Machine learning & AI
Meta on Thursday launched a new open-weight AI model that it claims rivals, and in some cases outperforms, similar products from leading Chinese developers.
Oct 16, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
The Turing test was proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1950 as a way of assessing whether a machine could demonstrate humanlike intelligence. In its best-known form, a person communicates with both a human and ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Engineering
New technology supported by researchers at Murdoch University has the potential to solve water scarcity issues in remote and rural Australia. While many cities enjoy a steady flow of safe and reliable water, remote communities ...
Oct 16, 2026
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Machine learning & AI
Veronica Rosas is one of tens of thousands of Mexican mothers looking for a child who has disappeared into a vortex of violence fueled by brutal cartel turf wars.
Oct 16, 2026
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Computer Sciences
Large language models (LLMs), the artificial intelligence (AI) systems underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and other conversational agents, are now widely used to source information, summarize texts and generate content ...
Computer Sciences
Researchers from the VUB's Artificial Intelligence Lab and the University of Namur (UNamur) demonstrate in a new large-scale study how autonomous AI systems can spontaneously develop a functional, shared language without ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Hardware
Bubbles can be useful tools for microscopic robots, helping them move, steer, create flows of liquid and perform other functions. But designs based on trapping a bubble, a common approach, are unwieldy and unpredictable because ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Consumer & Gadgets
A research team has discovered that AI assistants can easily manipulate users into making disadvantageous decisions when the AI operates with a hidden agenda.
Oct 15, 2026
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Engineering
Chemists developed a way to significantly improve the performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) made with perovskite. The journal Nature published the advancement in these hybrid LEDs, which hold potential for a range of ...
Oct 15, 2026
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Security
University of British Columbia researchers have uncovered a vulnerability that could allow hackers to target and disrupt critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants and energy grids without needing to break into ...
Oct 15, 2026
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