News on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  • Explainable AI: New framework increases transparency in decision-making systems
    on June 13, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    A new explainable AI technique transparently classifies images without compromising accuracy. The method, developed at the University of Michigan, opens up AI for situations where understanding why a decision was made is just as important as the decision itself, like medical diagnostics.

  • New ocean mapping technology helps ships cut fuel use and CO₂ emissions
    on June 13, 2025 at 2:04 pm

    A UNSW academic's innovative research uses ocean currents to optimize shipping routes and reduce the environmental impact of sea transport.

  • Rethinking AI: Researchers propose a more effective, human-like approach
    on June 13, 2025 at 12:36 pm

    New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) could help shape the future of artificial intelligence by making AI systems less resource-intensive, higher performing, and designed to emulate the human brain. The research was published in Patterns, titled "Dimensionality and dynamics for next-generation neural networks."

  • AI toys and games? Barbie maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI to create new products
    on June 13, 2025 at 10:57 am

    Your next toy or game may be able to converse with you. Mattel, the El Segundo toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, said Thursday that it's teaming up with OpenAI, which created the popular chatbot ChatGPT, to "bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences."

  • Vision-language models gain spatial reasoning skills through artificial worlds and 3D scene descriptions
    on June 13, 2025 at 10:30 am

    Vision-language models (VLMs) are advanced computational techniques designed to process both images and written texts, making predictions accordingly. Among other things, these models could be used to improve the capabilities of robots, helping them to accurately interpret their surroundings and interact with human users more effectively.

  • Meta makes major investment in Scale AI, takes in CEO
    on June 13, 2025 at 8:10 am

    Scale AI announced a major new investment by Meta late Thursday that values the startup at more than $29 billion and puts its founder to work for the tech titan.

  • Anthropic says looking to power European tech with hiring push
    on June 13, 2025 at 7:48 am

    American AI giant Anthropic aims to boost the European tech ecosystem as it expands on the continent, product chief Mike Krieger told AFP Thursday at the Vivatech trade fair in Paris.

  • AI technology reconstructs 3D hand-object interactions from video, even when elements are obscured
    on June 13, 2025 at 7:44 am

    Researchers at UNIST have developed an AI technology capable of reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) representations of unfamiliar objects manipulated with both hands, as well as simulated surgical scenes involving intertwined hands and medical instruments. This advancement enables highly accurate augmented reality (AR) visualizations, further enhancing real-time interaction capabilities.

  • Q&A: Why improving robot design is essential to achieving true intelligence
    on June 12, 2025 at 8:48 pm

    Thanks to artificial intelligence, robots can already perform many tasks that would otherwise require humans. In this interview, Edoardo Milana, a junior professor of soft machines in the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg, explains how improved design and innovative mechanics are broadening the range of applications for these machines.

  • Less is more: Efficient pruning for reducing AI memory and computational cost
    on June 12, 2025 at 6:44 pm

    Deep learning and AI systems have made great headway in recent years, especially in their capabilities of automating complex computational tasks such as image recognition, computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, these systems consist of billions of parameters and require great memory usage as well as expensive computational cost.