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From left, hackathon winners Mohammed Siddiqui, Yunus Yurttagui, James Shechet and Aaron Roth stand with ISI’s Mayank Kejriwal, front. Team member Rex Brown is not pictured. (Photo/Marc Ballon)

Hackathon Gives AI Agents Room to Grow

At an LA Tech Week event at USC Information Sciences Institute, participants built tools designed to learn from experience — and perhaps become startups

Starfish in Space

A Soft Robot Reaches for the Stars

USC researchers are teaching a flexible, nature-inspired machine to crawl, cling and someday inspect spacecraft or explore places robots cannot reach

Artwork showing two people in conversation, one person is in distress.

The Lawyer’s Office May Be a Lifeline

A study of hundreds of thousands of suicide records finds overlooked chances to recognize distress long before a person reaches a mental health clinic - or worse