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  1. Identifying treatment response subgroups in observational time-to-event data 

    November 11, 2025

    Identifying patient subgroups with different treatment responses is an important task to inform medical recommendations, guidelines, and the design of future clinical trials. Existing approaches for treatment effect estimation primarily rely on Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), which tend to feature more homogeneous patient groups, making…

  2. AI Diffusion Report: Mapping Global AI Adoption and Innovation 

    November 11, 2025

    The AI Economy Institute, Microsoft’s flagship think tank released its AI Diffusion Report, offering comprehensive view of where artificial intelligence is being used, developed, and built globally. The report provides country-level estimates of AI adoption, insights into innovation hubs, AI skills trends, and the critical role…

  3. Project SPARROW – Guardians for the planet 

    November 10, 2025

    In northern central Colombia, Middle Magdalena Valley (MMV) is home to some of the world’s most remarkable biodiversity. Stretching between the central and eastern Andes mountains, this valley is crucial to the health of our planet. But the region—full of forests, wetlands, and floodplains—is facing…

  4. ODSP Applied Science 

    November 8, 2025

    Shaping the future of content and collaboration in OneDrive and SharePoint The ODSP Applied Science team is shaping the future of content and collaboration by transforming OneDrive and SharePoint into a planet-scale, AI-native knowledge substrate, with security, privacy, and responsibility at its core. We're redefining…

  5. Adapting Web Agents with Synthetic Supervision 

    November 7, 2025

    Web agents struggle to adapt to new websites due to the scarcity of environment specific tasks and demonstrations. Recent works have explored synthetic data generation to address this challenge, however, they suffer from data quality issues where synthesized tasks contain hallucinations that cannot be executed,…

  6. Education in the AI Economy: the AI Economy Institute’s 2025 Fall Cohort 

    November 6, 2025

    The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) is launching its second cohort of researchers, advancing our mission to understand and accelerate the responsible diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across economies, industries, and communities. This year’s theme—Education in the AI Economy—places diffusion at the heart of our inquiry:…

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    Data Formulator v0.5: Vibe with data, in control 

    November 6, 2025

    Data Formulator is an AI-powered visualization tool that helps analysts iteratively explore and visualize data from any source—clean or messy, small or large—without coding. In agent mode, users provide high-level descriptions, and agents automatically plan, transform, refine, and visualize data to surface insights. To keep…