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AI Powers Breakthrough In Sustainable Solar Cells, Slashing Costs And Emissions Korean researchers have unveiled an AI-powered roadmap for sustainable perovskite solar cells that halves production costs and cuts climate impact by over 80%. Their bio-based process replaces toxic s...

By combining AI-driven reverse engineering with eco-friendly solvents, scientists are redefining the future of perovskite solar cells, delivering affordable, low-carbon energy for global deployment. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

Startup Reinvents Cybersecurity To Stop AI Agents From Being Hacked Researchers highlight how AI adoption introduces new security vulnerabilities, with Hertz Fellow Vivek Nair’s startup Multifactor developing cryptographic solutions to safeguard both businesses and co...

As AI agents increasingly handle sensitive data, cybersecurity needs a complete redesign. Multifactor is stepping up with open-source solutions to stop hackers from exploiting AI’s weakest links. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

New AI Framework LLRL Accurately Detects Plant Disease Severity for Smarter Farming Researchers at Guizhou University have developed LLRL, a deep learning framework that targets lesion regions directly, boosting the accuracy of plant disease severity assessment across apple, potato, ...

A breakthrough AI framework that isolates diseased leaf regions is setting new standards for plant disease assessment, helping farmers cut costs, reduce pesticide use, and protect global food security. www.azoai.com/news/2025092... #plantdisease

Fine-Tuned AI Models and Smart Retrieval Power Next-Generation QA Systems for Building Codes A new study shows how pairing effective retrieval methods with fine-tuned AI models can transform the way professionals query building codes, replacing tedious manual searches with smarter, more accur...

A new study shows how pairing effective retrieval methods with fine-tuned AI models can transform the way professionals query building codes, replacing tedious manual searches with smarter, more accurate compliance tools. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

Large Language Models Redefine Intelligence With Human-Like Thinking This study by Zhidong Cao, Xiangyu Zhang, and Daniel Dajun Zeng systematically examines the technical, cognitive, and reasoning attributes of Large language models (LLMs). It positions LLMs as a novel...

Breaking from logic-bound predecessors, LLMs are reshaping the foundations of AI with human-like cognition, deep reasoning, and adaptive intelligence that could transform decision-making in complex real-world environments. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI Tool Transforms UK Supreme Court Hearings Into Searchable Transcripts Researchers at the University of Surrey created a Artificial intelligence system that transcribes UK Supreme Court hearings with greater accuracy and links spoken arguments directly to written judgmen...

By turning complex legal debates into searchable transcripts, this courtroom AI could revolutionize how lawyers, scholars, and the public navigate justice. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

ChatGPT Surprises Researchers By Improvising Plato’s Ancient Math Puzzle In a study published in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, researchers found that ChatGPT tackled Plato’s ancient “doubling the square” puzzle not by recall...

Acting less like a database and more like a student, ChatGPT puzzled through Plato’s 2,400-year-old challenge with unexpected creativity, raising new questions about how AI can support mathematical learning. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

IRS Battles Social Media Tax Scams As AI Voice Cloning Fuels Fraud Epidemic Social media platforms, especially TikTok, are fueling a new wave of tax scams in 2025, from fake credits to AI-powered voice cloning. The IRS has launched CASST, a special task force, to combat these...

From fake W-2s to AI-powered impersonation calls, scammers are turning everyday taxpayers into unwitting fraudsters, forcing the IRS to fight back with an Avengers-style task force. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

Community Notes on X Significantly Reduce Spread of Misinformation A University of Washington-led study shows that Community Notes on X reduce virality by cutting reposts by 46% and likes by 44%. The findings suggest the feature slows misinformation spread, but speed...

A new UW study finds Community Notes on X significantly curb engagement with misinformation, yet their effectiveness depends on speed, scale, and whether other platforms adopt similar transparency measures. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

Distributed Acoustic Sensing Transforms Earthquake Monitoring With AI Scientists have unveiled DASFormer, a self-supervised AI model that transforms fiber-optic cables into powerful earthquake monitoring tools. By learning from unlabeled seismic data, it detects earthqu...

A breakthrough AI model trained on unlabeled seismic data promises to revolutionize earthquake monitoring, turning everyday fiber-optic cables into a dense, global seismic intelligence network. www.azoai.com/news/2025092...

