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By Isla C. Duporge, Princeton University The Great Wildebeest Migration is one of the most remarkable natural spectacles on Earth. Each year, immense herds of wildebeest, joined by zebras and gazelles, travel 800-1,000km between Tanzania and Kenya in search of fresh grazing after the rains. This vast, circular journey is the engine of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The migration feeds predators … Read More

EZSpecificity combines extensive new enzyme-substrate docking data and a new machine learning algorithm to predict the best pairing for making a desired product, with up to 91.7% accuracy. Illinois professor Huimin Zhao led the study. Photo by Fred Zwicky. By Liz Ahlberg Touchstone A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired … Read More

This week saw researchers gather in Madrid at the eighth AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES). As well as keynote talks, panels and poster sessions, the organisers experimented with a slightly different format for the contributed talks. All speakers in a session gave their talks, then contributed in a joint discussion on common themes, before … Read More

The 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025) will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 25-30 October 2025. The first two days will be dedicated to tutorials, workshops, and the doctoral consortium. The main conference will run from 27-30, and will include the 14th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2025). Keynote talks This year will see four keynote … Read More

Coinbase paid $25M in USDC for Cobie’s UpOnly NFT. The deal revives the UpOnly podcast for eight new episodes. Cobie joked about returning, calling the sale “too absurd to happen.” Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has confirmed the $25 million purchase of the “UpOnly” NFT from renowned trader and podcaster Jordan “Cobie” Fish. The purchase not only marks a major foray … Read More

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