A simple handshake between President Xi Jinping and once-shunned entrepreneur Jack Ma sent Chinese tech stocks booming in recent weeks as it was interpreted as the latest sign the sector is being brought in from the cold—though experts advise caution.

Meta plans to add an artificial intelligence app to its stable of stand-alone offerings including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, according to a report Thursday by CNBC.

Researchers challenge the widespread belief that AI-induced bias is a technical flaw, arguing instead that AI is deeply influenced by societal power dynamics. It learns from historical data shaped by human biases, absorbing and perpetuating discrimination in the process. This means that, rather than creating inequality, AI reproduces and reinforces it.

When small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek released a family of extremely efficient and highly competitive AI models last month, it rocked the global tech community. The release revealed China's growing technological prowess. It also showcased a distinctly Chinese approach to AI advancement.

Corrosion is natural, and it's everywhere. While many techniques can be applied to stave off corrosion, nothing lasts forever when exposed to the elements of nature, so consistent and planned evaluation is essential to keep the things we build working and safe.

Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a generative-AI infused Alexa that it says will allow the popular voice assistant to have more personality, check a user's tone and even plan romantic dates.

An NYU Tandon-led research team has developed a way for self-driving vehicles to share their knowledge about road conditions indirectly, making it possible for each vehicle to learn from the experiences of others even when they rarely meet on the road.

Online retail behemoth Amazon on Wednesday announced a new version of its Alexa voice assistant that is powered by generative artificial intelligence, giving the device more human-like qualities.

While we are remarkably capable of generating our own goals, beginning with child's play and continuing into adulthood, we don't yet have computer models for understanding this human ability.

Generative AI systems like large language models and text-to-image generators can pass rigorous exams that are required of anyone seeking to become a doctor or a lawyer. They can perform better than most people in Mathematical Olympiads. They can write halfway decent poetry, generate aesthetically pleasing paintings and compose original music.

Researchers at the University of Missouri's College of Engineering are taking on a critical challenge: protecting power grids from the rising threat of cyberattacks. These attacks have the potential to plunge millions into darkness, jeopardizing security and even lives.

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed SB 1047—a state bill regulating artificial intelligence technology—last year, Redwood Research CEO Buck Shlegeris was furious and flabbergasted at the governor's disregard of artificial intelligence's dangers.

Many industrial processes and household tasks currently completed by humans entail the manipulation of textiles, including clothes, sheets, towels, cloths and other fabric-based objects. Most robotic systems developed so far do not reliably manipulate all types of textiles, due to challenges associated with predicting how these objects will deform when grasped and handled.

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with Thames Valley Police, the National Crime Agency, the John Radcliffe Hospital, Lurtis Ltd. and Cardiff University, has developed an advanced physics-based AI-driven tool to aid the forensic investigation of traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

An innovative AI model has been developed to create dynamic lighting effects in portrait images and videos using only text input. This technology allows users to adjust colors easily with descriptive prompts, such as "warm, freshly cooked chicken" and "icy blue light," eliminating the need for complicated editing tools.

At the University of Electro-Communications, a research team led by Mizuho Asako, Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga, and Yuichi Sei has developed a new deep learning model called "HikingTTE" that significantly improves hiking travel time estimation. Hiking is popular worldwide, but accidents still occur when hikers underestimate the time needed to reach their destination.

Solveig Beyza Narli Evenstad has become all too familiar with the dark side of the push for greater efficiency, not only through her research, but also in her own life.

Traditional machine learning models for automatic information classification require retraining data for each task. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that art data can be automatically classified with sufficient accuracy by using a large language model (LLM), without requiring additional training data.

In 2023, a good portion of Hollywood went on strike—in part over concerns about artificial intelligence in filmmaking. Now the use of AI has roiled this year's Academy Awards: Several of the best picture nominees used AI in production. "The Brutalist" showed AI-generated architecture blueprints in a scene and its editor used a program called Respeecher to hone actors' Hungarian pronunciations. "Emelia Peréz" used Respeecher to adjust an actor's singing voice.

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney can produce text, images and videos far more quickly than any one person can accomplish by hand.

The Surrey Academy for Blockchain and Metaverse Applications (SABMA), a pioneering institution within the University of Surrey, is proud to announce the release of its groundbreaking report: Web 3.0 Protocol-as-Platform: Vision and Framework for Decentralized Agentic Super Intelligence.

In today's world, encryption plays a vital role in all aspects of data protection and cybersecurity, ensuring that unauthorized individuals cannot access the information you transmit or store. However, the practice of sending messages that can only be interpreted by their intended recipients predates the age of computers by centuries.

In an article published in Nature Machine Intelligence, an Australian team led by Monash University researchers has developed a generative AI tool that mimics scientists to support and speed up the process of scientific discoveries.

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers set out to see how accurately large language models (LLMs) can match the style of text written by humans. Their findings were recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The KAIST research team led by Professor Seungchul Lee from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Hyoung Seop Kim's team at POSTECH, have successfully overcome the strength–ductility dilemma of Ti-6Al-4V alloys using artificial intelligence, enabling the production of high strength, high ductility metal products.

By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study by researchers at Columbia Engineering now reveals. Equipped with this knowledge, the robots could not only plan their own actions, but also overcome damage to their bodies.

Southeast Asia's largest bank DBS said that 4,000 jobs could be cut in the next three years and be replaced by artificial intelligence as the technology becomes more advanced.

Many people have experienced frustration when dealing with artificial intelligence chatbots for customer support or technical assistance. New research from the University of Kansas has found when dealing with embarrassing issues, people prefer the anonymity and nonjudgmental nature of AI chatbots. However, when angry, they still preferred dealing with a fellow human.

OpenAI rival Anthropic on Monday released what it said is its smartest artificial intelligence model to date, particularly when it comes to computer coding.

Images of a collapsed tram bridge over the River Elbe in Dresden were seen around the world in September 2024. It's a miracle no one lost their life—unlike in the collapse of the motorway bridge in Genoa in 2018, which led to 43 deaths. Both disasters were caused not by external influences, but rather by damage processes associated with the age of the structures. These processes were not detected and rectified in time.