Light-Trained Physical Neural Networks Promise Faster Greener AI Researchers from Politecnico di Milano and international partners developed an in-situ training method for physical neural networks using light-based photonic chips, eliminating the need for digital m...

A new study unveils how training neural networks directly with light on photonic chips could slash energy use and speed up AI, paving the way for smarter on-device systems. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

New Optical Chip Slashes AI Energy Use With Light-Powered Computing Researchers at University of Florida have created a silicon chip that uses laser light and microscopic Fresnel lenses to perform convolution operations, a power-intensive step in AI. This optical appr...

A breakthrough light-based chip could revolutionize AI by cutting energy demands while preserving high performance, paving the way for faster and greener computing systems. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI Learns Evolution’s Logic With Quartet-Based Neural Network Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum developed a quartet-based deep learning method that embeds phylogenetic tree structures into neural networks. Tested on bacterial 16S rRNA data, it enables AI to ...

A Bochum team has taught AI to decode evolution by guiding neural networks with phylogenetic trees, unlocking more biologically meaningful insights from complex data. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI Can Read Emissions Reports But Can You Trust What It Says? Researchers created a gold-standard dataset to benchmark AI systems that extract greenhouse gas emissions data from corporate sustainability reports. The study reveals widespread data quality issues, ...

A new gold-standard dataset reveals how hard it is to get accurate emissions data from company reports, even for AI, raising questions about the reliability of automated climate accountability tools. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

New AI Technique Powers Smarter, Offline Systems Without the Cloud Kennesaw State University researcher Bobin Deng is developing an AI method that enables powerful models to run directly on personal devices without internet access. By using activation sparsity to pre...

A breakthrough in activation sparsity could enable AI to move from supercomputers to smartphones, making real-time intelligence possible on drones, sensors, and devices without requiring the cloud. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

Why Human Hosts Still Outsell AI Streamers in Online Shopping AI-powered digital streamers are gaining traction in e-commerce livestreams, but they currently underperform compared to human hosts. Real-time interaction and human-like behavior significantly enhanc...

While AI streamers offer round-the-clock promotion at low cost, only those with human-like interaction come close to matching the persuasive power of real livestream hosts. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

Researchers Warn: AI Could Automate Every Stage of Ransomware Researchers at NYU Tandon have developed "Ransomware 3.0," a proof-of-concept showing how criminals could use large language models to autonomously execute ransomware attacks. The AI system carried ou...

By simulating how AI can map systems, steal files, and craft ransom notes on its own, researchers warn that cheap, automated ransomware could soon outpace current defenses, making early preparation essential. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI And Satellites Reveal Wildebeest Migration Numbers Are Far Lower Than Believed For the first time, scientists have used AI and satellite imagery to count the Great Wildebeest Migration, finding fewer than 600,000 animals, less than half the long-standing estimate of 1.3 million....

By combining AI with satellite images, researchers discovered that the Serengeti’s iconic migration may be far smaller than once thought, reshaping our understanding of this natural spectacle and raising urgent questions for conservation. www.azoai.com/news/2025091... #Wildebeest

AI Uncovers Hidden Earthquakes And Faults Beneath Italy’s Campi Flegrei Volcano An AI-powered seismic analysis system has uncovered four times as many earthquakes in Italy’s Campi Flegrei as earlier tools, revealing hidden faults beneath the densely populated volcanic region. The...

By bringing thousands of previously hidden quakes into focus, AI is providing scientists & city planners with a clearer picture of Campi Flegrei’s underground risks, thereby helping to protect the half a million residents living atop this restless volcano. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI Shields Power Grid From Cyber And Physical Threats With Low-Cost Devices Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a brain-inspired autoencoder AI that detects both physical disruptions and cyberattacks on the power grid in real time. The system runs on in...

Sandia’s new brain-inspired AI can spot attacks and faults across the grid faster than humans, keeping the lights on and critical systems safe, from hospitals to solar farms, even under extreme conditions. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI Assistant Spots Supernovae With Precision And Slashes Astronomers’ Workload A new AI-powered Virtual Research Assistant has cut astronomers’ daily workload by 85% by automatically filtering millions of sky alerts and identifying genuine supernova signals. In its first year, i...

