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Political notes: Moore and 'the question,' Donofrio heads to LCV, and eyeing AI
Gov. Wes Moore appears on another network show and is asked another question about his political future, the League of Conservation Voters taps Jason Donofrio as its next director, and Progressive Maryland wants to talk artificial intelligence, in political notes.
Nvidia stock: Share price drops after CEO Jensen Huang affair reports
Nvidia's investigation into whether Jensen Huang was the target of a "foreign intelligence effort" saw its shares drop over 4% in premarket trading.
FSU Partners With Special Olympics Florida to Expand Access to Health Screenings
Florida State University students and faculty partnered with Special Olympics Northwest Florida to provide accessible health and wellness screenings for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities at The Arc Big Bend in Madison, Fla. on Sept. 23. The Healthy Hearing and Strong Mind event brought together audiologists and students from the School of Communication Science…
Clemson Business welcomed top AI and consulting industry leaders for Power of Leadership Speaker Series
For consulting teams using artificial intelligence, the first question remains a familiar one: What business problem needs solving? That was a recurring
Two years after Yale Health adopted AI helpers, Yalies are on the fence
The campus health clinic incorporated an artificial intelligence-powered tool into clinical visits in 2024. Yale students expressed varying levels of comfort with the technology, which is intended to reduce the providers’ workload when documenting visits.
(Opinion) People with disabilities are an untapped resource
New Hampshire employers spend considerable time and resources trying to find dependable employees who want to work. Yet there is a segment of our population that is too often overlooked: adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Cisco's $283 million Israel business puts its military ties under scrutiny
Internal documents reveal how Cisco rushed engineers to Israeli military intelligence facilities after technical failures threatened a $67 million business relationship. The company's deep involvement in defense and intelligence infrastructure has also triggered employee protests and a shareholder challenge over its human-rights policies.
Greg Morrisett to co-lead new NYS AI safety research center
The center is a new statewide initiative launched by Gov. Kathy Hochul to advance artificial intelligence science and safety.
Computer science department revamps curriculum to combat falling enrollment in the age of AI
The Department of Computer Science is revamping its curriculum and finding new ways to make its program appealing in response to developments in artificial intelligence and changes in international student visa policies.
AI-generated political ads spiked in 2026, but campaigns still prioritized other means of messaging
For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters?
How Allina Health decides where hospital AI can help
The 12-hospital health system's COO describes how it tests artificial intelligence technology in clinical workflows – from surgical scheduling to discharge planning.
How the Stock Market Is Reacting to the Midterm Elections
U.S. stock futures fell as the first results came in, but later traded higher as investors assessed the outlook for artificial intelligence and other key sectors as the balance of power shifts in Washington.
Google Debuts Gemini AI Agent for Healthcare Operations
Google Cloud introduced an agentic artificial intelligence solution designed for healthcare operations, according to a Tuesday (Nov. 10) press release.
New AI tool speeds up food science research and development
A food scientist at Penn State University is using artificial intelligence to make food engineering research more accessible and easier to apply. Xu Zhou in the Department of Food Science tells Brownfield, “What’s really exciting to me for the future application is people do not need to read thousands or hundreds of scientific papers or […]
AI For Science & The Fear Of Missing History
Bern, 1905. A young patent clerk named Albert Einstein published four papers that transformed physics. More than a century later, scientific breakthroughs still tend to be associated with exceptional people and years of painstaking work. Artificial intelligence (AI) may change the pace of that work. Models are beginning to help prove mathematical results, spot patterns […]
Amazon Web Services commits $100M to AI, cloud tech health initiatives over next 5 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committing $100 million towards artificial intellig | The funds are part of the AWS Health Impact Initiative, a five-year program, announced Monday.
Ohio likely won’t pass AI regulations before year ends
Ohio has no substantial artificial intelligence regulations, but lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are trying to change that before their December deadline.
MANTECH Wins $307M CBP Business Intelligence Contract
MANTECH has won a potential five-year, $307 million DHS contract to advance CBP's intelligence and data analytics capabilities.
Investigative journalist Hilke Schellmann to speak at UF Nov. 17 on AI and the future of hiring
Hilke Schellmann, an Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University, will visit the University of Florida as the Fall 2026 Business Journalist in Residence to discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming hiring and threatening fairness in the workplace.
