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Huawei and the ETH Cyber Group, a student initiative, are committed to combating the shortage of skilled workers with a 5G cybersecurity initiative. In addition to providing comprehensive insight into 5G security architectures, lecturers from Switzerland, Malaysia, the UK and China addressed other key aspects of cyber security, among them Dr Ralf Sasse, lecturer and senior scientist at D-INFK. 

Zalando wants customers to be able to try on clothes online. To this end, they are developing a virtual changing room in Zurich. The technology behind this comes from Zurich-based start-up and spin-off Fision, which was acquired by Zalando in 2020. Read article (in German).  

Tiktok is opening  its first office in Switzerland. Zurich scores highly with its economic stability, high quality of life and talent from all over the world – from ETH and ZHdK to a thriving start-up scene. Article in German.

DeepCode, an ETH Zurich / D-INFK spin-off acquired by Snyk in 2020, has been listed by Analytics Insight among the top 5 AI tolls for engineers to boost productivity. 

Sail Biomedicines’ Kerry Benenato and Rajesh Ramaswamy (ETH Computer Science alumnus) discuss efforts to leverage AI to decipher the biological and chemical codes that might resolve these issues, transforming a discovery process into an engineering project.

Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin travelled to Sofia on 7 May for a one-day visit. His programme included meetings with Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev and Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, as well as a visit to the renowned Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT), which was co-founded and architected by Martin Vechev, Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Cristian Grossmann, CEO D-INFK spin-off Beekeeper, discusses how to address the persistent retention crisis after survey reveals alarming turnover in manufacturing industry.  

Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs. The new research paper, titled "Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad," comes from a team of researchers at ETH Zurich and INSAIT at Sofia University led by doctoral student Ivo Petrov and Professor Martin Vechev.

Duolingo, co-founded by ETH alumnus Severin Hacker, plans to replace certain human workers with artificial intelligence (AI).  According to the CEO Luis von Ahn, some processes will have to be completely rethought or systems redesigned from scratch. Read article in German.