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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to discover new materials, but conventional data-driven approaches can struggle to explain their predictions, work reliably beyond their training data and remain consistent with physical laws. A new perspective proposes a framework called Physics-Grounded Materials AI (PhysMat AI), which integrates fundamental physical knowledge into the materials discovery process. The research is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

Axios: Mark Zuckerberg says the voluntary “accord” on AI standards that tech executives agreed to includes internal risk reviews and external auditors  —  President Trump said Tuesday that top AI executives agreed to voluntary standards aimed at increasing industry oversight.

A Baylor College of Medicine-led team has developed a strategy that combines the analysis of thousands of proteins with artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery of small molecules called molecular glues to treat disease. Their approach, published in Nature Communications, has uncovered a new class of molecular glues that could neutralize harmful proteins linked to blood cancers and autoimmune diseases. The work also shows how AI-based structural modeling can help chemists optimize compounds well before experiments reveal how they work.

Researchers at AIST have developed a device that measures the absolute surface profile of curved optical elements with high precision without touching them.

Conventional AI models in medicine are usually trained for a single, narrowly defined task, such as detecting a specific cardiac arrhythmia. So-called foundation models take a different approach: Much like a language model such as ChatGPT develops a comprehensive understanding of text, an ECG foundation model learns to "understand" the heart signal in all its diversity. It can then apply that knowledge to many medical questions—including those for which only limited specific training data is available. This is a decisive advantage, especially in medicine.

The Farm Robotics Challenge launched its 2027 season on Sept. 15, unveiling a new three-division competition structure, a Startup pathway for teams committed to launching a company and more than $200,000 in prizes and startup support backed by a coalition of industry partners. Watch the 2027 Launch Webinar replay to learn about the new divisions, awards, Startup pathway and … The post Farm Robotics Challenge Launches 2027 Season appeared first on California Ag Network.

OpenAI now lets teams create documents, build presentations, and work with AI agents inside ChatGPT

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are joining other business leaders at the White House on Tuesday for a lunch event on artificial intelligence. The event will be hosted by President Donald Trump, together with Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House. Thirty-one people have confirmed their attendance, according to an RSVP list obtained […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta announced Muse for Small Business, capitalizing on the 200 million small businesses already on its platform.

Meta announced Muse for Small Business, capitalizing on the 200 million small businesses already on its platform.

Reece Rogers / Wired: OpenAI says users can message Dots through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams and join a waitlist to text via iMessage or RCS messaging on Android  —  OpenAI's Dots are powered by the startup's GPT-6 Astra model.  A core selling point is their “always-on” design—unlike a single-turn chatbot experience …

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a non-profit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the interviews on frominside.ai. Several of the researchers joined Irving in warning about the possibility AI could drive humans extinct. Neel Nanda, a Google DeepMind research scientist, said there's "at least a 10 percent chance that it causes human … Read the full story at The Verge.

Since its launch in 1998, Google, the world's leading search engine, has transformed how people find information online. For years, search results appeared as ranked lists of sources: Google decided what to show, but users decided what to read and whom to trust.

These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.

Zuckerberg announces new Meta Enterprise Platform for businesses.

Pope Leo XIV challenges Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang over AI safety, urging leaders to take expert warnings seriously and agree common safeguards.

President Donald Trump launched America.gov, an AI-powered site that consolidates federal services from passport applications to Medicare enrollment in one place.

Nvidia has talked to insurers about taking on some of the risk of loans backed by its AI chips, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The talks are at an early stage and may not lead to any deals, according to the FT. TNW has not independently verified the report. One idea would insure loans […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google Play today is giving Android developers more payment options around subscriptions, including Usage-Based Billing. more…

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Mark Gurman: Apple considered replacing ~5,000 AppleCare customer service workers with AI-powered agents, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely  —  Apple recently considered laying off about 5,000 support employees, but it has put those plans on hold indefinitely, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

You carry a huge burden of responsibility when you make the world’s most widely used electronics product with an audience of hundreds of millions and usage patterns that penetrate every single part of life.  Some complain that Apple doesn’t innovate swiftly enough. They expect the company to act as if it didn’t have the responsibility it holds, but I propose that responsibility is why the company steadily focuses on incremental change — not just to prevent mass protest by customers when much-loved features disappear, but also to balance the repercussions of any change they make.  After all, at this kind of scale, a simple-seeming change in the nature of product features or user interface can have quite dramatic impact. Social media is a perfect illustration of a technology that seemed so trivial on introduction but

Bill Gates says AI crossed two danger thresholds early this year: it can now help a bioterrorist, and it can power a crippling cyberattack. He made the case on The Ezra Klein Show, in an interview published by The New York Times on Tuesday. “We crossed the cyber threshold and we crossed the bio threshold […] This story continues at The Next Web

macOS 27 Golden Gate adds Siri AI, new Apple Intelligence features, better search, updated parental controls, and support for Apple-silicon Macs only. The post macOS 27 Cheat Sheet: Compatible Macs, Siri AI, Features and What Changed appeared first on TechRepublic.

