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Agentic AI for Robot Teams
This presentation highlights recent efforts at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to advance agentic AI for collaborative robotic teams. It begins by framing the core challenges of enabling autonomy…
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How Melbourne’s AI and Data Center Flywheel Is Accelerating Research Innovation
This sponsored article is brought to you by Melbourne Convention Bureau (MCB) supported by Business Events Australia. Melbourne’s reputation as a global events city, from the Australian Open tennis and Formula 1…
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Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
AI-powered voice and audio tools are becoming increasingly embedded in daily life, from digital assistants to smart speakers and customer service bots. Advances in large audio-language models (LALMs), which can both…
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AI Rings on Fingers Can Interpret Sign Language
Electronic rings wirelessly connected to an AI system are capable of translating multiple sign languages into text, a new study finds. “I believe this is an important step toward making sign language translation…
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Graphene “Tattoos” for Plants Could Form Neural Networks
A hydrated leaf is a healthy leaf. That’s true for the leaves of crop plants in a farmer’s field, and for the leaves of trees in an area vulnerable to forest fires. But the traditional techniques to monitor leaf…
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Accelerating Chipmaking Innovation for the Energy-Efficient AI Era
This sponsored article is brought to you by Applied Materials. At pivotal moments in history, progress has required more than individual brilliance. The most consequential breakthroughs — such as those achieved under…
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Can AI Chatbots Reason Like Doctors?
One of the earliest stated goals for computing in medicine was to aid in clinical reasoning: the decision-making steps required to reach a diagnosis and form a treatment plan. And over the years, researchers have built…
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Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale
When I sat down with bell hooks’ personal journals at an archive at Berea College in Kentucky, I expected an intimate peek into her private thoughts, her voice before the editing. What I got instead was frustration…
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Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace. As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of…
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Your Next AI Query May Travel Where the Power Is
The rise of electricity-guzzling data centers has forced the AI industry to get creative about finding power. One of the latest ideas: Build micro data centers next to utility substations and operate them in concert…
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Startup Wants to Run AI Inference From Space
The rapid advancement of large language models is fueling a global data center boom and driving a surge in energy demand. But the electricity required to power data centers is straining the grid, pushing infrastructure…
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AI Is Starting to Build Better AI
The field of artificial intelligence was built on the premise that machines might someday improve themselves. In 1966, the English mathematician I. J. Good wrote that “an ultraintelligent machine could design even…
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Chatbots Need Guardrails to Prevent Delusions and Psychosis
Millions of people worldwide are turning to chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude, and a proliferating class of specialized AI companionship apps for friendship, therapy or even romance. While some users report psychological…
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Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless
A guide to ten technological components — from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces — poised to define 6G wireless networks. What Attendees will Learn Which frequencies 6G will use…
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Do We Really Need Smarter AI to Cure Cancer?
By some estimates, more than a trillion dollars have already been invested in artificial intelligence. But large tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, are still not content with today’s AI; they say they’ve set…
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Perfectly Aligning AI’s Values With Humanity’s Is Impossible
One of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence is “alignment,” or making sure AI goals match our own, a challenge that may prove especially important if superintelligent AIs that outmatch us intellectually are…
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DAIMON Robotics Wants to Give Robot Hands a Sense of Touch
This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics. This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity, which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high…
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Deepfake Detection Dataset Aims to Keep Up With Generative AI
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. With the rise of AI-generated content online, it’s becoming more difficult—and more important—to help the public identify…
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Video Friday: Figure, 1X Ramp Up Humanoid Robot Production
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us…
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AI Processing of Earth Images Can Now Run in Space
AI image processing aboard satellites in space has been a goal of the Earth observation industry for years. Now it has finally been achieved. Planet Labs, based in Calif., released an image captured by its Pelican-4…
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Can Biologists Rewrite the Genome’s Spaghetti Code?
