GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript. Among these ciphers is a set of German radio messages from World War I that were encoded using the ADFGVX method. This method is illustrated by the […]
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it 18 September, 2026 in guest blog, math.GM, opinion, Uncategorized | Tags: Grant Sanderson | by Terence Tao [This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — […]
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years. The discovery overturns a prevailing model of brain development. For decades researchers have subscribed to […]
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Science Is Open Software
TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? – Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more […]
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
14 Sep 2026 6 min read Matthew S. Smith is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum and the former lead reviews editor at Digital Trends. OpenAI’s Jalapeño pairs its compute die with six stacks of HBM4 and an I/O chiplet. On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers […]
Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
Abstract:Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains that are not attainable by a single model. In existing designs, LLMs communicate through text, forcing internal representations to be transformed into output token sequences. This process both loses rich semantic information and incurs token-by-token generation latency. Motivated by […]
Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
Cloudflare operates at a scale so big that even after working here for years, it doesn’t seem real. We have thousands of servers all over the world with petabytes of RAM and millions of CPU cores, and all of it is pushed to the max. As vast as those resources feel, they are still finite, […]
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program. The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar […]
There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work
There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work | Patreon In early 2025, I started seeing people turn off their brain as they use LLMs1. They would have an LLM take an action (summarize text, write some code, etc.), and just […]