Scientists use string theory to crack the code of natural networks

For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Cracking sleep's evolutionary code: Neuron protection traced back to jellyfish and sea anemones

A new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in ...

Anna’s Archive loses .org domain, says suspension likely unrelated to Spotify piracy

Anna’s Archive launched in 2022 in response to the US Department of Justice seizure of domains used by e-book pirate site ...
CNN

The best compression socks for running in 2026, tried and tested by editors

Running a single mile — at about a 10-minute pace — consists of 1,700 steps. And each one of those steps produces ground reaction forces of about two and a half times your body weight. And you know ...
IEEE

Improving LZW Compression of Unicode Arabic Text Using Multi-Level Encoding and a Variable-Length Phrase Code

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel approach to enhance the efficiency of compressing Arabic Unicode text using the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) technique. This method includes two stages: ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
MIT Technology Review

DeepSeek may have found a new way to improve AI’s ability to remember

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...
marktechpost

Zhipu AI Releases ‘Glyph’: An AI Framework for Scaling the Context Length through Visual-Text Compression

Can we render long texts as images and use a VLM to achieve 3–4× token compression, preserving accuracy while scaling a 128K context toward 1M-token workloads? A team of researchers from Zhipu AI ...
Forbes

The Surprising Idea That Generative AI Might Be Better Off Using Visual Images Of Text Rather Than Pure Text As Tokens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. For anyone versed in the technical underpinnings of LLMs, this ...
Digi Times

DeepSeek unveils optical compression model to enhance long text processing for AI

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has introduced DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source model accompanied by a research paper that pioneers a novel "optical compression" method aimed at reducing ...
VentureBeat

DeepSeek drops open-source model that compresses text 10x through images, defying conventions

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large ...
TechSpot

How JPEG Image Compression Works

In today's world of AI and machine intelligence, it sometimes skips the mind that the primary end-user of many computing systems are … human. And, as humans, we are far from perfect – not just in our ...