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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

Detecting deepfakes in the presence of code-switching

Tuesday, 12 August, 2025

Detecting deepfakes in the presence of code-switching

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MBZUAI researchers tackle the challenge of detecting deepfakes when people mix Arabic and English in the same sentence.

Rare and revealing: A new method for uncovering hidden patterns in data

Monday, 11 August, 2025

Rare and revealing: A new method for uncovering hidden patterns in data

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The new method developed by MBZUAI researchers could help reveal hidden relationships often missed in economics, medicine, and beyond.

42 UAE leaders graduate from MBZUAI’s Executive Program to drive AI adoption

Friday, 8 August, 2025

42 UAE leaders graduate from MBZUAI’s Executive Program to drive AI adoption

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Cohort 6 of the MEP saw senior executives and high-ranking officials from across the UAE develop AI-powered solutions that address critical national priorities.

Following in the footsteps of the Godfather

Thursday, 7 August, 2025

Following in the footsteps of the Godfather

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When MBZUAI alumnus Rohit Bharadwaj joined the University of Edinburgh as a Ph.D. candidate, he followed in the footsteps of the ‘Godfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton. But as he explains, he's forging a path all his own.

How dialectal pretraining improves Arabic automatic speech recognition

Wednesday, 6 August, 2025

How dialectal pretraining improves Arabic automatic speech recognition

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Researchers from MBZUAI used MSA, classical Arabic, and dialects from North Africa, the Levant, and the Gulf to enhance ASR performance.

How jailbreak attacks work and a new way to stop them

Monday, 4 August, 2025

How jailbreak attacks work and a new way to stop them

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Lang Gao and fellow MBZUAI researchers have developed a new approach to improve the safety of LLMs against jailbreak attacks.

Measuring cultural commonsense in the Arabic-speaking world with a new benchmark

Wednesday, 30 July, 2025

Measuring cultural commonsense in the Arabic-speaking world with a new benchmark

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A team from MBZUAI and other institutions presented a new dataset at ACL, aiming to help AI models capture Arabic cultural nuances.

MBZUAI Joins Aspen Institute’s Technology Leaders Initiative

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025

MBZUAI Joins Aspen Institute’s Technology Leaders Initiative

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New two-year Aspen Global Leadership Network program aims to ignite the moral imagination of senior leaders shaping our digital future.

When medical AI meets messy reality

Tuesday, 29 July, 2025

When medical AI meets messy reality

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Raza Imam won best paper at the Medical Image Understanding and Analysis conference for his research on how to build AI models that are more resilient to tiny errors in medical images.

Overcoming the ‘reversal curse’ in LLMs with ReCall

Monday, 28 July, 2025

Overcoming the ‘reversal curse’ in LLMs with ReCall

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A team from MBZUAI will present their research on 'self-referencing causal cycles' at ACL, in a bid to improve the performance of language models.

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