https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning New research led by The University of Manchester in collaboration with Durham University has found that AI chatbots such as ChatGPT can match—and in some situations outperform—humans as a source of everyday emotional support. However, the advantage depends on the emotional context, and a key ingredient for effective support—offering specific, actionable guidance—can boost the quality of support from both humans and AI alike. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-chatbots-effective-humans-emotional.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:00:01 EDT news703777081 ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an "unprecedented cyber incident." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-openai-ai-technology-unprecedented-hack.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:54:30 EDT news703911252 Imagine buying three identical 3D printers. Despite being the same brand, the same model and even having similar serial numbers, each machine may behave slightly differently. Over time and at scale, these differences can accumulate into significant manufacturing defects. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-personalities-individual-3d-printers.html Engineering Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:20:10 EDT news703856401 A research team led by Professor Jo Woon Chong of the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), in collaboration with researchers from KAIST and Texas Tech University in the United States, has developed the Passenger Movement Estimation System (PMES). This AI-based system predicts passenger movements using CCTV footage to prevent subway door entrapment accidents before they occur. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-tech-proactively-subway-door.html Automotive Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:05 EDT news703855261 From the Ferranti Mark I to empathetic AI, Manchester researchers are exploring how intelligent machines can understand human behavior, respond to social cues and earn trust in our workplaces, hospitals and homes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-redesigning-relationships-humans-intelligent-machines.html Robotics Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:20:09 EDT news703853282 A new modeling study finds that weak AI regulation may be worse than no regulation at all when it comes to the safety of AI products and services. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-weak-ai-worse.html Business Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:20:03 EDT news703784881 A research team led by Kyunghan Lee, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering, has developed an artificial intelligence system, "Ouroboros," that performs vision transformer-based video analysis 2.61 times faster using 13.0% of the computation required by conventional methods on edge devices. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ouroboros-ai-edge-devices-video.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:40:06 EDT news703766042 Large language models (LLMs), the computational algorithms underpinning ChatGPT, Gemini and other artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational platforms, are now widely used worldwide. These models can rapidly answer questions, source information online, assist users with specific tasks and produce text tailored for specific purposes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-hidden-prompts-false-memories-ai.html Security Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:20:01 EDT news703427290 Tech firms are racing to roll out advanced smartphones that use artificial intelligence to do everything from ordering food to composing messages with a simple voice command. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-pocket-size-ai-powerful-star.html Consumer & Gadgets Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:50:02 EDT news703654773 Another powerful new artificial intelligence model from China took the U.S. tech industry by surprise Friday, the latest sign that Chinese startups that publicly release their "open-source" AI technology are making the California titans of AI sweat. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-chinese-ai-tech-industry-abilities.html Machine learning & AI Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:06:24 EDT news703566368 So-called deepfakes, that is, images and videos generated with the help of artificial intelligence, are becoming increasingly difficult to detect. An international research team from the University of Tokyo and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany, has developed a method that identifies manipulated videos more reliably than previous approaches—not by searching for visual artifacts, but by analyzing the naturalness of facial expressions. In tests on established benchmark datasets, the approach achieved an average detection accuracy of more than 95 percent and successfully identified manipulations that caused many existing detectors to fail. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-facial-movement-analysis-deepfake-videos.html Security Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:20:09 EDT news703417834 Engineers often use vision-language models to produce new designs, such as airplane or automobile components. To simulate how those components will perform in realistic situations, they'll use tried-and-true computer-aided design (CAD) software to generate 3D models of those designs, which they can put through virtual crash or durability tests. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-2d-3d-rapid-prototyping.html Software Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:20:01 EDT news703405444 An international research team involving the University of Bayreuth has, for the first time, analyzed the "inner workings" of AI language models when predicting political voting decisions. To do so, the researchers examined six national elections and AI-based election forecasts and developed a new method for making more precise predictions. They presented their findings at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026) in Seoul, South Korea. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-powered-election-reveal-hidden.html Computer Sciences Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:40:01 EDT news703405416 Artificial intelligence isn't just capable of translating between existing languages—it can also create entirely new ones. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-tool-doesnt-languages.html Computer Sciences Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:50:01 EDT news703341027 The era of building "personalized AI" by training AI models on individual or corporate documents and data is beginning. However, while such customization can improve task performance, it can also weaken a model's existing safety safeguards. KAIST researchers have developed a core AI technology that preserves customized performance while further strengthening safety. