Weekly Media Update

Week of March 13, 2026

How AI Is Changing the Nature of Mathematical Research

Modern AI coding tools have revolutionized software engineering, with developers now using AI assistants to write a substantial fraction of their code across a range of applications. As scientists studying the theory of machine learning, we’re already seeing a similar transformation in basic scientific methodology, especially for research of a mathematical nature, write Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth in their Amazon Science op-ed.

Mapping the Expanding Cosmos: Dark Energy Survey Unveils Clearest Picture Yet

For more than a decade, Bhuvnesh Jain has been part of a large international team of scientists in the Dark Energy Survey collaborative working to better understand why and how the universe is accelerating and growing larger. Now, the team has released an analysis that gives the clearest picture yet of how dark energy is driving the universe’s expansion and how matter has been organized over cosmic time.

How Collective Intelligence Could Soon Reshape Medical Decision-Making
3/12: Forbes | Damon Centola

Ray Eitel-Porter, Co-Author of Governing the Machine: The Confidence to Use AI
3/12: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

Inside KenPom: The Numbers Behind College Basketball
3/11: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Peter Fader, The Wharton School & Theta Equity
3/11: Middle Market Musings | Peter Fader

Webinar - PlanYourScience.com
3/11: Community For Rigor | Konrad Kording

Weaponized Inventory: How the U.S.–China Tech War Broke the Supply Chain
3/9: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

States Look to Tell AI What Jobs It Can’t Take, as UBI Calls Get Louder
3/9: Straight Arrow News | Cary Coglianese

Tractable Identification of Strategic Network Formation Models With Unobserved Heterogeneity
3/9: arXiv | Wayne Gao

The Wharton Accountable AI Research Conference Asks Who Should Govern AI, and How
3/9: Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative | Kevin Werbach and Christopher Yoo

Pa.'s Lit Funding Disclosure Proposal Goes Further Than Most, May Spark Courtroom Spats, Observers Say
3/6: Law.com | Tom Baker

An ENIGMA Consortium Study of the Relationship Between White Matter Microstructure and Positive and Negative Symptom Severity in Patients With Schizophrenia
3/6: Schizophrenia | Ted Satterthwaite

Humans Can Learn Bimodal Priors in Complex Sensorimotor Behaviour
3/4: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | Konrad Kording

Comparing Risk Prediction for Suicide Attempts and Deaths After Emergency Department Visits for Individuals With Mental Health Disorders
3/4: The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | Lyle Ungar

RNA G-Quadruplexes Mediate Cooperativity in HNRNPH Binding and Splicing Regulation
3/3: bioRxiv | Yoseph Barash

BFS NY Reception at The New York Historical
3/3: Benjamin Franklin Society | Robert Ghrist

Autorubric: A Unified Framework for Rubric-Based LLM Evaluation
2/13: arXiv | Chris Callison-Burch

Blockchain Revolutionizes Supply Chain Emissions Tracking and Data Integrity
2/9: FilmoGaz | Kevin Werbach

Model Restrictiveness in Functional and Structural Settings
2/7: arXiv | Wayne Gao

Blockchain’s New Pitch: Tracking Supply-Chain Emissions for a Price
2/7: TechStock² | Kevin Werbach

Blockchain Pivots From Crypto to Tackle Supply Chain Trust
2/7: Rolling Out | Kevin Werbach

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