#computer-science

Google Research introduced Titans, a new architecture that gives transformers a learnable long-term memory. Instead of forgetting everything outside the context window, Titans maintain a neural memory that updates itself at test time using gradient descent. Basically, it learns to memorize on the fly.

In 1993, three engineers sketched the future on napkins in a roadside restaurant. Today, their company is worth more than the GDP of most nations. This is the story of NVIDIA—a tale of near-bankruptcy, impossible comebacks, leather jackets, and the silicon that now powers humanity's most ambitious dreams.

He rode unicycles through Bell Labs while juggling, built maze-solving mice, and wrote the most important master's thesis of the 20th century. Meet Claude Shannon, the forgotten genius who invented the bit and laid the mathematical foundations for everything digital.