News Sep 22, 2026 A man with ALS speaks again through a brain implant Neuralink posts video of patient as he trains a speech decoder by first mouthing words and then thinking them so a computer can talk in his own voice. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 22, 2026 The human brain is two separate organs Researchers show that the thinking brain and the life-support brain arise from different early cells that never mix and can now be grown in the laboratory. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Community Jun 18, 2026 The Brain’s Speed Trick: Solving AI’s Efficiency Crisis with a Better Start Oxford researchers solved Predictive Coding’s speed crisis with clever memory-based initialization, making biologically inspired networks up to 5x faster and finally competitive with backpropagation. Asmamaw Abate 6 min read
Community May 27, 2026 Bridging Neuroscience and AI: The Neural Generative Coding Framework What if AI learned more like the human brain? Neural Generative Coding replaces backpropagation with local, brain-inspired learning for efficient, adaptive, data-smart intelligence. Yohannes Gessesse 3 min read
News Sep 8, 2026 A complete map of the male fruit fly brain and nerve cord Researchers used artificial intelligence to reconstruct more than 166,000 neurons and 125 million connections, opening a new way to study sex differences and behavior. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Article Mar 16, 2026 So has a fruit fly been uploaded? Or not yet? The very fact that this experiment has been tried and even produced some very preliminary but essentially encouraging results seems significant and worth celebrating. Giulio Prisco 7 min read
News Sep 17, 2026 A soft film at the nanoscale can compute like a neuron MIT researchers place an ultrathin layer of PDMS between metal plates so voltage-driven motion stores a short history of inputs and then fires like a biological cell. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Community Mar 4, 2025 Neurons Communicating Beyond Synapses: Unraveling the Role of Electric Fields in the Brain Could your brain be communicating without synapses? New research uncovers how ephaptic coupling could be driving brain activity during sleep and beyond. Yonas Desta 8 min read
News Sep 15, 2026 Magnetic swirls that behave like brain synapses Collective changes in tiny magnetic textures produce stable artificial synapses at room temperature and could cut the energy used by neural-network operations. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Sep 15, 2026 Printed chips that compute like synapses and then dissolve Organic sheets printed from room-temperature inks switch in 26 nanoseconds, recognize handwritten digits almost as well as software, and wash away after use. Giulio Prisco 2 min read