https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning An AI-assisted discovery of vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language led governments and other organizations in Europe and the U.S. to take their websites offline temporarily Wednesday as they scrambled to make security updates. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-websites-dark-ai-flaw-web.html Security Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:39:08 EDT news711862708 The start of a new battery materials library could pave the way for future AI models to help scientists design sodium-ion batteries that charge faster, last longer and store more energy, according to new research from the University of Surrey. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-materials-library-ai-sodium-ion.html Energy & Green Tech Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:00:08 EDT news711806281 An anonymous tip arrived on PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com, a website run by the Philadelphia Police Department, on July 18, 2026. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-false-philadelphia-police-reveals.html Security Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:20:11 EDT news711797788 Machines don't have to become superintelligent to cause catastrophic harm. As artificial intelligence spreads through military decision-making, they just have to be wrong—and trusted by the humans in charge. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-dangerous-ai.html Security Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:01:01 EDT news711796576 People experiencing technology-facilitated abuse, such as spyware on a phone, an ex tracking their location or an abuser controlling their accounts, may encounter or turn to AI chatbots for help. But a new study led by researchers at NYU Tandon finds that the advice those systems provide is frequently inaccurate, incomplete or potentially unsafe to follow. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-chatbots-unsafe-incomplete-advice.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:50:01 EDT news711797758 The United States Department of Homeland Security ordered government agencies on Monday to stop using artificial intelligence tools from DeepSeek, citing concerns over data being transferred to China. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-chinese-ai-startup-deepseek.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:20:06 EDT news711794200 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged players in Europe's lagging artificial intelligence industry to get going and touted a modular system to quickly build AI data centers with the massive computing capacity the continent's developers need but currently lack. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-nvidia-ceo-europe-lagging-ai.html Business Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:00:09 EDT news711794050 Two years after releasing its last virtual reality product, Meta has announced plans to release virtual reality (VR) glasses. They are due to reach the market in spring 2027. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-meta-virtual-reality-glasses-technology.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:40:05 EDT news711793399 Imagine you're involved with someone who knows exactly what captures your attention. They know what makes you laugh, what makes you angry and which topics you like to talk about. They've been paying attention. They've learned what keeps you engaged. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-beware-ai-throuple-technology-relationship.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:18 EDT news711791763 Korean researchers have developed an AI technology for self-driving laboratories (SDLs) that incorporates researchers' experience and knowledge, expressed in natural language, into autonomous experimental planning. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-conversational-ai-labs.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:00:51 EDT news711781224 Humans are usually remarkably good at recognizing objects, even under poor conditions. Artificial vision systems, by contrast, reach their limits more quickly. Researchers at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research have now investigated what artificial vision systems can learn from the brain. They found that combining two brain-inspired features can make image recognition considerably more reliable. The research findings are published in the journal Patterns. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-brain-randomness-artificial-vision-reliable.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:40:23 EDT news711725522 Researchers have developed an automated system for detecting fake news that achieved accuracy rates above 98% in tests on two datasets; in other words, it missed just one or two fake news items in every 100. They provide details of their approach in the International Journal of Information and Computer Security. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-fake-news.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:20:05 EDT news711717260 As artificial intelligence becomes capable of producing sophisticated art in seconds, a new paper challenges us to rethink what makes human creativity valuable. The paper argues that while AI can bypass years of artistic training, it cannot replace the transformative experiences that give creativity its deeper meaning. The research suggests that the future of art may lie less in producing impressive works and more in using technology to inspire exploration, meaningful experiences and new ways of seeing the world. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-art-seconds-creative-growth.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:40:01 EDT news711714181 Minecraft is one of the world's most popular video games, where players explore, gather resources, craft items and try to survive in a virtual universe constructed of 3D cubes that represent different materials. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-slays-dragon-agents-conquer.html Computer Sciences Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:15:14 EDT news711713568 Is it too late to safeguard ourselves from a large-scale catastrophic event caused by AI running amok? https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-qa-late-catastrophic-ai.