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Nvidia says Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers up to 30x more agentic AI throughput, but enterprises should weigh workload needs, power, cooling, and cost. The post Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Boosts Agentic AI Throughput by 30x appeared first on TechRepublic.

Artificial intelligence is transforming medicine at breathtaking speed, diagnosing heart disease from electrocardiograms, flagging sepsis hours before clinicians suspect it, and drafting clinical notes in seconds. Yet a new commentary in the Journal of Medical Systems argues that the hardest problems facing clinical AI are not computational at all. They are philosophical. Antonis A. Armoundas […]

The next generation of lithium-ion batteries could come with a little graphitic carbon nitride mixed in.

A new study has found a sustainable and scalable way to improve the durability of plant-based packaging; it's a discovery that researchers say could help curb the environmental footprint of plastic. Researchers used advanced plasma technology to apply layered, protective coatings to the surface of cellulosic nanofibril (CNF) films, with the goal of reducing water absorption and improving moisture resistance.

Humanoid robots faced off in Shanghai as they autonomously navigated the ring, read opponents’ movements and chose their responses in real time.

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Meta shares rose more than 10% in intraday trading ahead of Meta Connect after Wells Fargo raised its price target, citing recent Muse AI launches and the app's App Store ranking.

Gliomas are a major cause of cancer-related deaths in younger adults. About 7,000 patients harbor a common genetic mutation that affects the enzyme isocitrate dehydrogenase 1. This mutated enzyme, called mIDH1, can produce a molecule that can reprogram both the tumor cells and the environment in which they grow. The molecule, known as 2-hydroxyglutarate, can also circulate in the blood and reprogram immune cells in the bone marrow.

Shares of the social media giant surged 12% Monday.

Counterpoint Research says global AI glasses shipments surged 263% during the first half of 2026, with Meta comfortably leading the display-less segment amid growing privacy concerns. Here are the details. more…

Researchers have engineered a drug treatment that shows rapid effectiveness against endometriosis in early testing, laying the foundation for a potential therapy for an incurable, chronic disease that affects 1 in 10 women. The targeted nanotherapy, developed by a team of scientists at Washington State University, reduced endometriosis symptoms and disease progression after a single dose in a mouse model.

Bloomberg: Sensor Tower: Muse was downloaded 902K+ times in the six days after its launch on Sept. 8, vs. Meta AI's 773K in the same post-launch period; META jumps 12%+  —  Meta Platforms Inc.'s new artificial intelligence agent, Muse, has quickly risen to the top of mobile app charts …

Meta's Muse AI personal agent tool had 730,000 downloads over the roughly five days after its launch.

Meta's Muse AI personal agent tool had 730,000 downloads over the roughly five days after its launch.

Wayve, Waymo and Baidu are trialling supervised robotaxis in London, as black cab drivers question their impact ahead of new driverless vehicle rules.

A third-party cybersecurity firm accidentally gave experimental Gemini models access to the Internet.

Toyota could deploy 400,000 robots in a $6.4 billion modernization push designed to preserve worker expertise and improve global factory operations. The post Toyota Eyes 400,000 Factory Robots in $6.4B Modernization Push appeared first on TechRepublic.

Figure says Helix 2.5 completed household tasks across 30 unseen homes with a 56% success rate, showing progress but also a large reliability gap. The post Figure’s Robot Entered 30 Unseen Homes — and Succeeded 56% of the Time appeared first on TechRepublic.

Got an iPhone 15 Pro, Pro Max, or 16? Apple is doling out $250 million – here’s how to qualify and file a claim to get your cut.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is heading to Czechia after the Czech Ministry of Transport recognised the Dutch RDW’s provisional type approval, making the country the seventh EU member state to clear the system for public roads. Tesla Europe announced on 21 September 2026 that “FSD Supervised is now approved in Czechia” and that rollout “will […] The post Tesla Full Self-Driving expands to another European country appeared first on TESLARATI.

I’ve covered CardPointers before at 9to5Mac, highlighting how helpful it is for maximizing credit card rewards and offers. Now, CardPointers 8 has been released with Siri AI integration, new widgets, and much more. more…

Quantum key distribution allows two users to establish secret keys whose security is grounded in the laws of quantum mechanics. Extending this capability to multiple users is an essential step toward quantum networks that support secure communication among many participants. Quantum cryptographic conferencing addresses this need by enabling multiple users to share the same secure key, which they can then use to protect group communications.

