News Oct 19, 2026 Google Research brings AI agents to the wet lab for autonomous molecular discovery Google Research has developed a framework called VERID that connects AI agents to physical laboratory robots, enabling closed-loop molecular design cycles. The system combines a digital twin of laboratory equipment with machine learning to run experiments, learn from results, and self-improve. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Oct 19, 2026 South African researchers create light-powered brain for faster communications Scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand have developed an optical system that can recognise hidden information in complex light patterns without needing detailed images or extensive computer processing, potentially enabling faster future communications and quantum technologies. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
News Oct 19, 2026 Mini brain organoids learn to read Braille in step toward biohybrid computing University of Bristol researchers have demonstrated that lab-grown brain organoids can process tactile information from a robotic sensor to recognize Braille letters with 83% accuracy when three organoids work together, marking progress toward energy-efficient biological computing systems. Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Article Apr 15, 2026 Up and Down and All Around with VR, AI and the comings (and goings) of SLOP In a candid, sardonic conversation, Tony Parisi revisits VR’s long arc, skewers AI hype, and finds strange hope in the noise of generative culture gone gloriously wrong. RU Sirius 16 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
Community Jun 3, 2026 Digital Public Goods: The Invisible Infrastructure Powering Emerging Nations Open digital public goods are quietly becoming the most powerful infrastructure for emerging nations — enabling identity, payments, and innovation without traditional roads or institutions. Emmanuel Kordzo AGBONYITOR 4 min read
Community Apr 20, 2026 Driving Intelligence: A Motivational Blueprint for Open-Ended AGI CoALA reimagines LLMs as intelligent agents with memory, actions, and decision loops, enabling real-world interaction, learning from experience, and moving far beyond static chatbot capabilities. Yosefe Tilahun 3 min read
Article Apr 8, 2026 Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon Over more than 50 years, each new presidential administration has reassessed the place of spaceflight among its priorities, either encouraging or curtailing the return to the Moon. Republished from The Conversation 7 min read
Community Jun 8, 2026 Beyond Digital Amnesia: How AI Agents are Learning to Evolve AI agents no longer forget. EvoSC’s self-consolidation lets them learn from successes and failures, turning experience into lasting intuition — without memory overload. Fethulmubin Ahmed 4 min read
Article Apr 1, 2026 NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long‑term lunar presence The U.S. is committing to the steady, repeatable work of building a lasting foothold on the Moon, and redefining humanity’s relationship with space itself. Republished from The Conversation 5 min read