Dr Hannah van Kolfschooten (Photo: zVg). By Yvonne Vahlensieck A new EU strategy is placing greater emphasis on artificial intelligence in the management of heart disease. Legal researcher Hannah van Kolfschooten believes this is premature. Among other things, she criticizes the fact that no […]

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolving thousands of complex customer needs at once. These real-world breakthroughs rely on advanced […]

By Sean Nealon Researchers have developed a low-cost, semi-automated, AI-driven method that uses remote cameras to survey bumblebees and potentially other insects. The new tool could have important implications for efforts to conserve declining insect populations. This includes bumblebee species, […]

Battlefields in Ukraine are littered with the remnants of drones, which are now firmly established as a critical weapon of modern warfare. But behind all that wreckage, there’s a new gold mine for the defense sector. The data drones generate will far outlast the wars in which they are used to […]

“Subliminial Effects in Your Data: A General Mechanism via Log-Linearity.” Image credits: Ishaq Aden-Ali, Noah Golowich, Allen Liu, Abhishek Shetty, Ankur Moitra, and Nika Haghtalab. In this crosspost from AI Matters – a publication of the ACM SIGAI – Ella Scallan interviews Noah Golowich, […]

MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.

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A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts that explain its behavior.

As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate responses, and make […]

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place in the next couple of months. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 4 September 2026 Gauging hourly economic activity in your neighbourhood Speaker: Allan Timmermann (UCSD) […]

The senior lecturer, already director of the degree program, will now oversee all aspects of the center’s activities and operations.

In this instalment of AI pioneers, we speak to award-winning roboticist, filmmaker, and artist, Ken Goldberg. We discuss the culture clash within robotics, what art and science have to learn from each other, and how AI will shape the future of art. Welcome, Ken Goldberg. Thank you very much for […]

The PhD student works to give young people an active role in shaping digital technologies that can support their own well-being.

The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform […]

By Khawar Islam A hospital may only ever collect a few dozen scans of a rare condition – for example, an unusual tumour. The radiology department wants software to flag this on a scan – not to replace the specialist, but so a hospital without one still gets their scan checked the same way. The

With millions of users across the world, Julia has been used to conduct cutting-edge research and to design new drugs, jet engines, heat pumps, and more.

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we report on events at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, learn about the mathematics of simplicity, investigate the accountability vacuum, and find out […]

A new machine-learning framework aims to improve the success rate of computational protein design while moving away from results that reproduce sequences found in nature.

A new system developed at MIT uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces help robots practice skills and try out different ways of doing tasks before they’re powered on. Image: Tim Malieckal/MIT CSAIL using […]

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. The hack, which a group of agents undertook to find solutions for a cybersecurity test that they […]

Not every AI idea is worth piloting. This guide walks through the 7 questions that decide whether your process is actually ready for AI. Artykuł AI Opportunity Canvas: How to Evaluate if an AI Project Is Worth Doing pochodzi z serwisu DLabs.AI.

Action from the 11 vs 11 humanoid match at RoboCup 2026. Photo credit: RoboCup Federation. RoboCup 2026 saw history made, as two teams of 11 humanoids took to the soccer field, the first time a full complement of robots has competed. The game saw B-Human (Bremen, Germany) take on HTWK Robots […]

When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.  […]

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by […]

The “CrysVCD” tool developed at MIT could cut the huge amounts of time and money spent on screening out chemically unstable designs.

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a […]

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and companies […]

The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) took place in Bremen, Germany from 15-21 August. In the second of our social media round-ups we find out about the doctoral consortium, drop into the […]

A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for.

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their […]

Elise Racine / Static / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 This cross-post from AI Matters is co-authored by Prof. Larry Medsker and Sumit Virmani. It outlines the current accountability vacuum faced by the deployment of agentic AI systems into an unprepared regulatory and legal landscape, and suggests actions […]

The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) distinguished paper awards recognise some of the best papers presented at the conference each year. This year, three articles were named as distinguished […]

New MIT research could lead to better materials for a fossil-fuel-free process for making the chemical that's essential to fertilizer and other products.

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. MLops and HCI with Demetrios […]

Welcome back to AI Pioneers – in-depth conversations with those shaping the field. This time, we speak with Cynthia Rudin, a trailblazer in the field of interpretable machine learning. Winner of the 2022 Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, Cynthia’s […]

A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.

The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) is currently taking place in Bremen, Germany. The first couple of days saw the attendees enjoy some of the many tutorials and workshops on offer. The […]

In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas.

Florent Delgrange won the Best Blue Sky Paper Award at AAMAS 2026 for his work Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments. We caught up with him to find out more about his vision for agent learning. What is the topic of your Blue Sky Ideas […]

The 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 29th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJACI-ECAI 2026) will be held from 15-21 August, in Bremen, Germany. The conference will feature workshops and tutorials, keynote and invited talks, technical […]

The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a short conversation. This month we ask whether AI tools are changing the way we think. Joining the conversation this time are: Joydeep Biswas (The University of Texas at Austin), Sanmay Das (Virginia Tech), Rina Dechter (University of […]

Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy & AI4Media / Humans Do The Heavy Data Lifting / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Annie Flynn The Royal Statistical Society’s AI Task Force has issued a critical mandate via a new paper, AI Regulation Needs Statistics, which demands that statistical principles actively […]

The pathway from monolithic to augmented LMs. Image credits: Akari Asai In this crosspost from AI Matters – a publication of the ACM SIGAI – Ella Scallan interviews Akari Asai, 2025 winner of the AAAI Doctoral Dissertation Award. Akari describes her work on augmented language models, where […]

“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

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Physics-based simulations can help identify which peptide antibiotics can kill a bacteria like E. coli, pictured here using electron microscopy. (Nurgul D / Wikimedia Commons) CC BY-SA 4.0. By Rachael (Ré) A Mansbach, Concordia University and Jyler Menard By 2050, scientists estimate that […]

Image credit: Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash. The winners of three International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) awards have been announced. These three distinctions are: the Award for Research Excellence, the Computers and Thought Award and the John McCarthy Award. […]

Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. Safe and moral AI with Rebecca […]

CogTwin is a hybrid cognitive architecture framework designed to bring autonomous reasoning and real-time adaptation to digital twin systems. Presented at IJCAI 2025, this work aims to advance the state of digital twin technology by addressing key gaps in autonomy, cognition, and real-time […]