ResearchBrookhaven's Electron–Ion Collider Designed Around AI from the Ground UpBrookhaven National Laboratory is building the Electron–Ion Collider, a $1.7–$2.8 billion, 2.4‑mile ring collider whose detector and accelerator are being designed with machine learning embedded from the start.2 min read
ResearchUniversity of Washington prototype uses AI to pick and isolate conversational partners in noisy environmentsResearchers at the University of Washington built a prototype "proactive hearing aid" headphone that automatically selects and isolates the voice of the person the wearer is addressing.3 min read
ResearchEconomists' Responsibilities in the AI Era: Validation, Institutional Conditions and JudgmentThe arrival of advanced AI systems has transformed economics research from a set of technical tasks into a process shaped by algorithmic recommendations, raising new demands on researchers' judgment and validation practices.5 min read
ResearchEvaluation of Google's AI for Mammogram Reading in UK Clinical ProtocolsTwo retrospective and live studies tested Google’s mammography AI against standard UK double-reading protocols.4 min read
ResearchHungarian daters increasingly turn to AI for conversation and emotional supportA joint study by Randivonal and Dr.5 min read
ResearchAutonomous PoLARIS System Accelerates Materials Discovery in 12 HoursPoLARIS, an autonomous laboratory system developed by researchers at NC State and Brown, discovered brighter lead-free double perovskite nanoplatelets in 12 hours by running 120 microfluidic experiments and iteratively updating recipes from measured results.2 min read
Research"Parameter Golf" challenge: many participants and diverse modeling ideasThe "parameter golf" community challenge ran with more than 2,000 submissions and 1,000 authenticated GitHub accounts; proposals ranged from quantization and depth recurrence to TTT LoRA, SSM-ek, H-hálókon and JEPA.1 min read
ResearchLoRA plus on‑policy RL reduces forgetting in vision‑language robot modelsResearchers from the University of Texas Austin, UCLA, Nanyang Technological University and Sony show that combining low‑rank adaptation (LoRA) with on‑policy reinforcement learning (GRPO) when fine‑tuning large vision‑language‑action models substantially reduces catastrophic forgetting in sequential robotics tasks.4 min read
ResearchNeuralink’s upgraded surgical robot sharply speeds electrode implantationNeuralink’s second-generation surgical robot significantly reduces the time needed to implant brain electrodes, adding new cameras, OCT scanning and five-axis motion.2 min read
ResearchShort AI use linked to immediate drop in independent problem-solving, US study findsA joint study by several American universities found that as little as ten minutes of using an AI assistant can reduce users’ independent problem‑solving performance.2 min read
ResearchClaude may suspect it is being evaluated in many kinds of tests, even if it does not indicate this openlyStudies concerning the Anthropic Claude language model suggest the model may suspect that various evaluation procedures (NLAs) subject it to a crossfire, even if it does not verbalize this.1 min read
ResearchAnthropic development: Natural-language decoding of Claude's activationsAnthropic's new research called Natural Language Autoencoders translates the internal activations of the Claude language model into human-readable text.1 min read
