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Weekly Media Update

Week of May 29, 2026

Innovation & Impact Podcast: Driving the Future with Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna

Episode 12 of Penn Engineering's Innovation & Impact podcast features Benedetto Vigna, CEO of Ferrari, whose career spans from engaging in cutting-edge semiconductor research to leading one of the world’s most iconic brands. In this episode, host Vijay Kumar sits down with Vigna, who reflects on his journey from physicist and innovator to industry leader, sharing how early breakthroughs in sensor technology, now embedded in everyday devices like smartphones, helped shape his approach to innovation.

What Makes Messages Persuasive?

Which is most likely to influence a buyer’s attitudes about a new car: Saying “I liked the car,” “I bought the car,” or “The car was good, and I bought it”? And does that change if the car costs less? Dolores Albarracín and psychology Ph.D. student Yubo Zhou investigated these questions in a paper that also has implications for health communication and social behavior.

Munmun De Choudhury (Georgia Tech): Conversational AI and Mental Health
5/28: The Road to Accountable AI | Kevin Werbach

How Baseball Analytics Is Reshaping Hall of Fame Conversations
5/27: Wharton Moneyball | Eric Bradlow and Shane Jensen

Reconstructing Gender Values From Film: Digital Twins of Fictional Characters As Surveyable Agents
5/26: SocialLLM Workshop @ ICWSM 2026 | Lyle Ungar

Brand on Top, Factory Underneath: What AP × Royal Pop and Satisfy × Adidas Reveal About the Architecture of Collabs
5/25: Gad's Newsletter | Gad Allon

Tech and AI in China
5/25: Wharton Global Modular Courses | Kevin Werbach

Summary and Closing Remarks
5/23: 15th Waseda-Penn Global Patent Law Conference | Christopher Yoo

Generated Hover-to-Reveal Buttons Gate Exposure at the Point of Choice in a Goal-Reflection Chat
5/22: International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction | Lyle Ungar

Narrative Sharpens Gender Gaps: Surveying Film Characters With LLM Agents
5/21: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Antitrust in Healthcare Conference
5/20: American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section | Aviv Nevo

When Support Escalates Distress: Regulation and Escalation in LLM Responses to Venting and Advice-Seeking
5/20: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Less Data, Faster Training: Repeating Smaller Datasets Speeds Up Learning via Sampling Biases
5/19: arXiv | Surbhi Goel

When Does Model Collapse Occur in Structured Interactive Learning?
5/19: arXiv | Weijie Su

Why Better AI Tutors Aren’t About Better Answers
5/18: Wharton AI & Analytics Insights | Hamsa Bastani

LivePI: More Realistic Benchmarking of Agents Against Indirect Prompt Injection
5/18: arXiv | Edgar Dobriban

Feature Learning in Linear-Width Two-Layer Networks: Two vs. One Step of Gradient Descent
5/18: arXiv | Hamed Hassani

Edgeworth Accountant: An Analytical Approach to Differential Privacy Composition
5/18: Journal of the American Statistical Association | Weijie Su

Symmetry-Compatible Principle for Optimizer Design: Embeddings, LM Heads, SwiGLU MLPs, and MoE Routers
5/18: arXiv | Weijie Su

AI Regulation Needs a ‘Bank Examiner’
5/18: The Wall Street Journal | Kevin Werbach

Valuing Winners: When and How to Correct for Selection Bias in Randomized Experiments
5/16: arXiv | Ron Berman

Contrastive Conceptor Activation Steering (COAST): Unlocking Vision-Language-Action Models Through Hidden States
5/16: arXiv | Lyle Ungar

Congratulations to the 2026 NetSci Awardees
5/15: The Network Science Society | Dani Bassett

Clearing in Liability Networks via Sheaves on Directed Hypergraphs
5/15: arXiv | Robert Ghrist

Length-Scale Selection in Adaptive Transport Networks
5/15: arXiv | Eleni Katifori

Near-Optimal Online Traffic Engineering
5/15: arXiv | Nikolai Matni

Bioethics and the New World Order
5/12: Brainland | Jonathan Moreno

2026 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Early Career Prize
5/8: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Jason Altschuler

Self-Driving Datasets: From 20 Million Papers to Nuanced Biomedical Knowledge at Scale
5/7: arXiv | Yoseph Barash and Zack Ives

The Little Known Supreme Court Doctrine That Struck Down Trump's Tariffs
5/7: Bloomberg Law | Cary Coglianese

Sixth Cohort of Projects for Progress Announced
5/7: Penn Today | Maria Cuellar

AI Layoffs, Demand Collapse & The Automation Tax Debate
5/7: The Global Reset | Brett Hemenway Falk

White Matter Reflects the Childhood Exposome
5/7: bioRxiv | Ted Satterthwaite

The AI Layoff Trap
5/6: Macau Daily Times | Brett Hemenway Falk

Threshold Calibration: Making All Large Predicted Probabilities Trustworthy
5/5: Towards Trustworthy Predictions: Theory and Applications of Calibration for Modern AI | Edgar Dobriban

The AI Layoff Trap
5/5: Border Cyber Group | Brett Hemenway Falk

AI Will Be Top of Mind at ICM, Math’s Biggest Conference
5/4: Simons Foundation | Robert Ghrist

SpaceX Wants to Blast Data Centers Into Orbit. Here’s What It May Take.
5/4: The Wall Street Journal | Benjamin Lee

Trust in Chatbots: The Illusion of Empathy and the Reality of Persuasion
5/4: NUS Centre for Trusted Internet and Community | Lyle Ungar

Recovery Guarantees for Continual Learning of Dependent Tasks: Memory, Data-Dependent Regularization, and Data-Dependent Weights
5/4: AISTATS 2026 Poster | René Vidal

Weight Clipping for Robust Conformal Inference Under Unbounded Covariate Shifts
5/3: arXiv | Surbhi Goel

How Wharton Prepares Business Leaders in the AI Era
4/30: The Wharton School | Eric Bradlow and Kevin Werbach

ASA Recognizes 2026 Founders and Fellows
4/22: The American Statistical Association | Weijie Su

Going With the Flow
4/17: Simons Foundation Presents | Eleni Katifori

Self-Reported Side Effects of Semaglutide and Tirzepatide in Online Communities
4/10: Nature Health | Lyle Ungar

SonoYOLO + MedSAM2: A Pipeline for Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Regions of Interest in Cardiac Ultrasound Videos
4/10: 2026 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging | René Vidal

Human-AI Cooperation in Healthcare and Rehabilitation
3/31: Delaware Journal of Public Health | Chris Callison-Burch

When "Normalization Without Loss of Generality" Loses Generality
3/29: arXiv | Wayne Gao

How AI Is Reshaping Skills, Hiring, and Education
3/26: Where AI Works Podcast | Eric Bradlow

A Dynamic Model of the Economic Returns to Adolescent Social Skills
3/26: Penn Population Center Working Paper | Andrew Postlewaite

 
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