19.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Does Europe Have Anything Else to Say About AI, Aljoscha Burchardt?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep Aljoscha Burchardt talks about whether Europe still has a voice in the AI debate. Four years after ChatGPT’s breakthrough, the question is whether Europe has already fallen …
19.06.2026
FIFA World Cup: How Well Can AI Predict Sports Results?
In a New Project, LMU Researchers Are Putting Different Large Language Models Head-to-Head to Find Out Which One Delivers the Most Accurate Predictions.
Who will win the FIFA World Cup 2026? LLM SoccerArena is a new project that is kicking off shortly at LMU, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cologne and Paderborn University. …
12.06.2026
MCML PI Tom Sterkenburg Receives 2026 Simon Award
Awarded for Research in Computing, Philosophy, and Machine Learning
MCML PI Tom Sterkenburg has been awarded the 2026 Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), recognizing …
12.06.2026
MCML Members Receive IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026 DriveX Best Paper Award
Award-Winning Work on Multi-View 3D Object Detection in Autonomous Systems
MCML Director Daniel Cremers and MCML Junior Members Malaz Tamim and Johannes Meier have received the IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026 DriveX Best Paper Award for their work on 3D object detection in autonomous …
12.06.2026
Matthias Althoff Featured in Handelsblatt
Sitegeist Develops Robots for Infrastructure Repair
MCML PI Matthias Althoff is co-founder of the Munich-based startup Sitegeist, which is developing autonomous robotic systems for the rehabilitation of aging infrastructure. The company’s modular …
10.06.2026
How Should Researchers Report Their Use of LLMs?
MCML Research Insight – With Stefan Feuerriegel, Barbara Plank, Kerstin Forster, Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, Sebastian Maier
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming part of scientific research. They can generate text, analyze data, simulate participants, and support researchers in entirely new ways. But there …
05.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: AI in Schools – Are We Switching Off Our Thinking or Really Turning It On?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep Jochen Kuhn and Florian Karsten talk again about AI in schools and the new developments. They discusses how rapidly the debate about artificial intelligence in schools has …
29.05.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Why Shouldn’t Women Be Afraid of STEM, Claudia Zech?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep physicist and science communicator Claudia Zech talks about women in STEM and why young women should not be afraid of pursuing careers in science and technology. Women are …
28.05.2026
Germany’s AI Strategy: Powering Up the National Network
How a National Network Is Shaping the Country's New Tech Roadmap and Global Position
In a recent article in Tagesspiegel Background, journalists Manfred Ronzheimer and Oliver Voß discuss Germany’s AI strategy. In their view, while a comprehensive national AI strategy is still pending, …
28.05.2026
Angela Schöllig Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Exploring Physical Intuition and the Limits of Language Models
MCML PI Angela Schöllig was recently featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung discussing whether current language models have hit a dead end. Schöllig explored why AI systems excel at complex cognitive tasks …
27.05.2026
Medical Diagnoses: How AI Explanations Help Doctors
Stefan Feuerriegel Shows That AI Models Like ChatGPT Can Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Radiology
That the Universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion remains hotly debated, even challenging the standard model of cosmology. A …
27.05.2026
Daniel Cremers Featured in Everlast AI
Discussing World Models, Autonomous Driving, and Europe’s AI Future
MCML Director Daniel Cremers was featured in an interview on the tech channel Everlast AI to discuss why the next major breakthrough in artificial intelligence will not be ChatGPT, but World Models. …
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