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Why reinforcement learning breaks at scale, and how a new method fixes it

From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...
Nature

Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

The New Perimeter Is Identity — And It’s Moving Faster Than We Are

As AI shifts from helpful copilot to independent operator, enterprises are discovering that identity—not networks or ...

So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...
Communications of the ACM

The Swiss LLM Apertus

Apertus was released in early September 2025. It is a multilingual model developed by the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and Lausanne (EPFL). The model was pretrained with 60% ...
Frontiers

Computational Models of Memory and Attention: Advancing Mechanistic Understanding of Brain with Artificial Intelligence and Beyond

Human memory and attention are core cognitive functions that shape perception, learning, and decision-making. And whilst decades of research have provided ...