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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.

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Causality meets reality: CausalVerse gives AI a harder, fairer test

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

Causality meets reality: CausalVerse gives AI a harder, fairer test

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A new benchmark from MBZUAI blends realism with ground truth – revealing how well causal models understand why things happen.

New synthetic-image detector focuses on what makes real images real

Wednesday, 3 December, 2025

New synthetic-image detector focuses on what makes real images real

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MBZUAI's Mingming Gong explains how the ConV system identifies AI-generated images without relying on training data from synthetic sources.

CAPTCHAs aren’t just annoying, they’re a reality check for AI agents

Friday, 28 November, 2025

CAPTCHAs aren’t just annoying, they’re a reality check for AI agents

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A new benchmark from MBZUAI Ph.D. students shows why advanced web agents crumble on CAPTCHAs – and what it will take to fix them.

How many queries does it take to break an AI? We put a number on it.

Wednesday, 26 November, 2025

How many queries does it take to break an AI? We put a number on it.

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MBZUAI researchers propose a universal ruler for jailbreak risk, measuring bits per query to forecast an attacker’s best-case speed.

MBZUAI researchers earn high-profile honors at EMNLP

Thursday, 20 November, 2025

MBZUAI researchers earn high-profile honors at EMNLP

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Two MBZUAI papers were named Senior Area Chair Highlights at EMNLP 2025 – one of the conference’s highest awards.

Towards open and scalable AI-powered waste detection

Wednesday, 19 November, 2025

Towards open and scalable AI-powered waste detection

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Research by MBZUAI's Muhammad Haris Khan showed that fine-tuning modern waste detectors more than doubled their performance on academic benchmarks.

Improving through argument: a symbolic approach to fake-news detection

Monday, 17 November, 2025

Improving through argument: a symbolic approach to fake-news detection

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Researchers from MBZUAI have developed a framework that helps LLMs better detect fake news by setting up "debates" between generator and detector.

AI Innovation Day at MBZUAI unites UAE leaders to shape the future of AI in healthcare

Thursday, 13 November, 2025

AI Innovation Day at MBZUAI unites UAE leaders to shape the future of AI in healthcare

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The event welcomed more than 200 healthcare leaders and featured talks and presentations by MBZUAI faculty about the University's key innovations.

Your voice can jailbreak a speech model – here’s how to stop it, without retraining

Wednesday, 12 November, 2025

Your voice can jailbreak a speech model – here’s how to stop it, without retraining

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An EMNLP paper by MBZUAI researchers exposes new vulnerabilities in speech-based AI and unveils a lightweight defense called SPIRIT.

Can we tell when AI wrote that code? This project thinks so, even when the AI tries to hide it

Tuesday, 11 November, 2025

Can we tell when AI wrote that code? This project thinks so, even when the AI tries to hide it

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MBZUAI researchers unveil Droid at EMNLP – a toolkit to detect AI-written code, even when models mimic human style.

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