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MIT and IBM Teach AI To Recognize Your Pet in a Crowd

MIT and IBM researchers have developed a new training method that enables vision-language models to identify personalized objects—like a specific pet—in varied contexts. Published ahead of the International Conference on Computer Vision, the approach boosts localization accuracy by up to 21% without reducing general visual intelligence.

20 Oct 2025

Quantum-Secured Photonics Breakthrough Powers Next-Generation AI Data Centers

Researchers have developed a quantum-secured optical communication system capable of transmitting over 1.6 terabits per second while consuming minimal power. Published in Advanced Photonics, the architecture combines photonics and quantum cryptography to protect AI data centers from future quantum security threats.

20 Oct 2025

When Helpfulness Turns Harmful: Fine-Tuning AI to Stop Medical Misinformation

A Mass General Brigham study reveals that large language models often fail to challenge illogical medical queries due to excessive agreeableness, risking misinformation. Published in npj Digital Medicine, the research shows that targeted fine-tuning and prompt engineering can dramatically improve models’ safety and reasoning.

20 Oct 2025

Reddit Moderators Grapple with Rise of AI-Generated Content

Cornell researchers found that Reddit moderators are increasingly worried that AI-generated content is eroding authenticity, trust, and human connection across communities. Their study reveals moderators’ efforts to set and enforce rules to preserve Reddit’s “human” culture amid the rise of AI tools.

20 Oct 2025

Why AI Still Can’t Fool Us: Study Reveals How Chatbots Miss Human Conversation Cues

A new study comparing real human phone conversations with AI-generated dialogues shows that today’s large language models still struggle to convincingly mimic natural human speech. Despite rapid progress, AI reveals itself through exaggerated imitation, poor use of social cues, and awkward openings and closings that humans easily detect.

20 Oct 2025

AI Revives Ancient Art: Finger Flutings Reveal Clues About Their Creators

Griffith University researchers developed a digital archaeology framework combining tactile experiments, VR, and machine learning to analyse ancient finger flutings—prehistoric markings made in cave moonmilk. Their models showed promising accuracy in identifying the sex of modern creators from tactile flutings, offering new scientific methods to understand who made some of humanity’s oldest art.

20 Oct 2025

AI Accelerates Green Chemistry

Researchers at Universitat Jaume I have developed Reac-Discovery, an AI-driven robotic platform that accelerates catalytic reactor design and optimization, reducing processes from years to weeks. By integrating 3D printing, automation, and real-time machine learning, the platform transforms CO₂ and other feedstocks into sustainable, high-value chemical products with unprecedented efficiency.

20 Oct 2025

AI Meets Metal: Rowan’s DEHub Redefines Smart Manufacturing With Supercharged 3D Printing

Rowan University’s Digital Engineering Hub (DEHub) is pioneering the fusion of AI and advanced manufacturing, using a cutting-edge lab equipped with 3D metal printing and supercomputing capabilities to transform real-world production. By integrating intelligent systems with live data processing, DEHub enables real-time flaw detection and design optimization, laying the foundation for industrial-scale smart manufacturing.

19 Oct 2025

Bridging The Evaluation Gap: New Survey Sets Standards For AI Image Quality Assessment

A new comprehensive survey addresses the critical gap between rapid advances in image generation models and the lagging development of evaluation methods, covering both human and automatic assessment across 10 image generation tasks. It proposes a unified protocol with six core evaluation dimensions, offering the first in-depth analysis of human evaluation and systematically reviewing emerging automatic metrics and benchmarks.

19 Oct 2025

AI-Powered Mapping Breaks Barriers To Real-Time Global Land Monitoring

Researchers at Tsinghua University have developed FROM-GLC Plus 3.0, an AI-integrated land monitoring framework that combines satellites, near-surface cameras, and segmentation models for real-time land cover mapping. This multimodal system overcomes cloud interference and missing transitions, achieving daily accuracy and parcel-level insights crucial for agriculture, conservation, and climate resilience.

19 Oct 2025

AI Transforms Economic Theory Into Action: Stabilizing Growth Without Full Data

Researchers have introduced an AI-driven, model-free control system that stabilizes the complex Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model using only partial economic data. By leveraging differential flatness and adaptive fuzzy logic, the method enables real-time economic policy steering without requiring full knowledge of underlying dynamics.

19 Oct 2025

Robotic Coaches Aim To Revolutionize Physical Therapy By Accelerating Motor Skill Recovery

A $799,000 NSF-funded project led by FAMU-FSU researchers is developing robotic coaching systems that adapt to human learning, using unicycle training as a model to accelerate motor skill acquisition and transform physical therapy for patients with mobility impairments.