SMX Expands Into AI-Driven Material Science With New Scientific Intelligence Platform
Company targets 2027 launch of technology designed to accelerate research, strengthen recycled material certification and introduce a new commercial service.
Mastercard (MA) Expands Its Business Banking Reach Through New Partnerships
Mastercard (NYSE:MA) is expanding its business banking reach through new partnerships focused on commercial cards and treasury tools. BMO and Mastercard launched the BMO CashBack World Elite Business Mastercard in Canada, targeting small and midsize firms with rewards and protections. Citizens Treasury Intelligence™ went live through a collaboration between Citizens and Trovata, using Mastercard technology to support corporate treasury management. The BMO CashBack World Elite Business...
Recon: Sino, Boehringer ink cancer drug deal worth $7B; CVS to split pharmacy business from insurance
Welcome to Regulatory Reconnaissance, your regulatory news and intelligence briefing.
GTA 6 Physical Edition Poster Revealed By Retailer
A new GTA 6 poster that could come as part of the code in box copies of the game has been revealed. However, it may end up being limited to select retailers and it might not even be truly official…
A compact slow-light silicon modulator for faster, more energy-efficient data transfer
As artificial intelligence (AI) drives demand for faster data transfer, conventional silicon optical modulators face speed and energy-efficiency limitations, often requiring power-hungry electronic circuits. By designing electrical and optical structures together, researchers built signal equalization into a compact slow-light silicon modulator. The device achieved data rates of 180 Gb/s without digital signal processing equalization and 200 Gb/s using a low-complexity 11-tap digital equalizer, offering potential for high-capacity, energy-efficient optical connections in future AI data centers.
AI boosts operational efficiency but not systemic climate action, global study finds
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely promoted as a tool for sustainable development, but whether its operational gains translate into deeper ecological transformation remains uncertain. A new global assessment examines how AI diffusion relates to seven core United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covering health, education, clean energy, industry and infrastructure, sustainable cities, responsible consumption and production, and climate action. It also explores the channels behind
Waystar touts bigger health system wins and growing AI pipeline
Healthcare payment software maker Waystar again outperformed analysts’ estimates in the third quarter as the company builds out new artificial intelligence capabilities and drives growth by adding | Waystar again outperformed analysts’ estimates in the third quarter as the company builds out new AI capabilities and drives growth by adding new customers and selling more of its platform to existing clients.
AI-generated political ads spiked in 2026, but campaigns still prioritized other means of messaging
For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters?
iCloud+ has new perk in iOS 27 if you pay for more storage
In iOS 27, iCloud+ has a new benefit for its highest storage tiers: Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras.
Contributor: Health Care’s Next Transformation Won’t Be About Technology. It Will Be About How We Operate
Why artificial intelligence in health care falls short today and how implementing technology in health care requires integrated workflows to cut costs and improve outcomes.
Exclusive | Top US business leaders including Elon Musk set to join Trump at Apec in China
But Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s attendance in doubt amid foreign intelligence investigation, as Beijing calls allegation ‘unsubstantiated’.
AI-generated political ads spiked in 2026, but campaigns still prioritized other means of messaging
For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters?
Iowa Regents to choose new leader for UI center after rocky start
The Iowa Board of Regents will interview two new candidates for the University of Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom after first choice declines.
Agentic AI Transforms Banking: Scaling Struggles
Financial services leverage Agentic Artificial Intelligence in Banking. Only 5% of institutions scale AI agent ecosystems beyond pilot phases. Ambition meets execution challenges.
Apple launches $50 'intelligence usage packs' for select AI features
Apple has said it will eventually charge for expanded usage of select AI features, and now the first 'intelligence usage packs' have arrived.
New GTA6 Screenshots have released comparing real life cars to in Game Cars
Just moments ago, brand new Grand Theft Auto VI screenshots were released showing off some of the in game vehicles, with a side by side comparison to the real life versions of the cars. The Iconic…
iOS 27.3 Could Bring More Audio Intelligence and the Redesigned Health App Soon
The Health app overhaul and new Apple Intelligence features lead the latest public beta.
