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IEEE Spectrum AI

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IEEE Spectrum AISiliconEdge AI for Smart Cities: From Insight to Cognitive Action This white paper explains how edge AI and physical AI help cities move beyond passive monitoring. It shows how urban infrastructure can sense, reason, and act on real-time conditions across public…

10.19

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSimulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design This article is brought to you by COMSOL . These days, no one blinks an eye at two-day, one-day, and even same-day package deliveries.

10.16

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconGoogle DeepMind’s New Resident Philosopher Tackles AI Ethics How should humans relate to generative AI ? In what ways do we, or should we, treat a large language model (LLM) as if it were a person? If an AI became conscious, how could we tell?

10.13

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconMeet the Anthropic Engineer Keeping Its AI Agent Trustworthy If you’ve ever wondered how Claude and similar AI agents can answer complex questions in seconds and where they get the information, you’re not alone.

10.12

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconLearning to Play Like a Pro: Adaptive Motion Planning and Tracking for Humanoid Robots This White Paper provides roboticists and control engineers with a comprehensive overview of how motion planning and motion tracking can be decoupled to preserve professional athletic style in…

10.12

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconMaster AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “ Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges .”

10.09

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconThe U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning Into AI If there is any place that would be off-limits to AI, the control room of a nuclear power plant certainly sounds like one.

10.08

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHiPHI: A Large-Scale Benchmark for High-Precision Human Motion and Object Interaction This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning.

10.07

IEEE Spectrum AISilicon6 Guidelines for Governing AI For the first 10 years of my career, I worked in product management and data analytics by myself. I wrote database queries that pulled numbers out of corporate systems, built statistical models to…

10.05

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAttempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out A crucial safeguard against AI agents going rogue —keeping humans in the loop to review and approve their decisions—will fail unless designers and users change their current practices, a trio of…

10.05

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAI Solves a Major Unsolved Math Problem. Not Everyone Is Happy On 13 September, leading luminaries and up-and-coming talents in mathematics and computer science congregated at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion, networking…

10.05

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHow to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior.

09.29

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconUnveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle.

09.29

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconA Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help…

09.28

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconGenerative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too.

09.28

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhy Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent? Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s…

09.22

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconThe Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company . Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air.

09.22

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconParallel Reads and Write Optimization for Large-Scale Data Replication This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication…

09.18

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconRethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong?

09.16

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconSingle-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute Learn how single-phase direct liquid cooling manages the rising heat of AI and high-performance computing, and how it compares with two-phase and immersion approaches.

09.16

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconResponsible AI for Higher Education This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do…

09.14

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconHow OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory…

09.14

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconAdversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms AI-powered cameras dot streets across the world, equipped with the power to identify faces or vehicle license plates . But a public backlash is gaining momentum .

09.14

IEEE Spectrum AISiliconWhy Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish . Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee .

09.14