tool. It has already evolved into a new ideology—a system of values and beliefs that is shaping how society understands progress, sustainability, and even humanity itself. According to Dr. Federico Cugurullo, an associate professor and human geographer with a background in philosophy, from Trinity College Dublin's School of

Theranostic nanomaterials, tiny particles that can diagnose and treat TBI, cross the blood-brain barrier to deliver drugs directly to damaged tissue while tracking treatment in real time. Credit: Prof. Yun Hak Kim from Pusan National University, Republic of Korea Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains one of the most pressing public health challenges, leaving millions with lasting disabilities each year. When the brain suffers a sudden impact, from a fall, v

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Public opinion polls and other surveys rely on data to understand human behavior. New research from Dartmouth reveals that artificial intelligence can now corrupt public opinion surveys at scale—passing every quality check, mimicking real humans, and manipulating results without leaving a trace. The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show just how vulnerable polling has become. In

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about TikTok see more ByteDance created a team dedicated to artificial intelligence safety in its Seed research unit. The company opened a global hiring process to recruit ten researchers and expand studies into the risks of its most advanced models.The positions are spread across Beijing and Shanghai, China, and San Jose, California. The initiative comes amid growing concerns about AI agents cap

Everything about ChatGPT see more Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Everything about OpenAI see more OpenAI announced on Thursday (15) an update to ChatGPT’s Voice mode, with improvements to speech recognition, the understanding of different accents, and the naturalness of conversations. The update includes the GPT-Live-1.1 and GPT-Live-1.1 Quip models, a smaller version of the technology, as well as new voice options in different languages