Novel brain architecture simulated for fast and flexible decision-making

A team of researchers in the Netherlands has proposed a new way of designing computer models of the brain—an approach that ...
Communications of the ACM

The Origins of GPU Computing

Government-funded academic research on parallel computing, stream processing, real-time shading languages, and programmable ...
The Verge

Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns your spare Mac into an AI agent

The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a Mac. The AI search startup is positioning the tool as a more secure version of OpenClaw that runs on a ...
Ars Technica

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company ...
9to5Mac

Perplexity’s Personal Computer is a cloud-based AI agent running on Mac mini

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...
ZDNet

Is Perplexity's new Computer a safer version of OpenClaw? How it works

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Phys.org

Quantum algorithm beats classical tools on complement sampling tasks

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...
TechCrunch

China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...
SiliconANGLE

Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end

Efficient Computer Co. says it’s going to make the dream of low-energy artificial intelligence computing a reality after raising $60 million in early-stage funding today. The Series A round was led by ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Wired

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...