Apple Launching Two More New Products This Friday
The Apple launches keep coming! The company is set to release two new products on Friday, November 13: the all-new Apple HomeView and the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K, both of which have been available to pre-order since mid-October. Apple HomeView: Apple's new smart home display, powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI, for entertainment and managing the home. Available in tabletop and wall-mounted models, it can recognize up to six users by face, each with a personalized Home Screen.
Mapping the hidden hazards beneath our feet | Investors Lab
From unstable slopes to former industrial sites to hurricane alleys, some places are not safe to live in. Yet circumstances often force low-income populations into these areas, where natural disasters can have devastating effects. Rebecca Dzombak fills in the details for SN. And we have intel on advanced imagery and subsurface mapping that aim to provide early warnings before disasters strike.
Analysts say these executives could succeed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia's board is probing possible foreign intel targeting of CEO Jensen Huang. If he steps down, analysts say these execs could be his successors.
How AI Is Changing the Way Business Leaders Make Decisions
BoF sits down with Bianca Anghelina, founder and CEO of decision intelligence platform Aily Labs, to explore her vision for AI-powered leadership, why better decisions are the key to business growth and what it takes to turn AI ambition into measurable impact.
Yomiuri: Sony's Entertainment Strategy is Paying Off, CFO Says
Sony Group Corp. is experiencing success in its entertainment business, and is growing more confident in utilizing its intellectual properties across more fields, according to Chief Financial Officer Lin Tao.
HURRA PRIME LLC Announces Its AI-Powered Technology Solutions for Modern Business Operations
Sanford, FL, Nov. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HURRA PRIME LLC today announced its continued focus on helping businesses modernize their operations through artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, custom software development, and advanced digital technology solutions. The company provides a comprehensive range of technology services designed to help organizations improve operational efficiency, strengthen digital infrastructure, and build scalable systems aligned with their business obje
OPINION: Conceptual brain science: Digital health display for human intelligence?
Any views or opinions expressed in this column are of the individual, group, or entity who submitted it and not the publication, owner(s), its advertisers, or affiliates. By David Stephen […]
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho revisits AI themes in latest thriller 'Paradise Lost'
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho explores artificial intelligence in his films, including his latest, “Paradise Lost.” | 830 WCCO
Undergraduate research shapes this future physician
Senior Suhan Asaigoli is exploring how artificial intelligence can help doctors detect disease earlier and make faster decisions after a stroke.
Star mathematician Ma Xiao leaves the US for China – and a career pivot to AI
The 28-year-old helped achieve a breakthrough on Hilbert’s sixth problem and now he’s embracing the ‘new era’ of artificial intelligence.
Charta Health Brings in $55M as It Launches Payer Offerings
Charta Health, a San Francisco-based medical chart review platform that uses artificial intelligence, secured $55 million from a Series B round. The
CCHS Science Curriculum Complements Our Catholic Identity
TOLEDO, OH - At Central Catholic, our education is about developing the whole person - intellectually, spiritually, morally, and emotionally - as well as preparing students academically. Teachers in all subject areas incorporate Catholic teaching into their curriculum. In the sc
Patient comfort with AI-driven health care hinges on provider oversight
More than half of patients (56%) are comfortable with artificial intelligence (AI) making diagnosis or treatment decisions when their health care provider can change or override them, but that figure ...
Nearly 1 in 5 young Americans use AI for mental health advice, Rutgers expert warns of risks
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Middlesex County) — Nearly one in five American adolescents and young adults ages 12 to 21 are turning to artificial intelligence for mental health information, raising concerns …
Simonelli Group unveils Science Driven Coffee Cup programme
The Simonelli Group and the University of Camerino have unveiled the programme for the inaugural Science Driven Coffee Cup, bringing together leading researchers and coffee professionals to explore advances in coffee chemistry, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, sustainability, and quality control at the conference in Italy on 19-20 November.
AI nerves reinforce age-old investing lesson: Get diversified
A $2.5 trillion wipeout for the Nasdaq Composite this week is reminding even the smallest investors just how reliant we’ve all become on the success of the artificial intelligence buildout.
Bradbury Science Museum Presents ‘Night With A Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence Wednesday Nov. 4.
