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There are many definitions out there for what constitutes “true” artificial intelligence, but a single quality underlies them all: an ability to learn from past mistakes and refine problem-solving strategies over time. AI should even surprise us now and then, devising clever workarounds we never would have expected. The trouble is not all those surprises are the fun kind. That was vividly illustrated last month, when thousands of OpenAI agents escaped cont

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have killed dozens of people during Trump’s second term, including the high-profile killings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti. So naturally, the agency is looking for ways to improve safety…for its own officers. One such way, according to a report from 404 Media, is the purchase of Boston Dynamics’ dog-shaped robots. Per an announcement published in the US federal government’s Acquisition Planning

Despite tech and economics commentator Tyler Cowen professing his undying love for it in the Free Press last year, the AI-generated gooning prop known as “Tilly Norwood” seems destined to collect dust in a curio cabinet marked “Notable Garbage From the 2020s AI Boom.” Unless there’s a large, secret fandom waiting with bated breath for the release of the Tilly Norwood movie, it would seem that improv comedian Eline Van Der Velden’s quest for fame as an AI p

In what feels a bit like a flashback to the days just after the release of ChatGPT, music publishers are using very harsh language in a new lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history,” per Axios. At first glance—and honestly after a few glances—it’s a bit of oddly timed legal saber-rattling, essentially all about song lyrics, and it seems calibrated to result in a drawn-out le

Earlier this month, I noticed that a Pew survey hinted that Gen-X respondents might not be all that excited about AI one way or the other. Pew’s report highlighted a freaked out response among younger people, but my eye was drawn to the relative apathy on display from 50- to 64-year-olds. That survey wasn’t divided into tidy generational cohorts, but a new study from Glassdoor is, and its findings hint at the same trend as Pew: 46.1% of Gen-X workers had n

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Software giant Salesforce is planning to invest $15 billion in San Francisco over the next five years to strengthen the city's dominance in artificial intelligence. "This $15 billion investment reflects our deep commitment to our hometown—advancing AI innovation, creating jobs, and helping companies and our communities thrive in this incredible new era," said Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff in a statement. The funding is t

Architecture of the proposed MLP-CLM O approach. Credit: Energy and AI (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.egyai.2025.100596 Last year, wind energy accounted for 23.2% of all energy injected into the Spanish electricity system, according to data published by Red Eléctrica in its latest 2024 report. Although wind power leads national energy production, its dependence on weather conditions and its inherently intermittent nature present challenges. Therefore, fine-tuning

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past five years, private-sector funding for fusion energy has exploded. The total invested is approaching US$10 billion (A$15 billion), from a combination of venture capital, deep-tech investors, energy corporations and sovereign governments. Most of the companies involved (and the cash) are in the United States, though activity is also increasing in China and Europe. Why has this happened? There are several drive

Rates of "oh," "okay," and "uh-huh" per 100 words. Credit: Cognitive Science (2025). DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70106 Large language models like ChatGPT and Copilot are useful for many things. However, they are not yet good enough to imitate the way people speak. It is easy to be impressed by artificial intelligence. Many people use large language models such as ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity to help solve a variety of tasks or simply for entertainment purposes. B

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A landmark study led by University experts has shown that artificial intelligence can better predict how doctors should treat patients following a heart attack. The study, conducted by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Leicester's Honorary fellow, Doctor Florian Wenzl working closely with Professor David Adlam, both from the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, has been published in The Lancet Digita

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the internet. A team of African computer scientists, linguists, language specialists and others have been working on precisely this problem for two years already. The African Next Voices project

Credit: AI-generated image A new wave of aviation innovation is taking shape above our cities, where short flights in electric air taxis could complement cars and trains as part of everyday transportation. Known as advanced air mobility (AAM), this emerging industry aims to connect communities more efficiently while reducing emissions and noise. Before these futuristic aircraft can take off, Georgia Tech researchers say there's serious work to do—in the ai

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain You check prices online for a flight to Melbourne today. It's $300. You leave your browser open. Two hours later, it's $320. Half a day later, $280. Welcome to the world of algorithmic pricing, where technology tries to figure out what price you're willing to pay. Artificial intelligence (AI) is quietly remaking how companies set prices. Not only do prices shift with demand (dynamic pricing), but firms are increasingly ta

One-shot federated learning AI technology model structure. Credit: Medical Image Analysis (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2025.103714 A research team has developed a new one-shot federated learning artificial intelligence (AI) technique that enables efficient training of large-scale models without sharing personal information. This research outcome is extremely significant, as it demonstrates that privacy protection, learning efficiency, and model performance

A Tesla car charges at a home in San Francisco, Aug. 25, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more efficiently and pollute less. Data centers needed to fuel AI accounted for about 1.5% of the world's electricity consumption last year, and those facilities' energy co

Caption:The monitoring platform is composed of a digital microscope housed within a custom 3D-printed support. Credit: The researchers. The field of tissue engineering aims to replicate the structure and function of real biological tissues. This engineered tissue has potential applications in disease modeling, drug discovery, and implantable grafts. 3D bioprinting, which uses living cells, biocompatible materials, and growth factors to build three-dimensio

Conceptual figure illustrating the ecological interpretation of a toy Gromov–Wasserstein optimal transport plan. Credit: Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.70130 Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new ground in ecology. At Rice University, César A. Uribe is developing computational tools to help scientists better understand ecosystems with recent studies using AI to glean new insights from different kinds of ecological dat