What makes a genus real? Scientists use tree bats to evaluate a testable '2 Sigma Genus Concept'

Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the ...
Tech Xplore

55% of U.S. teens have used AI to create sexualized images, survey finds

In a survey study of U.S. teens, more than half (55.3%) reported that they had created at least one image using nudification ...

Study: Teen girls are using AI to create sexual imagery

A new study suggests that teen girls use so-called nudification apps at the same rate as teen boys. The artificial ...
Live Science

New AI image generator runs using 10 times fewer steps than today's best models — and it's coming to smartphones and laptops

Researchers have developed an AI image generator that produces images in just four steps, rather than dozens. This could ...

AI model predicts chemical effects on gene expression, speeding drug discovery

Inside a diseased cell, the genes are in chaos. Some are receiving signals to overproduce a protein. Others are reducing ...

The new model offers performance improvements in reasoning, multimodal understanding and more.

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 mini model offers performance improvements in reasoning, multimodal understanding and more.
Devdiscourse

Financial language models carry bias across gender, race and body attributes

The paper, “Towards a More Efficient Bias Detection in Financial Language Models,” was accepted at the ICLR 2026 Workshop on ...

The furore over Grok’s sexualised images has begun an AI reckoning

Enforcement, however, cannot stop at national borders. Platforms such as Grok operate globally, while regulatory standards ...
IEEE

PGSMamba: Prompt-Guided Shuffle State Space Model for Hyperspectral Image Classification

Abstract: Hyperspectral image classification demands models capable of efficiently capturing complex spectral–spatial relationships and long-range dependencies. Despite significant advances in CNNs ...