By mimicking human decision-making, this lean AI tool helps astronomers catch rare stellar explosions faster and with greater accuracy, freeing up valuable time to probe the deepest mysteries of the Universe. www.azoai.com/news/2025091...

AI And Drone Imaging Predict Wheat Yields With Unmatched Accuracy This study developed a transformer-based AI model using UAV multispectral and RGB imaging to predict wheat yields with unprecedented accuracy. The approach allows non-destructive, cost-effective, and ...

A cutting-edge AI model, powered by drone imaging, provides farmers with a faster and more reliable way to pinpoint high-yield wheat varieties, paving the way for climate-resilient crops and enhanced global food security. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

AI-Guided Drones Track Wildfire Smoke to Improve Air Quality Predictions University of Minnesota researchers have developed AI-powered aerial robots that track wildfire smoke plumes in 3D, enabling real-time, high-resolution data collection. This innovation could vastly im...

Equipped with AI and advanced imaging tools, aerial robots from the University of Minnesota offer a game-changing solution to track and analyze wildfire smoke, with far-reaching implications for air quality forecasting and disaster mitigation. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

AI Designs New Antibiotics That Rival FDA Drugs and Fight Superbugs Researchers at Penn and Duke developed AMP-Diffusion, a generative AI tool that designed 50,000 novel antimicrobial peptides. Two lead candidates successfully treated infections in mice, performing on...

A breakthrough AI model called AMP-Diffusion has generated thousands of synthetic antimicrobial peptides, with two proving as effective as approved antibiotics in mouse models, offering a scalable, low-toxicity path to combat antibiotic resistance. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

UC Riverside Scientists Develop Certified Unlearning Method To Erase Data From AI Models Without Retraining UC Riverside researchers have created a certified unlearning method that removes sensitive or copyrighted data from AI models without needing access to the original training data. Their framework uses...

By combining surrogate datasets with noise calibration, UC Riverside researchers show how AI models can provably “forget” sensitive data, offering a breakthrough in privacy, compliance, and the responsible future of machine learning. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

Los Alamos Deploys OpenAI Reasoning Models On Venado Supercomputer To Advance National Security Los Alamos National Laboratory has moved its Venado supercomputer to a classified network, where it is now running OpenAI’s latest O-series reasoning models for national security research. Venado, amo...

In a landmark partnership, Los Alamos is harnessing OpenAI’s reasoning models on its classified Venado supercomputer to tackle challenges from plutonium aging to biosecurity, marking a new era of government-industry collaboration in AI and defense. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

AI Scribes Promise Relief For Clinicians But Raise Urgent Questions On Safety And Trust An editorial in JMIR Medical Informatics explores the rapid rise of ambient AI scribes, highlighting their potential to ease clinician burnout and improve patient care. The authors also warn of risks ...

While AI scribes are heralded as a breakthrough for reducing documentation burdens, experts caution that unanswered questions on reliability, ethics, and patient safety must be addressed before widescale adoption. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

AI Model Boosts Fusion Experiments By Mastering Plasma States In Real Time Researchers at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science have developed a multi-task learning AI model that simultaneously identifies plasma confinement modes and detects edge-localized modes in tokama...

A new AI-powered model can detect plasma modes and instabilities with unprecedented speed and accuracy, paving the way for smarter, safer control in the pursuit of practical #fusion power. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

UCLA Develops Noninvasive AI-Powered Brain-Computer Interface UCLA engineers have created a wearable, noninvasive brain-computer interface that uses AI as a co-pilot to interpret user intent, enabling faster, more precise control of a robotic arm or cursor. In t...

A breakthrough wearable brain-computer interface combines EEG decoding with an AI co-pilot, allowing people, including those with paralysis, to control robotic arms and computer cursors with greater speed, accuracy, and independence. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...

Robots Learn To Navigate Smarter: New AI Model Prioritizes Localization For Safer Indoor Paths Researchers from Cardiff University, Hohai University, and Spirent Communications developed a deep reinforcement learning model that integrates localization awareness into navigation decisions, signif...

A new AI-driven navigation model teaches robots not just to move but to stay confidently localized, choosing longer, safer routes and outperforming traditional methods in complex indoor environments. www.azoai.com/news/2025090...