Jamillah Knowles & Digit / Pink Office / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Yolanda Gil is a professor at the University of Southern California, where she also serves as Senior Director for major strategic AI and data science initiatives. From 2018 – 2020, she was president of AAAI. In her invited talk at AAAI 2026, she […]
The latest interview in our series with the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants features Thi Kieu Khanh Ho who is studying time-series anomaly detection. We found out more about her research, and what inspired her to study AI, and what she plans to work on next. Tell us a bit about your PhD — where are […]
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Most organizations are struggling to use AI insights. Even as it’s been easier than ever to produce predictions, recommendations and scores, many data science and business teams end up with a stockpile of unused information that doesn’t drive meaningful transformation. Decision intelligence helps organizations bridge that gap by embedding insights [...]
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Joudy Bourghli & The Bigger Picture / The Omnipresent Tapestry / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics. Members […]
Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll be talking to some of the 2026 AAAI Fellows. In this interview, we met with Tanya Berger-Wolf, who was elected […]
A US federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa petitions was unlawful, giving technology companies temporary relief from a policy that threatened to raise the cost of hiring foreign skilled workers.
The decision removes, at least for now, a major cost burden for employers that use the H-1B program to fill roles in domains including software development, cloud computing, data science, and AI.
US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston found that the fee functioned as a tax that the administration did not have authority to impose without congressional approval. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the fee.
Standard employer costs for H-1B petitions typically range from about $2,000 to $5,000, making the proposed $100,000 payment a sharp increase for companies seeking foreign talent.
The ruling is unlikely to end uncertainty for employers, with the Trump administration expected to appeal. But it