CMU Launches Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Summer Scholars Program

CMU Launches Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Summer Scholars Program

• Carnegie Mellon launches summer undergraduate research program to expand pathways into security and privacy The application deadline for this year’s program is February 1, 2026 M

Research & Labs · February 3, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 314 words
Engaging the AI community through building, research, and shared learning

Engaging the AI community through building, research, and shared learning

• Amazon Nova launches two initiatives: a global hackathon and a university research program. • The hackathon invites developers, students, hobbyists to build generative AI apps us

AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators

AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators

• AI for Smarter, More Powerful, More Efficient Particle Accelerators Article AI Particle accelerators are powerful tools that have revolutionized research in physics, chemistry, m

Research · February 2, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 294 words
Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery

Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery

• Foundational AI Models to Accelerate Biological Discovery Article AI Researchers from four national laboratories and industry are collaborating to unleash the full potential of b

Research · February 2, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 297 words
How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation

How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation

• How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation Article AI Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working to transform petabytes of imaging data from

Research · February 2, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 263 words
AI, Automation, and Biosensors Speed the Path to Synthetic Jet Fuel

AI, Automation, and Biosensors Speed the Path to Synthetic Jet Fuel

• Key Takeaways - Automation and AI can systematically pinpoint optimal designs among hundreds of thousands of possibilities, increasing isoprenol titers five-fold in weeks. • - Bi

Research · January 29, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 202 words
CyLab Researchers Uncover 270 Million Crypto Phishing Attempts

CyLab Researchers Uncover 270 Million Crypto Phishing Attempts

• 270M phishing attempts on Ethereum and BSC, 17M victims, $83.8M lost. • Attack exploits wallet address usability; attackers craft lookalike 40‑char hex addresses. • Scammers send

Research & Labs · January 27, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 196 words
We're announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund

We're announcing the 12 recipients of our AI for Science fund

• Google.org launches $20M AI for Science fund to empower researchers tackling complex global challenges. • Fund supports 12 organizations across health, agriculture, biodiversity,

Quantum Computing · January 26, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 172 words
A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants?

A crowdsourced repository for optimization constants?

• Thomas Bloom’s Erdös problem site now thrives with AI‑assisted solutions. • Human, AI, and hybrid contributions are discussed and approved as updates. • A curated problem databas

Mathematics · January 23, 2026 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words
EcoFABs Could Help Fuel AI in Agriculture

EcoFABs Could Help Fuel AI in Agriculture

• EcoFABs Could Help Fuel AI in Agriculture Article AI Key Takeaways EcoFABs are takeout-box-sized plastic chambers that give scientists a reproducible way to study plants and thei

Research · January 22, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 270 words
Mark Asta appointed dean of Berkeley Engineering

Mark Asta appointed dean of Berkeley Engineering

• Mark Asta, 15-year UC Berkeley faculty, named 14th dean of College of Engineering. • Appointment announced by Chancellor Rich Lyons and Provost Ben Hermalin. • Asta will official

A new study highlights the brain's role in immune health

• New research links brain activity to immune system performance, showing mental states influence infection resistance. • Study demonstrates stress hormones alter immune cell signa

Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members

Berkeley Engineering welcomes five new faculty members

• Berkeley Engineering hires five new tenure‑track professors across multiple departments. • Henry Corrigan‑Gibbs, ex‑MIT, focuses on privacy‑enhancing cryptographic computer syste

Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

Expert Interview: Soren Prestemon on Magnet Technology

• Magnets are essential across scientific applications, particularly in particle physics and in light sources. • At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Soren Pres

Research · January 15, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 174 words
Leading the Field in Magnets

Leading the Field in Magnets

• In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. • Two years later, he founded what would become the Departme

Research · January 15, 2026 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 218 words
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

• Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

Google's year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025

• Google’s year in review: 8 areas with research breakthroughs in 2025 2025 has been a year of extraordinary progress in research. • With artificial intelligence, we can see its tr

Quantum Computing · December 23, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 254 words
How Small Industry Labs Can Thrive Through Open Research

How Small Industry Labs Can Thrive Through Open Research

• How Small Industry Labs Can Thrive Through Open Research Giovane Moura Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands Giovane is a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs (.nl registry) and a Assistant

The Equational Theories Project: Advancing Collaborative Mathematical Research at Scale

The Equational Theories Project: Advancing Collaborative Mathematical Research at Scale

• Matthew Bolan, Joachim Breitner, Jose Brox, Nicholas Carlini, Mario Carneiro, Floris van Doorn, Martin Dvorak, Andrés Goens, Aaron Hill, Harald Husum, Hernán Ibarra Mejia, Zoltan

Mathematics · December 9, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 291 words
Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download

Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download

• Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download Please note that we are currently unable to ship printed books to the United States due to customs clearance issues. • We

Web Development · December 9, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 189 words
Deepening our AI research partnership with Tel Aviv University

Deepening our AI research partnership with Tel Aviv University

• Deepening our AI research partnership with Tel Aviv University Nov 27, 2025 Google andTel Aviv University (TAU)have a history of substantial partnership. • Formalized in 2020, th

Quantum Computing · November 27, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 256 words
63 Amazon Research Award recipients announced

63 Amazon Research Award recipients announced

• Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. • This

At our Research@ Poland event we shared how AI is helping us solve big challenges.

