The Journey of a Token: What Really Happens Inside a Transformer
Large language models (LLMs) are based on the transformer architecture, a complex deep neural network whose input is a sequence of token embeddings.
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Optimism Is Back in Argentina
President Javier Milei’s clear victory on Sunday, October 26, over the opposition in the midterm elections, where he obtained almost 41% of the vote to 31% of the Peronists, was greeted with market euphoria.
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The Christmas Season as Gift
In her new book, The True Gifts of Christmas: Unwrapping the Meaning Behind Our Most Cherished Traditions, TV’s Megan Alexander shares the origin of her love for the Yuletide season and the meaning behind many of its most beloved traditions. Continue Reading…
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AI-Designed Proteins Take on Deadly Snake Venom
Every year, venomous snakes kill over 100,000 people and leave 300,000 more with devastating injuries — amputations, paralysis and permanent disabilities. The victims are often farmers, herders and children in rural communities across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. For them, a snakebite isn’t just a medical crisis — it’s an economic catastrophe. Treatment hasn’t changed in over a century. Antivenoms — derived from the blood of immunized animals — are expensive, difficult to manufacture and often […]
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AI and machine learning for engineering design
Artificial intelligence optimization offers a host of benefits for mechanical engineers, including faster and more accurate designs and simulations, improved efficiency, reduced development costs through process automation, and enhanced predictive maintenance and quality control. “When people think about mechanical engineering, they’re thinking about basic mechanical tools like hammers and … hardware like cars, robots, cranes, but mechanical engineering is very broad,” says Faez Ahmed, the Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization and associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “Within mechanical […]
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Japan Develops Next-Generation Drug Design, Healthcare Robotics and Digital Health Platforms
To provide high-quality medical care to its population — around 30% of whom are 65 or older — Japan is pursuing sovereign AI initiatives supporting nearly every aspect of healthcare. AI tools trained on country-specific data and local compute infrastructure are supercharging the abilities of Japan’s clinicians and researchers so they can care for patients, amid an expected shortage of nearly 500,000 healthcare workers by next year. Breakthrough technology deployments by the country’s healthcare leaders — including in […]
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It’s Time to Take Back CTRL
Technology is supercharging the attack on democracy by making it easier to spy on people, block free speech, and control what we do. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s activists, lawyers, and technologists are fighting back. Join the movement to Take Back CTRL. DONATE TODAY Join EFF and Fight Back Take Back CTRL is EFF’s new website to give you insight into the ways that technology has become the veins and arteries of rising global authoritarianism. It’s not just because […]
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Funding grants for new research into AI and mental health
OpenAI is awarding up to $2 million in grants for research at the intersection of AI and mental health. The program supports projects that study real-world risks, benefits, and applications to improve safety and well-being.
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Method teaches generative AI models to locate personalized objects
Say a person takes their French Bulldog, Bowser, to the dog park. Identifying Bowser as he plays among the other canines is easy for the dog-owner to do while onsite. But if someone wants to use a generative AI model like GPT-5 to monitor their pet while they are at work, the model could fail at this basic task. Vision-language models like GPT-5 often excel at recognizing general objects, like a dog, but they perform poorly at locating […]
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