With intensifying climate change, decarbonizing the global building sector has become a key priority. A substantial portion of a building's energy demand comes from heating and cooling. Consequently, developing efficient thermal energy storage systems is a crucial part of this effort.

Researchers in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated that redesigning both hardware and algorithms can make AI applications on edge devices more efficient. As proof of concept, their system achieved 95.24% accuracy in language identification while reducing computing resources by 90%—the highest reported accuracy from a system of its kind.

A few months ago, AI made headlines for cracking a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for decades. Mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit-distance conjecture, predicting how many pairs of points could lie the same distance apart. AI proved it wrong by tracking down a group of infinite counterexamples to the solution Erdős proposed.

As the world is increasingly flooded with deepfakes, the European Union is taking action to help people distinguish what is real and what is not.

Human beings have long told versions of the same warning: Be careful what you wish for. In Greek mythology, King Midas got exactly what he asked for, but at the cost of everything else he valued. In the famous story of The Monkey's Paw, a man's wishes are granted through terrible and unforeseen routes.