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When Does It Actually Make Sense to Put AI Into Products?
Over the past few years, the tech industry has rushed to plug a new microchip into every device on the assumption that if you can add AI, you should. Smart vision toothbrushes , mood-reading household robots , and a host of physical…
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NSF’s X-Labs Program Draws Support From Charities and Investors
When the U.S. National Science Foundation began its X-Labs program in May, the agency said the higher-risk, higher-funded awards would create new kinds of partnerships that would confront urgent scientific and technological challenges…
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AI Agents Are Testing the Limits of Zero-Trust Security
This article is brought to you by Queen’s University Belfast . Several teams around the globe are leveraging AI by creating a task force of agents managed by an orchestrator and creating applications to support risk assessment, client…
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AI Text Watermarking May Not Be Able to Meet the E.U.’s New Rules
The European Union now requires AI-generated text to be watermarked so that it can be identified as such. But tests on OpenAI’s new textGrain watermark, released in October and developed to comply with the new E.U. law , show that these…
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How a Kenyan Startup Is Rethinking AI for Small Businesses
The first time Mutembei Kariuki thought about how AI models could work in Kenya, his home country, was in 2019. He was attending a conference at the University of Tokyo on the future of AI, and kept hearing about how this technology was…
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Guarding the Gates of Knowledge
A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and…
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Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream
This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies . For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these technologies will help them in their daily…
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Systems Thinking Is Vital in the Age of AI
Modern engineering projects increasingly combine human judgment with machine capability. An engineer can define a problem, then ask an artificial intelligence tool to search relevant research and technical standards, generate design…
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Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
This article is brought to you by VicOne . A mobile robot slows for someone in a hallway. A collaborative arm eases its movement as a worker approaches. A humanoid pauses to let a person pass. Each response depends on information about the…
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I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened
Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an…
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IEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds AI Assistant
IEEE recently released the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite , built on the full text of millions of peer-reviewed publications in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library . The library offers full-text access to IEEE standards , journals, magazines…
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Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
I step into the warm moist air among the columns of the pines, their net of twigs and roots complex as any lines of code. The trees purify and anchor. Their branches balance my restlessness. Their calling is to be present, mine to develop…
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Why Engineers Should Brave Capitol Hill
When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity. It was spring of 2025, not long after…