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New Scientist Researchers at U.S. nonprofit Cohere Labs found the Chatbot Arena benchmark, which ranks AI models, is a “distorted playing field” due to policies allowing big tech companies to discard poorly scoring models. Their analysis of more than 2 million head-to-head tests from January 2024 to April 2025 found Meta tested 27 private AI […]

New Scientist Researchers at Switzerland’s University of Zurich are facing criticism for an experiment conducted on Reddit without users’ permission. The researchers added more than 1,700 large language model-generated comments to the r/ChangeMyView subreddit without disclosing that the comments were made by an AI. The researchers reportedly informed the AI models that the Reddit users […]

New Scientist University of Texas at Austin researchers identified a technique that could enable hackers to interfere with the results of various programs run by different users on the same quantum computer. The attack depends on interference in the microwave signals used to control qubits, with one qubit possibly picking up a signal intended for […]

New Scientist Researchers at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation found than using an internal quantum battery to power a quantum computer could boost energy efficiency and processing power. Each qubit in a standard quantum computer has two external cables, the drive line and the flux line. The researchers determined that implementing an internal […]

New Scientist A bacteria-inspired underwater drone developed by researchers at UAE’s Khalifa University features 12 flexible arms capable of controlled movements in any direction. Inspired by bacteria’s flagella, the slender threadlike structure that allows it to swim, each arm has a motor at the base controlled by an onboard Raspberry Pi computer. From “Bacteria-Inspired Robot […]

New Scientist Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Israel’s Tel Aviv University have leveraged cryptography to improve the efficiency of certain algorithms. The researchers replaced the random matrices used by these algorithms with trapdoored matrices, which only appear random. This allows them to be multiplied together more quickly, making the algorithms faster without […]

New Scientist Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have developed an AI system that can accurately decode data stored in DNA sequences within 10 minutes. The system, called DNAformer, features a deep learning model that can reconstruct DNA sequences, an error detection and correction algorithm, and […]

New Scientist China’s Institute of Commercial Cryptography Standards (ICCS) is developing its own post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, opting against those created through a project at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ICCS has not commented on the reason for its effort, but some believe China is worried about secret “back doors” in […]

Efforts to develop next-generation cryptography algorithms that can’t be broken by quantum computers are already underway in the U.S., but now China has announced it will seek its own solutions