KAUST ·
Students from the KAUST School volunteered to assemble gift boxes for families in Thuwal as part of the "Sharing is Caring" campaign. The activity was organized to celebrate Eid. Why it matters: This highlights community engagement by a leading STEM university in Saudi Arabia.
KAUST ·
KAUST held its third annual Plant Science Family Night on February 19, 2025, hosting over 1,000 attendees from the KAUST community. The event featured 25 interactive stations covering topics like composting, genetics, recycling, and irrigation. Participants included representatives from the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Food Security, the KAUST School, and other organizations. Why it matters: This event promotes STEM education and engagement with sustainability issues among families in the KAUST community.
arXiv ·
MBZUAI researchers introduce SocialMaze, a new benchmark for evaluating social reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). SocialMaze includes six diverse tasks across social reasoning games, daily-life interactions, and digital community platforms, emphasizing deep reasoning, dynamic interaction, and information uncertainty. Experiments show that LLMs vary in handling dynamic interactions, degrade under uncertainty, but can be improved via fine-tuning on curated reasoning examples.
Oman AI ·
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KAUST ·
KAUST is celebrating Saudi Arabia hosting World Environment Day 2024 by highlighting two KAUST startups: Terraxy and iyris. Terraxy produces Carbosoil, a soil amendment that renders sandy soils amenable for food production and greening. iyris designs technologies like greenhouse covers and shade nets to help growers increase crop yields and reduce input costs. Why it matters: These startups demonstrate Saudi Arabia's commitment to environmental sustainability through innovative, homegrown solutions, aligning with the Kingdom's Vision 2030 goals for greening the nation and reducing organic waste.