Computer Science

Millions of images of passports, credit cards, birth certificates, and other documents containing personally identifiable information are likely included in one of the biggest open-source AI training sets, new research has found. Thousands of images—including identifiable faces—were found in a small subset of DataComp CommonPool, a major AI training set for image generation scraped from…

This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How to run an LLM on your laptop In the early days of large language models, there was a high barrier to entry: it used to be impossible to run anything useful on…

This week we heard that eight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people. The approach was used to prevent women with genetic mutations from passing mitochondrial diseases to their children. You can read all about the results, and the reception to them, here.…

The Plan sets out key ambitions that techUK and its members have long advocated for, including the establishment of a national Health Data Research Service, reducing barriers to market entry through regulatory reform including for AI, and working to attract investment and support scaling for healthcare businesses in the UK.

This ambitious roadmap, underpinned by delivery timelines beyond 2030, shows that UK Government is serious in its ambition to prioritise transformative research and deliver innovation with real-world impact in the UK.

The Python package PhaseFieldX, developed by researcher Miguel Castillón at IMDEA Materials Institute, has been published in the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) in a paper titled "PhaseFieldX: An Open-Source Framework for Advanced Phase-Field Simulations."

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The CodeSteer system could boost large language models’ accuracy when solving complex problems, such as scheduling shipments in a supply chain.

Imagine AI so sophisticated it could read a customer’s mind? Or identify and close a cybersecurity loophole weeks before hackers strike? How about a team of AI agents equipped to restructure a global supply chain and circumnavigate looming geopolitical disruption? Such disruptive possibilities explain why agentic AI is sending ripples of excitement through corporate boardrooms. …

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done.  Simon Willison has a plan for the end of the world. It’s a USB stick, onto which he has loaded a couple of his favorite open-weight LLMs—models that have been shared publicly by their creators and that can, in principle, be downloaded and run…

This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus…

I’ll admit that I’ve rarely hesitated to point an accusing finger at air-conditioning. I’ve outlined in many stories and newsletters that AC is a significant contributor to global electricity demand, and it’s only going to suck up more power as temperatures rise. But I’ll also be the first to admit that it can be a…

Read techUK's insight on the Chancellor's Mansion House speech

Today the EU Commission unveiled its vision for the European Union's future with the announcement of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a dizzying speed. Like many new technologies, it offers significant benefits but also poses safety risks. Recognizing the potential dangers, leading researchers from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and a coalition of companies and nonprofit groups have come together to call for more to be done to monitor how AI systems "think."

Large language models (LLMs) excel at using textual reasoning to understand the context of a document and provide a logical answer about its contents. But these same LLMs often struggle to correctly answer even the simplest math problems.

KISTI, ‘한국 소속 이력 연구자의 이동성 분석’ 데이터 인사이트(DATA INSIGHT) 발간 - 논문 빅데이터로 국내 과학기술 연구 인력의 이동 경로 추적 - 연구자 이동 특성 반영 맞춤형 과학기술 인력정책 활용 기대 □ 한국과학기술정보연구원(원장 이식, 이하 KISTI)은 한국 소속 이력이 있는 연구자들의 국내외 이동 경로와 활동 유형을 데이터 기반으로 분석한 『데이터 인사이트(DATA INSIGHT)』 제48호를 발간했다고 밝혔다. ○ KISTI는 네덜란드 레이던 대학교 과학기술학연구소(CWTS)와의 공동 연구를 통해, 2005년부터 2021년까지의 Dim..

A team of researchers has mapped the challenges of AI in software development, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward.

A new approach for testing multiple treatment combinations at once could help scientists develop drugs for cancer or genetic disorders.

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Eight babies have been born in the UK thanks to a technology that uses DNA from three people: the two biological parents plus a third person who supplies healthy mitochondrial DNA. The babies were born to mothers who carry genes for mitochondrial diseases and risked passing on severe disorders. The eight babies are healthy, say…

No one knows exactly how AI will transform our communities, workplaces, and society as a whole. Because it’s hard to predict the impact AI will have on jobs, many workers and local governments are left trying to read the tea leaves to understand how to prepare and adapt. A new interactive report released today by…

This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces.…