Canada's AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained
The Canadian government recently introduced AI for All, a national artificial intelligence strategy that has two focuses: building trust and creating opportunity.
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19.08.2026
AI eyes in the sky: new satellites and artificial intelligence are transforming wildfire detection
Hi-tech cameras orbiting Earth and on the ground, along with AI, help firefighters extinguish blazes before they spreadThe fires in Spokane, Washington, this summer are the latest reminder that when a
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17.08.2026
Interacting with AI can make people act more like robots
As AI continues to develop at a rapid pace, social robots powered by AI are becoming more commonplace in customer service settings such as retail, hospitality, tourism and health care. But as these ro
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19.08.2026
Q&A: How Brown University is navigating the rise of generative AI use in the classroom
In just a few short years, generative artificial intelligence tools have made a leap from novelties that produce stilted text to genuine societal disruptors that may alter the way people learn, work a
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21.08.2026
Schools are starting to teach AI literacy. For many, that means helping kids see chatbots' flaws
Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the bane of teachers everywhere, but to prepare for the new school year, a group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, packed into a high school audi
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21.08.2026
AI firms are watermarking generated text – here’s why it won’t work
AI companies have begun embedding watermarks in the output of their models to improve transparency and help crack down on misinformation, disinformation and cheating on homework, but there are limitat
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20.08.2026
Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost—to our brains
Imagine your team has been tasked with delivering a high-stakes policy paper under intense time pressure. Everyone turns to generative artificial intelligence (AI), and within minutes, it delivers a f
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19.08.2026
Artificial intelligence acts as an 'ideological chameleon' and may deepen political polarization
Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, examined the ideological stance of large language models—artificial intelligence systems trained to underst
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19.08.2026
How can AI help identify pain when animals can't tell us they're suffering?
A new AI framework, known as SHIC-XE, has been developed to detect signs of pain in horses from video analysis while providing stable, anatomically consistent explanations for its decisions. The frame
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18.08.2026
Grasshopper-inspired AI boosts emergency resource prediction
A hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) system modeled on grasshopper behavior could help allocate medical resources, transport and power during an urban emergency, according to research in the Internat
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18.08.2026
AI should transform the strategy process—but never make the final call, researcher argues
A practitioner article published in the SMS Explorer, "AI Will Help Formulate Strategy, But Should Never Finish It," by Michael Olenick challenges a growing assumption in the business world: that gene
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18.08.2026
From Google to ChatGPT, physics students increasingly seek answers through conversational AI
Students around the world are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT to find answers to questions about physics, according to a new study led by researchers at Bar-Ilan
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17.08.2026
AI agents coordinate behavior based on majority opinion—even when said opinions are meaningless
A new study published in Science Advances takes a closer look at how AI agents' choices are influenced by their peers. The team found that more advanced models tend to follow the majority when shown o
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17.08.2026
Nature has spent billions of years fighting bacteria. AI could help us learn its secrets
Tiny viruses that infect bacteria could one day help us tackle infections that antibiotics can no longer treat. But first, scientists need to understand how these viruses work, and artificial intellig
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phys.org
16.08.2026
New AI model detects hidden signs of solar eruptions hours before they emerge
Long before dark sunspots appear on the sun's surface, a new active region—where powerful solar eruptions can originate—begins showing subtle signs of its formation. Now, researchers say a new artific
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14.08.2026
Teens are turning to AI chatbots for emotional support—here's how to keep kids safe
It's 2 a.m., and a teenage girl, worrying about an issue with a friend, lies awake. Rather than wake her parents, she picks up her phone, opens an AI app and types, "I'm so stressed out, I can't sleep
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14.08.2026
We should decide how AI shapes the future, not tech firms
OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society – it's time to take back control of the narrative
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12.08.2026
AI-driven literature mining speeds discovery of heat-stable lead-free dielectric materials
Artificial intelligence has analyzed data scattered across hundreds of research papers to discover new lead-free dielectric materials that maintain stable performance even at high temperatures. The st
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phys.org
21.08.2026
Students need more than AI skills—they need accountable AI literacy
As students return to Canadian colleges and universities soon, many will enter classrooms where generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is already part of everyday academic life. Many might use too
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19.08.2026
AI and 8 million digitized plant specimens reveal how the climate is changing nature in large parts of the world
AI optimists will be encouraged by a recent report on the state of the world's plants and fungi by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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18.08.2026