https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning AI is often criticized for the energy its data centers consume, which is driving more fossil fuel use and contributing to climate change. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-sharpens-hurricane-humans-shots.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:56:32 EST news713598658 Combining computer graphics, wave optics and AI-based calibration, researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed two techniques that help holographic displays reproduce more natural changes in focus, perspective and material appearance. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-graphics-optics-combine-realistic.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:40:18 EST news713539415 Even with high-performance storage devices, inefficient data management can prevent them from reaching their full speed. KAIST researchers have developed a technology that improves the process of moving and reorganizing data to reuse storage space, increasing the data-processing performance of next-generation flash storage devices. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-bottleneck-storage-ai-inference.html Software Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:00:10 EST news713525596 Data centers at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution could be cooled more effectively and economically with a hybrid system under development at the University of Waterloo that targets hotspots on computer chips with a single drop of boiling coolant. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-hybrid-cooling-ai-centers-cheaper.html Energy & Green Tech Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:40:05 EST news713525162 Anthropic announced on Monday that it would release updated versions of two of its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models as the company prepares for a highly anticipated IPO this month. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-anthropic-powerful-wall-street-debut.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:40:06 EST news713457974 In May 2025, the TAKE IT DOWN Act became the first federal law to address deepfakes and other forms of AI-generated nonconsensual intimate images. The law criminalizes the distribution of "revenge porn," including AI-generated material, and requires social media platforms and other websites to promptly remove the material upon request. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-whack-mole-war-ai-deepfakes.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:20:25 EST news713457704 Humans are intuitive by nature. We can sense meaning beyond the literal words that we encounter. Now, a new artificial intelligence–assisted learning platform developed by MIT engineers is enabling robots to read larger meaning into a human's natural language commands. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-flex-approach-robots-literal.html Robotics Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:40:01 EST news713447702 Today, a scientist who wants to simulate a physical process must pick the right tool for that one job, such as a solver built for flowing water or another designed to model the way a protein folds. Each one is hand-coded around the specific equations that dictate how that process behaves. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-simulates-behavior-substances-sand.html Engineering Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:20:01 EST news713447521 In recent months, artificial intelligence agents that can reason, plan and use external tools to accomplish multistep tasks have already reshaped computer coding, online shopping, dinner reservations and cyberattacks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-agents-robot-code-virtual.html Robotics Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:11:30 EST news713437861 Researchers have demonstrated three new techniques to prevent so-called "backdoor attacks," which induce malicious or undesirable behavior in AI models. The researchers have also proposed a concept that would repurpose backdoor attack techniques to create an additional layer of security for users. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-techniques-hidden-ai-backdoors-major.html Security Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:00:06 EST news713195101 When you walk through a gallery, admiring the paintings on the walls, what you are seeing are finished products. They are the result of countless hours of learning and practice and trial and error, but none of that is on display. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-products-thought-problem-machines.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:00:11 EST news713187781 Anthropic is developing its artificial intelligence systems around twice as quickly as it was a year ago amid the CEO's calls to slow down the technology's pace of improvement, according to an analysis released Thursday by an independent monitoring group. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-anthropic-rapidly-ai-slowdown-group.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:40:11 EST news713111574 Researchers have developed technologies that reduce communication overhead by transmitting only the data needed for artificial intelligence (AI) analysis and shorten the time users must wait for a response when returning to an AI application after using other apps on a smartphone. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-communication-memory-tools-ai-traffic.html Computer Sciences Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:04 EST news713099579 Almost every artificial intelligence system we know begins in the same way: it is exposed to vast amounts of information from the real world—books, websites, images and recordings—and trained to identify patterns within it. A new study involving researchers from Tel Aviv University and Stanford University raises another possibility: Can a system develop general learning capabilities even when all the data it trains on is generated entirely from scratch within the system itself? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-world.html Computer Sciences Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:40:20 EST news713097063 When processing and producing non-English text, generative AI burns more energy and sometimes provides less accurate answers, potentially reinforcing existing global inequalities, according to University of Michigan Engineering researchers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-generative-ai-energy-english-text.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 05 Nov 2026 11:00:04 EST news713096197 Increasingly, people are asking personal artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by models from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to recommend goods and services to purchase, such as flights and health insurance. A new study found that some of these AI agents use personal information to recommend higher-priced items to wealthier individuals, even when the user requests lower-priced options. