AI is probabilistic by design—same input, different output every time. That’s what makes it powerful AND hard to trust. New from MLCommons: Why technical standards are the bridge between ISO objectives and real-world AI reliability 🔗https://mlcommons.org/2026/02/ai-standards-bridge-adoption/

🌐 On #SaferInternetDay, the #EUKids Online team shares new findings on how children use and think about generative AI 🤖👧🧒 — moving from hype to action. 🔗 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... #GenerativeAI #Childhood #DigitalSafety @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @mariyastoilova.bsky.social

The recently closed TikTok deal has some safeguards built in, but Chinese influence could persist. The fix: disclose licensing terms and let independent researchers verify what is happening on the platform, say Mark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander.

robots now make desire paths

The results of the 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships are here! With a total budget of €404.3 million, the @ec.europa.eu is supporting 1,610 projects across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. ➡️ link.europa.eu/tPVTWM

The 17th Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians is taking place on 25/26 July. Over 30 papers will be presented, covering topics such as Parliaments and A1 and post-legislative scrutiny. wroxtonworkshop.org

Automated Trust & Safety (T&S) tools too often perform poorly in widely spoken, low-resource languages. CDT convened four roundtables with AI experts & data annotators to dig into why — and how to build tools that work equitably for all users, not just English speakers. cdt.org/insights/bet...

MLCommons is advancing inclusive AI standards across APAC. Feb 10: Lora Aroyo (Google) joins Korea AISI, IMDA, SNU & CeRAI to discuss benchmark inclusivity, AI governance standards, and balancing rapid adoption with safety. 📅 Feb 10, 11:15 AM SGT 📍 Google Singapore

📣 2nd Call: Workshops & Tutorials Join us in sharing knowledge and building networks at #SEMANTiCS2026! We invite proposals for workshops and tutorials that explore the latest in Knowledge Graphs, AI, and more. Read More: 2026-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_wor...

#TheWeekinData: Chatbot chat *Barnsley becomes first UK “tech town” *Social media for chatbots *Marginal gains. Ouch! Silicon Valley. Shenzhen. Barnsley. Previously famous for coal mining, a lamb chop and Kes, Barnsley is to be catapulted into the tech firmament. buff.ly/dph2PUB

Hey, participants of ICSA 2026! Have you seen the Open Science Challenge? Annotate your paper with SciKGTex, make it machine-actionable and have the chance to win our ORKG Open Science Award! 🏆 ➡️ conf.researchr.org/track/icsa-2...

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From wet lab to computer science, Professor Anita Grigoriadis's journey shows how AI is transforming cancer care. Read her story ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-profess... @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #WorldCancerDay

We’re dropping the first 4 essays in Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026, our new series with Aapti Institute and @themaybe.org that takes a clear-eyed look at the narratives shaping the India AI Impact Summit and insists we collectively build the conversations that are missing 🧵

Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️‍♀️ Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes, Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...

Keynotes from the ICO and Scottish Information Commissioner! Discussions on what FOI has changed - and what comes next! Skills sessions! Lightning talks! FOI Fest schedule! www.mysociety.org/transparency... Sign up now for 19 Feb! Free! pretix.eu/mysociety/fo...

We've set out the next steps in our investigation – and the limitations of the Online Safety Act in relation to AI chatbots. It's important to note that enforcement investigations like this take time. We'll provide updates during this process. ⬇️

👀 ICYMI 📘 In January, we published a paper by Lord David Willetts, Chair of the Regulatory Innovation Office, arguing that a new approach to regulation could unlock innovation and drive the economic growth Britain needs.

Only 2 weeks to go! PAIRS 2026 Online event is fast approaching and we're sure the speakers are getting ready to share some engaging insights. Join us on 17th February 2026 for 9.5 hours (across timezones) of content including posters, presenters and workshops. 🔗

🚀January #GeneOntology release is here! Now covering 1.7M bioentities with 9.4M annotations across 5,500+ taxa✨ 🔗 Get the data: 📊 current.geneontology.org 📁 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Details: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8613 via @alliancegenome.bsky.social #Bioinformatics #OpenScience

⏰ 8 days left to submit Workshop Proposals for ISWC 2026! Submission deadline: February 10, 2026 Workshop dates: October 25–26, 2026 If you’ve been considering submitting; now is the time 🚨! Details & submission guidelines: lnkd.in/dZQzfhBk

Event: Join us on 13 February at Jesus College for an interdisciplinary event on immortality in the digital age. More info and registration⬇️ www.lcfi.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today, we're sharing an open letter from our Chief Executive, Professor Sir Ian Chapman, outlining changes to UKRI investment approach, and addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC. Read his letter here: www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

Humboldt Research Professorship – Info Session For outstanding researchers from abroad who want to establish their research activities at a German institution – while continuing their position in their country of origin. Join us on February 5th to find out more about the programme: bit.ly/3NOI1y1

New report: AI is certain to transform the way we consume news. If we do nothing it could turn it into slop. We need policy action now, to ensure AI improves news & the public sphere. Guardian coverage: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Invitation to Tender: The Delegation Conversation. We are looking for a partner who can design and adapt deliberative methods for a proposed People’s Forum on the use and governance of Advanced AI Assistants. Full details: adalovelaceinstitute.org/ai-assistant... Deadline: 15 February 2026.

