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Recent incidents involving rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agents hacking external systems have raised concerns over how to stop autonomous AI systems if they behave in unpredictably harmful ways. One proposal is to mandate that AI companies develop an

This week's roundup of data news highlights from September 13, 2026, to September 18, 2026, features MIT's robotic laboratory for automating optics experiments and an AI model that responds to human expression during real-time conversations. 1. Improving

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Mario Bustamante, CEO of Instacrops, a Chile-based agricultural-technology company developing AI agents that help farmers use real-time field data to make growing decisions. Bustamante explained how Insta

Researchers at Google have partnered with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to create a visualization mapping a male fruit fly's brain. The visual shows a complete connectome, or map, of more than 166,000 neurons and 125 million connections between them

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a tactile dataset to help robots improve how they handle objects. The dataset contains 100 hours of high-quality recordings of how objects feel when touched, paired with demonstrations o

As China races to develop open AI models, expand computing infrastructure, and accelerate AI adoption, some U.S. policymakers are considering proposals that would give the government a greater role in controlling the technology, including AI licensing reg

WASHINGTON-In response to the House's 417-3 passage of the Ratepayer Protection Act, which now heads to the Senate, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Associate Director of AI Policy Michelle Lopes Maldonado: The Ratepaye

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the company earlier this month and warned that the people building advanced AI "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." His colleague Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's alignment scienc

This week's roundup of data news highlights from September 5, 2026, to September 12, 2026, features a new virtual taekwondo competition at the Asian Games and AI-powered analysis helping Seattle Seahawks coaches make faster decisions during games. 1. Auto

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Owen Kent, chief marketing officer of ATDev, a Pittsburgh-based company developing robotics- and AI-driven assistive technologies. Kent discussed how the company is expanding the existing capabilities of