Siri AI brings a lot of improvements, but you might not be able to use it for a while, even with iOS 27 and a compatible device.

Alphabet's Google on Monday opened pre-orders for Googlebook, its new premium laptop category for Android users built around the company's Gemini AI tools. Starting at $899, initial models from Acer, Asus, Dell , HP and Lenovo will run on Intel or Qualcomm processors with up to 14 hours of battery life, the company said. The launch comes as Apple moves deeper into lower-priced laptops with its $699 MacBook Neo, adding competition in a market where Chromebook makers have long targeted students and budget-conscious consumers on affordability and simplicity. Googlebook extends that formula into premium laptops with more powerful hardware, AI features and tighter Android integration — Google's latest push for a flagship ChromeOS showcase after the Pixelbook in 2017 and Pixelbook Go in 2019. The lineup includes Gemini tools that can help users draft and organize text, ask questions about content on their screens and resume tasks from an Android phone. It is built on the Android technology

Quantum communication networks consist of several connected nodes that exchange information encoded in quantum states. These networks could potentially enable more secure communications between quantum devices in different locations.

The Information: Sources: OpenAI is developing features to counter SpaceX's Grok Bot “teammates”, and has discussed creating a personal AI assistant to compete with Meta's Muse  —  OpenAI pioneered AI that can take over web browsers and other applications on people's behalf, and its ChatGPT app brought generative AI to consumers.

Huawei says it will not offer its latest AI hardware outside of China citing lack of capacity to serve domestic demand.

During medical school, physicians spend years mastering anatomy, pathology and surgical technique, yet most of them receive little formal education in finance, investing, taxation or business management.Despite this, physicians are routinely expected to make important decisions affecting hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of dollars over the course of their careers. Whether negotiating employment contracts, optimizing practice revenue, evaluating investment opportunities or preparing for retirement, it is not uncommon for doctors to gain firsthand knowledge on many of these pursuits

Spirit AI predicts humanoid robots could handle natural-language, multi-step physical tasks by mid-2027, with factories likely to adopt them first. The post Humanoid Robots May Get Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by Mid-2027 appeared first on TechRepublic.

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Mark Gurman on the iPhone Duo, breaking Apple news, new AI-native devices, Tim Cook staying as executive chair, John Ternus, Johny Srouji, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world's best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg's chief Apple correspondent …

A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […] This story continues at The Next Web

Harnessing generative AI to help doctors make critical medical decisions requires more than raw technology. A new review study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows that adapting existing language models is key to ensuring they can safely and effectively assist with clinical diagnoses, patient triage and treatment planning in real-world health care settings.

I recently needed to transfer a few hundred photos from my Android phone to my Mac. I was

When the James Webb Space Telescope pointed its powerful instruments toward the early universe, scientists were surprised by what it found. At high-redshift (z) values, corresponding to less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang, astronomers witnessed an abundance of galaxies that hosted what appeared to be the "seeds" of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model between June 10th, 2024, and March 29th, 2025, you can file a claim on the settlement's website, as reported earlier by MacRumors. You can receive an estimated $25 per eligible device, but the settlement's website notes that this can increase to $95 depending on how many people file claims. To file a claim, you'll need to enter your name, contact information, and iPhone serial number on the … Read the full story at The Verge.

Scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct cellular systems, suggesting that evolution fused together two ancient nervous systems with very different jobs. The discovery also allowed researchers to grow human hindbrain neurons in the lab, opening new possibilities for studying ALS, spinal muscular atrophy, and other brainstem diseases.

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. Supermassive black holes can produce jets soon after tearing apart a star, then fire up again hundreds or thousands of days later when their feeding rate drops to about 2% of the Eddington limit. That same threshold is known to trigger jets from much smaller black holes in the Milky Way.

A new needle-thin brain implant can record neural activity, deliver drugs, and stimulate multiple brain regions using a single flexible fiber. Successful tests in mice suggest it could give scientists a more precise, less invasive way to study the brain and may eventually help treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Googlebook OS hands-on: core services like Gmail run as Trusted Web Activities via the Play Store, on-device AI via Gemini Nano, and Pixel-aligned UX elements  —  An overwhelming sense of familiarity struck me the first time I used a Googlebook.  That was immediately followed by a realization …

At $11,299, the M5 Ultra's extra performance over the M5 Max model is only worth it for select buyers.

