Researchers at the University of Chicago just built a flexible AI skin patch that analyzes health metrics on the body in milliseconds, completely bypassing the cloud. Using printed organic electrochemical transistors, the device mapped lethal heart rhythms with 99.6% accuracy even when stretched past 1.5 times its original size. It brings wearable tech much closer to instantaneous, on-skin clinical intervention.
Anthropic just partnered with the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute to investigate how AI is actually reshaping labor markets and productivity. The company will provide economists with Claude for Enterprise access and Economic Index data to analyze shifts in tasks and skill demands. Why it matters: Instead of guessing automation's impact, the partnership aims to give policymakers real empirical grounding.
Researchers at the University of Chicago just released Nightshade v1.0, a free desktop tool designed to fight unauthorized AI training. It subtly alters pixels so that while images look normal to human eyes, an AI scraping them sees something totally different—like a cow morphing into a handbag. The goal is to make scraping uncorrupted data too costly to ignore.
Researchers at the University of Chicago just unveiled Nightshade, a tool that lets artists add invisible pixel tweaks to their work before posting online. If scraped into AI training sets, the poisoned samples corrupt the model into swapping concepts—like turning dogs into cats or handbags into toasters. It aims to force tech giants to respect copyright, with an open-source release planned.
