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Tech Xplore / Peering inside LLM-based multi-agent systems could expose stealthy attacks
Large language models (LLMs), the models that underpin platforms such as ChatGPT and Gemini, are now used daily by more than a billion people worldwide. Some computer scientists have also been combining several of these models ...
Tech Xplore / Why do we labor when reading some words but not others? AI offers a partial answer
Why do we breeze through some sentences in a book or article but have to reread others to comprehend their meaning? A team of linguists and data scientists has found a partial answer in AI—some of this processing parallels ...
Tech Xplore / Electronic skin enables tunable touch and proximity sensing for robots and prosthetics
Recent advances in miniaturized and portable electronics, particularly wearable and flexible devices, have increased the demand for self-powered sensing technologies. Among these, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have ...
Tech Xplore / AI and electrolyte engineering open new paths for better batteries
Cornell researchers are using artificial intelligence to speed the search for better battery materials while using a creative approach to chemistry to expand the design space for electrolytes, unlocking new possibilities ...
Tech Xplore / New coding technique skips needless calculations, speeding some GPU tasks nearly fourfold
The multiplication of matrices and higher-dimensional arrays called tensors lies at the heart of modern computing. Matrix or tensor multiplication is, in fact, the most common operation carried out in artificial intelligence ...
Tech Xplore / The economic realities of fusion power—a framework for understanding what it would take to be profitable
In the last decade, scientists have shown that fusion energy can work as a physical process. Next question: Can it work economically? A study co-authored by MIT professors Dennis Whyte and Andrew W. Lo proposes a framework ...
Tech Xplore / 3D printing method creates soft actuators with switchable heat-driven motion
Soft materials that change shape in response to heat are attracting growing interest in applications ranging from soft robotics to wearable technologies and biomedical devices. However, conventional extrusion-based 3D printing ...
Tech Xplore / AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently
In recent years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can rapidly recognize patterns in data, generate content and solve other computational problems. Many of these AI ...
Tech Xplore / AI agents automate atom-by-atom simulations to accelerate discovery of new materials
A team from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has successfully demonstrated an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven system to automate a powerful simulation method that predicts how atoms in ...
Tech Xplore / 'Chameleon' chip adapts to changing data speeds, cutting prediction errors by up to 40-fold
AI semiconductors are becoming more programmable. KAIST researchers have developed a device whose response characteristics can be programmed to process data that changes at different speeds. The technology reduced prediction ...
Tech Xplore / When security becomes a risk factor—privacy risks of public URL-scanning services
URL scanning services are now a common component of modern security workflows. They help detect phishing websites or malware early and warn users before they visit a URL. However, the practice of some of these services—publishing ...
Tech Xplore / Negative imaginary theory moves from math niche to robots, aircraft and nanodevices
Over the past two decades, a powerful but highly specialized branch of control engineering—known as negative imaginary (NI) systems theory—has quietly evolved into a key tool for stabilizing complex, vibration-prone systems, ...
