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Google Research uses smartwatch sensors to detect signs of hypertension
ResearchNovember 5, 2026, 17:01

Google Research uses smartwatch sensors to detect signs of hypertension

Google Research has presented an AI system that uses standard consumer smartwatch sensors to passively detect signs of high blood pressure without calibration from an…

Harvard student uses machine learning to fix subseasonal weather forecasts
ResearchOctober 20, 2026

Harvard student uses machine learning to fix subseasonal weather forecasts

Hannah Guan, a fourth-year applied math concentrator at Harvard SEAS, helped develop a machine learning approach that corrects errors in existing weather models for…

Research
ResearchOctober 17, 2026, 02:40

Microsoft Research in Nature: Machine Learning Targets 2-to-6-Week Weather Forecasts

Microsoft says new research published in Nature shows that machine learning can improve weather forecasts two to six weeks ahead, a timeframe that has historically been…

Machine-learning fix doubles accuracy of weather forecasts two to six weeks out
ResearchOctober 14, 2026, 17:00

Machine-learning fix doubles accuracy of weather forecasts two to six weeks out

A team including MIT researchers has built a machine-learning layer that corrects errors in existing forecasting models, and according to MIT News it doubled the…

CMU's Ataraxos AI Beats Top Human Players at Stratego
ResearchOctober 8, 2026, 18:00

CMU's Ataraxos AI Beats Top Human Players at Stratego

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have built an AI system called Ataraxos that can outperform even the best human players in Stratego, a board game in which…

Ai2's Bolmo byte-level language models get Nature paper and new checkpoints
ResearchOctober 7, 2026, 10:00

Ai2's Bolmo byte-level language models get Nature paper and new checkpoints

Ai2 says the research behind Bolmo, its family of fully open byte-level language models, has been published in Nature. The institute is also releasing new checkpoints on…

Oxford researcher warns governments are not ready for AI agents
BusinessOctober 5, 2026, 11:13

Oxford researcher warns governments are not ready for AI agents

Governments must acknowledge the risks of AI agents and set clear principles for managing them, or risk undermining their own foundations, according to Jonathan Rystrom…