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Beyond one-on-one: Authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations
Researchers have introduced DialogLab, an open-source prototyping framework presented at ACM UIST 2025 for authoring, simulating and testing dynamic human-AI ... Read more
How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries
Google evaluated Perch 2.0 on marine audio tasks using a few-shot linear probe, comparing it with other pre-trained models in ... Read more
How AI tools can redefine universal design to increase accessibility
Google researchers say they are shifting their accessibility work from reactive tools to agentic systems that are native to the ... Read more
Collaborating on a nationwide randomized study of AI in real-world virtual care
Included Health and the company are launching a prospective consented nationwide randomized study, pending Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, to ... Read more
Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work
AI agents are becoming a common format for real-world AI applications, but a new paper says their performance does not ... Read more
Small models, big results: Achieving superior intent extraction through decomposition
Researchers have presented a paper on using small multimodal LLMs to understand sequences of user interactions on the web and ... Read more
Unlocking health insights: Estimating advanced walking metrics with smartwatches
Gait metrics, including walking speed, step length, and double support time, are used as biomarkers for assessing overall health, fall ... Read more
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
Traffic safety evaluation has traditionally relied on police-reported crash statistics, but researchers say that approach is limited for predictive modeling ... Read more
Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR
MedGemma 1.5 is expanding support for high-dimensional medical imaging, adding 3D volume representations of CT imaging and MRI, along with ... Read more
Dynamic surface codes open new avenues for quantum error correction
Google Quantum AI said it has demonstrated quantum error correction on a hexagonal lattice using its Willow processor, testing a ... Read more
