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. …
26.06.2026
Research Stay at National University of Singapore
Bailiang Jian – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
During my academic visit to Singapore. I am happy to work with the MVI-Lab lead by Prof. Hongwei Bran Li. The group works on a wide range of topics in medical image analysis, including CT-PET imaging …
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. …
21.05.2026
Björn Ommer Featured in Bavaria’s AI Initiative on Tagesschau
Towards More Efficient and Accessible AI Systems in Bavaria
MCML PI Björn Ommer was featured in a Tagesschau article on Bavaria’s new large-scale AI initiative, which includes more than €50 million in investment for high-performance Nvidia GPUs to support the …
21.05.2026
Björn Eskofier Featured in Heise Online
Interdisciplinary AI Approaches in Healthcare Discussed at Digital Health Innovation Forum in Potsdam
MCML PI Björn Eskofier participated in the panel discussion “How Research Scientists Build Health AI” at the Digital Health Innovation Forum hosted by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam. …
20.05.2026
MCML Members Recognized in Research.com 2026 Computer Science Ranking
Three Researchers Secure Top 10 Spots in Germany
We are pleased to announce that several MCML Principal Investigators have been named among Germany’s Best Computer Science Scientists for 2026 by Research.com. The ranking is based on the Discipline …
11.05.2026
Cordelia Schmid Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung
Teaching Robots to See and Interact With Their Environment
Cordelia Schmid, member of the MCML Advisory Board, was recently featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung. The article focuses on her work in computer vision and robotics, including how AI helps robots …
08.05.2026
Right Answer, Wrong Reasoning - Is AI Thinking or Cheating?
MCML Research Insight – With Xinpeng Wang and Barbara Plank
Imagine a student solving a math problem. The steps look perfectly logical, neatly written, and convincing. But in reality, the student already knew the answer and simply worked backwards to justify …
07.05.2026
Digdeep Podcast: China Speed Or Fight for Survival – What Does the Beijing Auto Show Show Us, Augustin Friedel?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep automobile expert Augustin Friedel talks about the Beijing Auto Show. The Beijing Auto Show has become the world’s largest automobile show, with over 1,800 vehicles and more …
07.05.2026
Matthias Niessner Featured in Handelsblatt Disrupt Podcast
World Models and the Future of Robotics
MCML PI Matthias Niessner joined the Handelsblatt Disrupt podcast to discuss the growing hype around “World Models”, AI systems capable of understanding and recreating the world in 3D. In conversation …
06.05.2026
MCML Research Forum Kicks Off With First Session
A Space for Early-Stage Research and Collaborative Discussion
The first session of the MCML Research Forum marked a successful kickoff of this new initiative. Participants received an introduction to the concept of edge of stability, along with insights into …
06.05.2026
MemAgents Workshop at ICLR 2026
Interational Workshop Co-Organized by Hinrich Schütze, Yunpu Ma and Ercong Nie
The workshop Memory for LLM-Based Agentic Systems (MemAgents), co-located with ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, focused on the role of memory in long-horizon AI agents. As LLMs evolve into agentic systems, …
