A staff member of Japan Airlines helps customers at Osaka International Airport on the outskirts of Osaka, western Japan, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, after the airlines said it was hit…
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Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning as the director of the Advancing Human and Machine Reasoning lab at the…
Bot detection is no longer working—and just wait until AI agents come along
Credit: Chris Messina, CC BY You’re running late at the airport and need to urgently access your account, only to be greeted by one of those frustrating tests—”Select all images…
Taiwan blocks Uber-Foodpanda merger over monopoly concerns
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Taiwan has rejected ride-hailing giant Uber’s plan to buy Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda on the island, stating on Wednesday that the deal would significantly harm market competition.…
New strategy significantly extends lithium-ion battery life by suppressing oxygen release
Control of surface crystal structure changes and battery lifespan characteristics influenced by interfacial stability. Credit: POSTECH A research team has developed a strategy to enhance the durability of lithium-rich layered…
Researchers develop real-time visualization system to observe stretchable technology
Color-coded visualization of Serpentine structure stretching when manually pulled. Credit: POSTECH A research team at POSTECH has developed a breakthrough technology that analyzes in real-time the deformation of “serpentine” structures,…
An AI system has reached human level on a test for ‘general intelligence’—here’s what that means
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence.” On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 system scored…
Telegram founder says messaging app profitable for first time
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The founder and chief executive of the Telegram encrypted messaging app Pavel Durov said on Monday that the platform had recorded a net profit for the…
Mapping Brain-to-Spinal Cord Pathways for Motor Control
Summary: Researchers have created a 3D atlas mapping brain regions that connect to V1 spinal interneurons, which shape motor output. By using a genetically modified rabies virus, they pinpointed connections…
Computer models are vital for studying everything. Here’s how AI could make them even better
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Here’s one definition of science: it’s essentially an iterative process of building models with ever-greater explanatory power. A model is just an approximation or simplification…
