Can AI Know Itself? Assessing the Self-Awareness of Large Language Models
A new study explores whether current artificial intelligence systems can accurately gauge their own capabilities before attempting complex tasks.
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Beyond the Hotline: How AI Can Prepare, Not Replace, Mental Health Support
New research examines the role of conversational AI in addressing mental health crises, focusing on its potential to facilitate help-seeking behavior and readiness for human intervention.
Predicting Tomorrow’s News with AI
Researchers are leveraging the power of large language models to forecast future events by training them on a massive dataset of real-world questions.
Decoding Sustainability: Can AI Unlock EU Taxonomy Data?
A new study investigates how artificial intelligence can automatically analyze corporate sustainability reports to identify key performance indicators for EU regulatory compliance.
Smarter Rain Predictions for East Africa
A new machine learning approach is delivering more accurate and reliable rainfall forecasts, crucial for communities across East Africa.
When AI Meets Disaster: The Limits of 3D Vision
![Three-dimensional semantic segmentation is achieved by projecting two-dimensional annotations into a volumetric space via majority voting across multiple frames, with subsequent refinement in CloudCompare[cloudcompare] ensuring point-level accuracy.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.24593v1/Figures/PNG/semantic.png)
New research reveals that current artificial intelligence struggles to accurately assess damage in real-world post-disaster environments.
Mapping Himalayan Glacial Lake Change with AI
A new deep learning approach leverages satellite radar data to automatically monitor glacial lakes in the Himalayas, improving early warning systems for potentially catastrophic outburst floods.
Mapping the Flood: How Graph Networks and Physics Improve Prediction
A new approach combines the power of graph neural networks with fundamental physics principles to deliver more accurate and efficient flood forecasting.
The AI Metacrisis: Are Large Models Worsening Global Instability?
![The accelerating concentration of capital within a handful of technology firms-a modern iteration of feudalism dubbed “technofeudalism”-is not merely an economic shift, but a systemic crisis [latex] \text{the metacrisis} [/latex] fueled by the disproportionate returns to scale inherent in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.24863v1/metacrisis.png)
A new analysis argues that the rapid advancement of large AI models is exacerbating interconnected environmental, social, and linguistic crises, demanding a fundamental rethinking of natural language processing.
Predicting Market Shifts: A New Approach to Causal Signals
![A consistent threshold of [latex]\theta=0.06[/latex] applied to both a forward-oriented causal observable [latex]\mathscr{F}(t)[/latex] and the raw composite signal [latex]\mathscr{F}_{0}(t)[/latex] demonstrates comparable performance-as measured by cumulative returns relative to buy-and-hold-and yields a similar frequency of state changes (trades) when applied to one-minute EURUSDT data.](https://arxiv.org/html/2512.24621v1/x3.png)
This review details a method for building causally valid predictive signals from financial time series, offering improved performance in specific market conditions.