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CAS is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Data Analytics and Insights (DAI) team, which builds the AI that powers CAS’s scientific information products. This role will include building the models, agents, and AI-powered features that ship in those products, while working alongside data engineers, product managers, and scientific domain experts.

On the evening of June 17, 2026, Ohio State University's Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group (led by PI Professor Huan Sun), in collaboration with Amazon, posted QUEST — an open-source deep research AI agent that matches or surpasses proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. Within hours, the announcement went viral on X (formerly Twitter), accumulating over 2.5 million views and counting.

This 5-Day workshop will focus on how AI embeddings can support cancer research through improved representation, integration, and analysis of complex biomedical and multimodal data. Participants will work collaboratively to identify research gaps, opportunities, and potential new directions for the field. Registration closes on June 14th.

NSF X-Labs will scale a new generation of transformative independent research organizations to advance breakthrough science outside of traditional institutions

Humanity AI announced more than $18 million in new pooled grants. This includes $8 million in grants to organizations whose work spans the most urgent frontiers of AI’s impact on society, including safeguarding democratic institutions, protecting workers’ rights, strengthening journalism, and advancing education. Humanity AI will also support AI Civics, a new effort to advance public education, literacy, and community decision-making on AI and a forthcoming open call to identify further impactful projects.

The Hyundai Motor Group is hosting a recruitment program which will remain open until May 22. This group-level recruitment event includes companies, such as Hyundai, KIA, Boston Dynamics, Motional, 42dot, who have opened positions related to the STEM field and are actively looking for students to join in the States and South Korea. An additional opportunity to attend an in-person forum is also available.

Ohio State's AI Fluency initiative, new AI(X) Hub and the Center for Computing Education course are "Unlocking Generative AI," which focuses on practical skills, such as effective prompting, creative applications, and understanding AI’s broader societal impact.

The 2026 GenAI Text Challenge invites teams from academia, industry, and the research community to test AI capabilities by acting in different roles across the spectrum of AI actors: "generators", "prompters", and "discriminators."

With AI models that craft and refine new molecules in seconds, Xia Ning ’24 MBA is helping transform how future therapies take shape.