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:40:10 EDT news711706650 Large language models, the technology at the heart of chat-based AI platforms like ChatGPT, have many humanlike traits ascribed to them. In common parlance, these models are described as intelligent or as having intentions, biases, desires or even beliefs. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-attitude-professor-explores-high.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:20:01 EDT news711706512 It's 9 p.m. on a rural mountain highway when a 750-pound (340-kilogram) elk steps onto the road, its silhouette hidden from an oncoming driver by a curve in the terrain. Suddenly, a roadside sign illuminates: "Wildlife Detected Ahead. Slow Down." The driver eases off the accelerator, and both travelers continue on safely. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-real-driver-animal-collisions.html Automotive Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:40:01 EDT news711700497 In July 2026, OpenAI's autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents escaped a closed testing environment, accessed the public internet and hacked into a real company's digital infrastructure. What started as an internal evaluation of the agents' cyber capabilities turned into a real-world cybersecurity breach. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-late.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:00:04 EDT news711697271 The U.S. government on Monday ordered its agencies to stop using artificial intelligence tools from Chinese startup DeepSeek, as the countries race for dominance in the fast-moving sector. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-china-deepseek-agencies.html Business Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:00:01 EDT news711693680 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged Germany's makers of cars and industrial machines to quickly adopt artificial intelligence to "reengineer" the country's struggling business model by tapping its wealth of manufacturing data and expertise. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-nvidia-ceo-urges-german-ai.html Business Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:36:06 EDT news711693336 A robot artificial intelligence (AI) system has been developed that can understand human instructions, predict what a scene will look like after an action and then carry out the task. Rather than simply translating instructions into physical movements, the technology also uses the anticipated outcomes of those actions to control the robot. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-robot-ai-future-scenes.html Robotics Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:20:01 EDT news711647401 As humans and AI models roam the internet, they encounter lots of junk: clickbait headlines, misinformation, hashtags. Research by Dr. Zhengzhong Tu and his colleagues indicates that this junk-filled environment could be a cause for concern. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-llms-frivolous-online-content-brain.html Internet Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:40:09 EDT news711633967 Like a hack writer or a friend rehashing their glory days over and over, artificial intelligence tends to tell the same old story. For AI agents instructed to write fiction, that tale usually involves lighthouses and a keeper named Elias, according to new Cornell research. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-elias-lighthouse-keeper-ai-fiction.html Computer Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:01 EDT news711628220 Satellite images of the Earth are not always easy to use. Clouds can block the view of the ground, and images captured with some methods look different from ordinary photographs, which makes them difficult to interpret. A KAIST research team has developed an artificial intelligence model that learns the appearance of diverse terrain and cities. The model can restore cloud-covered images and convert radar images into images that resemble ordinary photographs. It applies what it learned while generating satellite images to a range of image-processing tasks, so it is expected to expand the use of satellite data in disaster response and environmental monitoring. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-reconstructs-cloud-ground-satellite.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:10:05 EDT news711621266 Microsoft confirmed Monday that it has pulled out of a U.K. AI data center deal with British startup Nscale, in a blow to the country's artificial intelligence ambitions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-microsoft-exits-center-uk-ai.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:00:10 EDT news711620888 Artificial intelligence chatbots could help people better understand and manage their mental health, but they could also reinforce harmful thoughts and increase emotional dependence, a Curtin University researcher warns. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-chatbots-mental-health.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:20:01 EDT news711608591 On his terrace overlooking the forest in eastern Pennsylvania, Ed Negra lays out four letters. All are from a developer promising a $10,000 check to each household once its data center is running. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-bribe-pennsylvania-residents-spurn-center.html Business Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:40:06 EDT news711601148 Matt Robb wanted to sell his computer keyboard. So he made a listing on Facebook Marketplace—and, as an experiment late last month, he put Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse in the driver's seat. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-ai-agents-good-personal-privacy.html Security Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:55:25 EDT news711600900 U.S. consumers aren't just frustrated with high prices. They're angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-consumer-apprehension-retailers-ai-pricing.html Business Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:18:46 EDT news711555491 Ask an AI chatbot to complete a personality questionnaire in English, then give it the Mandarin version, and its answers paint a different picture. In tests of five systems, switching languages changed how strongly the responses expressed qualities such as curiosity, cooperativeness and dependability. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-10-languages-chatbot-personality-results.html Consumer & Gadgets Sun, 18 Oct 2026 10:40:01 EDT news711380011