Engineering

Modular tire design aims to cut waste and monitor road conditions

Although tires are a vehicle's sole point of contact with the road, their basic design has barely changed in decades. Once worn down, millions of tons of tire casings—whose main structure remains intact—end up as difficult-to-manage ...

Machine learning & AI

Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments. But like many U.S. universities, his institution is shunning AI detection ...

Security

South Korea warns of possible AI use in banking hacks

Artificial intelligence may have been used in a string of cyberattacks targeting South Korea's financial sector, the president said Tuesday, as police announced the launch of an investigation.

Computer Sciences

Can scientists build a lie detector for AI chatbots?

Ask an AI chatbot for some medical advice and it might recommend you head to the hospital when all you really have is indigestion. One of the biggest issues with AI chatbots today is that they can still share false information, ...

Machine learning & AI

France's Mistral unveils latest model in sovereign AI push

French AI startup Mistral announced Tuesday its biggest open-weight model, dubbed "Chonk," claiming enhanced performance and security capabilities for clients seeking to keep their data private instead of relying on closed ...

page 11 from 40