Why Real-Life Disclosure Day Will Look Nothing Like Steven Spielberg's New Movie Previous landmark scientific discoveries like the Higgs boson provide a better template for what it will take to confirm whether aliens have made contact with Earth. Steven Spielberg's new film imagines the moment 8 billion humans find out that we are not alone in the universe. The movie, which opens in US theaters on June 12, is a fictional account of the government cover-up and subsequent "disclosure" of evidence that aliens have contacted Earth. The UFO community has been chasing that type of cinematic big reveal for 80 years. But it's more likely that monumental scientific discoveries, like the detection of the Higgs boson in 2012 and the confirmation of gravitational waves in 2016, are a better guideline for how real-world disclosure is likely to play out: through long-running research and with verifiable results.

No one can say for sure what's going on in the president's head. His 25 greatest obsessions can get us a little closer. This is the year the first baby boomers--those born in 1946--turn 80, and that cohort includes Donald Trump. We have all recently lived through what it means to have an 80-year-old commander in chief, but at a political moment that's simultaneously more horrific, erratic, and just plain befuddling than anything this country has seen in ages, we wanted to understand the brain of 80-year-old president. Plenty of people are trying to discern whether his recent rants and raves are due to a more serious cognitive decline--we understand the instinct; we've done it too --but we went a different (if related) route. The more we dug into Trump's many fixations, the more we realized that this man still thinks he lives in the 1980s. We also discovered--without too much surprise--that he often seems to fundamentally misunderstand the works he treasures most deeply. These items might not replace a brain map, but they do create a certain holistic view of what animates and splinters Trump's mind. Sometimes, they just help explain his worldview. Other times, they seem to have had real influence on policy and the America that Trump is trying to create. Welcome to Trump Brain, the 25 things that define who the president is--and what he wants. Please enable javascript to fully experience this interactive. When millions of people took to the streets in October to protest Trump's authoritarianism, the president responded by dunking on his critics online. Specifically, he posted an A.I.-generated video of a fighter jet, piloted by himself in a literal crown, dropping human excrement onto the crowds. It was perhaps Trump's most juvenile use of A.I. slop yet--the kind of low-quality, feverish content made possible by artificial intelligence. Trump undoubtedly is the perfect president for the A.I. slop era. In some ways, this is because he's the ideal audience for it: Like many older internet users delighted by the technology, Trump seems to enjoy mindless, cartoonish, childish content. One of the videos he shared depicted him playing soccer with Cristiano Ronaldo in the Oval Office.

Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. Over the course of the next few months, we'll be talking to some of the 2026 AAAI Fellows. In this interview, we met with Tanya Berger-Wolf, who was elected as a Fellow . We found out about her latest research developing a foundation model for biology, the insights this model can provide, interesting collaborations over the years, and what the future has in store. Could you start with a quick introduction and tell us about the broad area that you're working in? My area of research is in AI for ecology, biodiversity, and conservation.

We sat down with Douglas Guillbault to discuss his paper, " Comparing Colorseeing, Colorblind, Painters, and Large Language Models in Their Processing of Color Metaphors ". The results have interesting implications for how we model human cognition, and in turn, how the concept of synaesthesia could be integrated to develop more intelligent AI models. A color metaphor is the use of color to describe something in a way that is not immediately literal. For example, to say "green with envy" would be a color metaphor, because envy doesn't have an immediate visual structure to it - we're evoking a broader, more flexible notion of what green conveys, beyond just its visible properties. What makes metaphors very interesting is that they often use past experience or cultural associations in new ways to talk about something beyond our current perception - either something imagined or in the future, which are many steps of abstraction away from the present. Metaphors provide an alternative pathway to get there.

Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. We're talking to some of the 2026 AAAI Fellows to find out more about their work. In this interview, we chat to Sanmay Das, who was elected as a Fellow . Could you start with a quick introduction, where you work, and your general area of research? Broadly speaking, I work in multiagent systems. I've done a lot of work at the intersection of AI and economics, and over the last decade or so I've thought a lot about projects in the AI for social impact and social good space. In particular, my interest has been in the allocation of scarce societal resources, thinking about how AI can be integrated, and what it tells us about systems where we don't necessarily want full free market resource allocation.

The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub. Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub. Eleanor Drage speaks with Tara Merk about how community-owned data centers could transform digital ownership and challenge the dominance of Big Tech. We find out more about multi-agent research for the allocation of scarce societal resources.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. One of the most decorated Paralympians of all time, Oksana Masters has won an incredible 24 career medals, competing for the U.S. across a range of sports-cross-country skiing, biathlon, cycling, and rowing-at both the Winter and Summer Games. In the lead-up to the Milano Cortina Paralympic Games in March, the 36-year-old had dealt with a July 2025 hand surgery, a bone infection, a concussion, and other complications.

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