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Oleksandra Mukhachova & The Bigger Picture / Snapcat / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Robyn Lowe and Edward Rochead This article had its genesis when co-author Ed’s dog, Sparkle, was treated for pneumonia in the summer of 2024. Ed, a mathematician and chair of the Alliance for Data Science Professionals, was intrigued by the surgery’s use of data in Sparkle’s … Read More

The Industrial League arena at RoboCup2025. RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal of advancing the state of the art of intelligent robots, AI and automation. The annual RoboCup event took place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The Logistics League forms part of the Industrial League and is an application-driven league inspired by the industrial scenario of … Read More

Lone Thomasky & Bits&Bäume / Digital Society Bell / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Peyton McCauley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee As demand for artificial intelligence technology boosts construction and proposed construction of data centers around the world, those computers require not just electricity and land, but also a significant amount of water. Data centers use … Read More

Should AI continue to be driven by a single paradigm, or does real progress lie in combining the strengths and weaknesses of many? Professor Luc De Raedt of KU Leuven has spent much of his career persistently addressing this question. Through pioneering work that bridges logic, probability, and machine learning, he has helped shape the field of neurosymbolic AI. In … Read More

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is calling for submissions to a competition for educational AI videos for general audiences. These videos must be two to three minutes in length and should aim to convey informative, accurate, and timely information about AI research and applications. The video could highlight your own research, that of another researcher or … Read More

Presentation of the best paper award at the RoboCup 2025 symposium. An important aspect of autonomous soccer-playing robots concerns accurate detection of the ball. This is the focus of work by Can Lin, Daniele Affinita, Marco Zimmatore, Daniele Nardi, Domenico Bloisi, and Vincenzo Suriani, which won the best paper award at the recent RoboCup symposium. The symposium takes place alongside … Read More

Professional sports teams pour millions of dollars into data analytics, using advanced tracking systems to study every sprint, pass, and decision on the field. The results of that analysis, however, are industry secrets, making many sports difficult for researchers to study. Now, two University of Waterloo researchers, Dr. David Radke and Kyle Tilbury, are using AI to level the playing … Read More

Figure 1: DeFoG progressively denoises graphs, transforming random structures (at t=0) into realistic ones (at t=1). The process is similar to reassembling scattered puzzle pieces back into their correct places. Designing a new drug often means inventing molecules that have never existed before. Chemists represent molecules as graphs, where atoms are the “nodes” and chemical bonds the “edges,” capturing their … Read More

Coinbase breach traced to TaskUs staff; $400M lost as hackers exploited insider-sold customer data. Court docs show TaskUs workers sold records, triggering scams, lawsuits, and 300 employee firings. Coinbase tightened controls, cut TaskUs ties, and reimbursed victims after insider-driven data theft. New court documents have revealed how a data breach at Coinbase, which came to light in May 2025, originated … Read More

Nadia Piet & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / AI Am Over It / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By David Comerford, University of Stirling Back in the 2000s, the American pharmaceutical firm Wyeth was sued by thousands of women who had developed breast cancer after taking its hormone replacement drugs. Court filings revealed the role of “dozens of ghostwritten … Read More