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Aug 17, 2026
Physicists changed nothing but quantum information and the space itself changed shape. If that sounds backwards, it may be because we’ve been thinking about what space is the wrong way around.
Jul 23, 2026
In AI, sudden "grokking" is being formalized as a physics phase transition. In the brain, learning often arrives in abrupt jumps, not only smooth curves. Learning that arrives as a switch, not a slope.
Jul 21, 2026
A Nature study of the mouse cortex and a Nature Machine Intelligence framework for artificial networks independently reach the same conclusion: meaning is carried by populations of neurons, not by single cells.