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A philanthropy created by Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, makes curing disease its main mission with a focus on using artificial intelligence. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a nonprofit launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife aimed at curing all disease, on Thursday announced it was restructuring to focus on using artificial intelligence to achieve that goal. The move narrows the focus of the philanthropic organizati

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Last week, artificial intelligence (AI) music company Udio announced an out-of-court settlement with Universal Music Group (UMG) over a lawsuit that accused Udio (as well as another AI music company called Suno) of copyright infringement. The lawsuit was brought forward last year by the Recording Industry Association of America, on behalf of UMG and the other two "big three" labels: Sony Music and Warner Records. The laws

Workflow for the construction and analysis of a Magnetic Materials Database. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64458-z Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have harnessed artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of new functional magnetic materials, creating a searchable database of 67,573 magnetic materials, including 25 previously unrecognized compounds that remain magnetic even at high temperatures. "By a

Credit: Aalto University How many coins can touch one coin, or how many basketballs can "kiss" one basketball at the same time? This seemingly playful question lies at the heart of the famous kissing number problem, a mathematical riddle that becomes almost supernaturally difficult to work out in dimensions beyond 4D. Despite its whimsical name, similar problems have practical applications in areas such as mobile communications and satellite navigation. Aa

Mission impossible: Although observing the shape and movement of a barchan dune (crescent-shaped) allows us to infer wind direction and average intensity, calculating the resulting force on each grain of sand was considered impossible. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial int

Credit: AI-generated image How does high population growth affect gross domestic product? Economics students are all too familiar with exam questions like this. As free-text questions, they require not only specialist knowledge but also the ability to think and argue economically. However, grading these answers is a time-consuming task for university assistants: Each answer must be checked and assessed individually. Could artificial intelligence do this wo

Credit: ACS Nano (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c09057 Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM), Wang's team built ATOMIC (Autonomous Technology for Optical Microscopy & Intelligent Characterization)—an AI microscope platform that can analyze materia

Diagram displaying how Google Gemini was used to analyze images and identify changes, including explosive events. Credit: Stoppa, Bulmus et al., Nature Astronomy (2025) How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated the potential for using AI to conduct astrophysical surveys of c

Estimates of the informational treatments on outcomes relevant to Hypothesis 1: beliefs about automation related job loss. Bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Results statistically significant at the 5%-level when we used the Benjamini-Hochberg Procedure are marked with a ∗. Credit: The Journal of Politics (2025). DOI: 10.1086/739200 As debates about artificial intelligence and employment intensify, new research suggests that even warnings about near-t

An aerial view of meandering streams through the desert landscape of southeastern Jordan. Credit: United States Geological Survey/Unsplash Floods account for up to 40% of weather-related disasters worldwide, and their frequency has more than doubled since 2000, according to a recent report from the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Global flood losses now average $388 billion a year. Simultaneously, droughts are becoming more widespread an

Anopheles stephensi AI graphic (example). Credit: USF Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi—an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito—ever detected in Madagascar. The study, led by USF scientists Ryan Carney and Sriram Chellappan, demonstrates how AI-powered image recognition and public participation can transform global

Published on May 24, 2026 at 15:12 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © 01net/Canva At Meta, an internal ranking displayed the 250 employees who consumed the most AI tokens. 60 trillions in 30 days. The table was removed after it leaked. The phenomenon, however, is only just beginning. The term appeared in the columns of Hacker News at the beginning of 2026, before exploding in a New York Times article on March 20. The 'tokenmaxxing' refers to a practice born in Silicon

Published on May 25, 2026 at 08:00 Commenter 3 𝕏 Print © Vitaly Gariev (Unsplash) Australian researchers fed an AI with Facebook ads from 891 users. Result: it guessed their gender, occupation, and political opinions without ever accessing their browsing history. We thought the problem of online privacy was cookies, trackers, and browsing history. A team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) has just shown that the danger lies elsewhere. In

Published on May 26, 2026 at 14:02 Comment Share 0 𝕏 Print © 01net.com Amazon's voice assistant evolves. Alexa+, its most refined and AI-powered version, is finally available in France. Amazon Echo Dot Max 3.8/5 View the test View the technical sheet Launched a little over a year ago in the United States, Alexa+, the AI-enhanced version of Amazon's voice assistant, is finally arriving in France. The service has been available since this Tuesday at 2 PM amo

Published on May 26, 2026 at 15:41 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Amazon Alexa+ is now available in France. Here is the list of devices that will be compatible with Amazon's AI. Some older devices will not be able to integrate it. Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max View the technical sheet Amazon has finally launched Alexa+ in France. The AI assistant will be included in all Amazon Prime subscriptions in the coming weeks. Users without Prime will have to pay 22.99 euros per

Published on May 27, 2026 at 07:30 Updated on May 30, 2026 at 09:20 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Steve Jurvetson (Wikimedia) Sam Altman admits that his predictions of an apocalypse for entry-level white-collar workers did not come true and notes the persistence of a 'human element' in some activities. The creator of ChatGPT also denounces the phenomenon of 'AI whitewashing' practiced by some companies At the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) Asia-Pacific Conference, Sam Altm

Published on May 27, 2026 at 09:01 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Alberto Pizzoli / AFP Three months after being banned by Trump, Anthropic shares the Vatican's platform with Pope Leo XIV to present the first encyclical on AI. Coincidence or strategy? On May 25, 2026, Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic, shared the Vatican's platform with Pope Leo XIV to present Magnifica Humanitas, the first papal encyclical devoted to artificial intelligence. Exactly three