Practical Magic

Practical Magic

942 papers · Page 9 of 10

An AI just designed its own management structure for a team of other AIs, which then found ten major security holes in Google Chrome.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A new photonic switch can route fragile quantum data at speeds of 1 GHz without breaking the "entanglement" that makes it work.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A "photonic brain" can now clean up data signals across 250 kilometers of fiber optic cable without using any electricity for processing.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

An AI system discovered five new high-performance materials for electronics, increasing the known variety of these rare substances by 35%.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

Attackers can now fool a self-driving car into seeing a "phantom" object by making its camera and LiDAR sensors agree on a lie.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A general-purpose AI is now acting as a "lab manager" that tells physical robots how to discover new phases of matter.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

An AI just invented entirely new chemical structures for drugs that were completely missing from its own training data.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A 2D sketch becomes a photorealistic 3D human head instantly through a single mathematical pass.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

89 percent of the neurons in this language model stay turned off to mimic the energy efficiency of a human brain.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 24

A mathematical proof has reduced the cost of moving data inside a quantum computer to almost zero.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A new framework can reconstruct the layout of a room and the movement of people using only the sensors in a smartwatch or earbud.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A single humanoid robot can now skate on wheels, climb stairs, and transform its body shape to handle different delivery tasks.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A five-line mathematical proof just replaced a brute-force verification task that usually takes 33 million evaluations.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A chaotic pile of old company emails can now be turned into a living "digital twin" that tracks project progress and office culture.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 24

A single linear algebra operation now does the work of an expensive and iterative guessing game.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A single memristive junction can now store an entire logical assertion, turning the physical wiring of a chip into a reasoning engine.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

Converting joint movements into text descriptions allows language models to understand human motion without using any complex vision hardware.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

200 dimensions of complex physical motion can now be solved in less than 30 minutes.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A new navigation system can predict a spacecraft crash long before any physical sensors show that something is wrong.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

An AI-native cryptocurrency now allows autonomous agents to pay for work using the actual cost of compute tokens instead of dollars.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A hidden copy engine inside NVIDIA chips can make the cost of coordinating AI models effectively zero.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A new quantum device can check a photon's state without destroying the very information it is looking for.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 24

A single injection that turns the body into an antibody factory has provided a full year of protection against an HIV-like virus.

Life Science biorxiv | Apr 25

Engineered bacteria can eat toxic heavy metal pollution and turn it into solar-powered growth boosters for crops.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A small molecule called C48 starves tuberculosis by cutting off its internal vitamin supply, turning a supposedly impossible drug target into a simple daily pill.

Life Science biorxiv | Apr 25

An AI has reduced the time it takes to locate a single subatomic particle from hours to just a few seconds.

Physics arxiv | Apr 25

Roughening a solar cell's surface at the atomic level allows it to be plated with cheap copper instead of expensive silver without losing any efficiency.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A new type of reprogrammable material can be configured into over 150 decillion different mechanical states within a single small assembly.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Three ancient, ghostly nebulae have been discovered using small telescopes in regular backyards rather than billion-dollar observatories.

Physics arxiv | Apr 25

A new medical imaging algorithm generates full 3D MRI scans up to 1000 times faster than current AI models.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A new lithium-carbon dioxide battery can survive temperatures from a freezing -30°C to a scorching 60°C without losing power.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Supersonic shock waves can now be simulated with perfect clarity without the blurring that usually ruins physics models.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A new mathematical framework allows for the creation of invisibility cloaks that work in the messy, non-ideal environments of the real world.

Physics arxiv | Apr 25

A single layer of carbon atoms is enough to stop a hot piece of copper from losing its heat and prevent it from rusting.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Bacteria can now be forced to produce chemicals by making them addicted to the production process.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Mandatory pay range disclosure laws forced a direct and significant rise in wages for H-1B visa holders.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Stripping a healthy bacterium down to its inner membrane creates a treatment for inflammatory bowel disease that works better than the live bug.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Bacteria living in a body of water can tell forensic investigators exactly when a person died with 99% accuracy.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Pulverized cactus flesh can clean wastewater just as effectively as the expensive synthetic chemicals used in city treatment plants.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Industrial aluminum waste actually makes metal stronger and more flexible than using pure, expensive raw materials.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A microscopic microphone can detect a methane leak the size of a pinprick using a volume of gas smaller than a single raindrop.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A new waterproof coating allows skin sensors to measure a person stress levels while they are swimming in the ocean.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A new paper strip and a smartphone camera can detect dangerous fungicides on fruit without needing a laboratory.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

Zapping kiwi pollen with an electrostatic charge allows fruit to grow even when the weather is too cold for natural pollination.

