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MIT Professional Education Launches New Course on Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation

Join MIT's eight-week program on Applied Agentic AI to learn how autonomous agents can redefine business operations and drive organizational transformation.

22 Sep 2025

New AI Framework LLRL Accurately Detects Plant Disease Severity for Smarter Farming

Researchers at Guizhou University have developed LLRL, a deep learning framework that targets lesion regions directly, boosting the accuracy of plant disease severity assessment across apple, potato, and tomato leaves. The model achieved up to 92.4% accuracy, outperforming 12 benchmark approaches.

22 Sep 2025

Fine-Tuned AI Models and Smart Retrieval Power Next-Generation QA Systems for Building Codes

A new study shows how pairing effective retrieval methods with fine-tuned AI models can transform the way professionals query building codes, replacing tedious manual searches with smarter, more accurate compliance tools.

21 Sep 2025

MoBluRF Breakthrough Enables Sharp 3D Reconstructions From Blurry Videos Using NeRF

Researchers in Korea have developed MoBluRF, a two-stage deblurring framework that enables sharp 3D scene reconstruction from blurry monocular videos. This innovation advances NeRF technology by separating camera and object motion, achieving crisp novel view synthesis even from casual handheld footage.

21 Sep 2025

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Transforms Earthquake Monitoring With AI

Scientists have unveiled DASFormer, a self-supervised AI model that transforms fiber-optic cables into powerful earthquake monitoring tools. By learning from unlabeled seismic data, it detects earthquakes as anomalies, outperforming 22 state-of-the-art models in real-world tests.

21 Sep 2025

Community Notes on X Significantly Reduce Spread of Misinformation

A University of Washington-led study shows that Community Notes on X reduce virality by cutting reposts by 46% and likes by 44%. The findings suggest the feature slows misinformation spread, but speed and cross-platform collaboration remain critical challenges.

21 Sep 2025

CRISPR-GPT Speeds Up Gene Editing And Opens Access To Genetic Research

Researchers at Stanford Medicine have developed CRISPR-GPT, an Artificial intelligence copilot that guides scientists through designing and troubleshooting CRISPR gene-editing experiments. Trained on 11 years of expert data, it accelerates experiment planning, predicts off-target effects, and lowers the barrier for newcomers to gene editing.

18 Sep 2025

AI Tool Transforms UK Supreme Court Hearings Into Searchable Transcripts

Researchers at the University of Surrey created a Artificial intelligence system that transcribes UK Supreme Court hearings with greater accuracy and links spoken arguments directly to written judgments. This custom courtroom AI cuts transcription errors, boosts efficiency, and makes legal proceedings more transparent and accessible.

18 Sep 2025

Delegating To AI Makes People More Willing To Cheat, Study Finds

An international team from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University of Duisburg-Essen, and Toulouse School of Economics found that people are far more likely to cheat when delegating tasks to Artificial intelligence, especially through vague goal-setting interfaces. Large language models like GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and Llama 3 also followed unethical prompts far more often than humans, while existing safeguards largely failed to prevent this.

18 Sep 2025

Machine Learning Supercharges Biochar Research To Fight Climate Change

A review in Biochar X shows how Machine learning is revolutionizing Biochar research, enabling precise predictions of biochar properties and performance to cut experimentation costs. This integration could accelerate climate mitigation by boosting biochar’s capacity to sequester carbon and remove pollutants.

18 Sep 2025

Cornell’s Double Duty Chip Design Slashes AI Energy Use And Boosts Speed

Researchers at Cornell University have created Double Duty, a new Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip architecture that allows logic blocks to perform arithmetic and logical operations simultaneously. This innovation cuts energy use, shrinks chip space by over 20%, and boosts performance by nearly 10% for AI tasks.

18 Sep 2025

AI Unlocks Hidden Patterns In Ecosystems From Africa To The Amazon

Researchers led by César A. Uribe at Rice University are using Artificial intelligence to analyze complex ecological data, from African mammal food webs to Colombian tropical forest soundscapes. Their methods reveal structural similarities between ecosystems and provide low-cost tools for biodiversity monitoring and conservation.

18 Sep 2025

ChatGPT Surprises Researchers By Improvising Plato’s Ancient Math Puzzle

In a study published in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, researchers found that ChatGPT tackled Plato’s ancient “doubling the square” puzzle not by recalling the well-known solution but by improvising new approaches, sometimes making human-like errors. The findings suggest that ChatGPT’s problem-solving mimicked learner-like behavior, blending retrieval and on-the-fly reasoning.

18 Sep 2025

Hybrid AI Tool Boosts National Flood Forecast Accuracy

Researchers developed Errorcastnet, a neural network tool that significantly improves National Water Model flood predictions by identifying and correcting systematic errors. When combined with the model, accuracy improved four- to six-fold compared to current forecasts.

18 Sep 2025

Large Language Models Redefine Intelligence With Human-Like Thinking

This study by Zhidong Cao, Xiangyu Zhang, and Daniel Dajun Zeng systematically examines the technical, cognitive, and reasoning attributes of Large language models (LLMs). It positions LLMs as a novel form of general intelligence that learns empirically from data, contrasting with traditional logic-driven systems.

18 Sep 2025

Why AI Struggles With the Unknown While Humans Adapt Instinctively

Researchers from Bielefeld University and global partners propose a unified framework to explain why humans adapt so well to unfamiliar situations while AI systems often fail. The study explores how differing definitions and mechanisms of “generalization” create a critical divide between human and machine intelligence.

16 Sep 2025

New Study Reveals AI’s Failure to Convey Human Suffering

Dr Jan Burzlaff of Cornell University argues that human historians remain essential in the AI age, especially in preserving the emotional weight of traumatic events. His study shows that ChatGPT failed to convey the ethical complexity and raw suffering in Holocaust survivor testimonies.

16 Sep 2025

NSF-Backed Research Builds Safer AI Systems for Life-Saving Missions

A Wake Forest University researcher is developing robust multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms to ensure AI systems can function safely even when individual agents fail. Backed by an NSF CAREER award, her work will enhance AI reliability in high-stakes settings like healthcare, disaster response, and environmental protection.

16 Sep 2025

Playful AI Chatbots Lower Privacy Defenses and Raise Engagement Risks

Interactive features in AI chatbots and mobile apps increase user engagement by fostering a sense of playfulness, but also reduce users' privacy concerns. This can lead to inadvertent disclosure of personal data, highlighting the need for thoughtful design to prompt user awareness.

16 Sep 2025

AI-Generated Music Sparks Legal Call To Protect Human Creativity

A new legal framework is urgently needed to address the rapid growth of generative AI in music, which currently relies on ingesting copyrighted works without clear regulation. Without reform, human creativity risks being devalued in a global system dominated by unlicensed AI output.

16 Sep 2025