Ireland Technology News API

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            "description": "Research integrity experts commend arXiv’s crackdown on bogus AI-written citations but warn it may be impossible to police at scale",
            "content": "A major scientific repository’s decision to ban authors whose work contains “hallucinated” references written by generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been welcomed by research integrity campaigners despite concerns about how the policy can be ... [5204 chars]",
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            "content": "Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation. To augment this process, we introduce Co-Scientist, a multi-agent AI system built on Gemini for structured sc... [1264 chars]",
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