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Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much
The Conversation
24 Sep 2025
Why do data centres need so much water, and how much do they use?
How AI is opening the playbook on sports analytics
University of Waterloo
18 Sep 2025
Waterloo researchers create simulated soccer datasets to unlock insights once reserved for pro teams.
Discrete flow matching framework for graph generation
Manuel Madeira and Yiming Qin
17 Sep 2025
Read about work presented at ICML 2025 that disentangles sampling from training.
We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it
The Conversation
16 Sep 2025
A single individual using AI can produce multiple papers that appear valid in a matter of hours.
Deploying agentic AI: what worked, what broke, and what we learned
Real World Data Science
15 Sep 2025
AI scientist and researcher Francis Osei investigates what happens when Agentic AI systems are used in real projects, where trust and reproducibility are not optional.
Memory traces in reinforcement learning
Onno Eberhard
12 Sep 2025
Onno writes about work presented at ICML 2025, introducing an alternative memory framework.
Advanced AI models are not always better than simple ones
EPFL
09 Sep 2025
Researchers have developed Systema, a new tool to evaluate how well AI models work when predicting the effects of genetic perturbations.
Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria
MIT News
05 Sep 2025
The team used two different AI approaches to design novel antibiotics, including one that showed promise against MRSA.
#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour
Agata Ciabattoni and Emery Neufeld
04 Sep 2025
The authors introduce a framework for guiding reinforcement learning agents to comply with social, legal, and ethical norms.
How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research
The Conversation
03 Sep 2025
What most people have failed to fully realise is that internet research has brought along risks of data corruption or impersonation.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: August 2025 – causality and generative modelling, responsible multimodal AI, and IJCAI in Montréal and Guangzhou
Lucy Smith
29 Aug 2025
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
AI helps chemists develop tougher plastics
MIT News
25 Aug 2025
Researchers created polymers that are more resistant to tearing by incorporating stress-responsive molecules identified by a machine learning model.
New research could block AI models learning from your online content
CSIRO
14 Aug 2025
The method protects images from being used to train AI or create deepfakes by adding invisible changes that confuse the technology.
Using AI to speed up landslide detection
University of Cambridge
11 Aug 2025
Researchers are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events.
AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions
The Conversation
08 Aug 2025
System retrieves textual and contextual parallels, makes use of visual details, and can generate speculative text to fill gaps in inscriptions.
Smart microscope captures aggregation of misfolded proteins
EPFL
07 Aug 2025
EPFL researchers have developed a microscope that can predict the onset of misfolded protein aggregation.
How AI can help protect bees from dangerous parasites
The Conversation
04 Aug 2025
Tiny but mighty, honeybees play a crucial role in our ecosystems, pollinating various plants and crops.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: July 2025 – RoboCup round-up, ICML in Vancouver, and leveraging feedback in human-robot interactions
Lucy Smith
30 Jul 2025
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Open-source Swiss language model to be released this summer
EPFL
29 Jul 2025
This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure.
Visualising the digital transformation of work
Digit (ESRC Digital Futures at Work Research Centre), Gemma Smith and Jacqueline O’Reilly
23 Jul 2025
Does it matter that the existing images of AI and digital technologies are so unrealistic?
A behaviour monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alps
EPFL
17 Jul 2025
Scientists at EPFL have created MammAlps, a multi-view, multi-modal video dataset that captures how wild mammals behave in the Swiss Alps.
Wildlife researchers train AI to better identify animal species in trail camera photos
Oregon State University
09 Jul 2025
Scientists are working on improving AI performance in wildlife monitoring through species and environment-specific training.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: June 2025 – gearing up for RoboCup 2025, privacy-preserving models, and mitigating biases in LLMs
Lucy Smith
26 Jun 2025
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Making optimal decisions without having all the cards in hand
Read about research which won an outstanding paper award at AAAI 2025.
Exploring counterfactuals in continuous-action reinforcement learning
Shuyang Dong
20 Jun 2025
Shuyang Dong writes about her work that will be presented at IJCAI 2025.
What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail
The Conversation
19 Jun 2025
Until recently, most computer code was written, at least originally, by human beings. But with the advent of GenAI, that has begun to change.
Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?
The Conversation
16 Jun 2025
Last month, Google announced SynthID Detector, a new tool to detect AI-generated content.
Machine learning powers new approach to detecting soil contaminants
Rice University
06 Jun 2025
Method spots pollutants without experimental reference samples.
What is AI slop? Why you are seeing more fake photos and videos in your social media feed
The Conversation
05 Jun 2025
AI-generated low-quality news sites are popping up all over the place, and AI images are also flooding social media platforms
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: May 2025 – materials design, object state classification, and real-time monitoring for healthcare data
Lucy Smith
30 May 2025
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
PitcherNet helps researchers throw strikes with AI analysis
University of Waterloo
21 May 2025
Baltimore Orioles tasks Waterloo Engineering researchers to develop AI tech that can monitor pitchers using low-resolution video captured by smartphones
#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 3: Neural reasoning and mathematical discovery, and AI to accelerate science and engineering
AIhub
19 May 2025
We find out about three more of the workshops that took place at AAAI 2025.
Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-tos
Cornell University
14 May 2025
Researchers have developed a new robotic framework that allows robots to learn tasks by watching a how-to video
AI-powered robots help tackle Europe’s growing e-waste problem
Horizon
12 May 2025
EU-funded researchers have developed adaptable robots that could transform the way we recycle electronic waste, benefiting both the environment and the economy.
#AAAI2025 outstanding paper – DivShift: Exploring domain-specific distribution shift in large-scale, volunteer-collected biodiversity datasets
Elena Sierra and Lauren Gillespie
07 May 2025
Find out more about work that won the datasets and benchmarks award at AAAI 2025.
Defending against prompt injection with structured queries (StruQ) and preference optimization (SecAlign)
BAIR blog
06 May 2025
Recent advances in LLMs enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them.