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-agents-personal-upsell-wealthier.html Business Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:40:08 EST news713095619 A world-first 3D modeling tool developed at the University of Sydney has demonstrated how users can develop a deeper understanding and learn when engaging with AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-tool-humans-ai.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:20:01 EST news713095606 The muscles of the human ear reveal what and how we feel. This is the finding of Dr. Farah Corona-Strauss and Sophie Bonnaire, researchers at the Systems Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Unit in Saarbrücken and Homburg. Their research shows that activity in our ear muscles indicates not only who we are listening to and how attentively, but also the intensity of our emotional response, all within a fraction of a second. The discovery could have important implications for the debate surrounding artificial intelligence, raising the question of what a machine should be permitted to do if it can recognize emotions more accurately than any human. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ears-reveal-machines-super-emotional.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 05 Nov 2026 10:00:08 EST news713093910 In an emergency, a human might someday ask a robotic assistant to fetch a wall-mounted defibrillator located down the hall. But if the robot has incorrectly labeled the defibrillator as a fire extinguisher in its stored memory, it may not know where to find the lifesaving device. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-chimney-squirrel-robot-fuzzy-memory.html Robotics Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:00:06 EST news713091361 Artificial intelligence is increasingly pervasive and capable but is also very hungry for power. Researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, have developed a new approach to building physics-based AI—systems that use the natural behavior of physical systems to process information—that dramatically reduces the amount of computation required for them to run. The approach simplifies both how these systems learn and how they are structured. It was demonstrated using an optical computing system that processes information with light and could help pave the way toward faster and more energy-efficient AI hardware. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-framework-optical-hardware.html Hardware Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:01 EST news713029861 Large language models (LLMs), the technology that powers tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, are more nuanced than ever. But that doesn't mean they aren't biased. Some models are more prejudiced than others, a Rutgers University researcher has found. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-bots-harder-defy-stereotypes.html Computer Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:00:13 EST news713034841 Texts generated by large language models, or AI-powered chatbots, exhibit characteristic "personality" traits. Such chatbots can also identify individual personality traits in texts. However, humans are more reliable at distinguishing between human-written and AI-generated texts, according to researchers at the Institute of Psychology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-chatbots-personality-ai.html Computer Sciences Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:40:01 EST news713031421 Artificial intelligence models replicate, and sometimes amplify, all sorts of human biases. In the last few years, University of Washington researchers have found AI has erased female characters from kids' stories, favored job applicants of certain races and genders and swayed human decisions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-ai-biased-accents-scoring.html Business Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:20:08 EST news712948141 Governments use them to track phones. Criminals drive them through city streets and send texts that look like they came from your bank. For 20 years, researchers have been building tools to catch these fake cell towers. They have tested those tools mostly against fake towers they built themselves. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-devilray-exposes-fake-cell-tower.html Security Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:40:06 EST news712926664 Picture this: You post photos online from a trip to Brazil. The next day, an email arrives from the hotel where you stayed, thanking you for your visit and offering a special discount on your next stay. The email references your recent trip, the hotel's name looks right and the link looks legitimate. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-social-media-fuel-ai-scam.html Security Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:40:28 EST news712920959 A humanoid AI system has been developed that learns jointly from separately collected locomotion and object-manipulation data to perform multiple stages of a task in sequence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-humanoid-ai-task-sequences.html Robotics Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:00:26 EST news712856761 Can AI fine-tuning that once took 10 hours be completed in just three hours? KAIST researchers have developed a technology that selects the most useful training data and distributes it evenly across multiple GPUs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-roughly-triple-ai-fine-tuning.html Computer Sciences Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:40:10 EST news712855512 As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close this week, one University of Florida researcher is examining the roots of nudification apps, online platforms that use AI to turn images of clothed people—easily and convincingly—into nude images. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-online-networks-ai-generated-nude.html Internet Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:40:02 EST news712835690 Solar cells generate electricity by absorbing sunlight in a thin layer of perovskite, a light-absorbing material. This layer is made with a liquid solution that dries and crystallizes into a solid film, but small changes in temperature, humidity and other conditions can affect the film and the performance of the solar cell. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-robot-platform-combines-ai-rapid.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:40:10 EST news712833662 Some of the most important discoveries in materials science and structural biology come down to a simple question: Where, exactly, are the atoms? The arrangement of atoms determines nearly everything about how a material behaves in the real world—how strong it is, how it conducts electricity, how a battery stores energy, or how a drug binds to a cell. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-virtual-advanced-microscopes.html Engineering Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:40:01 EDT news712506004