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Filmmaker Spike Jonze provided a near-prophetic vision of the future with his 2013 sci-fi romance Her, in which a very lonely and increasingly withdrawn man gradually falls in love with an artificial intelligence operating system that he converses with via voice command. More than a decade later, life has (kind of) imitated art, and Jonze is worried about its dangers. Besides becoming a modern cult classic meditation on loneliness and the inherently human

ZEN System Overview. Credit: Zhuang Wang et al. Artificial intelligence (AI) is infamous for its resource-heavy training, but a new study may have found a solution in a novel communications system, called ZEN, that markedly improves the way large language models (LLMs) train. The research team at Rice University was helmed by doctoral graduate Zhuang Wang and computer science professor T.S. Eugene Ng with contributions from two other computer science facul

Key challenges (red background) and potential solutions (green background) for fast-charging LSBs. Credit: Advanced Energy Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202404383 Grab a coffee and your car is fully charged—this is how many people envision the future of mobility. But today's batteries still fall short of this ideal. While modern lithium–ion batteries can charge from 20% to 80% in about 20 to 30 minutes, a full charge takes considerably longer—and fas

An illustration of the analogy between a spring-block chain and a deep neural network. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/ys4n-2tj3 Deep neural networks are at the heart of artificial intelligence, ranging from pattern recognition to large language and reasoning models like ChatGPT. The principle: during a training phase, the parameters of the network's artificial neurons are optimized in such a way that they can carry out specific tasks,

El director general de Nvidia, Jensen Huang, sonríe en un evento el 11 de junio de 2025, en París. Credit: Sarah Meyssonnier/Foto compartida vía AP Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang says the technology giant has won approval from the Trump administration to sell its advanced H20 computer chips used to develop artificial intelligence to China. The news came in a company blog post late Monday and Huang also spoke about the coup on China's state-run CGTN television n

Dividing worker and AI expert perspectives among four task zones showed mismatches in what workers want and what is technically feasible. Credit: Stanford Social and Language Technologies (SALT) Lab A Stanford study captures the gap between worker desires and AI's abilities and highlights areas ripe for research and development. Artificial intelligence is radically shifting the labor market. Today's workers are increasingly turning to AI for everyday tasks

MASNS-implemented robot arm having habituation and sensitization characteristics. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60818-x In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable robots to efficiently perceive and respond to their surroundings like humans has become a crucial task. In this context, Korean researchers are gaining attention for newly implementing

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more and more sectors experiment with artificial intelligence, one of the areas that has most quickly adopted this new technology is law enforcement. It's led to some problematic growing pains, from false arrests to concerns around facial recognition. However, a new training tool is now being used by law enforcement agencies across the globe to ensure that officers understand this technology and use it more ethically. B

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote themselves to architecture, design, and the genuinely novel problems still beyond a machine's reach. Recent advances appear to have nudged that future tantalizingly close, but a new paper by researchers

Long serial chains of cognition must pass through the chain of thought. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.11473 Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups have come together to call for more to

Emerging food contaminants by type. Credit: Journal of Environmental Management (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125246 Global partnerships and artificial intelligence (AI) will be key to addressing the growing challenges posed by food contamination, a new study reveals. The study, co-authored by Professor Lord John Krebs, former chair of the UK Food Standards Agency, analyzes 116 peer-reviewed papers published between 2019 and 2024. It reveals that a r

Frans af Malmborg calls for debate about artificial intelligence. The photo is created using the AI tool Midjourney. Credit: UiA In his recent doctoral thesis from the University of Agder, Frans af Malmborg examined how politicians in the Nordic countries and the EU discuss and develop policies on artificial intelligence (AI). "Almost all politicians in the Nordics say yes to artificial intelligence. But the political governance behind developments is weak

Hierarchical architecture of El Agente Q. Inter-agent communication is illustrated with black arrows, where solid arrows represent task delegation from higher-level agents, and dotted arrows indicate feedback and reporting from lower-level agents. The agents can be broadly categorized into three functional modules- the geometry module (coral), the quantum calculation module (blue), and the file I/O module (yellow). Each module can be thought of as a depart

An example of mapping urban sentiment hotspots as visualized through an AI-drive framework. Credit: Jayedi Aman When Jayedi Aman looks at a city, he notices more than just its buildings and streets—he considers how people move through and connect with those spaces. Aman, an assistant professor of architectural studies at the University of Missouri, suggests that the future design of cities may be guided as much by human experience as by physical materials.

Facetune is one of the most popular selfie-editing apps among young people. Credit: Facetune Like many of her peers, Abigail (21) takes a lot of selfies, tweaks them with purpose-made apps, and posts them on social media. But, she says, the selfie-editing apps do more than they were designed for: "You look at that idealized version of yourself and you just want it—you just want it to be real […] the more you do it, the better you get at it and the more sub

Credit: Neuron (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.05.001 Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are a significant step toward future precise gene therapy for the brain that could safely control errant brain activity with high precision. In contrast, current therapies for brain disorders mostly treat o

Credit: AI-generated image What if we could design a machine that could read your emotions and intentions, write thoughtful, empathetic, perfectly timed responses—and seemingly know exactly what you need to hear? A machine so seductive, you wouldn't even realize it's artificial. What if we already have? In a comprehensive meta-analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show that the latest generation of large language mo

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. But this crucial ability has eluded the growing field of AI-augmented protein engineering. Now, researchers at UCSF have shown it is possible to make new proteins that move and change shape like those in nature. This ability will help scientists