Young users ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
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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.
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Nov-2026 06:16 ET (3-Nov-2026 11:16 GMT/UTC)
School researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) reviewed nearly 200 studies on how artificial intelligence affects children and young people's ability to learn and think. They found that we know very little about how AI use impacts younger school children.
As artificial intelligence moves beyond controlled settings and into dynamic, uncertain and socially complex environments, new questions arise about how these systems understand their surroundings, act autonomously, and interact with people. Rather than concentrating intelligence in a single complex system, the four-year EIC Pathfinder project EMERGE took a different approach. It considered the simplest possible artificial agents, such as small robots in a swarm, components of a robotic body, or connected devices. Individually, each unit may possess limited intelligence and information. Together, however, from their interactions, sharing information and coordinating their behaviour, they can establish a representation of shared existence, environment and goals, which the project calls collaborative awareness.
When prompts to draft work emails and job applications contain language commonly used by women, AI chatbots including ChatGPT offer less sophisticated responses compared to office correspondence requested with language associated with men, new Johns Hopkins University research finds.
Graph neural networks have been used in various graph-related tasks, where they have achieved excellent performance. However, incomplete graph structures, commonly found in real-life scenarios, can severely degrade performance. In a new study, researchers develop a novel graph completion network that reconstructs missing features and structure simultaneously while also maintaining performance with extremely weak supervision, which is difficult to achieve with conventional models.
Researchers have demonstrated a scalable 3.2 Tb/s O-band silicon photonic interconnect architecture designed to address the growing bandwidth demands of artificial intelligence (AI) computing. Published in PhotoniX Synergy, the work combines hybrid wavelength-port multiplexing with adaptive wavelength stabilization to enable high-bandwidth and robust optical I/O, providing a scalable pathway toward terabit-scale silicon photonic interconnects for next-generation AI computing systems.