Did you know that just 15 minutes spent in nature can help reduce stress, improve focus, and support overall well-being? 🌿 Discover places to unwind and explore around the Cornell Tech campus with the NatureRx initiative: https://tech.cornell.edu/nature-rx-alt/

AI can generate images of people. Generating pictures of realistic interactions between people is a bigger challenge. New research from Cornell Tech and @cornellbowers.bsky.social introduces a method for creating more believable multi-person scenes: https://bit.ly/4pQJsLh #CornellAI

Strike a pose: Creating more realistic multi-person images | Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell research group has devised a way to generate an image of multiple people, incorporating the poses of all individuals to inform the image generation and make the scene more believable and acc...

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Congratulations to all of our Summer Innovation Intensives students on a successful end of program showcase — we can't wait to see what you accomplish next!

Spotlighting Our Summer Researchers 👟✨ Meet Alexandra Davidescu, a participant in the Macaulay Honors College CUNY Honors Connect at Cornell Tech Summer Research Opportunity Program, analyzing running shoe wear patterns to help inform the design of future running shoes.

Cornell Tech's Chief of Health Innovation Tanzeem Choudhury was featured on CBS News, discussing OpenAI's new Health in ChatGPT feature and the growing role of AI in healthcare: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-health-medical-records-advice-expert-risks/ @cornellbowers.bsky.social #CornellAI

ChatGPT now has a space for sharing medical records. Should you?

OpenAI announced a dedicated space in ChatGPT for sharing medical records, Health in ChatGPT. Health and AI experts lay out the pros and cons.

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Backslash at Cornell Tech has announced its 2026–27 artist cohort, its largest to date. Artists will explore emerging technologies, collaborate with Cornell faculty and students, and engage NYC communities through exhibitions and conversations. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4h2KjGA

Weak AI regulation may backfire, making products less safe than no regulation at all, according to research from Cornell Tech, Cornell Bowers, and Carnegie Mellon. The study finds that thoughtfully designed AI regulation can improve safety outcomes: https://bit.ly/4fazlNS

Congrats to Assistant Professor Omid Rafieian, who is a recipient of the 2026 V. "Seenu" Srinivasan Young Scholar Award in Quantitative Marketing!👏 Read more: https://bit.ly/4bCC9AX #CornellAI @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social

Congrats to Prof. Ramin Zabih and @cornellbowers.bsky.social Ph.D. student Ali Behrouz, Ph.D. student Farnoosh Hashemi, and master's student Daniel Cao on being selected for a Laude Slingshot Award! Learn more about their project, Open ATLAS: https://bit.ly/4wtrFfe #CornellAI

Slingshots // THREE

Thirteen projects from 12 institutions in the US and Canada, working on local inference, architectural innovation, continual learning, and agentic systems. The work ranges from benchmarks designed to ...

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Congrats to @victorjalil.bsky.social, a Runway Postdoc at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and CEO and founder of @mpulsetech.bsky.social, who has been honored with the Britton Chance Award at ISOTT 2026! Learn more about the award: https://isott.org/awards/

@cornelluniversity.bsky.social is partnering with global law firm Reed Smith to launch the Reed Smith Artificial Intelligence Leadership Program at the Cornell Tech campus this September. @cornelllaw.bsky.social Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4eUqPm6

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We welcomed 58 students from 46 schools across the NYC area, with a few from across the US, to the inaugural Summer Innovation Intensives cohort. The program encourages exploring AI, ethical coding, data science, and product innovation – we can’t wait to see what they build!

Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and @cornellbowers.bsky.social, talked with @marketwatch.com about the dangers of sharing your financial info with chatbots. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/4vlUSI8 #CornellAI

Prof. Matthew D’Amore, Director of the Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell Tech and @cornelllaw.bsky.social, writes about how Colorado’s new AI bias law raises new challenges for trade secret protections in Bloomberg Law. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/3R7wa0a #CornellAI

Congratulations to Professor Vitaly Shmatikov of Cornell Tech and @cornellbowers.bsky.social, who has received a Test of Time Award from @sp.ieee-security.org! The Test of Time Award recognizes research that continues to shape the field years after its publication. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3R4gb2W

Vitaly Shmatikov Honored With Test of Time Award

A paper by Vitaly Shmatikov is honored for its enduring influence on researchers' understanding of privacy risks in large social networks.

