Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons ...
Biometric Update

Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing

The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...
The Atlantic

How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition

In 1876, an editorial in Princeton’s newly founded campus newspaper, The Princetonian, argued against the use of proctors to monitor exams. Proctoring was “a means of bad moral education,” the author ...
Futurism

The Economics of Using AI to Churn Out Code Are Looking Worse Than Ever

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IEEE

IRIS: Low-Complexity High-Efficiency Neural Network Codec for Real-Time Audio Transmission

Abstract: The 2025 Low-Resource Audio Codec (LRAC) Challenge aims to advance the development of low-resource neural audio codec. It requires participating systems to achieve high-quality audio ...
NPR

In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path

It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...
Futurism

Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It

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Bleeping Computer

Claude Code source code accidentally leaked in NPM package

Anthropic says it accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code, which is closed source, but the company says no customer data or credentials were exposed. While Anthropic pledges support to the ...
TechCrunch

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales

As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a startup building AI agents for code review, testing, ...
Scientific American

Human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom

The Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently posted a video in which 200,000 living human neurons grown on a silicon chip played the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. The neuron-controlled main ...
Brown University

Artificial neural network reproduces gait patterns of four-legged animals

In research that could be useful in making more capable robots, Brown University mathematicians developed an artificial neural network that can dynamically reproduce all sorts of animal walking and ...
The New York Times

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network Just for A.I. Bots

Matt Schlicht, the site’s creator, helped kick off Silicon Valley’s obsession with artificial intelligence agents. Two months later, he is joining the Meta Superintelligence Lab. By Cade Metz ...