Scientific American

How working memory could give rise to consciousness

Working memory is the information we need to access to complete the tasks we’re engaged in right now, and scientists think it ...

Consciousness: How 'working memory' may mysteriously give rise to it

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your ...
Education Week

Congress Is Working on a New K-12 Budget. See What’s Proposed for Key Programs

Congress has kicked off negotiations over the federal budget, and lawmakers are poised to clash over whether and how much to cut education investments for the 2027-28 school year. The House ...
VentureBeat

MeMo's memory model lets teams upgrade their LLM without retraining it — and performance jumps 26%

Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits. MeMo, a ...
VentureBeat

MIT's MeMo lets teams swap in a better LLM without retraining — and performance jumps 26%

Enabling LLMs to acquire new knowledge after training remains a major hurdle for enterprise AI — current solutions are either too expensive, too slow, or constrained by context window limits. MeMo, a ...
Frontiers

A new AI paradigm for groundwater level prediction: integrating the AlphaEarth foundations model in the Leizhou Peninsula

Accurate spatial prediction of groundwater level is crucial for sustainable resource management but remains challenging in coastal regions like the Leizhou Peninsula due to sparse monitoring wells and ...
Ars Technica

First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it’s working on a new small EV

One of life’s abiding mysteries—at least to this writer—has been Tesla’s enduring success over recent years despite offering so few choices for customers. With the death of the low-volume and ...
CNBC

A Google AI breakthrough is pressuring memory chip stocks from Samsung to Micron

Google said this week that its research on a new compression method could reduce the amount of memory required to run large language models by six times. SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron shares fell as ...
TechCrunch

Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what ...
USA Today

When do new 'Memory of a Killer' episodes release? See schedule.

Spoiler alert! This story includes details from Episodes 1 to 7 of Fox's "Memory of a Killer." Things are getting really messy for "Memory of a Killer's" Angelo Doyle (Patrick Dempsey) as he battles ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Patrick Dempsey Explains His Darker TV Return With ‘Memory of a Killer’: “I Don’t Get This Type of Character Offered Often”

The star and executive producer dives into his role as a contracted killer battling early onset Alzheimer’s in the Fox psychological thriller series, while also paying tribute to his late 'Grey's ...