Supervised learning in DNA neural networks Summary This Nature paper reports an engineered DNA-based molecular system that performs supervised learning in vitro. The authors design and build a DNA strand-displacement…
Training of physical neural networks Summary Physical neural networks (PNNs) use analogue physical systems — optics, electronics, memristors, oscillators and other materials — to perform neural computations directly in hardware.…
Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimisation Summary The paper introduces the analog optical computer (AOC), an all-analog, hybrid opto-electronic platform that runs iterative fixed-point searches for both…
FreeBSD Project isn’t ready to let AI commit code just yet Summary The FreeBSD Project’s Q2 2025 Status Report reveals the core team is drafting a formal policy on generative…
Investors throw another $13B on the Anthropic cash bonfire Summary Anthropic has closed a $13 billion Series F round led by ICONIQ and Fidelity, taking the Claude-maker to a reported…
Tech talent biz Andela trains up devs in GitHub Copilot Summary Andela says it has trained 200 software developers to use GitHub Copilot via its Andela AI Academy and, in…
Gitpod reinvents itself as Ona in pivot to AI agent platform Summary Gitpod has rebranded as Ona and repositioned from cloud-hosted developer environments to an AI agent platform that integrates…
ServiceNow signs Uncle Sam’s latest short-term AI discount deal Summary ServiceNow has joined the US General Services Administration’s OneGov programme, offering discounted access to its AI-enabled IT service management products…
Biased bots: AI hiring managers shortlist candidates with AI resumes Summary Researchers analysed how large language models (LLMs) used in recruitment evaluate resumes and found a clear tendency for models…
New AI Model Turns Photos Into Explorable 3D Worlds, With Caveats Summary Tencent has released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-weights AI model that generates short, 3D-consistent video sequences from a single image.…
