‘AI scientist’ suggests combinations of widely available non-cancer drugs can kill cancer cells

An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions such as high

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 4, 2025 ~5 min

Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating

Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficient.

Artur Garcez, Professor of Computer Science, City St George's, University of London • conversation
May 30, 2025 ~9 min


Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns

Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

Azwad Anjum Islam, Ph.D. Student in Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University • conversation
May 29, 2025 ~10 min

What is AI slop? Why you are seeing more fake photos and videos in your social media feeds

Cheap, low-quality AI-generated content is still extremely attention-grabbing – and thus lucrative for both creators and platforms.

Yara Kyrychenko, PhD Candidate, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, University of Cambridge • conversation
May 28, 2025 ~10 min

Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity

MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.

Anne Trafton | MIT News • mit
May 27, 2025 ~9 min

Mountain chickadee chatter: Scientists are decoding the songbird’s complex calls

Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like words in a sentence.

Sofia Marie Haley, Ph.D. Student in Cognitive Ecology, University of Nevada, Reno • conversation
May 27, 2025 ~12 min

Can you upload a human mind into a computer? A neuroscientist ponders what’s possible

Science has done many things that seem miraculous. Why not transfer your consciousness to a machine?

Dobromir Rahnev, Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
May 23, 2025 ~7 min

AI learns how vision and sound are connected, without human intervention

This new machine-learning model can match corresponding audio and visual data, which could someday help robots interact in the real world.

Adam Zewe | MIT News • mit
May 22, 2025 ~7 min


‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’

Panelists in University-wide symposium explore promise, peril of AI in academia

Harvard Gazette • harvard
May 16, 2025 ~7 min

Challenges to high-performance computing threaten US innovation

Today’s supercomputers are enormously powerful, but the work they do − running AI and tackling difficult science − is pushing them to their limits. Building bigger supercomputers won’t be easy.

Jack Dongarra, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, University of Tennessee • conversation
May 14, 2025 ~10 min

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