Tech Times

Open-Source World Model AlayaWorld Sustains Interactive Play Past the One-Minute Mark

Open-source world model AlayaWorld, released by China’s Shanda AI Research in July 2026, sustains interactive video ...

Using mechanical vibrations instead of magnetic memory for quantum computing

Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to ...
EDN

CXL Type 3: Tooling and boot path from power-on to usable memory

Part 1 of this min-series established why CXL Type 3 memory expanders matter for capacity-bound workloads and where expander ...
TechSpot

Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs

Cutting corners: Faced with rising memory costs, Meta says it is reusing old DDR4 RAM in its servers rather than buying new hardware. The company revealed this week that it is repurposing DDR4 memory ...
The Conversation

Photographic memory is a myth – here’s what research really says about remembering

Hollywood loves a superpower. Not all involve capes or cosmic rays. Some are cognitive: characters who can remember everything. In movies and on TV, viewers repeatedly encounter those with ...
VentureBeat

Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...
Ars Technica

Google’s TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...
VentureBeat

New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss

Enterprise AI applications that handle large documents or long-horizon tasks face a severe memory bottleneck. As the context grows longer, so does the KV cache, the area where the model’s working ...
Psychology Today

A Science for Social Coherence?

If you have ever marveled at a murmuration of starlings or the harmonious motions of a school of fish, you may have wondered how these species achieve such communion of action. Apparently, even the ...
IEEE

PhasedStore: Supporting High-Performance Write-Through Cache-Coherence Protocols Under TSO

Abstract: Current multiprocessors that support the total store order (TSO) memory consistency model invariably use writeback (WB) cache-coherence protocols. When their hardware needs to issue ...
CNBC

Memory chip shortage to last through 2027, semiconductor boss says

Memory chips are a key component of artificial intelligence data centers. The boom in AI data center construction has caused a shortage of semiconductors, which are also crucial for electronics like ...
CNBC

AI memory is sold out, causing an unprecedented surge in prices

This year, there won't be enough memory to meet worldwide demand because powerful AI chips made by the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Google need so much of it. Prices for computer memory, or RAM, are ...