EurekAlert! In the Spotlight - Artificial Intelligence

This month, we’re focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), a topic that continues to capture attention everywhere. Here, you’ll find the latest research news, insights, and discoveries shaping how AI is being developed and used across the world.

Zampieri to prepare computer science students for artificial intelligence assisted software development

George Mason University
Grant and Award Announcement

Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), is helping students learn to develop software with the aid of artificial intelligence.

Funder: National Science Foundation

15-Sep-2026

AI Is reshaping open source software and straining the systems that sustain it

Association for Computing Machinery
Business Announcement

Open source software underpins much of the modern digital world, from mobile phones and automobiles to cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Now, the rapid adoption of AI is creating new opportunities to improve that software while placing growing pressure on the people responsible for maintaining and securing it, according to a new TechBrief from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology Policy Council (TPC).

15-Sep-2026

From generative AI to the ultrasound probe: Targeting AI expands its hands-on approach to nephrology

Mitochondria-Microbiota Task Force
Meeting Announcement

Artificial intelligence in medicine is rapidly moving beyond large language models, data analysis and prediction. One of its emerging applications is at the patient’s bedside, where AI can assist physicians with medical imaging and point-of-care ultrasound. On September 16 in Paris, this transition from discussing AI to testing its practical applications will be explored during the third Ultrasound in Nephrology training program.

Meeting: Third Ultrasound in Nephrology Training

15-Sep-2026

UT MD Anderson and Nature to co-host conference on next-generation cancer therapeutics

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Meeting Announcement

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Springer Nature will co-host a conference to explore the latest research on cancer therapeutics, highlighting advances in the development of next-generation treatment modalities and the technologies enabling them. “Next Generation Cancer Therapeutics” is scheduled for Oct. 6-8, 2026, on the UT MD Anderson campus.

15-Sep-2026

Decoding the bone-eye axis: Machine learning for age related macular degeneration risk prediction

Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research paper by scientists at University of Cambridge presented an integrated bone–eye axis framework showing that lower bone mineral density is associated with higher age-related macular degeneration risk and may serve as an accessible marker of systemic aging-related retinal vulnerability.

The research paper, published on Sept 14, 2026 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.

15-Sep-2026

This new chip could help reduce our reliance on energy-hungry data centers

Eindhoven University of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

In the project CONVOLVE, researchers successfully used new chip-design techniques to craft powerful AI computing chips close to where data is generated and used, often referred to as edge-computing.

15-Sep-2026

When generative AI meets geroscience: Insilico Medicine decodes landmark biological age reversal study at Nature AI Conference

InSilico Medicine
Meeting Announcement

Following the publication of its latest study in Nature Biotechnology, Insilico Medicine founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., took the stage at Sorbonne University during the Nature AI Conference on Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI to deliver a detailed presentation of the breakthrough findings.

Addressing an audience of global research leaders, clinical investigators, and biopharma innovators, Zhavoronkov detailed how the company’s AI-driven novel drug candidate, rentosertib (ISM001-055), achieved a unanimous reversal of biological age across six independent proteomic aging clocks in a Phase IIa clinical trial.

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Latest News Releases

Zampieri to prepare computer science students for artificial intelligence assisted software development

AI Is reshaping open source software and straining the systems that sustain it

From generative AI to the ultrasound probe: Targeting AI expands its hands-on approach to nephrology

UT MD Anderson and Nature to co-host conference on next-generation cancer therapeutics

Decoding the bone-eye axis: Machine learning for age related macular degeneration risk prediction

This new chip could help reduce our reliance on energy-hungry data centers

When generative AI meets geroscience: Insilico Medicine decodes landmark biological age reversal study at Nature AI Conference