Can This Algorithm Watch More YouTube Than You?

Imagine trying to explain the plot of a movie like Inception to someone who only gets to see a handful of disconnected frames. That’s the challenge facing AI models tasked with understanding long videos. They’re often forced to make sense of sprawling narratives with limited computational resources, like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle with…

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Tailor-made error shields could fix quantum memory at scale

Quantum computers promise to solve problems classical machines can’t crack, but their memory layer—the quantum random access memory, QRAM—has been the stubborn bottleneck. QRAMs are meant to let a quantum processor fetch data from a database in a superposition, enabling powerful operations like searching an unordered database or assembling a desired quantum state directly from…

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A Square Packing Riddle That Teaches Infinity

The unit square is a stage for a deceptively simple game that mathematicians have been playing for decades: how many squares can you cram into a square, and what does the best you can do say about the geometry of packing itself? The question isn’t about making a jigsaw puzzle with a satisfying snap. It’s…

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When Languages Clash Inside AI Brains Scripts Speak Louder Than Roots

Decoding the Babel Within AI In the sprawling universe of artificial intelligence, multilingual models are the polyglots — designed to understand and generate text across dozens, sometimes hundreds, of languages. But just like in a crowded room where too many conversations overlap, these AI models often struggle when juggling multiple languages simultaneously. This phenomenon, known…

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What bio-data augmentation could save science from rumor

In the world of biomedical text mining, researchers train computers to read papers, pull out meaningful links between drugs, genes, and diseases, and help scientists navigate a flood of information. But a stubborn bottleneck keeps stalling progress: there simply isn’t enough high-quality, carefully labeled data to teach these systems how biological relationships actually work. That…

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A Fresh Rule for Fair Islamic Profit Sharing

In the business of Islamic finance, a quiet revolution is taking shape not in the form of flashy new instruments, but in a smarter way to distribute profits when two or more parties join forces. A team of researchers from ENSIIE and the Laboratoire de Mathématiques et Modélisation d’Evry (LaMME) at Université Évry Paris-Saclay has…

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AI’s New Superhighway: RailX Could Rewrite the Rules of Big Data

The Dawn of Hyper-Scale AI The relentless march of artificial intelligence, particularly the rise of massive language models (LLMs), demands infrastructure capable of handling workloads previously unimaginable. Training these behemoths requires a network not only capable of moving colossal amounts of data but also one that’s scalable, flexible, and – crucially – affordable. Existing network…

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Can LLMs Learn Factory Smarts Without Botching the Job?

Imagine a factory floor humming with activity: machines whirring, parts moving, deadlines looming. Now imagine trying to orchestrate it all in real-time, juggling new orders, broken equipment, and shifting priorities. This is the world of Dynamic Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling (DFJSP), a notoriously hard problem that underpins modern manufacturing. For years, the solutions have ranged from…

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Simplicity Signals a New Proof of Occam’s Razor

If you’ve ever felt the pull of a simpler explanation amid a storm of complexity, you’re not alone. A new preprint argues that simplicity isn’t just a stubborn heuristic but a mathematically grounded guide to truth. The author, Gabriel Leuenberger, lays out a modernized proof of Occam’s razor that scales across all intelligible scientific models,…

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DNA Templates That Speak Any Language

In a biotech future where strands of DNA are not just blueprints but programmable machines, a bold question arose: could a single circular DNA template be coaxed to generate an entire family of RNA sequences—simply by letting transcription happen and letting the RNA be rearranged as it’s made? The answer, from a team spanning Korea,…

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