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Computer Sciences
AI agents struggle to perform original scientific research
Among the many predictions about the future of artificial intelligence is that models will one day be able to conduct scientific research on their own, leaving humans out of the equation. Already, they can write code, run ...
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Extending AI architectures to address continuous scientific problems
Artificial intelligence is proving to be transformative in its ability to work with language and images. Now, with a growing push to apply AI to scientific discovery, Caltech's Anima Anandkumar says there is a crucial ingredient ...
Aug 12, 2026
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Today's downloads predict tomorrow's scientific impact—up to five years out
The trail of likes, shares and downloads we leave across the internet could help predict successful innovations years in advance, Cornell researchers showed by curating two datasets that allowed them to compare early engagement ...
Aug 11, 2026
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With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
Artificial intelligence models are jacks of many trades, including writing, generating images, and creating 3D models. But they aren't as helpful when it comes to testing robots or designs for vehicles in diverse environments, ...
Aug 11, 2026
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Why do we labor when reading some words but not others? AI offers a partial answer
Why do we breeze through some sentences in a book or article but have to reread others to comprehend their meaning? A team of linguists and data scientists has found a partial answer in AI—some of this processing parallels ...
Aug 10, 2026
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Hardware
New coding technique skips needless calculations, speeding some GPU tasks nearly fourfold
The multiplication of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays called tensors lies at the heart of modern computing. Matrix or tensor multiplication is, in fact, the most common operation carried out in artificial intelligence ...
Aug 10, 2026
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Computer Sciences
A new attack slips past the latest defenses built into your computer's processor
Chipmakers and operating system developers have spent years building defenses. A new study from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) shows that a key assumption behind many of them doesn't ...
Aug 9, 2026
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Computer Sciences
AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently
In recent years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can rapidly recognize patterns in data, generate content and solve other computational problems. Many of these AI ...
Software
Optimizing software: Computing professor's 'egg' downsizes programs to make them more nimble
Many software tools, including compilers, optimizers and synthesizers, have a common task at their core. They must transform long, complicated programs into simplified equivalents. These scaled-down programs run faster and ...
Aug 6, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Hidden goals can undermine AI teamwork, study finds
Large language models (LLMs), the computational models that underpin conversational agents such as Gemini and ChatGPT, are now widely used by people worldwide to rapidly find information, summarize documents and generate ...
Computer Sciences
AI learns to focus like humans to speed up video analysis
Artificial neural networks were originally inspired by the human brain, but they are still far less efficient at processing information. One reason the human brain is so efficient is its ability to focus only on the most ...
Aug 5, 2026
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Popular vs. reliable sources—a blind spot in how LLMs assess information
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning ChatGPT and similar conversational platforms, are now used by many people worldwide to find and summarize information and generate different ...
Computer Sciences
EAR-Sys could reduce airport computing delays by 14% during major disruptions
Airports could become better able to withstand major operational disruptions under a new computing system designed to keep digital services running during periods of intense pressure. Details are reported in the International ...
Jul 30, 2026
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Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images
Generating an image of a person on a computer using text prompts is easy. Generating one with two people is similarly simple. But creating an image of multiple people actually doing something, and faithfully reproducing not ...
Jul 29, 2026
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Game-engine forests train drone AI to count trees with far less labeling
A drone swoops low over an alpine forest. It climbs suddenly to follow the contours of the sharply rising landscape. Pulses from its lidar—a laser mapping instrument—rapidly scan the trees below.
Jul 29, 2026
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Brain-inspired AI is capable of flexible planning and problem-solving while using far less energy
The capabilities of large AI systems are constantly improving, but they consume a great deal of energy during training and operation. The human brain, by contrast, is extremely energy-efficient: It requires only around 20 ...
Jul 28, 2026
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AI gains a tool to identify Kinyarwanda propaganda, with promise for 600 Bantu languages
A new study led by Fabrice Niyigaba '27 reports the first digital tool for identifying online propaganda in Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda's 15 million people—and possibly the first for any of the Bantu languages ...
Jul 27, 2026
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New tool identifies the sources of fake videos
Artificial intelligence can generate videos so realistic that distinguishing them from authentic footage is becoming increasingly difficult. But a computer science team led by researchers at UC Riverside has developed a tool ...
Jul 27, 2026
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Computer Sciences
A computer in a liquid: Hundreds of oscillating particles compute complex patterns
Researchers at the Universities of Konstanz and Stuttgart have demonstrated a new approach to computation: a computer made from a few hundred microscopic particles oscillating in a liquid. Instead of processing information ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Quantum randomness helps neural network recognize troublesome handwritten digits
Quantum computing and AI are among the most rapidly developing modern technologies. AI, in the form of machine learning, has been deployed for decades to recommend movies and TV shows and make it easier to search for images. ...
Jul 23, 2026
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Novel method lets multimodal AI update knowledge without losing earlier information
Korean researchers have developed a core technology that allows multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) to reliably retain existing knowledge while repeatedly learning new information.
Jul 23, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Graphics advances preserve stretched textures and cut shape-computation costs tenfold
Researchers from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) presented two papers at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles. One paper introduces new methods for texturing highly deformable surfaces, and the other proposes a ...
Jul 22, 2026
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With help from the cosmetics field, animators figure out the math of highly coiled hair
There are many types of hair—long, short, straight, curly—and today's computer animators have a good handle on many of them. But one type, highly coiled hair, continues to vex animators. With help from a mathematical tool ...
Jul 20, 2026
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Computer Sciences
CivilBot turns structural designs into computer models up to 30 times faster
When architects create plans for a new building, they typically work with an engineer to design the structure so that the building is safely supported.
Jul 18, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Professor pushes computers to solve 'unsolvable' problems
Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny yes-or-no decisions. Finding the best combination of answers could be the key to anything from ...
Jul 18, 2026
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