10.07.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Can AI Save Our Legal System From Collapse, Viktor Von Essen (Libra)?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep, Viktor von Essen talks about AI and our legal system. This talk explains why Legal Tech is becoming increasingly important due to overloaded legal systems and the growing …
09.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma Earns Best Paper and SAC Highlight Awards at ACL 2026
Bolei Ma Receives Two ACL 2026 Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing
MCML Junior Member Bolei Ma received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2026 for “The Imperfective Paradox in LLMs” and an SAC Highlight Award for the survey “Table Question Answering in the Era of Large …
09.07.2026
Benjamin Lange Introduces AI to Elementary School Students
Benjamin Lange Introduces Elementary School Students to Artificial Intelligence and Answers Their Questions About How AI Works.
MCML PI Benjamin Lange recently welcomed a group of elementary school students from the Städtisches Haus für Kinder am Hollerbusch as part of BR’s MünchenHören 2026 project, KI macht Schule. Together, …
08.07.2026
How Autonomous Systems Learn to Understand Their Environment
Startup SE3 Labs Develops Spatial AI
Generative AI like ChatGPT can write text, generate images, and even write code. But when it comes to the physical world, these models reach their limits. They have only a limited understanding of …
08.07.2026
MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball Receives Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026
Their Work Examines the Dual-Use Potential of AI Alignment Methods
MCML Junior Member Sarah Ball and her co-author Phil Hackemann received the Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2026 this week in Seoul. Their award-winning position paper, “The alignment …
07.07.2026
Michael Hedderich Featured in the Deutschlandfunk
The Interview Highlights the Potential of Small Language Models for a More Efficient and Sustainable AI Future
MCML PI Michael Hedderich was featured in the Deutschlandfunk programme Computer und Kommunikation. In the interview, he discusses how Small Language Models (SLMs) offer an efficient and sustainable …
03.07.2026
Christian Kühn Receives Award From the Mathematics and Environment Foundation
His Work Provides Key Approaches to the Early Detection of Climate Risks and Strengthens Interdisciplinary Environmental Research
MCML PI Christian Kühn, Professor of Multiscale and Stochastic Dynamics at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology of the Technical University of Munich, received the award on June …
02.07.2026
Study Reveals Privacy Risks in Medical AI
Attackers Can Extract Information About Individual Patients From AI Models
AI models – for example, those used for cancer detection – are trained on patients’ health data. Even the mere fact that personal data has been incorporated into a model can have negative consequences …
30.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Live From Futuromondo With Dominik Tress: Organic Food for Kids, AI for the Rest
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this live episode of #digdeep, entrepreneur Dominik Tress talks about how artificial intelligence is transforming the organic food industry, recorded at the Futuromondo Cross Innovation Conference …
30.06.2026
All AI? An elephant with three legs and an ice cream stand with enough ice cream for everyone
AI Workshops at the Eching Municipal Library With MCML
We promise to explain the headline further down in this report! But let us start from the beginning: One thing is undisputed: AI has become an integral part of our everyday lives. To help primary …
30.06.2026
MCML Junior Members Featured in BR Abendschau
Jonas Schweisthal and Jonas Schröder Explain LLM SoccerArena
BR Abendschau recently featured LLM SoccerArena, a project from the group of MCML PI Stefan Feuerriegel at LMU Munich. In the segment, MCML Junior Members Jonas Schweisthal and Jonas Schröder were …
29.06.2026
Stefan Feuerriegel Featured in Tagesschau
Can AI Predict the FIFA World Cup?
Tagesschau recently featured MCML PI Stefan Feuerriegel and the LLM SoccerArena project, developed at LMU Munich in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cologne and Paderborn …
29.06.2026
Research Stay at Stanford University
Felix Dülmer – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
From March to May 2026, I had the opportunity to spend three months as a visiting researcher at Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Jeremy Dahl and the Ultrasound Imaging and Instrumentation Lab. …
