The 34rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-25) took place in Montréal, Canada, from 16-22 August. The programme featured keynote talks, tutorials, workshops, competitions, and oral and poster presentations. Find out what the participants got up to during the main part of the conference. Part one of our round-up can be found here. Cynthia Rudin addressed the squishiness of interpretability in machine learning during her winning talk as the recipient of the IJCAI 2025 McCarthy Award.

The 34rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-25) is currently taking place in Montréal, Canada. The first couple of days saw the attendees enjoy some of the many tutorials and workshops on offer, with the doctoral consortium also being held. The official opening ceremony took place this morning (Tuesday 19 August). Find out what the participants have been getting up to so far. Find out more about what the event has in store: @ijcai.org