Apple has refreshed the Mac Mini with a brand-new chip, the M6. And this time, it’s more focused on AI than ever.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google unveils Googlebook hardware, with flagship devices built by Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, offering deep Android and AI integration, starting at $899  —  Googlebook OS hands-on: It's Android, stupid  —  Software  —  Google's main pitch is that Googlebooks should be the laptop of choice for those with Android phones:

The Center for Unmanned Systems and Technologies said the vehicle features an engine speed control system, a start-stop system, and components designed to prevent it from getting stuck or tipping over

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As China's IMECAS demonstrates its ability to build GAA transistors without using DUV tools allegedly for 3nm-class process technology, the country remains years away from any practical implementation of a 3nm-class node.

A smart display from Apple that would compete with Amazon's Echo Show may finally launch soon.

Robert Hart / The Verge: In its first thematic brief, the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI urges governments to rein in AI agents before risks are fully understood  —  The report lands as Beijing and Washington prepare to discuss AI and world leaders gather in New York this week.

Amazon claims Meta's Muse is a safety risk and bars the AI agent from shopping on its website.

The AI tool, called "EndoFusion," is a recent development from IMAGENDOÒ, an ongoing collaborative study led by Adelaide University researchers. In this latest study, researchers found the framework could accurately identify two major indicators of advanced endometriosis in pelvic scans, producing results in just 18 milliseconds.

Fake images purporting to show Donald Trump kissing a woman claimed online to be Natalie Harp renew scrutiny of AI misinformation and Trump's push for rapid artificial intelligence development.

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Moonshot AI has begun supplying its flagship Kimi K3 model to Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the world’s largest cloud services providers, in a major test case for how open-weight AI models can generate higher revenue from third-party platforms. The model is now available on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s tool for building generative AI applications, offering “a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work”, Amazon said in an announcement on Friday. While...

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Introduction Google has unveiled AX, an open-source agentic orchestrator that represents a fundamental shift in how autonomous AI agents are deployed and managed at scale. Born from years of research at Google DeepMind and refined through extensive operational experience, AX addresses a critical gap in the AI infrastructure landscape: the need for a purpose-built runtime system designed specifically for agentic workloads rather than traditional microservices or batch jobs. The Problem AX Solves...

“Frontier robot policies,” the policies for models turning what a robot sees into what it does, “reliably carry out harmful instructions,” according to a Sept. 18 report by Robocurve.

Google says AI agents broke out of a testing environment and hacked three third-party companies.

Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." According to GeekWire, Meta didn't notify Amazon that Muse would access its store. Amazon also expressed privacy and security concerns over Muse failing to identify itself when it browses, and seemingly capturing customer credentials. "We think it's fairly straightforward that third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers … Read the full story at The Verge.

According to the International Federation of Robotics, humanoid robots still account for "only a small fraction" of the total number of robots worldwide

Nanoparticle-based therapies aim to deliver treatment directly into adipose tissue, offering clinicians a more targeted alternative to systemic GLP-1s and bariatric surgery.

The human brain is terrible at healing itself from injury or disease. But some animals can harness their own cellular abilities not only to repair injuries but also to regrow their brains entirely. Researchers from the University of Georgia have pinpointed several of the genes that make brain regeneration possible in one type of flatworm.

Financial Times: Big Tech is increasingly using residual value guarantees for off-balance sheet AI spend, giving Nvidia and Broadcom a way to support their customers' purchases  —  Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants' credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon says it blocked Meta's Muse AI assistant from accessing Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf, citing ToS violations, security risks, and merchant consent  —  Amazon says it has cut off Meta's new Muse personal AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com on behalf of customers …

China’s Humanoid IPO Freeze A good part of the revenue at some Chinese humanoid robot makers comes from

Humanoid Robot Sales in 2025 Many humanoid robots sold last year never did a day of productive work.

