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Month: January 2026

Computers

Creative talent: Has AI knocked humans out?

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

Are generative artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT truly creative? A research team led by Professor Karim Jerbi from the Department of Psychology at the Université de Montréal, and including AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, also […]

Internet

Snapchat settles to avoid social media addiction trial

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

Snapchat on Wednesday confirmed it made a deal to avoid a US civil trial accusing it, along with Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, of addicting young people to social media.This article was originally published on this […]

Internet

Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

Imagine that the internet suddenly stops working. Payment systems in your local food store go down. Health care systems in the regional hospital flatline. Your work software tools—and all the information they contain—disappear.This article was […]

Internet

YouTube to match OpenAI with AI likeness feature

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to allow its users this year to create AI versions of themselves for video sharing, matching a feature from Sora, the video-creation app from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.This article was originally published […]

Computers

Using AI to understand how emotions are formed

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

Emotions are a fundamental part of human psychology—a complex process that has long distinguished us from machines. Even advanced artificial intelligence (AI) lacks the capacity to feel. However, researchers are now exploring whether the formation […]

Computers

Mistaken correlations: Why it’s critical to move beyond overly aggregated machine-learning metrics

January 21, 2026 Tech Xplore

MIT researchers have identified significant examples of machine-learning model failure when those models are applied to data other than what they were trained on, raising questions about the need to test whenever a model is […]

Computers

Findings on phonetic reduction in speech could help make AI voices more natural-sounding

January 20, 2026 Tech Xplore

A speech study by a research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has identified an underappreciated aspect of speech in English and Spanish speakers that could lead to improvements in artificial intelligence […]

Computers

AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assess long-term decision-making

January 20, 2026 Tech Xplore

Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, are learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. The reason? Simulating and playing the popular tabletop role-playing game provides a good testing ground for AI agents that need to function independently […]

Math

Knock, knock… mapping comedic timing with a computational framework

January 20, 2026 Phys Org

Researchers propose a computational method to reveal the hidden timing structure of live performance. Vanessa C. Pope and colleagues present a framework, called Topology Analysis of Matching Sequences (TAMS), that algorithmically detects repeated material across […]

Internet

Cyberattacks can trigger societal crises, scientists warn

January 19, 2026 Tech Xplore

Cyberattacks can wreak havoc on the systems they target, yet their impact often spreads far beyond technical failures, potentially triggering crises that engulf entire communities, a new study argues.This article was originally published on this […]

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