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Mainstream anime moments create big business opportunities
University of Colorado DenverUT Arlington launches AI tool to support student care
University of Texas at ArlingtonThe University of Texas at Arlington is piloting an AI tool that helps reduce administrative workload for counselors, giving them more time to focus on students.
Planetary research: Innovative Mars rovers ‘swim’ through the sand
University of WürzburgIn the digital health era, can we do better than a consent form?
University of California - San DiegoThe here and now of platform businesses
Kobe UniversityPeople buy things using services like Amazon and Rakuten and share information on social media. We call these places of commerce and exchange “platforms,” and nowadays, they’ve become essential parts of our lives. On the other hand, various issues have also been pointed out in recent years regarding the direction of these platforms, such as oligopolies formed by massive corporations and scams from fake advertising. We sat down with Professor ZENNYO Yusuke of the Graduate School of Business Administration, who researches platform businesses, to tell us about the background and current state of these rapidly growing businesses as well as some challenges moving forward.
What a powerful El Niño could mean for Appalachia
East Tennessee State UniversityWhat could a powerful El Niño mean for Southern Appalachia?
University of Oklahoma data scientist unveils free software for researching human-AI interactions
University of OklahomaMeet Dr. Claw: The open-source AI assistant revolutionizing the research workflow
Lehigh UniversityLehigh University researchers have built the first “AI for Science” software tool designed to support the entire project workflow for research scientists. Dr. Claw is an open-source, full-stack AI research assistant that helps users refine ideas, conduct literature reviews, run experiments, draft and review papers, write grant proposals, and build presentations. It eliminates the need to toggle between specialized AI tools—such as deep research agents for source evaluation or code generators for data analysis—by unifying these capabilities within a single interface.
AI reads cuneiform: A milestone for Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of WürzburgThe new AI tool “Palaeographicum” is revolutionizing research into the cultures of the Ancient Near East: It identifies individual variations of cuneiform signs—a huge step forward for academia.