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Scientists Create the First Artificial Neuron That Can Communicate

A major breakthrough in artificial intelligence may have arrived: scientists have created an artificial neuron capable of communicating with other neurons.

Inspired by the human brain, this technology could allow machines to process information in a far more biological and efficient way. Instead of traditional computing architectures, future systems could operate more like living neural networks.

In this video we explore how artificial neurons work, why this breakthrough matters, and how it could reshape AI, robotics, and neuroscience.

#ArtificialNeuron, #ArtificialIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #FutureTechnology, #AIResearch, #NeuralNetworks

China’s Human Artificial Embryo Experiment Progressing Well in Space

China has begun the world’s first space experiment on human artificial embryos, with samples now aboard its space station and the study progressing smoothly, scientists announced Wednesday.

Delivered by the Tianzhou-10 cargo craft launched earlier this week, the human artificial embryo samples have been installed in the space station’s experimental module by the orbiting taikonauts, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is in charge of the experiment.

“The experiment is going very well,” said Yu Leqian, the project leader for the artificial embryo space science experiment. “A pre-set automated system changes the culture medium for the samples every day.” According to Yu, through this study, scientists aim to conduct preliminary research on issues related to long-term human habitation, survival and reproduction in space.

Grandoreiro Malware and BTMOB RAT Campaigns Target Windows and Android Users

Latin America and Europe become the target of two banking trojan campaigns that are designed to infect Windows and Android devices with Grandoreiro and BTMOB malware, respectively.

That’s according to new findings from WatchGuard and ESET, which have observed the two malware families being used to single out companies in Spain, Portugal, and Mexico, as well as mobile users in Brazil.

The Grandoreiro campaign “uses the DLL Side-Loading technique abusing four different software, targeting banks in Portugal,” WatchGuard researcher Euler Neto said.

GPU mining malware spreads via SEO poisoning, AI chatbots

Threat actors are targeting systems with high-performance computers in an ongoing cryptojacking campaign spread through a coordinated SEO poisoning operation that also manipulated AI chatbot recommendations.

The compromise occurs through malicious download pages for utility software typically installed by owners of powerful systems, like CrystalDiskInfo, HWMonitor, Display Driver Uninstaller, FurMark, K-Lite Codec Pack, and PDFgear.

Once a system is infected, the attacker gets persistent access on the machine by deploying the legitimate remote management ScreenConnect tool, which could later be used to install additional malware.

Quantum computing may need far more than power as future data centers scale up

As quantum computing moves closer to large-scale deployment, new research is examining its future energy, water, and material demands.

David McCollum, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory distinguished scientist, is leading the project. McCollum is also a joint faculty professor in the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy (CETEP) at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The work aims to inform the rollout of quantum infrastructure over the coming decades. It examines technologies evolving from experimental environments to commercial-scale use. Quantum computing is expected to unlock advances in drug discovery, material science, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

“Quantum computing presents extraordinary opportunities, from accelerating scientific discovery to solving complex optimization problems,” McCollum said. “At the same time, it introduces new questions about the energy, water, and materials required to operate these systems at scale. Our research aims to get ahead of those questions before resource and supply chain constraints start to bite.”

The Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formally defined Theoretical model of Consciousness

Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/man…
The Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning.

We define the Conscious Turing Machine (CTM), a formal global workspace model of consciousness specified as a 7-tuple. Its 10 million processors self-define a multimodal language, Brainish, together with a dictionary of chunks. Each chunk is a 5-tuple that contains and defines a 2-tuple Brainish word.

Our principal contribution is not theorems—though there is one—but theoretical insights into several central puzzles of consciousness. From this formal definition follow a proposed solution to the binding problem, an explanation of how the suffering of pain is generated, and testable predictions derived from the CTM.

Peter Joseph: We Are All Subjected To The Same Natural Law System

13 years ago, I sat down with Peter Joseph, musician, filmmaker, and founder of the Zeitgeist Movement.

His argument was simple, and uncomfortable: the system we live under (debt-based money, work-for-survival economics, infinite growth on a finite planet) isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed. And it’s running out of runway.

In 2013, this sounded radical. In 2026, it sounds like a weather report.

We covered a lot of ground in 75 minutes: the Resource-Based Economy, the role of Artificial Intelligence in managing scarcity, the schism between Zeitgeist and the Venus Project, sustainability, central planning, and the technological singularity itself.

You don’t have to agree with Peter to take the conversation seriously. I don’t agree with all of it. But the questions he was asking back then are the questions we’re being forced to ask now, except we’re asking them in an era when AI systems can actually do things he could only theorize about.

The technology has caught up with the critique. The philosophy hasn’t caught up with the technology.

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Scientists Built A Disturbingly Accurate AI Brain Simulation

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners.
https://arxiv.org/html/2508.10784v1

A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience.
https://ai.meta.com/research/publicat…

How to breathe life back into brain theory.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…

A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158…

#ai #tech #explained #brain #artificialintelligence

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