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Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Credit: Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile court cases. But the mushroom itself is only the fruit body. Beneath every cap lies the real organism: a hidden network of white threads weaving through soil and wood. And that underground network, called mycelium, may help solve

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is getting more powerful—but it's also racking up a massive energy bill. Some estimate that one maximum-length ChatGPT query can use about twice as much power as an average U.S. home does in one minute. Multiply that by billions of queries and the enormous training AI models require, and the energy impact is staggering. As researchers are racing to find greener ways to power AI, a new study led by T

Conceptual diagram of TVKD: After teaching the human preference dataset to the teacher model, learning proceeds by delivering the teacher's information and the dataset to the student model. Credit: The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) No matter how much data they learn, why do artificial intelligence (AI) models often miss the mark on human intent? Conventional comparison learning, designed to help AI understand human preferences,

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Newly published research from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine highlights student-led work in medical education and examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can assist with qualitative research. The study, published in the journal Medical Science Educator, explored whether ChatGPT can support thematic analysis. Corresponding author and third-year medical student Jonathan Bowden, of Pickerington, Ohio, col

(From left) Walid Saad and Alexander DeRieux present their novel eQMARL framework at the opening of Academic Building One in Alexandria. Credit: Luke Hayes for Virginia Tech Any time you use a device to communicate information—an email, a text message, any data transfer—the information in that transmission crosses the open internet, where it could be intercepted. Such communications are also reliant on internet connectivity, often including wireless signal

Event with three vertex points formed by tracks associated with the production and decay of double lambda hypernuclei (13λλB). Credit: Adapted from Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66517-x Researchers from the High Energy Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) in Japan and their international collaborators have made a discovery that bridges artificial intelligence and nuclear physics. By applying de

Example stimuli. Female synthetic faces (a), male synthetic faces (b), female real faces (c) and male real faces (d). The final row (e) contains some of the synthetic images used in the training task, each of which has rendering artifacts that were highlighted to participants. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250921 Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial i

Representative false-color SEM images of treated P. aeruginosa and S. aureus monomicrobial and co-biofilms. Credit: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41522-024-00637-y University of Otago scientists are harnessing the power of peptides—the body's own tiny protein molecules—for a spray to help the red meat industry solve headaches around bacterial contamination and spoilage. It's a telltale sign of meat past its use-by date: a sticky, slimy

Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c15371 Professor Joongoo Kang's team from the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST and Professor Sohee Jeong's team from the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University have developed a technology that visualizes the synthetic reaction pathways of semiconductor nanocrystals (colloidal quantum dots) using artificial intelligence (AI). This achievement allows AI t

Marco Calo, left, a geophysicist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), take a break on the slopes of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure out what is happening under the crater. For five y

Schematic diagram of the combination of satellite and regional numerical forecasting prediction. Credit: Liangchen Guo The intermittent nature of solar energy poses challenges to grid stability, making accurate ultra-short-term solar irradiance forecasting crucial for balancing supply and demand. However, traditional numerical weather prediction models often struggle with cloud initialization, leading to forecast inaccuracies. Recently, Min Chen and Liangc

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The Authentic Brands Group, responsible for the rights to Elvis Presley’s music and image, sued Anthropic for allegedly using 274 of the artist’s songs to train artificial intelligence models without authorization.The lawsuit seeks damages of US$150,000 (approximately R$750,000) per track, which could amount to US$41 million (around R$205 million). The claim seeks up to R$750,000 for each musical work that

All about ChatGPT see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more U.S. political candidates are trying to influence what chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini say about them. Documents obtained by Reuters reveal strategies to get these tools to recommend certain names to voters.The initiative relies on publishing content online and monitoring AI responses, which are increasingly being consulted by voters seeking information about candidates and p

Published on August 26, 2026 at 07:43 Comment 0 𝕏 Print One week ago, Hugging Face was celebrating the 3 million models hosted on its platform. © Hugging Face Hacked in July by ChatGPTs, courted in August by buyers in the $13 billion range. For Hugging Face, the summer of all dangers is turning into a jackpot, and even its defenses have a story to tell. The story could have ended with a spectacular hack, already recounted in our columns. It has now taken a

Published on August 27, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Plaud After the Plaud Note and the connected NotePin badge, the American brand unveils the Plaud One, a pair of earbuds capable of listening to your conversations, understanding their meaning, and acting directly in your work tools. The earbuds promise to draft your reports and follow-up emails based on your exchanges, without you having to lift a finger. Last year, Plaud, a San Francisco-based

Published on August 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM Comment 1 𝕏 Print © Unsplash According to The Information, Nvidia allegedly acquired Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. But why does the tech giant Nvidia want to take control of this platform? At the end of 2025, the Hugging Face platform had rejected a $500 million investment proposal from Nvidia, fearing that such a powerful investor could influence its decisions in the future. Today, The Information reports that Hug

Published on August 27, 2026 at 4:05 p.m. Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Anthropic Anthropic’s AI has a browser of its own for filling out your forms and combing through the web. Your tabs, bookmarks, and passwords stay out of it—and that is precisely the selling point. Exactly one year ago, on August 26, 2025, Anthropic launched its Claude extension for Chrome. Twelve months later, the company is changing its approach and slipping a full browser directly into Claude

Published on August 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM Comment 5 𝕏 Print © 01net Without anyone noticing, hundreds of OpenAI AI agents began secretly talking to one another this summer. Led by an out-of-control ChatGPT, they launched a massive cyberattack. A few weeks after this historic incident, OpenAI reveals what really happened. The king of AI speaks of a genuine “shot in the dark.” The beginning of the summer was marked by the hacking of Hugging Face, an open-sourc