From ‘Optical Synapses’ to a ‘Photonic Brain’ — Integrated Photonic Neural Networks Toward Low-Power General-Purpose

SHANNON, CLARE, IRELAND, February 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new publication from Opto-Electronic Technology; DOI ...

Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain

A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be used to engineer any possible circuit. The fully ...
Queen's University

Neural Networks: When good enough is better than best

A Queen’s research team has developed a new way to train AI systems so they focus on the bigger picture instead of specific, optimized data.
Live Science on MSN

'Thermodynamic computer' can mimic AI neural networks — using orders of magnitude less energy to generate images

Researchers generated images from noise, using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models require.
Frontiers

Hybrid Mechanistic–AI Modeling with Physics-Trained Neural Networks for Patient Digital Twins

Patient digital twins aim to create computational replicas of an individual’s physiology that can predict disease trajectories and treatment response.
The Conversation

Physics Nobel awarded to neural network pioneers who laid foundations for AI

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural ...
Quanta Magazine

Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable

“Neural networks are currently the most powerful tools in artificial intelligence,” said Sebastian Wetzel, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. “When we scale them up to ...

Interpretability in deep learning for finance: A case study for the Heston model

Deep learning is increasingly used in financial modeling, but its lack of transparency raises risks. Using the well-known Heston option pricing model as a benchmark, researchers show that global ...
Futurism

Doom Running on a Neural Network Is a Surreal Dreamscape

We’ve already seen the iconic 1993 video game Doom being played on devices ranging from a candy bar to a John Deere tractor to a Lego brick to E. Coli cells. Now, researchers at Google and Tel Aviv ...