Economics ssrn | Apr 25

A new tool reverses the generative AI enhancements inside modern cameras to reveal the raw, unedited reality of a photo.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

An AI model called Claude Mythos is now autonomously executing multi-stage cyberattacks across every major operating system.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

A single-antenna WiFi router can now monitor a person's breathing with the precision of a clinical hospital-grade monitor.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A room full of 100 different analysts can now be simulated in seconds to expose how much a scientific result depends on a researcher's bias.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

An autonomous AI agent is now deriving predictive physical laws and writing its own code to discover new materials.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

Standard chip design libraries allow hackers to reconstruct sensitive training images from intercepted AI updates without ever touching the raw data.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A core optimization problem that has dogged computer science for decades just reached almost-linear speeds across every test case.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

An escalation of superlatives and a lack of risk acknowledgment in a CEO's speech predicts bank failures with 100% accuracy.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

Generative models are now extracting the geometry of the physical world to help control the scorching plasma inside a nuclear fusion reactor.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A hybrid transformer-finite element scheme simulates chaotic physical systems 9,000 times faster than traditional methods without ever crashing.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A new mathematical framework finally brings the power of the Central Limit Theorem to chaotic datasets that were previously impossible to calculate.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A 100% reproducible bug in common cloud infrastructure causes entire datasets to vanish silently without ever triggering a single error alert.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A new inference paradigm cuts AI reasoning costs by 400% while making the models significantly faster at solving complex problems.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

A facial recognition model has been shrunk by 20 times to just seven megabytes while still identifying people with nearly perfect accuracy.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

Complex 3D environments that used to take minutes to understand can now be fully mapped in 0.14 seconds.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A swarm of satellites now manages its own battery life and workload using a signal that mimics the biological cost of living.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A new controller reduces the frequency of AI brain-switching by 90% while keeping almost all of the model's intelligence intact.

AI & ML arxiv | Apr 25

A mathematical transform captures the geometry of stock market data to predict prices 56% better than expert traders.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 25

A molecular design trick called polarity reversal can make useless antibiotics kill 100 percent of multi-drug resistant superbugs in mice.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Electric fields can physically align fog droplets to make the air 85% clearer, turning a wall of grey into a visible runway.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A new medical glue is completely non-sticky when it is dry but becomes an incredibly strong adhesive the moment it touches water.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Standard methods for checking AI work can spot lies but are completely blind to the facts the AI leaves out.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A new chiseling technique creates a "three-level" metal architecture that reduces the need for expensive platinum in hydrogen production by 97%.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A specific mathematical redesign of money can eliminate the possibility of bank runs forever.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Satellites orbiting at 800 kilometers should be charged 44 times more than those at 400 kilometers to prevent a space junk catastrophe.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A "bamboo-copter" inspired generator can turn a single slow ocean wave into 12 seconds of continuous electricity.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Lutetium single atoms can be used to build microscopic vertical highways that turn carbon dioxide into fuel using sunlight.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Illegal logging could be virtually eliminated by giving every individual tree in a forest its own digital identity.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A standard household microwave oven can be used to manufacture high-tech, flexible supercapacitors for energy storage.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Artificial intelligence has designed a radio pulse that achieves 99% accuracy in chemical analysis while using almost no power.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A chemical reaction triggered by zinc can produce a light signal 195 times brighter than standard sensors.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A new computer framework can simulate complex energy processes 10,000 times faster than the previous industry standard.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A new peptide-based sensor can finally photograph a rare lipid that controls how cells clean themselves.

Earth & Chemistry chemrxiv | Apr 26

A new portable sensor can detect trace amounts of gold in the wilderness with the same accuracy as a multi-million dollar lab.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

Using a laser to "cool down" the noise in a microchip oscillator can make it 14 decibels more precise.

Economics ssrn | Apr 26

A bio-inspired fabric can stay at a physical temperature of 80°C while appearing to be only 50°C to heat-seeking cameras.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

Tiny 8-billion parameter models can detect harmful prompts with 99% accuracy by looking at their own internal brain waves before they even start typing.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

The Software-as-a-Service era is ending as AI reduces the cost of code to zero, shifting value toward guaranteed results instead of tool access.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

A new framework measures the value of AI by how much money a human would demand to do a job without it.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

Tripling the predictive accuracy of a financial AI model can be done by simply changing the target from raw returns to rank-based returns.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

Retailers can now hear exactly what customers think of a product on the shelf without recording their identity or transcribing their speech.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

Predicting which stock options will be profitable becomes twice as accurate when an AI looks at a company's financial statements instead of market prices.

AI & ML ssrn | Apr 26

A new technology called CryoMesh can freeze human pancreatic cells for a year and still have them work perfectly when thawed.

Life Science biorxiv | Apr 29

An AI chip can be completely rewired using nothing but a radio broadcast signal.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Computer memory can now store data by moving a single atom in just 20 trillionths of a second.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Ten quintillion atoms were simulated across a meter of steel to predict how nuclear reactors will fall apart over the next year.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new reusable catalyst can finally destroy forever chemicals and trap 88% of the toxic fluorine they leave behind.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

An AI system screened 2.4 million different crystals in just 28 hours and successfully guided the creation of four brand-new superconductors.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Concrete beams designed by a new algorithm use 33% less material while becoming nearly 40% stronger than traditional designs.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

Diamond electronics just became a reality thanks to a three-element chemical recipe that finally allows them to conduct negative charges.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

An AI can figure out the hidden laws of physics by simply watching a video of a swinging pendulum.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new type of quantum sensor can detect the signal of a single molecule using magnets 100 times weaker than a standard MRI.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A lightweight AI can now predict which new viruses might start a pandemic by following the topology rules of biology.

Economics ssrn | Apr 29

A custom-molded earbud can now read your brain waves and play sounds to help your brain heal or focus.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A quantum light flash that usually requires deep-space cold can now be triggered at room temperature.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29

A new generative AI for biology can fill in the blanks of missing protein structures and suggest ways to fix genetic mutations.

Physics arxiv | Apr 29