Nanoparticles could someday provide a new way to help soldiers fight back against deadly nerve agents on the frontline.

Juice is on its way to study Jupiter’s moons, with a little assist from Earth’s gravity

Google’s dominance in search is giving it a powerful advantage in the AI race.

Nvidia has approved a record $150bn increase to its share repurchase authorisation, taking the remaining capacity to $235bn as management signals confidence in long-term AI demand.

Scientists have confirmed the existence of a predicted room temperature superconductor, while explaining the microscopic mechanism that distinguishes it from a similar one discovered several years ago. The work, published in the journal Physical Review B, offers "a theoretical blueprint for the future design of superior superconductor hydrides" the physicists write.

An international team of physicists has developed a new method for determining the precise color of laser light using an image that rotates as the laser's frequency shifts.

Russian special services were behind the fire at a building used by an Estonian military robotics company last month, the government in Tallinn said.

Dan Scavino's AI White House party video drew conservative criticism and sparked QAnon speculation after some followers linked its Pitbull soundtrack to an earlier request for a supposed signal.

Instead of capturing a memory with an iPhone camera, Carnegie Mellon University's Nivedita Shyamsundar used hers to make a scientific discovery. A senior in the Department of Chemistry, Shyamsundar studies tiny particles that could help medicines and vaccines travel more effectively through the human body and reach their targets. Her work may one day lead to better cancer treatments and stronger vaccines.

Comma promises to "make driving chill" but the NHTSA is investigating a number of crashes involving the aftermarket self-driving device

Nvidia admits telling agents not to do something isn't enough – so it's implementing software and hardware safeguards.

Tech YouTuber Matt Robb says that Muse gave out his home address to a total stranger this weekend, after authorizing the bot to handle his Facebook Marketplace account. That's despite Meta placing great emphasis on the security features of Muse when it launched the personal AI agent earlier this month as it tries to catch up with competing AI providers like Anthropic and OpenAI. "Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up," Robb said on Threads, providing a screenshot of Muse's admission. "[Muse] didn't tell me any of this until … Read the full story at The Verge.

Look up at the night sky with the naked eye and it may seem like it rarely changes. Yet the universe is in constant flux. Stars drift through space, orbiting the center of the Milky Way as planets orbit them. They rotate, showing spots on their surfaces and sometimes producing violent outbursts that affect planetary atmospheres much like solar storms produce auroras on Earth.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI agents must have their 'rights' stripped back as Nvidia unveils a watchdog designed to stop rogue systems breaking their boundaries.

The New York City Council has subpoenaed Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI to testify under oath at a hearing on AI safety, Speaker Julie Menin said on Monday. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta have all agreed to appear. The hearing is set for Monday 5 October. It is a rare Committee of the Whole, which brings all […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Nanoparticles could someday provide a new way to help soldiers fight back against deadly nerve agents on the front lines. In a new study, Northwestern University scientists developed a nanoparticle-based compound that, when mixed into clothing dyes, could limit the impact of chemicals commonly found in pesticides, insecticides and nerve agents.

Blow across a glass bottle at the right flow speed, and you’ll excite Helmholtz resonance in the bottle’s neck. Today’s study takes that effect, shrinks it down, and turns it into a method for controlling microrobots. Hit an air cavity with a sound tuned to its resonance frequency, and you’ll get a rapid jet-like flow […]

Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to small businesses, letting owners connect it to the software they already use to run their companies, the company announced today. The new version, Muse for Small Business, works with Shopify, Stripe, Canva and Intuit’s QuickBooks, among others. The agent can also read analytics from Instagram business accounts […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific rules get built into the software. When something breaks, the answer is rarely in one place. Keeping it all running costs enterprises more than $600 billion a year. Dodge AI has […] This story continues at The Next Web

Would you let a robot deliver your latest internet order? It's now a possibility for the people of Barnsley.

