A new study reveals that the Milky Way’s central black hole is spinning at nearly maximum speed and is oriented almost directly toward Earth. The research used USC ISI’s Pegasus workflow, developed by Ewa Deelman, to manage the massive data processing involved. Pegasus was also featured in an earlier project on black hole analysis.

New $5M NSF Award Will Power PegasusAI, an AI-Driven Workflow System to Accelerate Science from the Edge to the Cloud and High-Performance Computing

From foundation models to global AI regulation, the expert panel examined the trends, challenges, and opportunities highlighted in this year’s AI Index report

Study finds Perspective API rates German text as more toxic than other languages, which could result in German-language users being censored four times more often than English-language users

USC/ISI researchers examine who gets influenced online and why, in award-winning research recognized at ICWSM 2025.

Papers explore the struggles of AI teaching, authorship, AI safety, and the limits of language models in interviews and mime.

A study by ISI researchers was referenced.

In 1972, following the release of the Pentagon Papers, a small institute in Los Angeles was given the power to design, develop and run the Internet. What followed was one of the greatest explosions of information in human history.

Yolanda Gil, Principal Scientist and Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives in AI and Data Science at ISI, is interviewed in the LA Times about the Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan.

EP. 17 | ISI’s Artificial Intelligence director, anthropologist Adam Russell, gets to know researchers from across the institute. This week: Steve Crago