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-key-technology-personalized-ai-safer.html Computer Sciences Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:40:01 EDT news703329183 During the day, our brain acquires new memories; at night, during sleep, it consolidates the important ones and eliminates the useless ones. A similar principle has been applied to Hopfield networks, one of the classic models of artificial intelligence inspired by the workings of the brain. In 2025, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi and colleagues developed Daydreaming, an algorithm that combines the learning of new memories with the elimination of spurious ones, drastically improving the network's capacity. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-daydreaming-algorithm-ai.html Software Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:05 EDT news703173437 Robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers, are an increasingly common sight. But these machines aren't yet the do-it-all assistants you'd want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience. The challenge is that it's labor-intensive and time-consuming to physically teach these machines so many actions across different settings. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-agents-virtual-playgrounds-robots.html Robotics Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:56:41 EDT news703241768 A new artificial intelligence system developed by West Virginia University engineers could help firefighters respond to wildfires sooner by enabling satellites to detect blazes and automatically adjust their positions for continued monitoring. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-satellite-tracking-wildfires.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:30:03 EDT news703232945 When can we trust the results we get from AI, and when is learning impossible? Researchers have shown that there are some problems that even the most powerful AI cannot reliably solve, no matter how much data it is given. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-limits-isnt-ai.html Computer Sciences Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:00:01 EDT news703144062 The safety performance of autonomous vehicle (AV) algorithms is boosted by 90% using simulation data that better incorporates near-miss incidents with outright failures, according to new research led by University of Michigan Engineering. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-cars-av-algorithm.html Automotive Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:20:01 EDT news703155230 Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities without prompting them for illegal outputs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-method-aims-kids-safe-illegal.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:00:08 EDT news703154435 The brain's cerebellum doesn't waste energy analyzing every moment. Instead, it constantly monitors the world for the unexpected—and springs into action only when something suddenly changes. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-brain-hardware-faster-power-anomaly.html Electronics & Semiconductors Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:04:22 EDT news702903799 Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their hiring processes. It's not just CVs that are evaluated automatically. AI tools can also conduct job interviews—usually in the form of avatars, which are animated characters—and make hiring decisions. An important reason for this, aside from saving time, is that AI is said to be less biased than humans. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-job-felt-fair-avatars.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:40:03 EDT news702897476 Robotics researchers often spend weeks, or even months, simply getting a new robot up and running before they can begin testing new behaviors. Researchers in the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science have developed an open-source software framework designed to eliminate much of that setup work, making it easier to deploy AI systems across different robots without rebuilding software from scratch. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-infrastructure-ai-robots.html Robotics Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:20:08 EDT news702889533 In creating a comprehensive, AI-enabled research agent for the biomedical sciences, Stanford University researchers hope to speed innovation by eliminating the tedium of scientific legwork. Biomni, an AI-powered, multiskilled biomedical research agent, is no mere chatbot. It is a full-fledged "co-scientist" capable of designing and developing complex research workflows, said Jure Leskovec, the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor and professor of computer science in the School of Engineering and senior author of the paper introducing Biomni in the journal Science. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-biomni-ai-powered-biomedical-scientist.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:00:05 EDT news702794170 The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-news-outlets-urge-sanction-openai.html Internet Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:44:58 EDT news702823440 Across aging societies, a gap is widening: People live longer, but families grow smaller. A rising number could reach the end of life, unable to make their own medical decisions and with no next of kin or trusted friend to speak for them. Life-or-death decisions then lie in the hands of a stranger. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-agent-machines-patients-life.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:01 EDT news702814618 A Korean research team has developed a technology that enables the stable stacking of more than 10 ultrathin semiconductor chips, each only one-fifth the thickness of a human hair. A research team successfully achieved an integration density approximately four times higher than that of commercial high-bandwidth memory (HBM) through a novel process that simultaneously transfers chips and forms metallic interconnections. The study was published in the journal Results in Engineering. The team was led by Prof. Seok Kim and integrated Ph.D. student Uhyeon Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology), together with Dr. Hohyun Keum of the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH). https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-memory-denser-ultrathin-chip.html Electronics & Semiconductors Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:03 EDT news702737784 ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said its latest and most powerful artificial intelligence model will be released to the public on Thursday, as the U.S. government reportedly approved a broader launch. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-openai.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:58:20 EDT news702701879 Your online order arrives damaged, so you request a refund. What often follows is an artificial intelligence workflow involving multiple AI models: One model checks your request against company policy, another analyzes the image you uploaded, and yet another drafts a response. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-automation-advances-efficient-ai-workflows.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:00:07 EDT news702654761