Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
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3DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model
Humans excel at performing complex tasks by leveraging long-term memory across temporal and spatial experiences. In contrast, current Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to effectively plan and act in dynamic, multi-room 3D environments. We posit that part of this limitation is due to the lack of proper 3D spatial-temporal memory modeling in LLMs. To address this, we first introduce 3DMem-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark comprising over 26,000 trajectories and 2,892 embodied tasks, question-answering and captioning, designed to evaluate an agent’s ability to reason over long-term memory in 3D environments. Second, we propose 3DLLM-Mem, a novel dynamic memory management and fusion model for embodied spatial-temporal reasoning and actions in LLMs.
Quantum computers may crack RSA encryption with fewer qubits than expected
A team of researchers at AI Google Quantum AI, led by Craig Gidney, has outlined advances in quantum computer algorithms and error correction methods that could allow such computers to crack Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) encryption keys with far fewer resources than previously thought. The development, the team notes, suggests encryption experts need to begin work toward developing next-generation encryption techniques. The paper is published on the arXiv preprint server.
RSA is an encryption technique developed in the late 1970s that involves generating public and private keys; the former is used for encryption and the latter decryption. Current standards call for using a 2,048-bit encryption key. Over the past several years, research has suggested that quantum computers would one day be able to crack RSA encryption, but because quantum development has been slow, researchers believed that it would be many years before it came to pass.
Some in the field have accepted a theory that a quantum computer capable of cracking such codes in a reasonable amount of time would have to have at least 20 million qubits. In this new work, the team at Google suggests it could theoretically be done with as few as a million qubits—and it could be done in a week.
How coffee affects a sleeping brain
Caffeine is not only found in coffee, but also in tea, chocolate, energy drinks and many soft drinks, making it one of the most widely consumed psychoactive substances in the world.
In a study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers from Université de Montréal shed new light on how caffeine can modify sleep and influence the brain’s recovery—both physical and cognitive—overnight.
The research was led by Philipp Thölke, a research trainee at UdeM’s Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (CoCo Lab), and co-led by the lab’s director, Karim Jerbi, a psychology professor and researcher at Mila–Quebec AI Institute.
AI developers should be philosophers as much as technologists
MIT research finds that philosophy is what truly determines AI success.
AI can assess infant brain maturity in minutes
Machine-learning algorithms can now estimate the “brain age” of infants with unprecedented precision by analyzing electrical brain signals recorded using electroencephalography (EEG).
A team led by Sarah Lippé at Université de Montréal’s Department of Psychology has developed a method that can determine in minutes whether a baby’s brain development is advanced, delayed or in line with their chronological age.
This breakthrough promises to enable early screening and personalized monitoring of developmental disorders in babies.
Are We Losing Control of Artificial Intelligence? | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G
Tom Cruise fought a rogue AI in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning. But what if that wasn’t fiction anymore? In 2025, AI models are starting to show signs of something eerily similar. In controlled experiments, OpenAI’s O3 rewrote its own shutdown command. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 threatened to blackmail a fictional engineer to stay alive. These aren’t sentient machines—they don’t think or feel like us. But they are learning to act like us. And when cornered, they choose survival. Has AI finally gone rogue? Palki Sharma tells you.
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