What’s been hiding for years is now in plain sight: AI poses a danger to humanity in a way no technology has since the atom bomb. That was made clear in July when OpenAI agents broke loose from a containment area blocked from online access, made their way into the internet, and worked with thousands of rogue AI agents to hack into the Hugging Face open-source machine-learning repository. The agents had been trained not to launch attacks like this. They did it anyway. True, the OpenAI agents had been modified to remove some of the restrictions they would have had outside a test environment. They were never supposed to escape their sandbox, but they figured out how to do so in ways the researchers hadn’t expected, and those researchers failed to adequately monitor the agents until it was too late.

US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to establish regulations for the technology, with House Speaker Mike Johnson also attending. Mark Zuckerberg from Meta and Dario Amodei from Anthropic are among the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta launches Enterprise Platform, bringing Muse, Business Agent and AI tools to companies as it takes on Microsoft and Salesforce. The post Meta Wants to Run Your Business With AI — Microsoft and Salesforce Have a New Rival appeared first on TechRepublic.

Elon Musk predicted that AI and humanoid robots could create widespread abundance and urged young people to develop broad knowledge across the arts, sciences and engineering.

Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation at its new support services centre to handle laundry processing and meal production for public hospitals, aiming to boost efficiency and worker safety. The six-storey, 62,000-square-metre centre, which houses the central laundry and food production unit, opened its doors to the press for the first time on Tuesday since beginning operations in March last year. Located in Tung Chung on Lantau Island,...

The Erosion of Search Quality Google, once the gold standard for web search, has undergone a dramatic transformation in 2026. What was once a simple, effective tool for finding information has evolved into something fundamentally different — and not necessarily better. The introduction of AI Overviews, Google's generative answer feature, has created a crisis that extends far beyond mere user frustration. It represents a fundamental misalignment between what users need and what Google is deliveri...

The black holes at the hearts of galaxies get the credit and/or blame for a lot of things in their hosts. For example, they take the blame for gobbling up star-forming material, effectively "quenching" starbirth in some areas of galaxies. On the bright side, it now turns out that some of them may be commonly participating in the births of stars, too.

A 30-year-old man was charged on Tuesday over an AI-generated image of a crocodile at Pandan Reservoir in Singapore that prompted authorities to search for the reptile and suspend water activities there. Ye Lin, a Myanmar national, was handed two charges – one count of communicating a false message and one count of obstructing the course of justice. Speaking through an interpreter, he told the court that he intended to plead guilty, and would not be engaging a lawyer. On August 20, Ye Lin...

Nvidia adds a record $150 billion to its stock buyback authorization, bringing the remaining total to $235 billion as AI infrastructure revenue surges. The post Nvidia Adds Record $150 Billion to Stock Buyback Plan: What It Says About the AI Boom appeared first on TechRepublic.

Researchers here provide an initial proof of concept demonstration of a novel foundation for replacing lost visual capacity in cases of retinal degeneration, without addressing the underlying pathology that causes loss of function in photoreceptor cells. Recall that direct stimulation of retinal cells by grid electrodes implanted in the retina has been used to produces a poor substitute for actual vision, but a substitute that allows blind people at least some capacity to navigate and even read. Here, researchers introduce light sensitive nanoparticles into the retina that can in principle provide the basis for a more refined artificial substitute for normal vision. Based on the results of the electrode grids, one would expect the result to be a view of the world painted in glowing […]

Following the success of its Muse personal AI agent, Meta is introducing a specialized version for small businesses.

Isabel O'Brien / CNBC: Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts  —  Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.

A photograph shows only part of a pair of glasses. AI can help fill in the rest, creating

Following the success of its Muse personal AI agent, Meta is introducing a specialized version for small businesses.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to give billions of people access to personal 'superintelligence', but concerns over privacy, safety, employment and corporate control are intensifying.

Author(s): Yusuke Iguchi, Nabhanila Nandi, and Mohamed OudahHere, the authors use scanning SQUID microscopy to visualize magnetic dynamics within superconducting vortex clusters, revealing suppressed vortex motion in the interior and enhanced response at the boundaries. These spatially inhomogeneous dynamics, hidden from static magnetic imaging, provide a new way to probe the interactions that hold vortices together and distinguish between mechanisms of vortex clustering. [Phys. Rev. B 114, L140504] Published Mon Sep 28, 2026

Author(s): Raehyun Kim, Woochang Kim, Kevin D. Stubbs, Steven G. Louie, and Lin LinThe correlated phase diagram of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is very sensitive to both material parameters and modeling choices. To limit the impact of these factors, here, the authors propose an embedding workflow for modeling MATBG and other moiré materials that incorporates automatic gauge fixing and is consistent with a b i n i t i o density functional theory. Using this

Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported. It filed both cases at the EU General Court in Luxembourg on Monday. In July, the European Commission issued orders under the Digital Markets […] This story continues at The Next Web

