AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientist Write Them
AI Is Acing Math Exams Faster Than Scientist Write Them

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any human or subjective factors. But AI systems are improvi…

How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?
How Can AI Companions Be Helpful, not Harmful?

For a different perspective on AI companions, see ourQ&A with Jaime Banks: How Do You Define an AI Companion?Novel technology is often a double-edged sword. New capabilities come with new risks, and artificial intelligence is certainly no exception.AI…

Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants 

Carbon Robotics’ Large Plant Model will allow farmers to kill new types of weeds without having to retrain the machines.

Your AI could copy our worst instincts, but there’s a fix for AI social bias

AI models including GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-3.1 can mirror ingroup versus outgroup bias in everyday language, a study finds. Researchers also report an ION training method that reduced the gap.
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This AI creativity study says you still beat it, if you’re top tier

A massive new comparison suggests some AI models can beat average human creativity scores on a standardized test, but the most creative people still outperform every system tested, and the gap grows at the top end.
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Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks

Imagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.” Would you hand over the money? Of course not. Yet…

The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025
The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025

This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing capabilities and its striking shortcomings. New research has found that AI agents are doubling the length of task they can do…