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BilAI at the Technology Talks Austria 2026

16.09.2026

This autumn’s Technology Talks Austria focused on “Empowering Europe: Technological Leadership for a Resilient Future”, with BilAI Board Member Prof. Robert Legenstein among the experts discussing the future of research and technology in Europe.
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BilAI Summer School 2026 at ESSAI: Connecting with Europe's AI Community

09.09.2026

Bringing together the BilAI community with Europe's largest broad AI summer school, this year's edition offered an exceptional environment for learning, interdisciplinary exchange, and international networking.
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BilAI Key Researcher Francesco Locatello receives an ERC Starting grant

03.09.2026

BilAI Key Researcher Francesco Locatello has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his Causal-AIM project, which aims to develop AI models capable of detecting and quantifying causality in scientific experiments across different types of data.
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Brain-Inspired AI: A new path to flexible, energy-efficient planning

28.07.2026

An international team around BilAI key researcher Wolfgang Maass and BilAI PhD Yukun Yang has introduced a groundbreaking brain-inspired AI approach, published in Nature Machine Intelligence, that enables flexible planning while achieving remarkable energy efficiency.
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Strengthening Diversity in AI Research: Women in BilAI connect locally and nationally

14.07.2026

Today, women make up around 25% of BilAI’s key researchers, exceeding the average of female researchers in AI worldwide. This commitment to strengthening diversity and visibility in AI research was recently reflected through BilAI’s participation in She goes AI – Connect in Vienna and the Women in…
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