ScienceAI disqualification gives Nikon Small World in Motion a new winner

Nikon found that Ning Xu of Tsinghua University violated competition rules and removed Xu as the winner. Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam now takes first place with a video of a tiny roundworm and a single-celled organism. Xu said AI helped distinguish and visualize features in reconstructed grayscale images, but denied using it to generate the experimental movie, cilia or their motion.

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AArs Technica★★☆☆☆2026-10-09 18:44Original