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monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: June 2026 – biodiversity, resource allocation, and color metaphors
Ella Scallan
16 Jun 2026
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Interview with AAAI Fellow Tanya Berger-Wolf: AI for ecology, biodiversity, and conservation
Lucy Smith
11 Jun 2026
Find out about Tanya work on a foundation model for biology and the insights that this can provide.
Statistical or embodied? Comparing people and LLMs in their processing of color metaphors: an interview with Douglas Guilbeault
Ella Scallan
09 Jun 2026
We learn what implications color metaphors and synaesthesia have for human and AI cognition.
Interview with AAAI Fellow Sanmay Das: multiagent systems
Lucy Smith
04 Jun 2026
We find out more about multi-agent research for the allocation of scarce societal resources.
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AIhub monthly digest: May 2026 – AI for science, the lottery ticket hypothesis, and world models
Lucy Smith
28 May 2026
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
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AIhub coffee corner: World models
AIhub
22 May 2026
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a short conversation.
Embracing empiricism – from the lottery hypothesis to creating real-world impact: an interview with Jonathan Frankle
Ella Scallan
20 May 2026
Jonathan Frankle discusses empiricism, making an impact, and the legacy of his lottery ticket hypothesis.
AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us
The Conversation
17 Jun 2026
What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines?
AAAI presidential panel – AI agents
Lucy Smith
15 Jun 2026
Experts discuss AI agents, one of the topics covered in the AAAI Future of AI Research report.
The Good Robot podcast: the battle over data centres with Tara Merk
The Good Robot Podcast
08 Jun 2026
Eleanor Drage speaks with Tara Merk about how community-owned data centers could transform digital ownership and challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Congratulations to the #AAMAS2026 best paper award winners
Lucy Smith
05 Jun 2026
Find out who won in the categories of best paper, best student paper, and best blue sky paper.
Design tweaks promote responsible AI use for environmental protection, research shows
Oregon State University
03 Jun 2026
Systems that ask users to pause to consider AI’s energy consumption and environmental impacts are likely to reduce unnecessary AI use
An AI solution to an 80‑year‑old problem has shocked mathematicians
The Conversation
02 Jun 2026
An OpenAI model has been used to find a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős.
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: June 2026 edition
Lucy Smith
01 Jun 2026
A list of free-to-attend AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 June and 31 July 2026.
Image Empire – a new short film from Alan Warburton
Lucy Smith
29 May 2026
An animated fairytale about the fusion of the real and the virtual within contemporary AI models.
You probably wouldn’t notice if an AI chatbot slipped ads into its responses
The Conversation
27 May 2026
Research suggests AI chatbots could easily be used for covert advertising to manipulate their human users.
The Good Robot podcast: the future of data centres and digital sovereignty with Friederike von Franqué
The Good Robot Podcast
26 May 2026
Can cloud infrastructure be owned and governed by the people, and not just Big Tech?
Why the world’s banks are so worried about Anthropic’s latest AI model
The Conversation
21 May 2026
The finance world’s concern rests on the impressive cyber capabilities of a product called Mythos.
A faster way to estimate AI power consumption
MIT News
19 May 2026
The “EnergAIzer” method generates reliable results in seconds, enabling data center operators to efficiently allocate resources and reduce wasted energy.
Introducing ARFBench: A time series question-answering benchmark based on real incidents
ML@CMU
18 May 2026
To resolve system failures, engineers must troubleshoot outages quickly.
Does ‘federated unlearning’ in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?
The Conversation
15 May 2026
As the capacity of AI systems increases apace, so do concerns about the privacy of user data.
Reflections from #AIES2025
Ella Scallan and Lucy Smith
14 May 2026
We reflect on AIES 2025, outlining a discussion session on LLMs for clinical usage and human rights.
Deep learning-powered biochip to detect genetic markers
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
13 May 2026
System can detect extremely small amounts of microRNAs, genetic markers linked to diseases such as heart disease.
Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study
The Conversation
12 May 2026
Imagine you have just been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and, before your next appointment, you type a question into an AI chatbot.
Gradient-based planning for world models at longer horizons
BAIR blog
11 May 2026
What were the problems that motivated this project and what was the approach to address them?
It’s tempting to offload your thinking to AI. Cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea
The Conversation
08 May 2026
Increased offloading to new tools has raised the fear that people will become overly reliant on AI.
Making AI systems more transparent and trustworthy: an interview with Ximing Wen
Lucy Smith
07 May 2026
Find out more about Ximing's work, experience as a research intern, and what inspired her to study AI.
Report on foundation model impacts released
Lucy Smith
06 May 2026
Partnership on AI publish a progress report on post-deployment governance practices.
Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: May 2026 edition
Lucy Smith
05 May 2026
A list of free-to-attend AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2026.
AI for Science – from cosmology to chemistry
Ella Scallan
01 May 2026
How AI is transforming science, from a day conference at the Royal Society
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: April 2026 – machine learning for particle physics, AI Index Report, and table tennis
Lucy Smith
30 Apr 2026
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
