By Silvia Cernea Clark A team of researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine has developed a new strategy for identifying hazardous pollutants in soil, even ones that have never been isolated or studied in a lab. The new approach, described in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, uses light-based imaging, theoretical predictions … Read More
What is AI slop? Why you are seeing more fake photos and videos in your social media feed
By Jon Roozenbeek, University of Cambridge; Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge, and Yara Kyrychenko, University of Cambridge In May 2025, a post asking “[Am I the asshole] for telling my husband’s affair partner’s fiancé about their relationship?” quickly received 6,200 upvotes and more than 900 comments on Reddit. This popularity earned the post a spot on Reddit’s front … Read More
The Machine Ethics podcast – DeepDive: AI and the environment
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. DeepDive: AI and the environment This is our 100th episode! A super special look at AI and the environment, we interviewed four experts for this DeepDive … Read More
Interview with Debalina Padariya: Privacy-preserving generative models
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. In this latest interview, we hear from Debalina Padariya and hear about her work on Privacy-Preserving Generative Models, why this is such an interesting area for study, the different projects she’s been involved in so far during her PhD, and … Read More
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: June 2025 edition
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 2 June and 31 July 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 2 June 2025 Fundamental limitations of foundational time series forecasting models: The need for multimodality and rigorous evaluation Speaker: Daniel Schmidt (Monash University) Organised by: … Read More
AIhub monthly digest: May 2025 – materials design, object state classification, and real-time monitoring for healthcare data
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we learn about drug and material design using generative models and Bayesian optimization, find out about a system for real-time monitoring for healthcare data, and explore domain-specific distribution shifts in volunteer-collected … Read More
Congratulations to the #AAMAS2025 best paper, best demo, and distinguished dissertation award winners
The AAMAS 2025 best paper and demo awards were presented at the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 19-23 May 2025 in Detroit. The Distinguished Dissertation Award was also recently announced. The winners in the various categories are as follows: Best Paper Award Winner Soft Condorcet Optimization for Ranking of General Agents, Marc … Read More
Coinbase helps bust $20 million spoofing scheme amid legal scrutiny
Coinbase refused to pay a $20 million ransom after a separate data breach. A class-action lawsuit accuses Coinbase of withholding key risk information. The FCA fined Coinbase $4.5 million for compliance failures tied to the breach. A global spoofing scheme that siphoned off more than $20,000,000 in cryptocurrency by impersonating Coinbase has been dismantled with help from the exchange itself. … Read More
The Good Robot podcast: Transhumanist fantasies with Alexander Thomas
Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. Transhumanist fantasies with Alexander Thomas In this episode, Eleanor talks to Alexander Thomas, a filmmaker and academic who leads the BA in Media Production at the University of East London. They discuss his new book about … Read More
Congratulations to the #ICRA2025 best paper award winners
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) best paper winners and finalists in the various different categories have been announced. The recipients were revealed during an award ceremony at the conference, which took place from 19-23 May in Atlanta, USA. IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on Robot Learning Winner *Robo-DM: Data Management for Large Robot Datasets, Kaiyuan … Read More
