Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from something teachers experimented with to something that now shapes everyday instructional decisions. While I have written about classroom uses of AI tools and practical entry points for basic use, it has become clear that tips and tricks alone do not prepare educators to work meaningfully with AI. The more

A data-driven investigation into board geometry, player Elo, and the limits of early-game predictions. 1. Introduction: Beyond Another Stockfish Clone How much predictive information is actually hidden in a chess opening? While players and researchers have debated this question for years, turning it into a structured empirical study is no easy task. How do you

Measuring metrics: The computational literature is littered with competing methods quantifying similarity in neural population codes. Illustration by Scott Balmer The ability to record from large populations of neurons has triggered the development of myriad methods for comparing them. But we’re still grappling with how to convert measures of likeness into a better mechanistic understanding.

A Gold Coast startup using artificial intelligence to manage admin for tradies and service businesses has raised $5 million in Seed funding. The round for Sophiie AI was backed by Archangel Ventures, Admiralty Capital Group, Antler, Gandel Invest and Aussie Angels, and values the business at $30m. The funds will go towards product development, adding

The head of one of Australia's major alternative school systems has ruled out creating an artificial intelligence (AI) learning tool for its teachers and students. Generative-AI learning tools have already been created for public schools in New South Wales, South Australia, and Queensland but concerns about the technology's impact on critical thinking are growing. Steiner

(Image credit: Google) Google has teamed up with AMD to develop one of its 10th-generation TPUs, according to a note by SemiAnalysis (via Sean). Analysts at SemiAnalysis believe Google may be interested in AMD's CPU cores for CPU-heavy workloads. If accurate, the collaboration would mark AMD's first major involvement in a custom AI ASIC project

Anthropic‘s second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 15. The figure did not come from the company; Bloomberg obtained internal documents, and the numbers are preliminary and could still change. Buried in the same documents is the more consequential line: adjusted operating income turned positive. It is the first signal of a frontier

Researchers affiliated with the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia ”Ettore Majorana”, Università di Catania, Italy have successfully trained a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) to estimate the plaquette phase within a three-level system, demonstrating a new method for extracting information using artificial intelligence. The team utilized STImulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP) population transfer efficiencies as the data