Matt Swayne

Editorial Director, AI Insider

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Matt Swayne

Editorial Director, AI Insider

Matt serves as Editorial Director at AI Insider and across the Resonance group of publications. With several decades of experience in journalism and science communication, he has worked as a science communicator at an R1 research university for more than 12 years. He is currently a teaching professor at Penn State University, where he also develops courses to improve the media and communications skills of scientists.

At AI Insider, Matt oversees editorial strategy and content production across the AI verticals: generative AI, foundation models, AI infrastructure, machine learning research, capital markets, and national AI policy. His cross-vertical role across Resonance — spanning AI, quantum, and space — gives AI Insider’s coverage a distinctive deep-tech lens, treating AI as one of several converging frontier-technology transitions rather than in isolation.

Areas of Expertise

Recent Articles

AI Study
AI Researchers Find Shortcut to Tuning Prediction Models

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Neural networks, a fascinating technology inspired by the human brain, form the basis of artificial intelligence. These networks consist of

Thermo
Beyond GPUs? Researchers Propose New Computing Architecture to Cut AI Energy Use

Insider Brief As artificial intelligence drives an unprecedented expansion of power-hungry data centers, researchers are increasingly looking beyond graphics processing units (GPUs) for new ways

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Google AI Tool Finds Flaws in Scientific Papers Before Peer Review

Insider Brief Google researchers say an AI system built to review scientific papers found nearly 90% of certain mathematical and computer science errors in a

AI agents
Qwen Study Finds World Modeling Can Improve General-Purpose AI Agents

Insider Brief Qwen researchers say they have built a language-based world model that can simulate how digital environments respond to AI agents, a step that

Do As I Do
Berkeley Researchers Turn Everyday Videos Into Robot Training Data

Insider Brief Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have built software that converts ordinary videos of people using their hands into data that can

Hexo Labs
Hexo Labs Advances Self-Improving AI With System That Rewrites Its Software and Retrains Itself

Insider Brief One of artificial intelligence’s longest-running challenges is building systems that can improve both how they operate and what they know without requiring constant

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Google DeepMind Maps Four Routes From Human-Level AI to Superintelligence

Insider Brief A team of Google DeepMind researchers has laid out four ways that human-level artificial intelligence could push beyond people into superintelligence, and cautioned

Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Study Finds Faster Path for AI-Powered Molecular Dynamics

Insider Brief A new machine-learning approach could significantly speed up molecular dynamics simulations, a development that may help researchers study biological systems, materials and drug

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Autonomous AI Lab Takes Aim at Quantum Materials Discovery

Insider Brief An autonomous quantum materials research system has taken a step toward turning AI from a digital assistant into a physical laboratory scientist by

AI Fundraisers
Study Finds AI Can Write Fundraising Appeals Nearly as Well as Humans

Insider Brief Artificial intelligence may now be capable of writing nonprofit fundraising appeals that persuade audiences nearly as well as trained human communicators, according to

Fractile
Fractile Raises $220 Million to Build The Next Generation of Inference Hardware 

Insider Brief London-based AI chip startup Fractile announced in a company blog post it raised $220 million in a funding round led by Accel, Factorial

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Beyond Threats: AI Researchers Call for Systems Designed to Support Human Flourishing

Insider Brief A new paper from researchers affiliated with Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic and several universities reports that the artificial intelligence industry is too focused

Global AI Life Sciences
Study Finds AI Competitiveness in Life Sciences Depends on Data, Regulation And Capital

Insider Brief Artificial intelligence is moving from laboratory experiments into the core infrastructure of drug discovery, healthcare delivery and preventive medicine, according to a new

QuTwo
QuTwo Raises €25 Million at $380 Million Valuation to Build Europe-Focused Enterprise AI Platform

Insider Brief European AI startup QuTwo raised a €25 million angel financing round, increasing its valuation of roughly $380 million, TechCrunch is reporting. The round

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RxLogix Launches Agentic AI Solution for Monitoring Drug Safety and Tracking Adverse Events

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — RxLogix Corporation today announced the launch of PVOne.AI, the fourth generation of the product that now includes Agentic AI capabilities designed to advance intelligent automation and decision support across

Matt is part of the AI Insider editorial team. Read our editorial standards to learn how we maintain accuracy and independence. AI Insider is a platform within Resonance.

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