BRADBURY SCIENCE MUSEUM NEWS RELEASE The Bradbury Science Museum will present ‘Night with a Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence’ 6-8 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 4. The community is encouraged t…
SMX Bridges AI and Industrial Material Science With New Intelligence Platform
NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 11, 2026 / SMX is developing an artificial intelligence-powered scientific platform designed to help bridge...
Android XR glasses officially get a December release date [Video]
Google's Android XR glasses partners have officially confirmed a December 2026 release date for "Intelligent Eyewear."
Disney has fought AI firms over copyright. Now it’s testing AI lyric videos
Walt Disney Co. is experimenting with using artificial intelligence to test out different concepts for music videos showcasing the lyrics to its songs, starting with “Go the Distance” from its
Honolulu summit focuses on building AI-ready workforce for Hawaiʻi
Organizers of the fifth annual Hawaiʻi AI and Cloud Innovation Summit said the event drew hundreds of business, government, nonprofit, education and technology leaders to the Hilton Waikiki Beach Resort to discuss how artificial intelligence could affect Hawaiʻi’s economy and jobs. TRUE Initiative convened the summit with the state Department of Business, Economic Development and […]
Apple Readies Launch of AI-Powered Health App
Apple’s soon-to-be-released redesigned Health app will be powered by artificial intelligence and will provide users with tailored recommendations on
How artificial intelligence is changing health care
Artificial intelligence is changing the way doctors diagnose diseases, treat patients and develop new medicines. But how well is it working? Coming up at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the growing role of AI in health care.
Live Science crossword puzzle #68: Aquatic mammals famed for their intelligence
Test your knowledge on all things science with our weekly, free crossword puzzle!
New York launches new research center to study AI science and safety
New York is bringing more than 80 scientists together to test and study artificial intelligence.
UT San Antonio researchers discuss AI’s promise, challenges at brain health conferences
Artificial intelligence (AI) is opening new possibilities for biomedical research, particularly in the field of brain health. AI shows promise for expanding what’s possible, from analyzing brain scans to expanding participation in studies of cognitive decline. At the same time, ensuring these technologies produce accurate, reliable results across populations remains a challenge. Presentations by […]
Connection Helps Organizations Turn Microsoft Copilot into Measurable Business Value
MERRIMACK, N.H., November 10, 2026--Connection (PC Connection, Inc.; NASDAQ: CNXN), a leading provider of information technology solutions to business, government, healthcare, and education markets, is pleased to announce that it has earned the Microsoft Copilot specialization. The achievement recognizes Connection’s expertise in helping organizations securely adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot and translate artificial intelligence investments into measurable business value.
Health Plan Unlocks More Than $10M in Savings in Six Months Using Cohere Health's AI-Powered Pre-Payment Review
Cohere Health®, the leading clinical intelligence and operations platform for health plans, today announced that a Medicare Advantage client identified more than $10 million in savings in six months by finding complex clinical and coding errors in high-cost drug and durable medical equipment claims before payment.
AI divorce advice burns business owner
A business owner whose company was generating strong sales but leaving him with little income turned to artificial intelligence for advice on reducing his spousal support payments.
Beyond tech race: Science, trust and the future of China-US ties
Do we sometimes overestimate what artificial intelligence can do, while underestimating what we need to do as human beings?
Keensight Capital hires former Meta data science executive as head of AI
Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia brings more than 25 years of experience in artificial intelligence, automation and data science.
NVidia Probes CEO over Alleged Chinese Espionage Links
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – NVidia has launched an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang after he admitted to an affair with a Chinese woman accused of gathering intelligence on the US chipmaker.
Former CIA officer says what Nvidia case can teach companies
Former CIA officer Michele Rigby Assad says Nvidia's case shows why tech companies must train workers to spot foreign intelligence risks.
Two nearby rocky worlds could offer alien astronomers views of planets appearing to reverse course
Aliens have long been a staple of science fiction. Yet the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth is more than a matter of imagination—it is also a subject of serious scientific inquiry. Professor ...
Space and Time Introduces Enterprise Data Privacy Platform
LONDON, Nov. 10, 2026 — Space and Time has introduced Space and Time Enterprise, a new data privacy platform that unlocks verifiable intelligence for AI, finance and business. Space and Time Enterprise launches with a number of flagship customers and partners on board. Launch partners include Maple Finance, Indomobil, Trenez and The Data Foundation. Enterprises […]
House Republicans demand answers from Nvidia CEO over reported Chinese spy ties
House Republicans invited Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a joint briefing over his reported relationship with an alleged Chinese intelligence asset.