What if biology stopped being something we study and started becoming something we design? That’s the premise of Adrian Woolfson’s new book, On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of Artificial Biological…
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Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out…
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“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
It started with word, cave, and storytelling, A line scratched on stone walls: “Meet me when the young moon rises.” The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts, Medieval texts hidden from flame…
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Claude Mythos Preview Requires New Ways to Keep Code Secure
Malicious actors are now exploiting generative AI to carry out cyberattacks: scamming victims using AI-generated deepfakes, deploying malware developed with the help of AI coding tools, using chatbots to pull off…
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Engineering Collisions: How NYU Is Remaking Health Research
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The traditional approach to academic research goes something like this: Assemble experts from a discipline, put them in a building, and hope…
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Modeling and Simulation Approaches for Modern Power System Studies
This webinar covers power system modeling and simulation across multiple timescales, from quasi-static 8760 analysis through EMT studies, fault classification, and inverter-based resource grid integration. What…
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GPU Renters Are Playing a Silicon Lottery
Think one GPU is very much like another? Think again. It turns out that there’s surprising variability in the performance delivered by chips of the same model. That can make getting your money’s worth by renting time…
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What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were…
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AI Designs Thermoelectric Generators 10,000 Times Faster Than We Can
Waste heat is everywhere: car engines, industrial machinery, kitchen appliances—even your own body. Some of that lost energy can be converted into electricity using thermoelectric generators: compact, solid-state…
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AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch
In 2020, researchers fine-tuned a GPT-2 model to design fragments of logic circuits; in 2023, researchers used GPT-4 to help design an 8-bit processor with a novel instruction set; by 2024, a variety of LLMs could…
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Optical Fiber Networks Can Keep Rail Networks Safe
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Rail networks are vast, which makes it difficult to conduct comprehensive, continuous safety monitoring. Researchers in…
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Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind Teach Spot to Reason
The amazing and frustrating thing about robots is that they can do almost anything you want them to do, as long as you know how to ask properly. In the not-so-distant past, asking properly meant writing code, and while…
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Sarang Gupta Builds AI Systems With Real-World Impact
Like many engineers, Sarang Gupta spent his childhood tinkering with everyday items around the house. From a young age he gravitated to projects that could make a difference in someone’s everyday life. When the…
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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2026
The capabilities of leading AI models continue to accelerate, and the largest AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are hurtling toward IPOs later this year. Yet resentment toward AI continues to simmer, and in…
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GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale
ZTASP is a mission-scale assurance and governance platform designed for autonomous systems operating in real-world environments. It integrates heterogeneous systems—including drones, robots, sensors, and human…
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AI Models Map the Colorado River’s Hard Choices
The Colorado River begins as snow. Every spring, the mountain snowpack of the Rockies melts into streams that feed into reservoirs that supply 40 million people across seven U.S. states. The system has worked, more or…
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Decentralized Training Can Help Solve AI’s Energy Woes
Artificial intelligence harbors an enormous energy appetite. Such constant cravings are evident in the hefty carbon footprint of the data centers behind the AI boom and the steady increase over time of carbon emissions…
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Why AI Systems Fail Quietly
In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: Every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are slowly becoming…
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AI Is Insatiable
While browsing our website a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon “How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End” by Senior Editor Samuel K. Moore. His analysis focuses on the current DRAM shortage caused by AI…
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The AI Data Centers That Fit on a Truck
A traditional data center protects the expensive hardware inside it with a “shell” constructed from steel and concrete. Constructing a data center’s shell is inexpensive compared to the cost of the hardware and…
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Why Are Large Language Models So Terrible at Video Games?
Large language models (LLMs) have improved so quickly that the benchmarks themselves have evolved, adding more complex problems in an effort to challenge the latest models. Yet LLMs haven’t improved across all domains…
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NYU’s Quantum Institute Bridges Science and Application
This sponsored article is brought to you by NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Within a 6 mile radius of New York University’s (NYU) campus, there are more than 500 tech industry giants, banks, and hospitals. This isn’t…