Misconfigured AI could trigger the next national infrastructure meltdown

Rapid rollout into cyber-physical systems raises outage risk, Gartner warns The next blackout to plunge a G20 nation into ...
InfoQ

Building Embedding Models for Large-Scale Real-World Applications

Sahil Dua discusses the critical role of embedding models in powering search and RAG applications at scale. He explains the ...

AI captures particle accelerator behavior to optimize machine performance

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...
Nature

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Large language models (LLMs) can suggest hypotheses, write code and draft papers, and AI agents are automating parts of the research process. Although this can accelerate science, it also makes it ...

After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...