2026 LinkedIn grant recipients to drive innovation in GenAI, LLMs

LinkedIn and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science announce the fifth and final group of researchers to receive grants from their strategic partnership.

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Identifying high-needs patients helps predict future health spending

A new way to measure comorbidity can be used to accurately predict a patient’s risk of hospitalization and future healthcare costs across a population.

Soil carbon effectively measured by new, efficient AI model

A new model offers a proof-of-principle for how AI might be used to shed light on obscure biological processes.

For the birds: Parakeet co-designs its own perch

Doctoral student, and her bird, co-designed NomadicPerch, a felted wearable that temporarily turns a hand into a mobile perch.

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.

Alums launch company to streamline cash flow processes

The newest podcast from Entrepreneurship at Cornell features the founders of Tabs.

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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.

Speeding up a manual process helps Cornell recover $100,000

A two-semester collaboration between the Cornell AI Innovation Hub, graduate students and the Cornell Treasury Operations team transformed a time‑consuming, manual investigation process into a tool that helps staff process cryptic payments.

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Can AI plan for heat emergencies better than simple rules? It depends

For consequential decision-making, the benefits of a simple index score vs. a less-interpretable predictive AI algorithm depend, researchers from Cornell found, on the desired outcome as well as the decision’s intended audience.