7/20/2025
7/18/2025 – Recent AI News
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Model predicts long-term effects of nuclear waste on underground disposal systems
Published: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
The simulations matched results from an underground lab experiment in Switzerland, suggesting modeling could be used to validate the safety of nuclear disposal sites. -
This “smart coach” helps LLMs switch between text and code
Published: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
The CodeSteer system could boost large language models’ accuracy when solving complex problems, such as scheduling shipments in a supply chain. -
Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:55:00 -0400 | (Link)
A team of researchers has mapped the challenges of AI in software development, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward. -
How to more efficiently study complex treatment interactions
Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 | (Link)
A new approach for testing multiple treatment combinations at once could help scientists develop drugs for cancer or genetic disorders. -
New AI system uncovers hidden cell subtypes, boosts precision medicine
Published: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:40:00 -0400 | (Link)
CellLENS reveals hidden patterns in cell behavior within tissues, offering deeper insights into cell heterogeneity — vital for advancing cancer immunotherapy. -
Scientists discover the moment AI truly understands language
Published: Tue, 08 Jul 2025 02:36:49 EDT | (Link)
Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent of water flashing into steam. By revealing this hidden switch, researchers open a window into how transformer models such as ChatGPT grow smarter and hint at new ways to make them leaner, safer, and more predictable. -
Scientists just simulated the “impossible” — fault-tolerant quantum code cracked at last
Published: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:41:57 EDT | (Link)
A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built on the notoriously tricky GKP bosonic code, promising a crucial test-bed for future quantum hardware. -
Quantum computers just beat classical ones — Exponentially and unconditionally
Published: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:30:44 EDT | (Link)
A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error correction and IBM’s powerful 127-qubit processors, they tackled a variation of Simon’s problem, showing quantum machines are now breaking free from classical limitations, for real. -
Quantum computers just got an upgrade – and it’s 10× more efficient
Published: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:58:18 EDT | (Link)
Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum states—key for bigger, better quantum machines.