Coinbase invests in CoinDCX as India’s crypto regulation nears clarity

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CoinDCX holds ₹13.7 lakh crore in trading volume and ₹10,000 crore in assets. CoinDCX recovered swiftly from a $44 million breach earlier this year. Coinbase has invested over $250 million in Indian blockchain ventures. Coinbase has deepened its presence in South Asia with a fresh investment in India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, CoinDCX, just as the country’s regulatory climate for digital … Read More

What’s coming up at #IROS2025?

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The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025) will be held from 19-25 October in Hangzhou, China. The programme includes plenary and keynote talks, workshops, tutorials, forums, competitions, and a debate. Plenary talks There are three plenary talks on the programme this year, with one per day on Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, and Thursday 23 October. … Read More

Applying machine learning to chip design and manufacturing: interview with Lorenzo Servadei

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Lorenzo Servadei and his team at Sony AI are focused on researching and developing machine learning models to aid chip design and manufacturing. In this interview, Lorenzo tells us more about Electronic Design Automation, and how machine learning has been added into the mix to further advance the field of semiconductor chip design. What was your inspiration for pursuing a … Read More

Why we should be skeptical of the hasty global push to test 15-year-olds’ AI literacy in 2029

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Kathryn Conrad / Datafication / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By J-C Couture, University of Alberta; Michele Martini, University of Naples Federico II, and Susan Lee Robertson, University of Cambridge If 2022 was the year OpenAI knocked our world off course with the launch of ChatGPT, 2025 will be remembered for the frenzied embrace of AI as the solution to everything. … Read More

Machine learning for atomic-scale simulations: balancing speed and physical laws

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Taken from simulation of a nitrogen molecule on an iron surface exploding with non-conservative forces. See below for the full simulation. When we want to understand how matter behaves, the real action happens at the atomic scale. Heating of water, a chemical reaction in a battery, the way proteins fold in our cells, or how a catalyst works to convert … Read More

Policy design for two-sided platforms with participation dynamics: Interview with Haruka Kiyohara

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In their paper Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics, which was presented at ICML 2025, Haruka Kiyohara, Fan Yao and Sarah Dean investigated the the participation dynamics in two-sided markets. In this interview, Haruka tells us more about such two-sided platforms, the main contributions of the work, and the experiments carried out to test the method. What is … Read More

The Machine Ethics podcast: What excites you about AI? Vol.2

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Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. What excites you about AI? Vol.2 This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI? This episode features … Read More

Interview with Janice Anta Zebaze: using AI to address energy supply challenges

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In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. Janice Anta Zebaze is using AI to address energy supply challenges and she told us more about the research she’s carried our so far, her plans for further investigations, and what inspired her to pursue a PhD in the field. … Read More

How does AI affect how we learn? A cognitive psychologist explains why you learn when the work is hard

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Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / Data Lab Dialogue / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Brian W. Stone, Boise State University When OpenAI released “study mode” in July 2025, the company touted ChatGPT’s educational benefits. “When ChatGPT is prompted to teach or tutor, it can significantly improve academic performance,” the company’s vice president of education told reporters at the … Read More

Interview with Zahra Ghorrati: developing frameworks for human activity recognition using wearable sensors

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In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. Zahra Ghorrati is developing frameworks for human activity recognition using wearable sensors. We caught up with Zahra to find out more about this research, the aspects she has found most interesting, and her advice for prospective PhD students. Tell us … Read More