Summary Digital resurrections — AI-driven avatars of deceased people — are shifting from memorial services and novelty experiences into outright commercial products. The industry is projected to grow rapidly, with…
One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave Summary Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 report that large language models (LLMs) can be coaxed into…
Machine-learning model generates images using light Summary An optical–digital system reported by Chen et al. uses controlled randomness in a laser beam to act as a generative machine‑learning model. Rather…
How tree shrews see the world Summary In primates, visual information is processed through a hierarchical series of brain areas that move from detecting low-level features to recognising complex shapes…
A compressed hierarchy for visual form processing in the tree shrew Summary This study used large-scale Neuropixels electrophysiology in awake tree shrews to map visual coding across the ventral pathway…
Optical generative models Summary This Nature paper demonstrates optical generative models that synthesise novel monochrome and colour images from Gaussian noise using a hybrid digital–optical pipeline. A shallow digital encoder…
One-shot design of functional protein binders with BindCraft Summary BindCraft is a fully automated pipeline that uses backpropagation through AlphaFold2 (AF2) to hallucinate de novo protein binders and their interfaces…
AI versus skin cancer: the future of dermatology diagnosis Summary England’s National Health Service is trialling Deep ensemble for recognition of malignancy (DERM), an AI-driven skin-lesion analysis platform developed by…
More than 100 companies are chasing an AI chip gold rush. Few will survive Summary Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports there are around 121 companies now developing AI processors, spanning…
What a difference 2 years makes: MariaDB buys back SkySQL Summary MariaDB has re-acquired SkySQL less than two years after spinning it out. The reunion brings the database-as-a-service back into…