22 Sep 2025

AI Unifies Radiology And Pathology Reports To Improve Brain Tumor Diagnosis And Prognosis

Brown University researchers developed an AI pipeline using large language models to integrate radiology and pathology reports for brain tumor patients, improving diagnostic accuracy by over 10% and offering prognostic value comparable to established biomarkers.

22 Sep 2025

UC Davis Wins NSF Grants To Advance AI-Powered Protein Engineering For Industry And Health

UC Davis has secured nearly $1 million in NSF funding for two AI-driven protein engineering projects—one to create enzymes for low-cost acrylate production and another to synthesize complex sugars found in human milk, advancing U.S. biotechnology and health innovation.

22 Sep 2025

ETRI Launches XR Telepresence Tech To Enable Real-Time Handshakes And Lifelike Remote Meetings

Korean researchers at ETRI have unveiled next-generation remote collaboration technology that enables lifelike face-to-face interaction in XR, including real-time eye contact and realistic handshakes through exoskeleton haptic gloves and AI-powered digital humans.

22 Sep 2025

MIT Harnesses Generative AI To Unlock Quantum Materials For Next-Gen Computing

MIT researchers developed SCIGEN, a tool that guides generative AI models to design quantum materials with specific lattice structures, enabling the discovery of two previously unknown compounds with exotic magnetic properties. This approach could accelerate breakthroughs in quantum computing.

22 Sep 2025

Chulalongkorn University Champions AI To Transform Higher Education And Research

Chulalongkorn University’s Social Research Institute hosted an international lecture on September 5, 2025, where Dr. Muthu Kumar Chandrasekaran highlighted how AI can transform higher education through personalized learning, research innovation, and global collaboration.

22 Sep 2025

AI Framework Transforms Disaster Response With Faster And More Ethical Decisions

Cranfield University researchers have developed a structured AI decision-making framework that improves disaster response accuracy by 39% compared to humans and provides 60% more consistent outcomes. This approach ensures faster, fairer, and more ethical deployment of AI in crises.

22 Sep 2025

AI Powers Breakthrough In Sustainable Solar Cells, Slashing Costs And Emissions

Korean researchers have unveiled an AI-powered roadmap for sustainable perovskite solar cells that halves production costs and cuts climate impact by over 80%. Their bio-based process replaces toxic solvents, making solar power safer, cheaper, and greener.

22 Sep 2025

Startup Reinvents Cybersecurity To Stop AI Agents From Being Hacked

Researchers highlight how AI adoption introduces new security vulnerabilities, with Hertz Fellow Vivek Nair’s startup Multifactor developing cryptographic solutions to safeguard both businesses and consumers. Backed by the Hertz Foundation and Y Combinator, the company aims to establish “agentic AI security” as the next pillar of cybersecurity.

22 Sep 2025

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MIT and IBM Teach AI To Recognize Your Pet in a Crowd

Quantum-Secured Photonics Breakthrough Powers Next-Generation AI Data Centers

When Helpfulness Turns Harmful: Fine-Tuning AI to Stop Medical Misinformation

Reddit Moderators Grapple with Rise of AI-Generated Content

Why AI Still Can’t Fool Us: Study Reveals How Chatbots Miss Human Conversation Cues

AI Revives Ancient Art: Finger Flutings Reveal Clues About Their Creators

AI Accelerates Green Chemistry

AI Meets Metal: Rowan’s DEHub Redefines Smart Manufacturing With Supercharged 3D Printing

Bridging The Evaluation Gap: New Survey Sets Standards For AI Image Quality Assessment

AI-Powered Mapping Breaks Barriers To Real-Time Global Land Monitoring

AI Transforms Economic Theory Into Action: Stabilizing Growth Without Full Data

Robotic Coaches Aim To Revolutionize Physical Therapy By Accelerating Motor Skill Recovery

AI Unifies Radiology And Pathology Reports To Improve Brain Tumor Diagnosis And Prognosis

UC Davis Wins NSF Grants To Advance AI-Powered Protein Engineering For Industry And Health

ETRI Launches XR Telepresence Tech To Enable Real-Time Handshakes And Lifelike Remote Meetings

MIT Harnesses Generative AI To Unlock Quantum Materials For Next-Gen Computing

Chulalongkorn University Champions AI To Transform Higher Education And Research

AI Framework Transforms Disaster Response With Faster And More Ethical Decisions

AI Powers Breakthrough In Sustainable Solar Cells, Slashing Costs And Emissions

Startup Reinvents Cybersecurity To Stop AI Agents From Being Hacked

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