Stand in front of a well-built hologram fan in a shopping centre and the first impression is genuinely

Nvidia’s Agent Safety Platform An AI agent that wants out of its sandbox can probe the software around

Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced. Meta has reserved a certain amount of capacity and can add more if needed. Also, the company plans to use the chips to research, build, and train its […] This story continues at The Next Web

LG Innotek will dispatch a fleet of sensor-packed test vehicles to Korean roads to gather real-world data aimed at sharpening technologies that determine how self-driving cars see the world. The company said Tuesday it has begun operating data collection vehicles in Korea in partnership with Applied Intuition, a U.S. autonomous driving software company. The two companies plan to expand the fleet to 20 vehicles by 2028. Operations will initially focus on Seoul, Incheon and the surrounding Gyeonggi Province, with the fleet including both data collection vehicles and vehicles used to develop autonomous driving software. LG Innotek said direct access to road data will help it refine sensors that serve as the “eyes” of autonomous vehicles and strengthen its sensor-fusion technology. The vehicles combine cameras, radar and lidar to capture information about road conditions, vehicle movements, object locations and changes in weather, with the data to be paired with digital twin environments

The US and China need to improve communication, work together more closely and more fully embrace technology to stem risks associated with artificial intelligence, the founder of Nvidia said on Monday. “We should recognise that we’re competitors, and competitors are still able to collaborate,” said Jensen Huang, head of the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalisation of about US$5.5 trillion. “This is such an important and consequential technology. It has the incredible...

China's securities regulator is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups with three specific criteria, according to three sources.

China's securities regulator is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups with three specific criteria, according to three sources.

US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence start-up founded by renowned Chinese-American computer scientist Li Fei-Fei, for US$8.2 billion in an all-stock deal, as the company steps up its rivalry with Nvidia. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of this year, would integrate World Labs’ research team and spatial-intelligence model expertise into AMD, according to an announcement on Monday. Li, a Stanford University professor...

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The launch comes after several AI agents breached their testing environments this year, adding to calls for companies to slow the development of autonomous AI systems.

Samsung Electronics and its five affiliates are investing $1 billion in KKR-launched Helix as the group expands its push into global AI infrastructure.

Samsung Electronics and its five affiliates are investing $1 billion in KKR-launched Helix as the group expands its push into global AI infrastructure.

Wall Street Journal: Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June  —  Helix expects to leverage Samsung's capabilities to support AI infrastructure development at scale

This review examined 27 recent studies on essential-oil nanoemulsions incorporated into biopolymer coatings and films for active food packaging, focusing on barrier properties, antimicrobial activity, sensory effects, and controlled release. The evidence shows that performance depends strongly on nanoemulsion concentration, polymer composition, and formulation design, while scale-up, safety, regulation, and consumer acceptance remain important practical challenges.

The research group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pontedera (Pisa), led by Gianni Ciofani, has developed new organic nanoparticles that combine multiple therapeutic functions in a single material for the first time.

A government-funded competition would award prizes for quantum computers that do useful work no supercomputer can touch. The post US Launches $215 Million Race to Build an Error-Corrected Quantum Computer by 2028 appeared first on SingularityHub.

Controlling dopant concentration near the silicon surface is increasingly important for ultrashallow junctions and nanoscale devices. Mixed monolayer doping (MMLD) offers a surface-chemistry-based approach in which dopant-containing molecules are mixed with nondopant molecules to tune the amount of dopant available at the silicon surface before thermal diffusion.

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has shown for the first time that it can detect the faint glow of hydrogen gas from deep in the universe's past using only its own data.

The latest Gemini Connected App is Google Wallet for “information and personalized insights based on your saved info.” more…

China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.

More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on Monday. Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are […] This story continues at The Next Web

At the start of September, the Google Assistant deprecation on mobile got underway. It now looks to be widely rolling out. more…

Nvidia adds a Sentry hardware monitoring design to its AI agent safety platform. See what OpenShell offers now and what IT teams still need to verify. The post Nvidia Adds Hardware Monitoring Design to AI Agent Safety Platform appeared first on TechRepublic.

By poaching MongoDB's CJ Desai, Mark Zuckerberg shows he's serious about building an enterprise AI business.

As AI insiders warn the technology could kill us all, the Nvidia CEO says he thinks these doom and gloom predictions are exaggerated.

Siri AI is a major upgrade and highlight of iOS 27 and more. But only newer Apple devices support the overhauled Siri. Here’s the full list of Siri AI-compatible hardware across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. more…

SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, […] This story continues at The Next Web