https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 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 Walking robots, such as quadruped robotic dogs, must be able to move safely through rough, often changing environments. Today, there are two main ways to program these walking, or legged, robots. The first is called model predictive control. This technique optimizes the robot's behavior but relies on accurate dynamics models, which are challenging to achieve in real-world settings and often require simplifying assumptions. The second is model-free reinforcement learning, which allows the robot to learn reliable but fixed behaviors, making them difficult to adapt after training. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-powered-robots-legs.html Robotics Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:40:03 EDT news702638941 An AI flaw that can be found today in one model could be quietly replicated across dozens of products and services built on the same underlying technology. Until now, the AI community has lacked a formal pathway to report those flaws, alert affected vendors and coordinate a response. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI), alongside collaborators from academia and industry, helped build one. Flaw Reporting for AI (FLARE-AI) is a new open-source platform that lets anyone report an AI vulnerability and route it to developers, vendors and government agencies equipped to act. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-critical-gap-ai-platforms.html Security Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:40:06 EDT news702562762 Developers are increasingly relying on large language models (LLMs) for everyday computing tasks such as fixing bugs, explaining code and automating text-processing tasks like filtering logs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-automate-everyday-tasks.html Software Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:16:01 EDT news702562549 Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules—like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball (MLB)—is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology in the wild, according to new Cornell research. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-years-exposed-hidden-offs-mlb.html Computer Sciences Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:00:02 EDT news702552375 As the era of AI agents—systems that can reason and act autonomously—begins, the power consumption of data centers is emerging as a critical challenge. A KAIST research team has, for the first time, analyzed the computational cost and energy consumption of AI agents, finding that they can consume up to 136.5 times more energy per query than conventional generative AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-hidden-energy-ai-agents.html Energy & Green Tech Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:40:03 EDT news702552128 AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualize social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online networks and shape public opinion, according to new research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-powered-social-media-subtly.html Consumer & Gadgets Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:10:04 EDT news702225301 Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that while artificial intelligence can spin increasingly convincing stories, its characters may still lack one of the qualities that make human-written fiction memorable: mystery. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-fiction-flat-characters-lack.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:20:07 EDT news702144781 Human-AI relationships are no longer confined to the domain of science fiction. As the technology has developed, AI chatbots have evolved from playing a role in search engines and image-generation tools into confidants, therapists and even romantic partners. It's a radical evolution of human-AI interactions that brings with it new risks in how it is reshaping the way we think and talk about relationships, including with ourselves, finds new research published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-human-relationships-real.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:20:08 EDT news702140763 Artificial intelligence doesn't just learn how humans talk. It may also be learning who gets listened to. A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that large language models, the technology behind popular AI chatbots, change the way they communicate depending on the social role they're assigned in a conversation. When cast as a "boss," they adopt different language patterns. When positioned as a subordinate, they become more accommodating, sometimes in ways that could undermine safety. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-behavior-authority-risky.html Security Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:40:12 EDT news702131461 Humans have been successfully trained to spot AI-generated faces in a study led by researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) Emotions and Faces Lab. The study, "Training Humans to Detect AI-generated Faces," is published in PNAS. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-short-people-ai-deepfake-fraud.html Security Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:00:12 EDT news701945794 What if your smartwatch could tell when you were struggling emotionally and offer support before you even thought to ask? That's the idea behind a new AI-powered system developed by researchers at the University of Ottawa, one that could change how people access mental health care outside a clinical setting. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-smartwatches-speech-text-distress.html Consumer & Gadgets Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:40:01 EDT news701698660 The number of U.S. data centers is growing, largely to power artificial intelligence programs. That has led to concern about the environmental consequences of data centers—and their impact on the energy grid itself. What will happen if scores of new data centers come online? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-shifting-center-power-peak-hours.html Energy & Green Tech Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:05 EDT news701701141 When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past patterns. But how it decides which information to use and what value it gives to different pieces of information can be somewhat inscrutable from the outside. An EPFL team has created a new large language model that is structured similarly to a human brain, allowing users more control and moving away from "black box" AI. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ai-ways-peer-black.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:20:03 EDT news701694481 Stanford researcher Ellen Kuhl estimates that there are some 1043 potential burger recipes in the world. And with BurgerAI, a new tool developed in her lab, artificial intelligence can now design the best one for you based on your age, taste, nutritional needs and even your sustainability goal. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-burgerai-custom-burgers-tailored-health.html Engineering Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:00:01 EDT news701684017 Students in the University of Washington's Prosocial Computing Group noticed a trend on social media: People were using generative artificial intelligence to make short science videos. The trouble was that these people weren't scientists, which, given AI's proclivity to be convincingly wrong, could accelerate the spread of misinformation. So the lab wondered how to enable scientists and other researchers to better adapt to platforms like TikTok. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-papertok-ai-users-papers-short.html Computer Sciences Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:04:01 EDT news701683424 Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and implement experiments. However, setting up an experiment on an autonomous lab robot is surprisingly slow. The effort requires a lengthy back-and-forth between a scientist and an engineer to design the experimental steps—a process that can take weeks. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-agentic-ai-bot-scientists-robots.html Engineering Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:20:02 EDT news701626622 For the first time, a research team has demonstrated an artificial intelligence semiconductor technology that integrates the core functions of generative AI into a single device platform based on ferroelectric memory. This technology is significant as the first demonstration of implementing the two essential functions required for generative AI—random sampling and stable computation—within a single memory array. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-ferroelectric-memory-enables-chip-sample.html Electronics & Semiconductors Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:00:12 EDT news701620589 A joint research team has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures that exactly match user-drawn shapes using generative AI. The generative design model, "Generative SNUPI," arranges DNA bases along the contour of a user-defined shape and automatically designs the bonding pathways required to assemble the structure. This breakthrough effectively enables AI to function as a nanodesigner. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-generative-ai-dna-origami-user.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:41:59 EDT news701617295 Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way these highly fragmented systems are designed and deployed often causes inefficiencies that can lead to wasted computation, energy and cost. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-plain-language-ai-workflow-tool.html Business Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:40:11 EDT news701604282 A research team led by Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, in collaboration with Cleveland Clinic, has uncovered new insight into how the brain senses movement. Their findings, published in Science Advances, could help improve sensation and movement for prosthetic limbs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-neural-machine-interfaces-reveal-brain.html Hi Tech & Innovation Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:40:07 EDT news701533323 A critique from the University of St Andrews published in the journal Nature provides evidence that Microsoft's claimed quantum computing "breakthrough" was built on flawed foundations. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-microsoft-quantum.html Business Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:40:03 EDT news701519822