AIhub monthly digest: September 2025 – conference reviewing, soccer ball detection, and memory traces

Botanical time machines: AI is unlocking a treasure trove of data held in herbarium collections

All creatures, great, small, and artificial

RoboCup Logistics League: an interview with Alexander Ferrein, Till Hofmann and Wataru Uemura

Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how much

Interview with Luc De Raedt: talking probabilistic logic, neurosymbolic AI, and explainability

Call for AAAI educational AI videos

Self-supervised learning for soccer ball detection and beyond: interview with winners of the RoboCup 2025 best paper award

How AI is opening the playbook on sports analytics

Discrete flow matching framework for graph generation

We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it

Deploying agentic AI: what worked, what broke, and what we learned

Memory traces in reinforcement learning

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

Interview with Yezi Liu: Trustworthy and efficient machine learning

Advanced AI models are not always better than simple ones

The Machine Ethics podcast: Autonomy AI with Adir Ben-Yehuda

Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria

#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour

How the internet and its bots are sabotaging scientific research

#ICML2025 outstanding position paper: Interview with Jaeho Kim on addressing the problems with conference reviewing

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: September 2025 edition

AIhub monthly digest: August 2025 – causality and generative modelling, responsible multimodal AI, and IJCAI in Montréal and Guangzhou

Interview with Benyamin Tabarsi: Computing education and generative AI

The value of prediction in identifying the worst-off: Interview with Unai Fischer Abaigar

#IJCAI2025 social media round-up: part two

AI helps chemists develop tougher plastics

RoboCup@Work League: Interview with Christoph Steup

Interview with Haimin Hu: Game-theoretic integration of safety, interaction and learning for human-centered autonomy

Congratulations to the #IJCAI2025 distinguished paper award winners

#IJCAI2025 social media round-up: part one

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: August 2025 edition

AIhub coffee corner: Agentic AI

New research could block AI models learning from your online content

What’s coming up at #IJCAI2025?

Interview with Flávia Carvalhido: Responsible multimodal AI

Using AI to speed up landslide detection

IJCAI in Canada: 90-second pitches from the next generation of AI researchers

AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions

Smart microscope captures aggregation of misfolded proteins

Interview with Shaghayegh (Shirley) Shajarian: Applying generative AI to computer networks

How AI can help protect bees from dangerous parasites

The Machine Ethics podcast: AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025

Interview with Aneesh Komanduri: Causality and generative modeling

AIhub monthly digest: July 2025 – RoboCup round-up, ICML in Vancouver, and leveraging feedback in human-robot interactions

Interview with Yuki Mitsufuji: Text-to-sound generation

Open-source Swiss language model to be released this summer

Interview with Kate Candon: Leveraging explicit and implicit feedback in human-robot interactions

#RoboCup2025: social media round-up part 2

Visualising the digital transformation of work

#ICML2025 social media round-up part 2

#RoboCup2025: social media round-up 1

Livestream of RoboCup2025

A behaviour monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alps

#ICML2025 social media round-up 1

Congratulations to the #ICML2025 award winners!

Tackling the 3D Simulation League: an interview with Klaus Dorer and Stefan Glaser

What’s coming up at #RoboCup2025?

Wildlife researchers train AI to better identify animal species in trail camera photos

What’s on the programme at #ICML2025?

Introducing the NASA Onboard Artificial Intelligence Research (OnAIR) platform: an interview with Evana Gizzi

An interview with Nicolai Ommer: the RoboCupSoccer Small Size League

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: July 2025 edition

AIhub monthly digest: June 2025 – gearing up for RoboCup 2025, privacy-preserving models, and mitigating biases in LLMs

RoboCupRescue: an interview with Adam Jacoff

Making optimal decisions without having all the cards in hand

Exploring counterfactuals in continuous-action reinforcement learning

What is vibe coding? A computer scientist explains what it means to have AI write computer code − and what risks that can entail

Gearing up for RoboCupJunior: Interview with Ana Patrícia Magalhães

Interview with Mahammed Kamruzzaman: Understanding and mitigating biases in large language models

Google’s SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI ‘watermarking’ and does it work?

The Good Robot podcast: Symbiosis from bacteria to AI with N. Katherine Hayles

Preparing for kick-off at RoboCup2025: an interview with General Chair Marco Simões

Graphic novel explains the environmental impact of AI

Interview with Amar Halilovic: Explainable AI for robotics

Congratulations to the #IJCAI2025 award winners

Machine learning powers new approach to detecting soil contaminants

What is AI slop? Why you are seeing more fake photos and videos in your social media feed

The Machine Ethics podcast – DeepDive: AI and the environment

Interview with Debalina Padariya: Privacy-preserving generative models

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: June 2025 edition

AIhub monthly digest: May 2025 – materials design, object state classification, and real-time monitoring for healthcare data

Congratulations to the #AAMAS2025 best paper, best demo, and distinguished dissertation award winners

The Good Robot podcast: Transhumanist fantasies with Alexander Thomas

Congratulations to the #ICRA2025 best paper award winners

#ICRA2025 social media round-up

Interview with Gillian Hadfield: Normative infrastructure for AI alignment

PitcherNet helps researchers throw strikes with AI analysis

Interview with Filippos Gouidis: Object state classification

#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 3: Neural reasoning and mathematical discovery, and AI to accelerate science and engineering

What’s coming up at #ICRA2025?

AI Song Contest returns for 2025

Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-tos

Interview with Ananya Joshi: Real-time monitoring for healthcare data

AI-powered robots help tackle Europe’s growing e-waste problem

Interview with Onur Boyar: Drug and material design using generative models and Bayesian optimization

2025 AI Index Report

#AAAI2025 outstanding paper – DivShift: Exploring domain-specific distribution shift in large-scale, volunteer-collected biodiversity datasets

Defending against prompt injection with structured queries (StruQ) and preference optimization (SecAlign)

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: May 2025 edition

Automation applied to technical drawings in industry: Interview with Vasil Shteriyanov

Competition open for images of “digital transformation at work”

AIhub monthly digest: April 2025 – aligning GenAI with technical standards, ML applied to semiconductor manufacturing, and social choice problems

#ICLR2025 social media round-up

Copilot Arena: A platform for code

Dataset reveals how Reddit communities are adapting to AI

Interview with Eden Hartman: Investigating social choice problems

The Machine Ethics podcast: Co-design with Pinar Guvenc

Why AI can’t take over creative writing

Interview with Amina Mević: Machine learning applied to semiconductor manufacturing

Images of AI – between fiction and function

Grace Wahba awarded the 2025 International Prize in Statistics

Provably safe certification for machine learning models under adversarial attacks: Interview with Chen Feng

Repurposing protein folding models for generation with latent diffusion

AI UK 2025 conference recordings now available to watch

#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 2: Open-source AI for mainstream use, and federated learning for unbounded and intelligent decentralization

Accelerating drug development with AI

ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli-style images show its creative power – but raise new copyright problems

#AAAI2025 invited talk round-up 1: labour economics, and reasoning about spatial information

Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will now be sent to Amazon

End-to-end data-driven weather prediction

Interview with Joseph Marvin Imperial: aligning generative AI with technical standards

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: April 2025 edition