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Cornell expands AI Critical Literacy Program for incoming students

After a successful pilot launch in the spring, Cornell’s AI Critical Literacy Program will be offered in the fall to all incoming students as well as other interested students, faculty members and staff.

Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images

A Cornell research group has devised a way to generate an image of multiple people, incorporating the poses of all individuals to inform the image generation and make the scene more believable and accurate.

Weak AI regulation may backfire, making products less safe

A new modeling study finds no regulation of AI products and services may be safer than weak regulation.

Inside baseball: AI-enabled enforcement tech takes time, testing

Training artificial intelligence to enforce even seemingly straightforward rules – like balls and strikes in Major League Baseball – is a messy, dynamic process that takes time and careful evaluation of the technology.

‘Moonshot’ project aims to restore trust in the digital public sphere

Researchers have received a seed grant for $250,000 and a chance at a $10 million award to support a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to establish a foundation for trustworthy AI-mediated communication across online platforms.

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March 3-5 symposium to examine the use of genAI in science

March 2, 2026

The Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium will feature diverse experts from across Cornell, academia and industry engaging in discussions of how GenAI is being used in research, and the implications for policy, funding and the public trust.

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Hackathon winners combat ear infections, parasites and animal overpopulation

February 24, 2026

Products to fight ear infections in dogs, a parasite in cattle and animal population control challenges won top honors at the Feb. 20-22 Animal Health Hackathon at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Cornell Daily Sun: Where Technology Meets Learning: Inside Cornell’s Future of Learning Lab

February 23, 2026

Founded by Rene Kizilcec roughly seven and a half years ago, the Future of Learning Lab studies the intersection of technology, education and learning science across all age groups, from primary through post-secondary. The lab’s projects span a variety of application areas, from a national database of tutoring interactions to artificial intelligence powered clinical training tools deployed at medical schools across the country to a language-learning platform used in Cornell’s own classrooms.

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Ph.D. student Deepak Varuvel Dennison writes about the threat of GenAI to local knowledge in The Guardian

February 23, 2026

As generative AI becomes a dominant gateway to information, we risk losing something far older and harder to replace: the local knowledge, cultural memory, and lived expertise that never makes it into training data. In a new commentary, Deepak Varuvel Dennison, a Ph.D. student in Information Science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, warns that this shift could trigger a global “knowledge collapse”—and that we’re only beginning to understand what’s slipping away.

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Weill Cornell Launches AI to Advance Medicine Program

February 19, 2026

In an effort to unify the rapidly expanding set of academic activities investigating artificial intelligence (AI), Weill Cornell Medicine is launching a new AI to Advance Medicine initiative. Encompassing a Dean’s Lecture Series and Dean’s Grant Program, the initiative aims to provide the institutional infrastructure and services needed to support AI use safely and effectively among faculty, staff and students. Additionally, a new website will spotlight the latest AI initiatives improving patient care, advancing biomedical discovery and educating future physicians—ensuring innovation remains ethical, equitable and human-centered.

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AI reveals chemistry behind high-performance battery electrolytes

February 19, 2026

A new artificial intelligence framework developed at Cornell can accurately predict the performance of battery electrolytes while revealing the chemical principles that govern them, providing engineers with a new tool for designing better batteries.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Thought Summits on Data Science and AI

February 18, 2026

Cornell’s Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society and Cornell’s Artificial Intelligence Initiative are sponsoring a Call for Proposals for THOUGHT SUMMITS, a Cornell forum aimed at identifying and developing inter- and intra- institutional collaborations in the novel areas of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

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Cornell Tech names Chief of Health Innovation, launches Health Tech Hub Advisory Committee

February 16, 2026

Cornell Tech has appointed Tanzeem Choudhury as its Chief of Health Innovation and has formed a new Health Tech Hub Advisory Committee composed of leaders from across the healthcare industry.

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Cornell researchers win prize for insight into conspiracy belief

February 12, 2026

An article about AI combatting conspiracy theories, co-authored by Cornell psychology researchers Gordon Pennycook and David Rand with a collaborator, has won the 2026 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The association’s oldest award, the prize is given to the authors of an outstanding research article published in the journal Science.