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A prize-winning Caribbean writer from Trinidad and Tobago is embroiled in the latest controversy involving the use of AI for a creative work, after allegations that artificial intelligence was used to write a short story.

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology developed an enhanced YOLO framework using transfer learning and a custom dataset, significantly improving the detection of small moving objects in omnidirectional videos. The model achieves 90% accuracy and maintains performance up to 50 meters, outperforming standard YOLO versions.

Virginia Tech researchers used reservoir computing, a brain-inspired technique, to control a simulated soft robotic arm, achieving up to 75x power reduction over conventional AI. The approach, published in PNAS, could enable small untethered robots for medicine, agriculture, and more.

Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and other institutes have developed Retrieval-Augmented Manipulation (RAM), a framework combining vision-language models with 3D object representations. It enables robots to interpret complex spatial instructions and execute tasks without task-specific training, demonstrated through zero-shot real-world tests. RAM adaptively replans actions based on physical constraints.

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered officials to start work on a plan to mitigate the job-destroying impact of artificial intelligence, the first US state to do so.

President Donald Trump called off a signing ceremony Thursday for a new order on artificial intelligence because he worried it could dull America's edge on AI technology.

Online shoppers could one day face fewer misleading fake reviews thanks to a newly tested AI-powered detection system developed by researchers at the University of East London.

A new MIT study by David Autor reveals that new forms of work in the post-war U.S. have disproportionately benefited college-educated workers under 30 in urban areas. The research highlights that innovation-driven new work is often demand-led, and the wage premium for new work fades as expertise becomes common. Autor suggests AI's impact on jobs depends on implementation choices.

Google on Tuesday showed off new plans to turn its famous search bar into an AI assistant that can book restaurants, track news, and contact businesses—just by asking a question.

When AI image generators depict cities, they tend to produce more recognizable images for large metropolitan areas than for smaller communities, a new study finds. This raises concerns about representation and visibility in generative AI.

Recent years have witnessed the unprecedented development of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things. These two technologies have significantly facilitated data collection from different sources for numerous tasks, such as reconstruction, classification, and prediction, for next-generation applications. However, the effective fusion and interpretation of these multi-source datasets remain challenging, making it a thriving area of research.

A new AI framework can detect microscopic internal defects in metal 3D printed components that are invisible to the naked eye but compromise structural integrity, potentially overcoming a key barrier to widespread adoption of metal additive manufacturing.

Canadian AI firm Cohere takes a different path from Silicon Valley, focusing on profitability rather than hype and conflict.

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI presented closing arguments Thursday in a blockbuster trial where the verdict could hobble ChatGPT's parent company in the breakneck race for AI supremacy.

In the last few years, many of us have started to see the benefits of using genAI in day-to-day tasks. But we've also been asked to reckon with the enormous environmental cost. Reporting has highlighted that these popular AI technologies have a significant environmental impact through high energy consumption, carbon emissions, and water use.

Cornell researchers developed a new decision-making tool using AI to help with difficult decisions. Instead of checking AI's result, AI checks you.

The article questions the definition of writing by drawing on ancient perspectives—from the Oracle of Delphi to Plato and Aristotle—and argues that true writing requires conscious intent and human experience, which AI lacks.

Computer scientists at UC Riverside have identified troubling flaws in a new generation of AI agents designed to take over routine computer chores, potentially causing digital disasters due to lack of oversight.

Researchers from the group of theoretical physicist Hans Briegel have collaborated with NVIDIA to develop an AI method that automatically generates efficient quantum circuits, a key bottleneck in making quantum computers practically useful.

In managing airport traffic, small errors can cause catastrophe. A group from the CMU Robotics Institute's AirLab used the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges-2 supercomputer to create World2Rules, an AI that draws from airport data and historical crash reports to help human controllers spot collisions before they happen. Their paper is published on the arXiv preprint server.

A new memristor chip integrates memory and computing, slashing AI energy consumption by over half.

Researchers have developed a pipeline inspired by human visual perception to improve the training efficiency and accuracy of computer vision models. By mimicking the human brain's image processing, it shows promise in tasks like object recognition and image classification.

As traditional computer chips reach their physical limits and AI energy demands soar, University of Missouri researchers are taking inspiration from the human brain to rethink computing. AI data center energy use is projected to double by 2030, making sustainable solutions urgent.

Until recently, AI's role in research felt like having a useful assistant. It could summarize a paper, clean up a dataset or draft an abstract. Researchers were still in charge of the thinking.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Thursday of the risks to global financial stability posed by cyberattacks powered by advanced artificial intelligence tools, calling for greater international cooperation on the issue.

Generative artificial intelligence is being used by 17.8% of the world's working-age population, but the gap between wealthy and developing nations continues to widen, according to a report published Tuesday by Microsoft.

A study by IMDEA Networks Institute found that ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity AI use trackers from Meta, Google, TikTok, and others, potentially leaking user conversation data.

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins recently wrote an op-ed suggesting AI chatbot Claude may be conscious. This article counters that view and explains why we tend to anthropomorphize AI.

Starting in November, ChatGPT users noticed the AI chatbot frequently talking about goblins. OpenAI is investigating, but the issue may indicate deeper biases.