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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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CamGraPhIC founders: Marco Romagnoli (L) and Andrea Ferrari (R)

European Commission greenlights €211 million funding for Cambridge graphene photonics spinout

15 Apr 2026

University spinout, CamGraPhIC , has received the EC greenlight for €211 million funding (about £183 million) from Italy to support the development...

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Dr Babak Bakhit

New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use

20 Mar 2026

Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware by...

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Speaker spotlight: Hanna Foerster

17 Mar 2026

In this Speaker Spotlight, we spoke to PhD researcher Hanna Foerster on how can we reconcile these tensions between the usefulness and the danger of...

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Child with open arms and an AI powered soft toy on her lap.

Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children

13 Mar 2026

The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally...

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Speaker spotlight: Natalia Domagala

12 Mar 2026

Our next speaker spotlight features Natalia Domagala, a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy. Drawing from insights from leading voices...

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Most AI bots lack basic safety disclosures

20 Feb 2026

An investigation into 30 top AI agents finds just four have published formal safety and evaluation documents relating to the actual bots.

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Professor Anna Korhonen

Cambridge academic appointed to new UN panel on AI

13 Feb 2026

A University of Cambridge academic has been appointed to a new United Nations panel on Artificial Intelligence.

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Doctor listening to a man's heart with a stethoscope

AI stethoscope can help spot ‘silent epidemic’ of heart valve disease earlier than GPs, study suggests

10 Feb 2026

Artificial intelligence could help doctors detect serious heart valve disease years earlier, potentially saving thousands of lives, a new study...

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St Helena Ebony, a plant who is dignified, deeply tied to her home and a survivor against the odds.

What happens when plants talk back? Experimental AI exhibition at the Botanic Garden

10 Feb 2026

From ant plant meditations to orchid jokes, an exhibition opening at Cambridge University Botanic Garden gives a voice to rare specimens.

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Digital wave background and program code

New AI models trained on physics, not words, are driving scientific discovery

27 Jan 2026

While popular AI models such as ChatGPT are trained on language or photographs, new models created by researchers from the Polymathic AI...

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The University of Cambridge’s supercomputer.

Government funding boost for Cambridge supercomputer

26 Jan 2026

• £36 million investment to increase the AI Research Resource supercomputing capacity at Cambridge sixfold by spring 2026. • More cutting-edge AI...

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Rice crops in Casamance, Senegal

AI weather forecasting initiative to strengthen climate resilience in West Africa

22 Jan 2026

A new initiative will harness the latest advances in artificial intelligence for weather prediction, with a goal of improving climate resilience and...

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