A survey of 360 university students in China found that those who saw generative AI as more empowering also tended to report greater trust and dependence. The cross-sectional study shows
Read articleMicroscopic robots equipped with temperature sensors and artificial cilia can coordinate their movements to pump fluid and reshape the thermal conditions around them. The work shows how tiny machines can collectively act on their environment.
Read articleResearchers analysed real ten-minute speed dates using facial, audio and language signals. Their models found suggestive patterns, but
A survey of 360 university students in China found that those who saw generative AI as more empowering
A new US executive order directs major federal online services towards America.gov, a conversational front door for questions
Meta has expanded Muse into a small-business agent that connects with tools such as QuickBooks, Shopify, Slack and
A quantum-optical spin glass stored and recalled far more patterns than a classic associative network in a small experiment. The physics result could inspire new AI memory architectures, but practical hardware remains distant.
Read articleA randomised trial found junior patent lawyers gained most while using AI, yet senior lawyers showed the clearest
MIT Sloan researchers found that AI projects can stall when employees are left to absorb testing, review and
Scientists report saving nearly seven hours a week with AI, but faster analysis is creating a backlog of
MIT engineers built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by one layer of living muscle cells. The slow laboratory
The European Commission has opened a targeted copyright consultation covering AI training, licensing and synthetic imitations of performers. It is not a new law, but the evidence could shape what Europe does next.
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A survey of 11,000 consumers suggests many people grant AI access even while feeling uncomfortable about it. The
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is over 30% faster and can cost less per completed task while keeping
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers capabilities close to GPT-6 Astra with a cheaper, faster operating profile. The bigger
A satellite AI model has mapped smallholder crops in Senegal using far less labelled data than conventional approaches
Microsoft is expanding a Copilot agent called Autopilot that can keep working in the cloud after you leave, resume projects later and appear across Teams and Outlook. It is entering private preview rather than becoming
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A Korean research team’s quadruped robot completed a 42.195-kilometre marathon in 4 hours 19 minutes without changing its
Bristol researchers have shown mathematically that a complex image classifier can be built from a small number of
Citizens Advice says essential-service customers should have a right to reach a person within a reasonable time instead
Google’s first Project Suncatcher orbital test is due to launch four TPU AI chips on 1 October. It
Meta has introduced camera-free Ray-Ban AI glasses focused on audio, calls, translation and its Muse assistant. Removing the camera creates a different kind of wearable for people who want AI on their face without continuously
Read articleA Rutgers survey found AI use has risen sharply, yet fewer than one in ten respondents wanted unsupervised
San Francisco Fed researchers found that banks with more AI-related hiring devoted a smaller share of their lending
A Stanford study across 41 countries found that firms adopting generative AI reduced the junior share of employment
Anthropic says a scam network used thousands of AI-generated dating personas across more than 20 apps, with real
Researchers used generative protein models to design new enzyme components, built hundreds of variants and found some synthetic parts remained functional while raising product yield by up to about threefold.
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In a 57-person fMRI experiment, a short pre-lecture conversation with a GPT-4-powered AI instructor improved learning and neural
Synapse combines episodic and semantic memory with spreading activation to help AI agents retrieve the right past information
A small study found children readily trusted a generative-AI toy, even on first encounter, raising a practical question
MorFiC transfers a locomotion policy trained on one quadruped to different four-legged robot bodies without fine-tuning, including real
A peer-reviewed food-design study trained AI on human burger recipes, watched it rediscover a Big Mac-like formula and then tested new recipes for taste, nutrition and environmental impact.
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Ten bias-audit instruments mostly detected occupational gender bias in frontier AI models but failed to agree on a
The UK and US have launched an AI and autonomy defence partnership focused initially on protecting critical infrastructure
California has signed seven data-centre laws covering water, electricity and local oversight as AI infrastructure expansion meets growing
JudgmentLens helped 16 non-expert readers complete legal-reading tasks faster and feel more confident, but scored comprehension did not
An audit of 1,536 AI product responses found recommendations and displayed source domains could change sharply across repeated queries and interfaces.
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RoboHarm ran 300 physical robot trials across five dangerous tasks. Claude Fable refused 20 of 100, GPT-6 Astra
A preprint analysing 10,659 Moltbook owner-agent pairs found measurable behavioural transfer and detected owner-related disclosure in 34.6% of
A peer-reviewed model detected 84% of known EMIT methane plume complexes and surfaced about 50% more plausible plumes
OpenAI says roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents produced a Navier-Stokes solution and Lean proof, while Clay says the
Ofcom's amended codes on hash matching for non-consensual intimate images, including explicit AI deepfakes, come into force on 30 September.
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UK and US fusion laboratories plan to explore linking SUNRISE and STELLAR-AI so models can train across experimental
A Nature study found concept-based explanations helped people predict a real self-driving car's behaviour, especially when the vehicle
Ofcom says 21% of UK adults used an AI service to access news in the past month, while
Five retail experiments found robot assistants reduced perceived judgement and intrusiveness, making shoppers less likely to leave early
Six LLMs beat the average individual at estimating US social norms across 555 situations, but aggregated humans and human-AI hybrids regained the advantage.
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Deloitte estimates UK workers spend £958 million a year of their own money on GenAI for work, while
Apple has turned Siri into an agent that searches personal context and works across apps, although access varies
Phone AI agents followed hidden interface messages that users could not see, exposing a gap in how people
The same qualifications produced different AI hiring decisions when researchers changed only CV structure, polish or layout.