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Weekly Media Update

Week of June 13, 2025

What Is an NPU? A Penn Expert Explains

In a Penn Today Q&A, Benjamin C. Lee explains what neural processing units are and why they’re showing up in newer consumer electronics like high-end smartphones and laptops. NPUs, he says, are the “frontier” for today’s processor designers.

AI Month

How Cable News Has Diverged From Broadcast News

From 2012 to 2022, cable news stations diverged from broadcast news and from each other in the topics they covered and the language they used, according to researchers from Duncan Watts' Computational Social Science Lab. They show that the growing divide is driven by hard news—not just opinion programming—and that broadcast news stations have remained similar to one another.

Why AI Acts So Creepy When Faced With Being Shut Down

“When [an AI] model is set up with an opportunity to fail and you see it fail, that’s super useful information,” said Robert Ghrist to Business Insider. “That means we can predict what it’s going to do in other, more open circumstances.”

Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models

6/13: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Award Candidate | Chris Callison-Burch 

Disentangling Safe and Unsafe Image Corruptions via Anisotropy and Locality

6/13: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | René Vidal 

Brenda Leong: Building AI Law Amid Legal Uncertainty

6/12: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach 

Rent the Runway: When Complexity Collides With Scale

6/9: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon 

Trump–Musk Rift Underscores the Volatility of Political Alliances: Analyst

6/9: Channel NewsAsia | Cary Coglianese 

AI x Science Postdoctoral Fellows Collaborate Across Disciplines

6/9: Penn Today | Bhuvnesh Jain, René Vidal, and Eric Bradlow 

Roundtable: DeFi and the American Spirit

6/9: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Crypto Task Force | Kevin Werbach 

He Can't Quit Him — Easily. Why SpaceX Could Complicate the Trump-Musk Split

6/7: CBC/Radio-Canada | Cary Coglianese 

Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health

6/6: ProPublica | Cary Coglianese 

Neuroimaging Endophenotypes Reveal Underlying Mechanisms and Genetic Factors Contributing to Progression and Development of Four Brain Disorders

6/6: Nature Biomedical Engineering | Ted Satterthwaite

DOGE Decisions Raise Questions, Cause Confusion for Local Org. Impacted by Cuts

6/5: NBC10 Philadelphia | Cary Coglianese 

Causality: Why Most Claims to Causality Are Bogus and How to Sometimes Get Is Nonetheless

6/5: Frontiers of NeuroAI Symposium | Konrad Kording 

Controlling Difficulty of Generated Text for AI-Assisted Language Learning

6/4: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch 

Forecasting Extreme High Summer Temperatures in Paris and Cairo Using Gradient Boosting and Conformal Prediction Regions

6/3: arXiv | Richard Berk 

Adversarial Attacks on Robotic Vision Language Action Models

6/3: arXiv | Hamed Hassani 

Contra4: Evaluating Contrastive Cross-Modal Reasoning in Audio, Video, Image, and 3D

6/2: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch 

NIH Indirect Cost Cuts Will Affect the Economy and Employment

6/2: Nature Human Behaviour | Emily Falk 

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