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An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.

In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.

People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.

An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.

The U.S. government is using AI to predict the paths of hurricanes.

An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company by revenue shed light on its AI strategy.

A pair of papers investigate how increasingly human-like chatbots affect users’ emotions.

Materials that have specific properties are essential to progress in critical technologies like solar cells and batteries. A machine learning model designs new materials to order.

An AI agent synthesizes novel scientific research hypotheses. It's already making an impact in biomedicine.

To date, efforts to decode what people are thinking from their brain waves often relied on electrodes implanted in the cortex. New work used devices outside the head to pick up brain signals that enabled an AI system, as a subject typed, to accurately guess what they were typing.

Harvard University amassed a huge new text corpus for training machine learning models.

Building a foundation model takes tremendous amounts of data. In the coming year, I hope we’ll enable models to learn more from less data.

How do agents based on large language models compare to human experts when it comes to proposing machine learning research? Pretty well, according to one study.