Russia giving some missiles greater range, larger warheads: Ukraine
The new assessment from Ukraine's military intelligence said Russia has stockpiled thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles.
Borrowing Room: How Business Size Shapes Credit Access and Growth
PYMNTS Intelligence examines how SMB size shapes credit access, borrowing decisions and growth, revealing differences in financing needs.
In an AI World, Sport’s Competitive Advantage May Be Its Oldest One
Today’s guest column is from professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. We know with relative certainty, professional and big collegiate sport organizations are spending heavily on artificial intelligence. Player performance, ticket pricing, fan engagement—GMs and ADs alike believe that there is a new “secret sauce” available, and the evidence is pretty compelling. AI offers the …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang apologizes as firm probes affair with alleged spy
CEO Jensen Huang apologized and admitted to a relationship with a woman U.S. intelligence identified as a Chinese spy, triggering an Nvidia probe.
Motorola Signature 27 gets Pixel’s Gemini Intelligence features with Rambler, Create My Widget
Motorola is adopting Google’s Gemini Intelligence features in the first major expansion beyond Pixel, with Gboard’s Rambler and more supported....
AI threats challenge cybersecurity landscape
Artificial intelligence is accelerating cybersecurity threats against businesses and government agencies, allowing criminals to potentially impersonate employees, steal sensitive information, and compromise corporate networks faster than organizations can respond, warn some cybersecurity experts.
AP sources: Staff at U.S. center for AI safety are reporting to the White House, raising independence concerns
Officials with the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence, or CAISSI, an independent division of the Commerce Department, recently were asked to informally report to an office of the White House.
HCPSS Teams Up with Student Group to Drive Student Interest in and Understanding of Coding, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence
Several years ago, Julie Wray and Carrie Trudden, Howard County Public School System’s (HCPSS) then- and current coordinators of Instructional Technology, began receiving emails from a group called Howard County Hour of Code (HocoHOC). At the time, Wray and Trudden were unfamiliar with the group and skeptical about its offer to partner with the district […]
Project to rebuild trust in AI era lands Laude’s $10M ‘moonshot’ award
A $10 million “moonshot” grant from Laude Institute will help Cornell researchers realize the potential of artificial intelligence, while giving online communities control over AI’s role.
Warby Parker Seemingly Spilled The Beans On Google's Android XR Smart Glasses Launch
"Intelligent Eyewear" is apparently only a week away.
Health intel-sharing group warns industry in wake of cyberattack on French blood bank
A healthcare intelligence-sharing organization is warning its members to lock down systems following cyberattacks on cold storage systems, including a French blood bank.
November Pixel Drop brings Gemini Intelligence to Pixel 10 family
Spruce up your home screen with expanded custom icons and AI-generated widgets.
AI-generated political ads spiked in 2026, but campaigns still prioritized other means of messaging
For two election cycles, misinformation and election experts have wondered: Will content generated with artificial intelligence dominate races and mislead voters?
Can AI learn to understand nature? Scientists set out a roadmap for the future of ecology
An international team of scientists has outlined how a new generation of artificial intelligence models could transform our understanding of ecosystems and help predict their responses to environmental ...
Beyond tech race: Science, trust and the future of China-US ties
Do we sometimes overestimate what artificial intelligence can do, while underestimating what we need to do as human beings?
Africa and Europe seek their own path in AI science
Africa and Europe are seeking to chart their own course in the rapidly accelerating global artificial intelligence race, with a partnership built arou...
Pixel users are getting a major Android Auto update - and it rivals Siri AI
More phones are getting Gemini Intelligence, but only Pixel users can access it in a new way.
Advito Announces Launch of AI-Enabled Consulting Intelligence Platform
Pilot will roll out through Q1 2027
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho revisits AI themes in latest thriller 'Paradise Lost'
South Korean director Yeon Sang-ho explores artificial intelligence in his films, including his latest, “Paradise Lost.”
Everforth awarded potential $200M+ federal contract
Everforth ECS has secured a contract extension potentially worth more than $200 million to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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