Scientific discovery is often a laborious, multi-step process that involves making observations, forming a hypothesis, conducting experiments, analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. One of the hardest steps in the process is coming up with a new idea to test. Now, Google has introduced an...
OpenAI’s new “Deep Research” tool is poised to transform how businesses gather intelligence and shape their corporate strategy, according to experts. But it does come with some key caveats. Deep Research is an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven research assistant that can search the web for in-depth information...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to two pioneers whose work laid the foundation for today’s artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, even as one of the recipients has become a vocal critic of the technology’s potential dangers. The...
MIT researchers’ new artificial intelligence risk database could prompt companies to overhaul their AI strategies, potentially slowing adoption but enhancing safety in an era of rapid AI proliferation. The comprehensive “AI Risk Repository,” developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s FutureTech Group, catalogs 777 potential AI...
September 24, 2026
A researcher uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to process data, draft a grant application or assemble a literature review. If the work is later challenged, investigators may need to reconstruct what the tool produced, what the researcher checked and whether the underlying records still exist. That is the practical challenge in new guidance from the […]
March 09, 2020
To ferret out crime, follow the money; to put a stop to crime, stop the money from getting to the bad guys in the first place. That’s easier said than...
January 03, 2020
Bigger, better, faster — those are often the guiding principles for innovation, disruption and change in the digital and mobile worlds. What about smarter, and more diverse? Those traits could...
April 18, 2024
Google is consolidating the teams that focus on building artificial intelligence (AI) models across Google Research and Google DeepMind. All this work will now be done within Google DeepMind, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said in a note to employees posted on the company’s website Thursday (April 18). Pichai said in the note that this move will “scale our […]
March 06, 2023
The British government is investing £370 million (about $446 million) to support “future industries.” The new Science and Technology Framework provides government funding to improve infrastructure, investment and skills needed...
May 12, 2020
California-based Baidu Research is leveraging its technology to work on a COVID-19 vaccine, widely regarded as the linchpin to returning the world economy to a normal state. The LinearDesign algorithm,...
November 28, 2019
India’s Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) has announced that the government is drafting a national framework to expand the deployment of blockchain use cases. “Ministry of Electronics...