🧠 Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) helps doctors make better diagnoses, scientists create new materials, farmers grow crops more effectively and all of us driving cars - and millions of other applications. This topic also covers subsets of AI such as machine learning (ML), deep learning and neural networks.
🦿 Robot ballet AI enables robots to collaborate in factories
Google DeepMind's AI system RoboBallet automatically plans how industrial robots should perform their tasks, a process that previously required hundreds to thousands of hours of manual programming.
🧫 Robots and AI help couples have children through IVF
At least 20 children have already been born through clinical trials where robots and AI perform IVF treatment with minimal human intervention.
🦾 AI finds ten times more earthquakes than previous methods
The techniques work better in noisy environments like cities and require less computing power than previous automated methods.
🚛 The self-driving future is getting closer at Volvo
Volvo is facing its biggest shift since the company was founded. Instead of selling trucks, it now aims to sell transportation – with autonomous vehicles at the center of an entirely new ecosystem.
🦾 AI helps 1200 researchers develop new materials in global hackathon
More than 100 teams developed AI tools that can predict crystal structures, track medicines, and design new chemicals in just two days.
💡 Musings of the Angry Optimist: Without China, emissions would already have peaked
Are we close to the first major milestone for the climate?
👩💻 Almost ten percent of the world's population uses ChatGPT
ChatGPT had 700 million users per week in July 2025 The gender gap has disappeared – from 80 percent male users to 48 percent in June 2025
🦑 With AI we are learning to understand animal language
AI technology makes it possible to analyze large amounts of animal sounds and detect patterns that were previously impossible to identify.
🌌 AI improves gravitational wave measurements
The method can help astronomers detect hundreds more collisions between black holes and neutron stars per year.