A LONG-FORM JOURNAL ON MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
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SIGNAL · STRUCTURE · SENTIENCE
From symbols to neurons — 75 years of acceleration

Reading the

signal behind

the machine.
FOLLOW THE SIGNAL — 2026 / 08 — ISSUE 12

Signal is a quiet, deliberate journal on artificial intelligence. We publish deep technical explainers, field reports from the labs, and serious essays on what these systems mean for the people who live with them. No hype. No doom. Just the work.

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Editor's pick.

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The Dawn of Generative AI

From GPT to Sora, generative AI has moved from research curiosity to cultural force. Here is how transformers, diffusion, and scaling laws reshaped what machines can create — and what they cannot.

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DEEP LEARNING Deep Learning
AUG 05 · 15 MIN

Deep Learning: how neural networks actually learn

Strip away the magic words and deep learning is, at its heart, an exercise in optimization.

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COMPUTER VISION Computer Vision
JUL 28 · 10 MIN

Computer Vision: teaching machines to see

A camera captures light; a vision model captures meaning. The architecture of machine sight.

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ETHICS AI Ethics
JUL 20 · 14 MIN

AI Ethics: the alignment problem

The alignment problem is not science fiction. It is a present-day engineering challenge.

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AI is the new electricity. It will transform every industry and every aspect of our lives.

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