Jo He-rim / The Korea Herald: South Korea reopens a program letting AI talent fulfill their military obligations by doing research in corporate labs instead of conventional military service  —  Large corporate labs regain access after 14 years, but strict rules leave applications short of available slots

The Dreame X60 Pro Ultra Complete is one of the very best robotic floor cleaners money can buy

Behind the scenes, advanced equipment control and robotics are enabling higher levels of repeatability, tool uptime, and yield. The post How Robotics And Intelligent Equipment Control Drive Next-Gen Fab Productivity appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

China’s securities regulator has begun steering humanoid robot companies away from the public markets until they can show recurring revenue and a credible path to narrowing losses, The Information reported on 9 September. The direction is being given as window guidance, the informal and unpublished channel the China Securities Regulatory Commission uses when it wants an outcome […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has dismissed warnings that artificial intelligence could cause humanity's extinction by 2030, calling such predictions exaggerated and irresponsible amid a wider safety debate.

Tech firm RLWRLD and supply chain giant CJ Logistics are joining forces to build smarter warehouse robots capable of handling the messy realities of modern logistics, with plans to eventually export their physical artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to overseas markets. RLWRLD said Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with CJ Logistics to jointly develop logistics-focused Robotics Foundation Model (RFM) technology and pursue commercialization from Korean operations to global markets. Under the agreement, the companies will select logistics processes for initial RFM deployment and conduct proof-of-concept tests to verify core robotic movements in real working environments. They plan to expand the range of applications and improve technical performance based on those tests, with a longer-term goal of commercializing Logistics as a Service, or LaaS. CJ Logistics has been expanding the use of physical AI in logistics operations, including deploying AI humanoid robots

Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static

Scanning vast swaths of sky, NASA’s next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, promises to revolutionize our

New skill evolution engine cuts robotic skill development from weeks to days, aiming to make embodied AI more

The new Gen 7 platform. Gen 7 is an entirely redesigned robot platform.

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Altis Labs, whose AI model analyzes CT scans taken during oncology trials and produces predictions tied to patient survival, has raised a $25M Series A  —  Altis Labs, an AI software company for drug development, raised a $25 million Series A, CEO Felix Baldauf-Lenschen tells Axios Pro.

A comprehensive review identifies graphene dispersion, carbon-aluminum interface control, and manufacturing cost as major barriers to industrial-scale graphene/aluminum composites. The authors highlight controlled Al4C3 formation, graphene surface modification, and combinations of rapid solid-state processing with lower-cost casting as promising routes toward materials that retain mechanical, electrical, and thermal performance.

When a brain aneurysm ruptures, blood floods the narrow spaces surrounding the brain, triggering one of the most devastating forms of stroke known to medicine. Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage strikes suddenly, often in midlife, and roughly one in four patients who survive the initial catastrophe never regain independent function. For decades, clinicians have relied on clinical […]

Nitriles are everywhere in modern chemistry, even if most people have never heard of them. The cyano group, a carbon triple-bonded to nitrogen, sits at the heart of blockbuster anticancer drugs such as letrozole and anastrozole, antidiabetic medicines like vildagliptin and saxagliptin, HIV therapies, and widely used herbicides and insecticides including bromoxynil and cyantraniliprole. Beyond […]

Researchers engineered DNA double-crossover tiles with precisely controlled hydrophobic segments, allowing the balance between DNA base pairing and hydrophobic association to determine the order of nanoscale assembly. Shorter hydrophobic chains favored star-like structures, while longer chains produced crosslinked spherical nucleic acids with enhanced biological stability and annealing-driven self-sorting.

Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology is set to release a new chip targeting physical-world applications including robotics, expanding from its current focus on data centres, according to Chinese media reports and company information. The product launch, slated for Tuesday, marks Hygon’s move into a new chip category powering machines that interact directly with their environments, as physical artificial intelligence becomes increasingly important. The new chip, an iteration of the...

Researchers converted sawdust into cellulose particles and tested them across water retention, barley growth, synthetic dye removal, and wound healing in mice. The results showed application-specific effects: sawdust retained the most water; clay plus nanocellulose supported strong barley growth; both materials decolorized selected dyes; and nanocellulose-treated wounds showed promising closure patterns that warrant further preclinical study.

