When Sinatra sang “Come Fly with Me,” he couldn’t have imagined anything like the Pivotal Helix.
The Helix is a single-seat, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, or eVTOL. And where dozens of eVTOL startups have failed to take…
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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
By Melissa Anchisi and Florian Meyer
In July, EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) announced their joint initiative to build a large language model (LLM). Now,…
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CMU Alumni Launch Koyal for Safe AI Video Creation
09/10/2025 Mallory Lindahl
A new startup launched by Carnegie Mellon University alumni can transform a song, podcast, recording or audio clip from a movie into a fully produced video complete with personalized scenery,…
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Robots to the rescue: miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations
Small two-wheeled robots, equipped with high-tech sensors, will help to find survivors faster in the aftermath of disasters. © Tohoku University, 2023.
By Michael Allen
In the critical 72…
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Light-powered chip makes AI 100 times more efficient
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly central to technology, powering everything from facial recognition to language translation. But as AI models grow more complex, they consume vast amounts of electricity — posing challenges…
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AI has no idea what it’s doing, but it’s threatening us all
The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU).
Study lead author Dr Maria Randazzo, an academic from CDU’s…
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AI Dashcam Boosts Driver Safety
Driving trucks is one of the unappreciated backbones of modern civilization. It’s also hard and sometimes dangerous work. But technology is being spun up to make the job safer and easier.
A new class of devices is being targeted at fleets that…
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#IJCAI2025 distinguished paper: Combining MORL with restraining bolts to learn normative behaviour
Image provided by the authors – generated using Gemini.
For many of us, artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of everyday life, and the rate at which we assign previously human roles to…
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Scientists watch an atomic nucleus flip in real time
Researchers from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands have been able to see the magnetic nucleus of an atom switch back and forth in real time. They read out the nuclear ‘spin’ via the electrons in the same atom through the needle of…
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Researchers are teaching robots to walk on Mars from the sand of New Mexico
Scientists and robot at White Sands National Park.
By Sean Nealon
Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments…
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