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The eighth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) is currently taking place in Madrid, Spain, running from 20-22 October. During the opening ceremony, the best papers for this year were announced. The four winners are: AI, Normality, and Oppressive Things Ting-an Lin and Linus Ta-Lun Huang Abstract: While it is well-known that AI systems might … Read More

Users were unable to access accounts or execute trades for more than two hours. Other affected platforms included Snapchat, Reddit, Hulu, Xbox, and Fortnite. Crypto traders expressed frustration as reliability concerns resurfaced. A major internet disruption on Monday briefly brought parts of the digital economy to a halt, as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage crippled platforms including Coinbase and … Read More

Yutong Liu & Digit / Digital Nomads Across Time / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Jemimah Widdicombe, Museums Victoria Research Institute When we post to a group chat or talk to an AI chatbot, we don’t think about how these technologies came to be. We take it for granted we can instantly communicate. We only notice the importance and reach … Read More

The eighth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) will take place in Madrid, Spain from 20-22 October 2025. The programme will feature keynote talks, two panels, discussions, paper presentations, and poster sessions. Keynote speakers There are two keynote talks, scheduled on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22. Miriam Fernandez – Responsible AI and the Urgent Challenge … Read More

By using AI to sift through more than 10,000 molecules, researchers found enterololin (inset), a compound that blocks a key pathway in harmful gut bacteria and, in mice with IBD, eased infection without disturbing the rest of the microbiome. Image credit: Alex Shipps/MIT CSAIL, using assets from the researchers and Pexels. By Rachel Gordon For patients with inflammatory bowel disease, … Read More

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

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

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

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

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