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Sundar Pichai’s memo on Wednesday thanked Jeff Dean for “an incredible 27-year run” and said he was off to start a company with Sanjay Ghemawat. He posted the same two names on X. Discovery Loop’s website names four. The two Google skipped are Quoc Le, who co-founded Google Brain, and Oriol Vinyals, whose X bio…

Megumi Ogata, the voice actor behind Shinji Ikari in Neon Genesis EvangelionandMakoto Naegi in Danganronpa, has voiced her frustration at the use of AI tools to clone and recreate her voice without her explicit consent. It’s a very sensitive matter in Japan, given the prestigious status of seiyuu (voice actors) and the anxiety that artificial…

The correspondence between large language models (LLMs) and the neural mechanisms underlying human higher-order cognition remains insufficiently characterized. Given that language and reasoning in the human brain appear dissociable, an open question is whether LLMs align with neural signals from reasoning-related regions and whether such signals can improve them. Here, focusing on deductive reasoning, we…