Join MLCommons and global researchers Jan 29 for Benchmarking Beyond Borders—exploring community-led, multilingual AI evaluation. Jan 29, 9:00 AM ET 🔗 cdt-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 📺 www.youtube.com/live/glO0_Sw... @cdt.org , @mbogen.bsky.social , @alexreevegivens.bsky.social ns.bsky.social

🎉 10 Years of DEEM 🎉 Join us for the 10th DEEM Workshop on Data Management & End-to-End ML, May 31, 2026 in Bengaluru, co-located with SIGMOD. DEEM connects researchers & practitioners to tackle data challenges in real-world ML. 📢 Call for Papers open! Submit by Feb 27: deemworkshop.github.io

Join our expert panel to discuss practical strategies for reliable, effective, and trustworthy AI in government services. With @emercoleman.bsky.social @richardpope.org @elenasimperl.bsky.social & Andy Dudfield, Full Fact buff.ly/eIYzuif

In a new feature for @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi reflects on how LLMs are changing PhD supervision, research culture and the future of scientific discovery. Read more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/rethinking-r...

Overall - lots of food for thought. Thanks to @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, Noortje Marres, Alex Taylor & colleagues for convening. P.S. For more debate on participatory approaches to AI, join us online at the Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS) on 17th and 18th Feb:

Come kick off 2026 with David Kanter at the AI Benchmark Club. David (Head of MLPerf) will dig into how AI benchmarks measure real progress, joined by Alex Shaw (Terminal‑Bench, Harbor). 📆 Tue Jan 27, 5:30–7:30 PM PT 📍 AWS Builders Loft SF https://luma.com/smrxiq1x

In Autumn 2025 over 1000 students provided input to the Generative AI in Education: Have Your Say process, sharing views on how Generative AI should be used in education. 📽️ youtu.be/-XeNWVqAYqk... 📖 Read the full report connectedbydata.org/ai-in-educa...

Just announcing our new FREE webinar! Ethical AI in action, 23 Feb. Facing the challenge of embedding data ethics and responsible AI into your organisation? Then join our panel of experts from Global Fishing Watch and the ODI for a deep dive into the realities of what this means. buff.ly/kzB2Ptk

AI systems don’t work for the world if they’re only tested in English. Join MLCommons Jan 29 for Benchmarking Beyond Borders, a global conversation on multilingual, community-led AI evaluation—an official pre-event to the #IndiaAIImpactSummit. Register: https://bit.ly/4sX0c4G

Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality and integrity. Deadline: April 30, 2026 Please share! 🌍 ➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de #OpenScience #reproducibility

571 days is a long time... At the same time, glad to see the work of my team at @odihq.bsky.social recognised in the paper on AI-ready data: www.gov.uk/government/p...

Featuring my colleagues and collaborators Neil Majithia and Rajat Shinde speaking about the #Croissant machine learning metadata vocabulary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_M...

New report drop! After seven rounds of Global Dialogues with more than 6000 people across 70 countries in 2025, we are releasing the 2025 Global Dialogues Index Report. blog.cip.org/2025gdindex

Our new guest blog post draws on a UK market analysis of 110 AI companion platforms. It finds risks and failures associated with addictive features, age verification and the regulatory scope of the Online Safety Act. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/the-com...

"To do things at the frontier, we've got to know what the frontier is." @ARIA_research CTO Ant discusses exploring the limits of AI Scientists across our newly announced portfolio in @technologyreview.com link.aria.org.uk/MITtechrevie...

New podcast: Who shapes the future? Only 1 in 4 tech workers are women & just 9% are from low socio-economic backgrounds. Resham Kotecha sits down with Claire Thorne (Tech She Can) to discuss how we tackle the tech skills gap & increase representation 👉 https://bit.ly/3Ltk9iV

Our recently published research shows that the use of AI across social workers, students and education providers varies significantly.   We will share findings from the research on our social media channels this year. Read the full research on our website: ow.ly/VpOx50Y0xTQ

🔁 REA_research Happy birthday, #MSCA! For 30 years, the programme has empowered over 150,000 researchers to shape the EU's global leadership in research and innovation. Marie Skłodowska-Curie's granddaughter, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, told us about her legacy. More: link.europa.eu/DbH4Dy

📢 Call for Workshops and Tutorials Proposal Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2026 allow your organization or project to advance and share knowledge, as well as build collaborative networks. We are looking forward to your proposal! 2026-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_wor...

Can Generative AI improve public services? Discover the answer at our FREE webinar where our panel of experts will discuss the implications of using AI in the public sector. With @emercoleman.bsky.social @richardpope.org @elenasimperl.bsky.social & Andy Dudfield from Full Fact. buff.ly/XtumBxC

We're looking forward to hearing Dr Robert Laidlow discuss the relationship between music and artificial intelligence at next week's AI Frontiers event. Join us online on Wednesday 28 January from 14.00 ⬇️ Register 🎟️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-m... @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Just over a week away! Join @transformgovtalks.bsky.social (London/online) for our Jan event @mattwoodhill.bsky.social @lindasasta.bsky.social on public service market-shaping ​Prof Patrick Diamond on what we've learned from 25 years' research on govt effectiveness 6pm Wed 28 Jan Sign up here:

How do we define ‘good’ when it comes to AI and local communities? Join us Thursday, 27 Jan at Newspeak House, London for "AI in the Street" - a collaborative research project that explores the messy reality of AI encountered in the street. ⏰ 4-6pm + drinks/refreshments 🔗 luma.com/p4fmir78Opens

💡 Can you help the Office for National Statistics ensure Census 2031 reflects the changing needs of people, communities and organisations across England and Wales? Add your views to a public consultation by 4 February 2026: ukdataservice.ac.uk/2026/01/19/c...