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Explainability is a must for older adults to trust AI, study shows
Voice-activated, conversational artificial intelligence (AI) agents must provide clear explanations for their suggestions, or older adults aren't likely to trust them. That's one of the main findings from a study by AI Caring ...
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AI companions can comfort lonely users but may deepen distress over time
AI companions are always available, never judge, never tire and never demand anything in return. If someone is struggling with loneliness, this frictionlessness can seem profoundly appealing. However, new research shows that ...
Apr 4, 2026
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New memristor design uses built-in oxygen gradient to bring stability to reinforcement learning
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers created a memristor that uses a built-in oxygen gradient to produce slow, stable conductance changes, enabling a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to learn ...
Living brain cells enable machine learning computations
A research team at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate has demonstrated that living biological neurons can be trained to perform a supervised temporal pattern learning task previously carried out by artificial ...
Apr 3, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Rivalry and collaboration attitudes: Study finds writers need both to thrive in the age of AI
When a screenwriter told New York University researchers last year that letting AI do her work would make her "miserable inside," she was onto something. A follow-up study from NYU's Tandon School of Engineering and Stern ...
Apr 3, 2026
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Computer Sciences
'More is Different': Research shows scale alone does not explain AI's power—specialization and cooperation do
One of the most influential scientific and philosophical viewpoints is "More is Different," introduced in 1972 by Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip W. Anderson, highlighting the limitations of the reductionist approach. ...
Apr 3, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Microsoft to invest $10 bn for Japan AI data centers
Microsoft said Friday it will invest $10 billion in Japan over the next four years to build artificial intelligence data centers and related infrastructure.
Apr 3, 2026
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Business
Crashing waves vs. rising tides: Overturning prior views about how AI could overtake human workers
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that AI could surpass "almost all humans at almost everything" shortly after 2027. While AI's capabilities are certainly improving, such rapid progress might seem at odds with findings ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
New method predicts the success of LLMs on untried tasks with high accuracy
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València, part of the Valencian University Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN) and ValgrAI, has participated in the development of ADeLe, a new methodology that ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Hardware
Brain-inspired chip could make some AI tasks up to 2,000 times more energy efficient
A new type of computer chip that uses the physics of materials to process information could make some artificial intelligence (AI) systems far more energy efficient, researchers have found. Loughborough University physicists ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Fair decisions, clear reasons: Creating fuzzy AI with fairness built in from the start
Although AI is not intentionally biased, it can inherit biases from the data fed into it, learning and repeating them until the system becomes inherently unfair. This is complicated by the problem of identifying where the ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Computer Sciences
New AI testing method flags fairness risks in autonomous systems
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that minimizes costs while keeping ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
New research could empower people without AI expertise to help create trustworthy AI applications
Involving people without AI expertise in the development and evaluation of artificial intelligence applications could help create better, fairer, and more trustworthy automated decision-making systems, new research suggests. ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
New app designed to improve conference experience
A new app developed by Yun Huang, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, aims to make navigating conferences less work and more fun, so that attendees can ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
'Moltbook' risks: The dangers of AI-to-AI interactions in health care
A new report examines the emerging risks of autonomous AI systems interacting within clinical environments. The article, "Emerging Risks of AI-to-AI Interactions in Health Care: Lessons From Moltbook," appears in the Journal ...
Apr 2, 2026
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Robotics
Combining the robot operating system with LLMs for natural-language control
Over the past few decades, robotics researchers have developed a wide range of increasingly advanced robots that can autonomously complete various real-world tasks. To be successfully deployed in real-world settings, such ...
Computer Sciences
AI maps science papers to predict research trends two to three years ahead
The number of scientific papers is growing so rapidly that scientists are no longer able to keep track of all of them, even in their own research area. Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in collaboration ...
Apr 1, 2026
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Engineering
VisiPrint system generates realistic 3D-print previews from two images
Designers, makers, and others often use 3D printing to rapidly prototype a range of functional objects, from movie props to medical devices. Accurate print previews are essential so users know a fabricated object will perform ...
Apr 1, 2026
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Security
AI blueprints can be stolen with a single small antenna
From smartphone facial recognition to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI) has long been protected as a black box. However, a joint research team from KAIST and international institutions has uncovered a new ...
Apr 1, 2026
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Security
AI systems lack a fundamental property of human cognition: Understanding this gap may matter for safety
When a person reaches across a table to pass the salt, their brain is doing something far more complex than recognizing a request and executing a movement. It is drawing on a lifetime of bodily experience—where their hand ...
Apr 1, 2026
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Engineering
Diffusion-based AI model successfully trained in electroplating
Electrochemical deposition, or electroplating, is a common industrial technique that coats materials to improve corrosion resistance and protection, durability and hardness, conductivity and more. A Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Apr 1, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Anthropic releases part of AI tool source code in 'error'
Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant Claude Code due to "human error," the company said Tuesday.
Apr 1, 2026
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Business
OpenAI raises $122 billion in boosted funding round
OpenAI on Tuesday said that the startup was valued at $852 billion in a freshly closed funding round that raised $122 billion.
Apr 1, 2026
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Telecom
Chip-scale light technology could power faster AI and data center communications
Researchers at Trinity have developed a new light-based technology on a tiny chip that could help make the data centers behind cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and global internet services faster and more efficient. ...
Mar 31, 2026
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