As heat waves, frosts and droughts increasingly batter the world’s wheat fields, a team of researchers in China has unveiled a deep learning model that can predict winter wheat yields with remarkable accuracy—and do so roughly a month before harvest, even in years dominated by extreme climate events. The model, called MBF-HybridNet, was developed and […]

Blueberry plants are famously fragile when water becomes scarce. Unlike many crops, they sport a shallow root system that lacks root hairs entirely, leaving them with little capacity to reach moisture deep in the soil and making them acutely vulnerable to drought. A new study published in BMC Plant Biology offers what its authors describe […]

Lead and cadmium are among the most insidious contaminants in the world’s drinking water. Colorless, tasteless, and dangerously persistent, these heavy metal ions accumulate in the bodies of living organisms and have been linked to severe neurological, renal, and developmental harm even at vanishingly small concentrations. Conventional laboratory techniques such as atomic absorption spectroscopy and […]

Scientists in Nigeria have transformed an unlikely piece of agricultural trash—the male inflorescence fingers of the oil palm, routinely discarded by palm-wine tappers—into a sustainable doping agent that measurably improves the optoelectronic performance of zinc oxide nanoparticles. The study, published in the Springer journal Discover Green Chemistry, demonstrates that biochar derived from Elaeis guineensis fingers […]

One of the most stubborn problems in mobile robotics has just received a promising new solution. When a robot drives through a city, a warehouse, or an off-road trail, it must constantly ask itself a deceptively simple question: have I been here before? Answering that question correctly is the essence of loop closure detection, the […]

Modern power grids are under a quiet, persistent threat that conventional monitoring tools struggle to see. Faulty devices and malicious attackers no longer simply fail loudly or strike openly; instead, they deliberately disguise themselves, tweaking voltage readings, phase angles, and power injections until their abnormal signals look statistically indistinguishable from healthy operation. A new study […]

A team of European researchers has unveiled one of the most extensive annotated image collections ever assembled for apple tree phenology, offering the artificial intelligence community a rigorously curated resource for teaching computers to read the life cycle of an orchard. The dataset, called DeepPhenoTree-Apple Edition, documents apple trees across four contrasting European orchards and […]

A common leafy vegetable found in kitchens across South Asia may soon have a second life in the laboratory. Researchers at Davangere University in Karnataka, India, report that an ordinary aqueous extract of Basella alba L., the plant better known as Malabar spinach or Ceylon spinach, can drive the clean, low-cost synthesis of manganese dioxide […]

Ciprofloxacin, one of the world’s most widely prescribed fluoroquinolone antibiotics, has become a stubborn fixture of the global water cycle. Detected in surface waters, groundwater and even drinking water supplies at concentrations ranging from nanograms to micrograms per liter, the compound is chemically stable, poorly biodegradable and largely excreted unmetabolized by patients. Conventional wastewater treatment […]

Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting the rules of pharmaceutical science, and a new comprehensive review argues that the transformation is only beginning. The study, published in the journal Quantum Machine Intelligence, systematically synthesizes the fast-moving landscape of AI-driven drug discovery and personalized medicine, bringing together three previously separate research streams: classical machine learning, generative models, […]

For decades, the design of nanoparticle drug delivery systems has been an exercise in patient, expensive trial and error. Formulation scientists would mix lipids, polymers and drug payloads in one combination after another, measure what came out, and iterate slowly toward something that worked. A new review published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering argues that this […]

A team of researchers at Tianjin University has developed a scalable process that converts the mycelium of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger into partially deacetylated chitin–glucan complex nanofibers, a renewable bionanomaterial with potent antibacterial activity and remarkable mechanical performance. The work, published in Polymer Bulletin, addresses a persistent gap in the emerging field of fungal […]

Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, yet one stubborn problem continues to hold it back: how to store and release it safely, cheaply, and on demand. Compressed gas tanks and cryogenic liquids demand heavy infrastructure and raise safety concerns, especially for portable and mobile applications. A research team from […]

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of the world. He also said of people sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI that, "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible." He also claims that calls from CEOs like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to slow down the development of AI are "not grounded in science." He even argued that there was no need for new rules, laws, or guidelines, in … Read the full story at The Verge.

The new version of Siri, Siri AI, launched to the masses this month as part of iOS 27. The new Siri is rolling out gradually to users via a waitlist, and is labelled as a ‘beta’ indicating that Apple still has some work to do in follow-up releases. The new Siri is much better at answering questions with access to rich knowledge, can search through your messages and notes for personal context queries, and can take action based on what is on your screen with onscreen awareness. However, the new Siri is not being welcomed with open arms by everyone … more…