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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Left to right: Nicola Ayton, Deputy Chief Executive of Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH), Feryal Clark MP, Minister for AI and Digital Government, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Deborah Prentice

Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer

13 January 2025

The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.  

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Half of UK novelists believe AI is likely to replace their work entirely, report finds

20 Nov 2025

A new report involving hundreds of literary creatives from across the UK fiction publishing industry reveals fears over copyright violation, lost...

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AI tool can analyse complex cancer images rapidly – offering potential to personalise treatment

19 Nov 2025

Complex digital images of tissue samples that can take an experienced pathologist up to 20 minutes to annotate could be analysed in just one minute...

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Miles Cranmer

Cambridge researcher awarded Schmidt Sciences fellowship to ensure AI benefits society

05 Nov 2025

Cambridge researcher Dr Miles Cranmer is one of 28 researchers worldwide to receive an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences, awarded to...

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Meet Denario: An AI assistant for every step of the scientific process

04 Nov 2025

Researchers have developed an AI-powered ‘scientific assistant’ designed to accelerate the scientific process by helping them identify new research...

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Key takeaways from Connecting Cambridge AI summit

24 Oct 2025

Hundreds of experts working on AI in education gathered for the first ever Connecting Cambridge event at Cambridge University Press & Assessment'...

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Nigel Collier

Cambridge spinout helping to make AI more trustworthy

25 Sep 2025

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday tools and decisions, ensuring the safety and reliability of large language models (LLMs) is...

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Despite ‘knowing’ the famous geometrical solution Socrates (left) gave to double the size of any square (right), ChatGPT preferred its own idiosyncratic approach, researchers found.

ChatGPT seemed to 'think on the fly' when put through an Ancient Greek maths puzzle

18 Sep 2025

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old...

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Rescue teams at one of the landslides following the Taiwan earthquake

Researchers use AI to ‘see’ landslides and target disaster response

22 Jul 2025

Researchers from the University of Cambridge are using AI to speed up landslide detection following major earthquakes and extreme rainfall events—...

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How will AI change the way we conduct scientific research?

21 Jul 2025

How might AI change the way we advance human knowledge? Could it change how universities like Cambridge carry out one of their core functions...

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AI can accelerate search for more effective Alzheimer’s medicines by streamlining clinical trials

17 Jul 2025

Scientists have used AI to re-analyse a clinical trial for an Alzheimer’s medicine, and identified a group of patients who responded to treatment...

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Technicians walking through a vast data centre for AI and cloud computing in the US

Banking on AI risks derailing net zero goals: report on energy costs of Big Tech

10 Jul 2025

With countries such as the UK declaring ambitious goals for both AI leadership and decarbonisation, a new report suggests that AI could drive a 25-...

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Partner signatories with Professor Deborah Prentice.

British - French research partnership on AI

09 Jul 2025

The Saclay Cluster, which includes Institut Polytechnique de Paris, HEC Paris and Université Paris-Saclay, the University of Oxford and the...

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