Can we make AI tools in criminal justice both fair and accurate? A new paper by Shaolong Wu, James Blume, and Geshi Yeung says yes—with a practical tweak. Instead of forcing exact equality between groups (which can hurt accuracy or be impossible), they optimize overall errors while keeping differences
CivicTech
In citizens’ assemblies and online town halls, many people submit questions for experts—but only a few make it on stage. How do we choose a small set that truly reflects everyone’s concerns? Researchers introduce a way to audit representation of the chosen questions, grounded in a social-choice idea
AI
MusRec is a new AI model that edits existing songs using plain text—without task‑specific retraining. Powered by rectified flow and diffusion transformers, it brings true zero‑shot, text‑guided edits to real‑world music (not just audio generated by the model itself). * What it does: Apply diverse edits
LLM
Speed now, debt later? What a study of Cursor finds Do AI coding agents really make teams more productive? This large-scale study estimates the causal impact of adopting Cursor across GitHub projects using a modern difference-in-differences design. * Fast start: Projects see a significant, large—but short-lived—jump in development velocity.
AI
Tell richer stories, one node at a time This research introduces a node-based editor that lets you build a multimodal story as a graph—each “node” can hold text, images, audio, and video. You can expand, reorder, and refine nodes using plain-language prompts or direct edits. * Targeted edits: tweak a
AI
Tell richer stories, one node at a time This research introduces a node-based editor that lets you build a multimodal story as a graph—each “node” can hold text, images, audio, and video. You can expand, reorder, and refine nodes using plain-language prompts or direct edits. * Targeted edits: tweak a
AI
Tell richer stories, one node at a time This research introduces a node-based editor that lets you build a multimodal story as a graph—each “node” can hold text, images, audio, and video. You can expand, reorder, and refine nodes using plain-language prompts or direct edits. * Targeted edits: tweak a
AI
Tell richer stories, one node at a time This research introduces a node-based editor that lets you build a multimodal story as a graph—each “node” can hold text, images, audio, and video. You can expand, reorder, and refine nodes using plain-language prompts or direct edits. * Targeted edits: tweak a
AI
Imagine crafting a story like a mind map: each node can hold text, images, audio, or video. This research introduces a node-based editor that turns multimodal storytelling into flexible, AI-assisted creation. What it lets you do: * Edit any node directly or with plain-language prompts. * Auto-branch alternate plotlines for parallel storylines.
AI
Imagine crafting a story like a mind map: each node can hold text, images, audio, or video. This research introduces a node-based editor that turns multimodal storytelling into flexible, AI-assisted creation. What it lets you do: * Edit any node directly or with plain-language prompts. * Auto-branch alternate plotlines for parallel storylines.
AI
The "agentic web" is coming: billions of AI agents that buy, sell, and collaborate online. But who - and what - do we trust? This study compares six ways agents earn trust: * Brief: verifiable profiles/IDs * Claim: self-declared skills * Proof: cryptography and hardware attestations * Stake: collateral with slashing/
Robotics
Robots generate huge logs. This open‑source ROSBag MCP Server lets you ask an AI to analyze ROS/ROS 2 bag files in plain English—no custom scripts. It plugs into Model Context Protocol (MCP), so assistants can call purpose-built tools for robot data. Great for debugging, teaching, and research