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The Web Wasn’t Built for This HTTP, TCP/IP, HTML — the protocols holding the internet together were designed for a person clicking links and filling out forms. The splinternet of agents is what happens when that assumption stops holding. Most machine-to-machine traffic still runs on formats shaped for humans: JSON APIs built around predictable requests, […]
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Storage That Uses the Whole Cube, Not Just the Surface Holographic optical data storage is a technology that stores information throughout an entire three-dimensional volume instead of across a flat surface. That’s a real departure from how hard drives, SSDs, and even old Blu-ray discs work. No matter how the marketing spins it, every one
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Introduction: Most AI Chips Waste Enormous Energy Doing Nothing Useful Neuromorphic computing takes a brain-inspired approach to hardware, and it solves a problem most people never think about: conventional AI chips process data nonstop, tick after tick of the clock, whether or not anything worth noticing is actually happening. Point a camera-based AI system at
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The encryption holding everything together won’t last forever Post quantum cryptography exists because the encryption protecting nearly everything you do online has an expiration date. Checking a bank balance. Sending a message. Buying something. Logging into email. All of it relies on math that’s hard enough to break that a supercomputer would need longer than
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Nobody’s in Charge — And That’s the Point Decentralized swarm intelligence AI is the idea that could finally make it possible to build enormous structures in space — solar power satellites, orbital habitats, telescopes the size of a football stadium — without a single controller running the show. And for space, that matters, because the
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Turning Noise Into Computation Thermodynamic computing ambient heat is the idea that a chip can run AI calculations using nothing but the random thermal jitter already present in any warm object. Every piece of electronics on the planet fights this jitter. Engineers spend decades designing it out of circuits, because it gets in the way
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AI discovering new physics sounds like science fiction, but it’s already happening in labs around the world. Human physicists are stuck with human brains. We think in three dimensions, we reason from forces we can feel, and we build mental models from a universe we can watch with our own eyes. Machine learning systems don’t
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The Line Between Machine and Tissue Is Getting Blurry Computing has meant silicon for seventy-odd years. Transistors etched into wafers. Electrons herded through circuits. But a small, odd corner of research is asking a different question. What if the most efficient computer we could build isn’t silicon at all? What if it’s living brain tissue
Wetware Computing Organoid Intelligence: How Human Brain Cells Are Learning to Power AI Read More »
The internet is running out of fresh material For years, the recipe behind better language models was simple. Feed a bigger model more internet text, and it improved. That recipe worked well. Then researchers hit a limit nobody had planned for. There’s only so much high-quality, human-written text on the open web. Some researchers now
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Photonic computing AI chips are emerging as one of the most promising answers to a problem that’s been quietly limiting AI for years: electrons generate heat, and heat is expensive. These light-based chips swap electron flow for photons, and the shift could change how fast — and how efficiently — the next generation of neural
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