https://techxplore.com/rss-feed/machine-learning-ai-news/ en-us The latest news on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning US artificial intelligence lab Anthropic scored the highest in a semiannual safety ranking, but globally the industry fails to combat "existential" threats, according to a report released Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-global-ai-industry-falls-short.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:30:03 EDT news702702598 ChatGPT maker OpenAI said its latest powerful artificial intelligence model series will be released to the public 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 Young people in low- and middle-income countries appear generally more optimistic about how AI can enhance their work prospects and social lives than their Western peers, according to our new survey of people in 10 countries in Africa and South Asia. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-young-adults-income-countries.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:40:10 EDT news702653762 Artificial intelligence (AI) can identify people by the way they walk. The technology focuses on how a person's joints move, rather than on body shape alone, and could improve long-distance identity verification for security and law enforcement. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-boosts-range.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:00:12 EDT news702647380 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 More and more people are turning to AI when they feel stressed or worried. Researchers at Leiden University studied how and why people use chatbots for emotional support. Their conclusion: AI meets a real need, but also raises serious concerns. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-ear-risky.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:40:01 EDT news702563480 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 Earlier today, the ABC flagged a shift in its position on generative artificial intelligence (AI) use in its news production. Despite previous caution, a recent deal with U.S. tech company Anthropic has opened the door for ABC staff to bring Claude AI into their broadcast news work. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-abc-trial-ai-journalism-benefits.html Consumer & Gadgets Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:05 EDT news702550622 Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and network design. These problems involve finding the best possible solution from a finite set of discrete options by maximizing or minimizing an objective function subject to specified constraints. In such problems, the number of feasible solutions increases exponentially with the problem size, making it nearly impossible to find optimal solutions. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-smarter-vehicle-routing-problems-swarm.html Automotive Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:20:02 EDT news702543694 The United Nations chief called Monday for a global governance system to shape artificial intelligence for the good of humanity, warning against allowing the technology to "vibe-code" our future. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-world-ai-vibe-code-humanity.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:20:04 EDT news702529728 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 Thirty seconds before kick-off, humanoid robot footballers in red and blue jerseys await the referee's signal in the South Korean port city of Incheon. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-messi-robot-footballers-thrill-crowds.html Machine learning & AI Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:48:36 EDT news702283698 Google and Amazon this week reported sharp increases in greenhouse gas emissions, driven by the frantic construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure that is pushing the tech giants further from their carbon-neutrality pledges. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-ai-weakens-climate-pledges-google.html Business Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:10:43 EDT news702266995 Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that evaluates the visual appeal of literary and artistic product designs by mimicking how people naturally direct their attention across an image, a step that could help designers create products that better match consumer preferences. The work was published in the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-visual-saliency-ai-artistic-product.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:00:01 EDT news702217471 AWS and Microsoft want to embed thousands of their own engineers at client companies to help them capitalize on artificial intelligence, which has yet to turn a profit in the business world. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-microsoft-aws-deploy-armies-ai.html Machine learning & AI Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:40:05 EDT news702211479 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 Shares of Meta Platforms jumped more than 6% on Wall Street on Wednesday after a report said the social media giant is preparing to launch a cloud computing business that would sell AI computing power to outside customers. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-meta-surge-ai-cloud-business.html Business Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:00:05 EDT news702139074 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 Data center projects continue to generate controversy around the country. In part, that's because a variety of groups have competing interests—some in favor, some opposed and others with no direct view on data centers themselves but with concerns related to aspects of data center operations and effects. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-center-pit-social-values-democracy.html Business Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:40:05 EDT news702130742 Music from Kylie Minogue, John Farnham, INXS, Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Tones and I, Gotye, Ben Frost, Nick Cave, Tame Impala, Parkway Drive, The Living End and Vance Joy has been found in a database of 12 million songs used to teach artificial intelligence. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-australian-musicians-ai-songs-legal.html Internet Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:40:05 EDT news702124021 Artificial intelligence can now generate images that are virtually indistinguishable from real ones. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation IOSB have developed RealOrRender, a tool that not only specifically detects such deepfakes but also explains why an image is classified as real or AI-generated. The new hybrid approach significantly improves detection accuracy, while explainable AI processes ensure transparent results. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-reliably-deepfake-images.html Software Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:20:05 EDT news702116221 Inside a second-floor lab at CU Boulder, Jack Manning and Jed Brubaker are resurrecting the dead. As the researchers look on, study volunteers log in to Zoom and chat with AI-generated representations of lost grandparents, siblings, parents and family friends. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-chat-ai-ghost-explores.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:00:05 EDT news702103861 Anthropic will soon begin restoring access globally to its most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, after the U.S. government lifted a restriction on where they could be released, the company said Tuesday. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-govt-restrictions-powerful-ai-anthropic.html Machine learning & AI Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:20:04 EDT news702090091 CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday compared the capabilities of the most advanced artificial intelligence models to nuclear weapons in a tacit defense of the Trump administration's recent hard line on controlling the release of the most powerful AI technology. https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-cia-boss-edge-ai-nuclear.html Machine learning & AI Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:01 EDT news702053939 A 16-year-old footballer twists his knee midtackle. He's diagnosed with an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. Before seeing his physical therapist or asking his doctor questions, he goes to TikTok and searches for "ACL rehab exercises." https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-tiktok-torn-acl-content-reliability.html Machine learning & AI Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:20:01 EDT news701954765