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USC Viterbi and Stevens new faculty: Ajey Jacob (top left), Haowei Shi (top center), Itay Hen (top right), Morley Mao (bottom left), Sasan Razmkhah (bottom center) and Scott Mahlke (bottom right) The USC Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence welcomes six new faculty members whose research advances the frontiers of artificial intelligence, computing and

Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed hopelessly far behind, while Meta, despite spending billions to revive its floundering AI ambitions, had yet to establish itself as a serious contender. Even the latest

Not every protein in the cell folds into a tidy, well-defined three-dimensional shape. A large and biologically crucial class of proteins, known as intrinsically disordered proteins and regions, remains flexible and structureless under normal physiological conditions, and that very flexibility is what allows them to switch gene activity on and off, mediate cellular stress responses