At our Research@ Poland event we shared how AI is helping us solve big challenges.

• During a keynote at our Research@ event in Poland last week, Yossi Matias, Head of Google Research shared how his team’s work is guided by the ‘magic cycle’ - where real-world ch

Quantum Computing · November 19, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 252 words
Meet Project Suncatcher, a research moonshot to scale machine learning compute in space.

Meet Project Suncatcher, a research moonshot to scale machine learning compute in space.

• Artificial intelligence is a foundational technology that could help us tackle humanity’s greatest challenges. • Now, we’re asking where we can go next to unlock its fullest pote

Quantum Computing · November 4, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 241 words
RL without TD learning

RL without TD learning

• In this post, Iâll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an âalternativeâ paradigm: divide and conquer. • Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not b

Research · November 1, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 186 words
Research@ 2025: Our latest breakthroughs

Research@ 2025: Our latest breakthroughs

• Research@ 2025: Our latest breakthroughs Google Research’s mission is to drive foundational breakthroughs that advance the frontier of science and technology to benefit people an

Quantum Computing · October 23, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 279 words
Google Research: accelerating scientific breakthroughs to real-world impact

Google Research: accelerating scientific breakthroughs to real-world impact

• Google Research: accelerating scientific breakthroughs to real-world impact Oct 23, 2025 Google Research is applying its ‘magic cycle’ where fundamental research drives breakthro

Quantum Computing · October 23, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 253 words
10 years of genomics research at Google

10 years of genomics research at Google

• 10 years of genomics research at Google Oct 16, 2025 A look back at a decade of research in genomics at Google, from developing AI tools that accurately read the code of life, cr

Quantum Computing · October 16, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 2 min · 240 words
Applied Networking Research Prize 2026 Nominations Now Open

Applied Networking Research Prize 2026 Nominations Now Open

• IETF Administration LLC 2026 BudgetA draft budget was shared previously for community consultation and the IETF Administration LLC now has finalised its budget for 2026.Jay Daley

What exactly does word2vec learn?

What exactly does word2vec learn?

• What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? • Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. • Despi

Research · September 1, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 195 words
Applied Networking Research Prizes at IETF 123

Applied Networking Research Prizes at IETF 123

• IETF Administration LLC 2026 BudgetA draft budget was shared previously for community consultation and the IETF Administration LLC now has finalised its budget for 2026.Jay Daley

A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

A quantum leap for antimatter measurements

• BASE collaboration trapped an antiproton, oscillating between two quantum states for nearly a minute. • First demonstration of an antimatter qubit, opening doors for precise matt

Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92

Professor Emeritus Daniel Kleppner, highly influential atomic physicist, dies at 92

• Daniel Kleppner, MIT professor emeritus, passed away at 92, leaving legacy in atomic physics. • Co‑invented hydrogen maser atomic clock, advancing precision timekeeping and GPS t

Quantum Computing · July 15, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 179 words
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

• Predicting Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA). • Given past video frames and an action specifying a desired change in 3D pose, PEVA predicts the next video frame. • Our

Research · July 1, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 202 words
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization (SecAlign)

• Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. • However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them.Prompt injection a

Research · April 11, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 214 words
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

• PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. • The awarding

Research · April 8, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 231 words
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

• We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. • Our goal is to tackle

Research · March 25, 2025 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 240 words
Researchers establish new basis for quantum sensing and communication

Researchers establish new basis for quantum sensing and communication

• MIT and UniFe researchers develop framework using non‑Gaussian quantum states for sensing and communication. • Non‑Gaussian states overcome Gaussian limitations, unlocking full q

Quantum Computing · March 13, 2025 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 179 words
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

• We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich

Research · November 12, 2024 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 268 words
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

• Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. • ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. • Only 15%o

Research · September 20, 2024 (updated February 19, 2026) · 1 min · 188 words
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

• When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure la

Research · August 28, 2024 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 219 words
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

• Researchers tested jailbreak via Scots Gaelic translation, initially replicating 43% success claim. • GPT-4 responded with bomb instructions in Gaelic, but full output differed f

Research & Labs · August 28, 2024 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 187 words
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

• Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). • Over the decades, AI researchers have

Research · July 20, 2024 (updated February 19, 2026) · 2 min · 248 words
Introducing The Math3ma Institute

Introducing The Math3ma Institute

• Math3ma expands into a new research hub, the Math3ma Institute, on TMU campus and online. • Visiting professor at TMU collaborates with math, science, engineering faculty to laun

Mathematics · February 22, 2022 (updated February 24, 2026) · 1 min · 191 words