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Congrats to Prof. Matt Marx on his appointment as the new Vice Provost for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and External Engagement! In his new role, Marx will work on entrepreneurship programs across Ithaca, Cornell Tech, and Weill Cornell Medicine. Read more: https://bit.ly/4fecCAo #CornellAI

Matt Marx named vice provost for entrepreneurship, innovation and external engagement | Cornell Chronicle

Marx will establish and serve as inaugural director of the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to boost university efforts to commercialize breakthrough scientific discoveries.

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Dean & Vice Provost Greg Morrisett welcomed Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels and NYCPS leaders to the annual @nycschools.bsky.social Superintendent Retreat. Our K-12 team presented on Computational Making with Microbits, showing how students can combine coding with hands-on making.

During 9 years in the US Marine Corps, Harold Reed was responsible for complex systems, high-stakes decisions, and the people behind them. Now, as a 2026 JCTMBA graduate, he is applying that experience to building and leading within the technology sector. https://bit.ly/4feGeh2

From Marine Corps to Cornell Tech: Harold Reed

During nine years in the United States Marine Corps, Harold Reed was responsible for complex systems and high-stakes decisions.

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Cornell Tech welcomed @newyorkfed.org President John C. Williams to campus for conversations with leadership, faculty, and Runway Startup Postdocs on innovation, entrepreneurship, and strengthening New York's economy through collaboration.

After 25 years at Cornell, arXiv is becoming an independent nonprofit to support long-term growth and flexibility. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4eBOp6S

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the inaugural Frontiers of AI Summit — and to the Secunda Family Foundation for helping bring this vision to life. Watch all the speakers on YouTube: https://bit.ly/4w4gx8r The next Frontiers of AI Summit at Cornell Tech will be on September 15, 2027!

Cornell Tech welcomed Partnership for NYC President and CEO @stevenfulop.bsky.social to discuss opportunities to strengthen NYC’s innovation ecosystem through Partnership Initiatives like Innovation + Investments and Innovation Labs. #NYCTech #NYCInnovation

Recently, Cornell Tech staff visited the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association Gallery to view its 2026 Pride Month Exhibition. Special thanks to exhibition curator Thom Heyer, a frequent collaborator at CRAFT @ Large at Cornell Tech's MakerLAB, for leading a tour exploring the featured artists.

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Noah Snavely on receiving the 2026 PAMI Thomas S. Huang Memorial Prize — a top honor recognizing career contributions in computer vision and image processing. @cornellbowers.bsky.social Learn more about the award: https://bit.ly/43u91rk

Cornell Tech researchers, alongside collaborators from Princeton, Yale, and beyond, have released an @initc3org.bsky.social survey examining the intersection of crypto and AI — cutting through hype to map risks, opportunities, and what comes next: https://bit.ly/4vBznno

Computer Scientists Publish Landmark Survey on Crypto x AI Convergence

IC3’s new survey on the crypto-AI intersection separates hype from scientific reality, highlighting security risks and open research problems....

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Congratulations to Cornell Tech master’s student Aymaan Shaikh on being selected for the inaugural Arc Institute AIxBio Fellows Program, supporting cutting-edge projects at the intersection of AI and biology. @cornellbowers.bsky.social Learn more about his project: https://bit.ly/4xnDc1a

Introducing the 2026 Arc AIxBio Fellows | Arc Institute

Some of the most exciting AI projects I have worked on started not with graduate students or postdocs in my lab, but with undergraduates driven by raw curiosity and technical ambition. So when we laun...

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Please join us in welcoming the 2026 CUNY Honors Connect at Cornell Tech Summer Research Opportunity Program cohort! 🎉 This summer, Macaulay Honors College students will dive into research, collaborate with mentors, and explore today's most important challenges in tech and society. @cuny.edu

Researchers at Cornell Tech and @cornellbowers.bsky.social have created an AI framework, ShadowDraw, that can create “shadow art” – partial line drawings that are completed by the shadow cast from an object – by simply scanning it. Learn more in the Cornell Chronicle: https://bit.ly/43TQFAa

Last week, we welcomed the Johnson Cornell Tech MBA Class of 2027 to campus for New Student Orientation! It was exciting to meet this talented new cohort and watch them begin building connections with one another as they embark on their MBA journey. 🐻❤️ @scjohnsoncollege.bsky.social

A Cornell Tech team competed among over 3k applicants across 50+ countries in the Global K2 Think Hackathon, hosted at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. They built CarePilot, an AI-powered healthcare assistant designed to automate billing, scheduling & patient lab explanations. #CornellAI