KInIT at AI Build Week 3. Aug 2026There is no shortage of information about AI today. The field is evolving quickly, and there is always something new to learn. But some things cannot be learned from articles…
The DSA’s Blind Spot: Ads Teenagers Still See on TikTok 20. Jul 2026Anyone who works with children professionally, teachers, coaches, youth workers, goes through a background check first. We regulate playground equipment for safety. In several EU countries, junk food ads are…
SVOP: Improving document retrieval accuracy through semantic search 17. Jul 2026The goal of the project was to improve full-text search to return more accurate results. Traditional word-based search approaches were to be replaced by semantic search, a method that compares…
Voltia: Electric Cars as Strategic Asset for Energy Aggregators 10. Jul 2026Voltia provides energy services for electric vehicle users, focusing on smart and cost-efficient charging that takes advantage of electricity market dynamics and grid flexibility. The goal is to go beyond…
Slovakia’s Story Doesn’t End at Its Borders: Slovaks in Czechia on Talent, Artificial Intelligence, and Their Connection to Home 9. Jul 2026On Thursday afternoon, June 18, Slovak could be heard in every corner of Prague’s Atlas cinema, in the underground gallery of filmmaker and designer Karel Vachek’s work, in the foyer…
Slovak language now has open AI models that run locally and match the quality of commercial APIs 9. Jul 2026Slovak researchers have developed SkMTEB, the first comprehensive benchmark for measuring how well artificial intelligence models understand and process Slovak text. The project also introduces two new openly available models…
How Students Help (Us) Audit Social Media Recommendation Algorithms 23. Jun 2026Pytlík, M., Macák, E., Tvaroh, M. During September 2025, students from the DELTA Secondary School of Informatics and Economics in Pardubice, Czech Republic, took part in an internship in KInIT,…
What do children see on TikTok? 7. May 2026What happens to the For You Page of a 16-year-old girl interested in beauty content after ten days on TikTok? Does it look different from an adult’s? Is it just…
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): A Critical Review of Limitations and Flaws 20. Mar 2026TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE) is marketed as a secure, cloud-based platform for approved researchers and developers to analyze public TikTok data. In the previous blog, we introduced how such…
Exploring TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (VCE): How It Should Work 20. Mar 2026In our previous blogs, first, we described how we applied for TikTok research API, and then how (after rejections, appeals, and exhausting communication with TikTok support), we finally received a…
When Research APIs Close the Door: When you finally get it, it is not what you have asked for 19. Dec 2025In the previous blog, we described a timeline of how we applied for TikTok research data access (API) and kept communicating with TikTok for 1.5 years, and had not received…
Multimodal Fact-Check Retrieval 14. Sep 2025In the two previous installments of our 3-part series, we covered how a text embedding model (TEM) can help fact-checkers to cut down on duplicate effort by retrieving existing fact-checks…
Vedátor’s podcast about AI with Róbert Móro 17. Jul 2024This special episode includes a discussion with the founder of Vedátor project Samuel Kováčik, a member of his team Jozef Kleberc and our researcher Róbert Móro. It delves into the…
Peter Pištek on the Sointron podcast 9. Nov 2023Our researcher Peter Pištek was a guest in the 18th episode of the Soitron podcast “Local guest”. This episode centered around the topic of ChatGPT and the significance of AI…
Veda Odpovedá podcast: Interview with Mária Bieliková 22. Nov 2022Listen to the interview with Mária Bieliková in the podcast Veda Odpovedá. This podcast is produced by the SOVVA organization in collaboration with the platform Žijem Vedu. All the guests…
Artificial intelligence against disinformation 14. Apr 2022Artificial intelligence has a huge potential in protecting the online space. Listen to the Disinfo Report podcast by Infosecurity.sk, in which Mária Bieliková answers these questions: What is the role…
E-tika podcast – two seasons of an open dialogue on ethics in the digital space 26. Dec 2021In the E-tika podcast, we set ourselves the goal to open up the topics of the social impact of digital technologies. Over two seasons, together with our guests, we have…
E-tika podcast – (Un)ethical biometrics 15. Dec 2021Biometric systems can improve the quality of our lives in many ways. They help us ensure safe and barrier-free access to airports or football stadiums, but also to our own…
What Do We Know (and Not Know) About AI’s Environmental Impact? Peter Pavlík Featured in a Student Documentary 17. Jul 2026Artificial intelligence is increasingly associated with questions about electricity and water consumption. Although its environmental impact is being discussed more than ever before, we still lack precise data on the…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Hidden prejudices 3. Mar 2026Our collaboration with Quark magazine continues with another article in the series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular science magazine dedicated to science and technology, where you can…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Linguistic inequalities 3. Feb 2026We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you a new article from our series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular-science magazine dedicated to science and technology, where…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Digital humanism 12. Jan 2026We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you a new article from our series focused on intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak popular-science magazine dedicated to science and technology,…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Moral sensitivity 8. Dec 2025We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you yet another interesting article from our series exploring intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak magazine focused on the fields of science…
KInIT in Quark magazine: Reliable barriers 5. Nov 2025We continue our partnership with the Quark magazine and bring you yet another interesting article from our series exploring intelligent technologies. Quark is a Slovak magazine focused on the fields of science…
Building a More Inclusive Recruitment ProcessOur HR team, together with hiring managers from our institute, took part in an inclusive recruitment workshop held at Maxman Consultants in Bratislava on 10 June and 15 July 2026….
Better_AI_Meetup on Deep Thinking: Reinforcement Learning and Benchmarking for Better LLMsJoin Better_AI_Meetup, a space for AI designers, builders, and everyone who believes AI can make a positive difference. What actually makes a language model better? Is it more data, a…
Symposium “How Design Choices Affect Human-AI Interaction”The way we design AI systems influences far more than how they work. It shapes how people interact with them, how much they trust them, and how they fit into…
Quo vadis slovaks.ai? Expert Forum Opened a Discussion on the Future of the Slovak AI CommunityOn 12 June 2026, the online expert forum Quo vadis slovaks.ai? reviewed the results achieved so far within the slovaks.ai project and opened a discussion on its future direction. The…
Seminar on Recommender SystemsDuring this seminar, we will introduce and discuss results of research in recommender systems carried out at KInIT. In the first part, Santiago de Leon-Martinez will talk about the interface-aware…
Slovak NLP Community Meeting #4Program 12:30 Opening of the academic session12:30 Roundtable discussion (academic partners)13:30 Coffee break, arrival of industry partners14:00 Opening of the joint session (academic and industrial partners)14:00 Introduction to the SK…
What Do We Know (and Not Know) About AI’s Environmental Impact? Peter Pavlík Featured in a Student Documentary 17. Jul 2026Artificial intelligence is increasingly associated with questions about electricity and water consumption. Although its environmental impact is being discussed more than ever before, we still lack precise data on the…
KInIT News: Talent support & PhD opportunity 11. Mar 2026Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we take a closer look at our work with young researchers and talented interns. Read more about our PhD…
KInIT News: Stepping into 2026 11. Jan 2026Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we talk about stepping into a new year, taking a moment to reflect on how artificial intelligence shaped 2025….
KInIT News: Retrospective – 5 years of scaling our impact and team 18. Dec 2025Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we talk about what we achieved in 5 years and share with you how we celebrated it. Read more…
KInIT News: Meet the lorAI project! 5. Nov 2025Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we introduce our newest lorAI project and share with you how we celebrated its launch. Read the special May…
KInIT News: AI Awards 2025 5. Nov 2025Get to know our institute better with our newsletter, in which we share the climax of this year’s AI Awards and introduce the finalists. Read the special May edition of…
