MIT CSAIL's 2025 AI Agent Index puts opaque automated systems under the microscope AI agents are becoming more common and more capable, without consensus or standards on how they should behave, say ...

The earliest stage of drug discovery is governed by a simple constraint: there are far more possible drug-like molecules than any pharmaceutical laboratory could ever test. A new deep learning system, ...

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

In a landmark study published in Cell Reports, scientists demonstrated that mouse cortical organoids (miniature, lab-grown ...

Fei-Fei Li is often called the grandmother of AI. As the new technology surges, she wants to make sure humanity is at its ...

Give the tool a prompt—an image, say, or a brief snippet of text—and it will generate an interactive world for the user to explore. Type in a straightforward request, and the result is a realistic ...

A materials expert told Friends of ORNL that advanced nuclear reactors need 21st-century materials to withstand extreme ...

Most importantly, students must be required to defend their decisions. Such assessments do not merely reduce misuse; they measure the right things: clarity of reasoning, judgement under uncertainty, ...

Neural Concept is helping launch products at 2X the speed. It does this by capturing past knowledge into AI-based ...

While companies like Anthropic debate limits on military uses of AI, Smack Technologies is training models to plan battlefield operations.

Tools designed to verify and monitor physical AI systems offer value, but human oversight is needed to prevent accidents and unexpected behavior.

For nearly two decades, two‑dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been studied as a complement or possible successor to silicon transistors, promising ...