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A few years ago, while I was covering the rise of AI slop on Facebook, I asked my friends and family if they were getting AI…

Before you spend a Saturday building a vault, picking a theme, and bookmarking 14 plugin tutorials, you need to sit with one question: Does your brain…

EPOCHS = 15 opt = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1e-3, weight_decay=1e-4) sched = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(opt, T_max=EPOCHS) loss_fn = nn.MSELoss() hist = {“tr”: [], “va”: [], “r”: []} def pearson(a, b):…

The UK’s Advanced Research and Innovation Agency (ARIA) was established in 2023 with the goal of pursuing “high-risk, high-reward” moonshots in sectors ranging from bolstering food…

The latest brain-computer interface could help people recover from severe depression. Motif Neurotech announced Monday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved a human…

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and…

Using computers to create full wiring maps of complex brains is enabling a new era of neuroscience. A recently released map of the complete male fruit…

Galen Buckwalter didn’t hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study at Caltech. The 69-year-old research psychologist wanted to contribute…

Neuroscience has long been a field of divide and conquer. Researchers typically map specific cognitive functions to isolated brain regions—like motion to area V5 or faces…

China has made history by becoming the first nation to approve a commercially available brain chip to treat a disability. NEO, the implant developed by Neuracle…