Two paradigms for giving language models knowledge they didn’t have at training time — one statistical, one curated. When does each one win? Contents Introduction Foundations of RAG Foundations of an Obsidian-Based Memory System Comparison When to Use Which Conclusion References 1. Introduction Large language models have a memory problem. Their parametric memory — the […]
SpaceX announced on 12 May 2026 that it is officially targeting 19 May for the debut flight of Starship Version 3, the third-generation iteration of the largest and most powerful rocket ever built. It will be Starship’s twelfth flight overall — and the first to fly from the newly commissioned Launch Pad 2. Version 3 […]
Reported on 4 May 2026, a team of physicists has created exotic new phases of quantum matter by carefully driving materials with precisely timed magnetic shifts — a technique that coaxes systems into states that don’t exist in equilibrium. The interesting twist isn’t just the existence of these states but their stability. One of the […]
A team of Japanese researchers reported in May 2026 a new technique to detect quantum W states instantaneously — a long-standing milestone for quantum information science. W states are a particular form of multi-particle entanglement that, unlike the more famous GHZ states, survive the loss of a single particle. That robustness makes them attractive building […]
A paper published in Nature on 6 May 2026 describes a new class of CRISPR tool, Cas12a2, that destroys cells displaying a target RNA signature rather than editing DNA. The mechanism — “RNA-triggered cell killing” — opens a precision-medicine route to cancers and viral infections that has been hard to reach with conventional gene-editing. In […]
After two weather scrubs, SpaceX successfully launched its CRS-34 cargo mission to the International Space Station from Florida on 15 May 2026. Dragon carried about 6,500 pounds (2,950 kg) of supplies, hardware, and scientific experiments, with autonomous docking to the forward port of the Harmony module scheduled for 17 May around 7:05 a.m. EDT. CRS-34 […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shared on 15 May 2026 that its new High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor is performing as designed in early testing — and is running at roughly 500 times the performance of the radiation-hardened chips currently flying. Small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, the HPSC packs a […]
Alpha Compute announced on 8 May 2026 the handover of its first large-scale NVIDIA Blackwell deployment: a 504-chip B200 server cluster located in Canada, now in final testing and ready for AI compute customers. It is one of the first commercial-scale Blackwell clusters to come online outside the hyperscalers. Blackwell-architecture GPUs pack 208 billion transistors […]
On 13 May 2026, days before its I/O developer conference, Google previewed Gemini Intelligence: a system-level layer that pushes Gemini into the core of Android. The rollout begins this summer on the Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel lines, then expands across compatible Android devices — phones, watches, cars, glasses, and laptops — through the rest […]
The US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the successor body to the US AI Safety Institute, announced on 5 May 2026 that it had signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI to evaluate their frontier AI models before public release. The deals expand a framework that already covered OpenAI and […]
