Private research university in Pittsburgh known for top-ranked computer science, robotics, and AI programs, including its School of Computer Science.
Cisco is putting AI agents into Webex, including a Dialog layer that keeps customer-service agents working on a request after the conversation ends. Most of it arrives in early 2027, SiliconANGLE reported, so buyers signing next year will be judging features with no track record.
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Researchers at NTU, NUS and CMU found seven models judged useless search results correctly 97% to 100% of the time yet kept searching anyway. For operators, a spending cap holds only when the runtime enforces it by taking the tools away.
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MIT's Dor Minzer and two students posted a 95-page paper three days after rumours that OpenAI had proved the unique games conjecture. An expected AI announcement set the publication date for one group's finished work.
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Safeworld raised more than $12 million, led by Shine Capital and a16z Speedrun, to test generative-AI robots against simulated people. The pitch is that makers of robots nobody can prove safe on paper will pay an outside tester to vouch for them.
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LDraw Nova, Carlos Antelo's open-source tool, had Claude Opus 5.5 design a 2,175-piece LEGO garden by writing a Python program that emits the CAD file. Nova checks parts for collisions but not stability, so whether any of its designs would stand up in real bricks is still untested.
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Ataraxos, a Stratego AI from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford and MIT, beat Pim Niemeijer 15-1-4 after a training run that cost under $8,000. The savings came from a custom simulator and sample efficiency, so the price holds only for problems that simulate as cheaply.
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Ken Griffin is giving Carnegie Mellon $3 billion, a record by the university's count, with $2 billion for a 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood. For employers it promises a new supply of technical graduates in South Florida, on a timeline measured in years and at a modest scale.
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Ken Griffin gave Carnegie Mellon a record $3 billion, $2 billion of it to build a Miami campus that plans to enroll students in 2028. Whether it becomes a research base depends on faculty hiring and industry sponsors arriving on a schedule the money cannot set.
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Omni Calculator found 54% of managers run at least 70% of their writing past AI, against 30% of experienced individual contributors. The studies tying that habit to weaker thinking did not study working managers. The case for retraining leaders is still an inference.
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Ataraxos, an AI from MIT, Carnegie Mellon, NYU and Stanford researchers, beat top-ranked human Stratego players by a large margin, MIT reports. The team says it was far cheaper to train than rival systems and also beat top players at other strategy games.
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Carnegie Mellon senior Nivedita Shyamsundar tracked colour changes in iPhone video frame by frame to show metal nanoparticles form from merging clusters. Her program lets a lab time the fast early stages of such reactions with a camera it already owns.
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The pilots at Genentech, Janelia and QuEra are the test of whether one agent interface can retire per-device drivers. Its best number, 99.3% autonomous laser relock, comes from the easiest failure mode in the set.
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Carnegie Mellon's Synthetic Hospital benchmark found agent wrappers often lowered scores for 10 models reading 1,268 synthetic multi-visit patient charts. The models found facts in the charts but struggled to combine them, so a scaffold that adds retrieval steps may be working on the wrong weakness.
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Hazelwood Green's soil carried BTEX for decades before its cleanup. A microbiologist two miles away is sequencing cores from differently contaminated parts of the site to test whether the resident bacteria kept the genes to break those compounds down.
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An Entrepreneur contributor who runs a data and AI company says he still believes enterprises need clean data and real governance. He now puts a decision about how staff think alongside AI ahead of it.
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Two teenagers were arrested in early September after the robotaxi pulled over and alerted emergency services. Waymo described the policy in an email, and left out the confidence threshold and the human review step.
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A Science paper measured genome folding and gene activity in the same single cells from postmortem prefrontal cortex, and its authors place chromatin architecture alongside amyloid and tau in the disease's molecular pathology.
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Anthropic's December 2024 guidance and three agent benchmarks converge on an awkward result, because the workloads whose steps cannot be enumerated in advance are also the ones where measured agent completion is lowest.
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Theory predicted an in-plane anomalous Hall effect and no experiment had shown one, until a few-layer tantalum iridium telluride flake borrowed magnetism from the layer beneath it and produced the signal.
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The Carnegie Mellon team has released a 13.5-billion-year hydrodynamic run that ends at the present day, which lets JWST's crowd of early massive black holes be tested against a model that also has to produce a recognizable today.
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