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Wes Cockx & Google DeepMind / AI large language models / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Melissa Anchisi and Florian Meyer This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and … Read More

In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. Kate Candon is a PhD student at Yale University interested in understanding how we can create interactive agents that are more effectively able to help people. We spoke to Kate to find out more about how she is leveraging explicit … Read More

RoboCup2025 took place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. In our first social media round-up post we saw what the teams got up to during the first couple of days of the event. In this second post, we take a look at the action from the final days when … Read More

Yutong Liu & Digit / Digital Nomads Across Time / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Gemma Smith and Jacqueline O’Reilly How are digital technologies and AI changing our working lives? A quick internet search on this topic will usually produce images of smiling, or perplexed, people looking into a computer. Often these people are surrounded by an array of intimidating … Read More

The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) took place in Vancouver, Canada, from 13-19 July. As well as five invited talks, the programme included oral and poster presentations, affinity events, tutorials, and workshops. Find out what participants got up to during the second half of the event. We’ll present our work, “CHAMELEON: A Flexible Data-mixing Framework for Language Model … Read More

RoboCup2025 took place in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. Find out what the teams got up to during the first couple of days: View this post on Instagram A post shared by OBR (Olimpíada Brasileira de Robótica) (@olimpiadabrasileiraderobotica) View this post on Instagram A post shared by RoboCup 2025 – Salvador, Brazil … Read More

RoboCup2025 is currently taking place in Salvador, Brazil. With day one of the main competition complete, things are hotting up across the many different leagues. From soccer to rescue, from industrial to home scenarios, teams are putting their robots through their paces across a variety of tasks and matches. If you would like to catch up on the action from … Read More

Two roe deer foraging, with manual annotations for each individual animal. Credit: A. Mathis (EPFL). By Nik Papageorgiou Have you ever wondered how wild animals behave when no one’s watching? Understanding these behaviors is vital for protecting ecosystems—especially as climate change and human expansion alter natural habitats. But collecting this kind of information without interfering has always been tricky. Traditionally, … Read More

The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) is currently taking place in Vancouver, Canada, running from 13-19 July. As well as five invited talks, the programme boasts oral and poster presentations, affinity events, tutorials, and workshops. Find out what participants have been getting up to during the first couple of days. ✈️ Traveling to #ICML2025. Presenting our paper: Quantifying … Read More

This year’s International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) is taking place in Vancouver, Canada, from 13-19 July. The winners of the 2025 outstanding paper, outstanding position paper, and test-of-time awards have now been announced. Outstanding paper awards There are six outstanding papers this year: Conformal Prediction as Bayesian Quadrature Jake Snell, Thomas Griffiths Abstract: As machine learning-based prediction systems are … Read More