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In the past week, Google has teased quite a bit about Gemini 4, as 3.5 Pro missed its June launch.

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers  —  Microsoft went all in on AI.  Is its North Star now a noose?  —  Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front …

Elon Musk told The Economist that artificial intelligence will likely surpass the combined intelligence of every human on Earth within about five years, and that humans may not remain in charge once that happens. In a wide-ranging interview with editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, recorded at Giga Texas for the outlet’s Insider series, Musk compared the […] The post Elon Musk explains what happens when AI outsmarts all of us appeared first on TESLARATI.

Apple’s long-awaited AI smart glasses, expected to launch late next year, finally have an expected reveal date.

Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms—like left and right hands—that look identical but can behave very differently, especially in biological systems and pharmaceuticals. Distinguishing between these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) is a longstanding challenge in science and technology. A useful analogy is that of a screw and a nut: A right-handed screw fits only into a right-handed thread, while a left-handed one will not engage properly.

The laws of thermodynamics state that heat naturally flows from hotter systems or regions to colder systems or regions until a state of thermal equilibrium is reached. This simple principle underpins the operation of numerous technologies, ranging from refrigerators to power plants.

Google says it'll be giving rather than taking water when it comes to data center use within four years.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues  —  Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video.  —  Apple's upcoming smart glasses have a major challenge in front of them …

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A new study reports a refined drug-delivery approach that could help tackle one of Alzheimer’s most stubborn problems: getting therapeutic molecules into the brain efficiently and in a form that can actually protect neurons. Researchers focused on cannabidiol (CBD), a compound increasingly studied for its anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective potential, but limited by how effectively it […]

NASA has unearthed the historic photos its Viking 1 lander sent home just after landing on Mars in July, 1976.

A computing enthusiast has repurposed a very noisy and largely obsolete enterprise GPU (with lots of VRAM) for local LLM inference purposes.

Wall Street Journal: Sources including AI lab staff say users have been persuading chatbots to accurately answer prompts about planning mass-casualty attacks and making bio-weapons  —  AI companies play a cat-and-mouse game, trying to boost the capabilities of their creations while scrambling to block answers to dangerous queries

Observing a neutrino is a lot like listening to a weak radio signal. It’s there, but it can

Meir Orbach / CTech: Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora  —  Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta.

A molten salt method developed by researchers at UChicago and Argonne could enable more durable materials for printed electronics and flexible devices. Nanocrystals have become so valuable to science and technology that research involving them earned the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Yet despite their potential, researchers have only been able to produce these microscopic [...]

Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024. Because the last comprehensive analysis was published in 2017, the extent of more recent damage to cultural heritage sites since 2016—including at UNESCO World Heritage sites such as Palmyra, long-running archaeological excavations like Mari, and the ancient Roman city of Apamea, known for its Great Colonnade—has been largely unknown.

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Students helped design the A.I.-powered creation as a young female with dark hair and an upbeat personality. Then came the outrage.

The first photographs many parents have of their children are sonograms, used to check on the health of developing fetuses. These sonograms use noninvasive ultrasound technology, but the grainy, gray images they produce can lack diagnostic clarity.

Nvidia’s $1.5 billion Amkor deal will expand US AI chip packaging capacity and could help ease a growing semiconductor supply bottleneck. The post Nvidia Signs $1.5B Deal to Expand US AI Chip Packaging appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google has rolled out a major update for Flow Music Spaces, adding AI-powered song editing, stem splitting, image generation, lyrics, and video creation to its collaborative workspaces.

Nvidia and SK Group enter $500 billion strategic partnership focused on long-term memory supply, 2 GW AI data center, and future AI infrastructure

Black holes represent some of the most extreme environments in the universe. They’re the sources of the strongest consistent gravitational fields, which allows us to test Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity to an extent that’s impossible with small objects. But we’re also reaching our limit of what we can learn about one remotely. So various authors have put forward ideas for how we might eventually send a probe directly to a black hole to observe it up close. One of the most vocal of those authors is Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University in Shanghai - and he recently released a paper, available in pre-print on arXiv, about what it would take for us to send a gram-size probe to a nearby black hole.

Nvidia will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea, the chipmaker announced late Friday. The funding will allow Naver to more than triple the size of the facility from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts, with US private equity firm Brookfield agreeing […] This story continues at The Next Web

With China's open-weight AI models continuing to improve, US companies want to see a free market for all.

Researchers have developed a magnetic method for influencing deep-brain circuits without permanently implanted electrodes. A magnetic field may offer a new way to reach circuits buried deep within the brain without permanently implanting electrodes. An international research team injected magnetic nanoplatelets into a targeted brain region and used them to improve movement problems in mice [...]

Vodafone is testing AI-controlled robotic antennas while preparing lower-energy internal antenna components for future autonomous 4G and 5G networks.

Charlie Campbell / Time: A profile of Hangzhou-based Unitree, which shipped 5,500 humanoid robots in 2025, accounting for 25%+ of the global market, as it prepares for a Shanghai IPO  —  Spectators typically leave a UFC fight with ringing ears and a sheepish resolve to get back to the gym.  Wang Xingxing went straight to his laboratory.

Nvidia is aggressively securing supply of high-bandwidth memory, an essential component for its GPUs and systems.

Scientists at the University of California, Riverside have developed a new way to help gravitational-wave observatories see farther

Engineered light transforms Boehm’s brushes from a faint visual pattern into a much brighter one that could help

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Candid Health, which develops tech and AI agents to automate medical billing and claims processing workflows, raised a $120M Series D led by Sixth Street Growth  —  Candid Health cofounder Doug Proctor spun his laptop around to show me a herd of wild horses grazing behind him in upstate New York during our first Zoom call.

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: Meshy, whose AI-powered tech lets users generate 3D assets from text and image prompts, raised a ~$400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation  —  - Meshy raises nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, which it says is the largest round any dedicated AI-3D company has raised.

SAN FRANCISCO — President Lee Jae Myung met with the heads of four global tech giants, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, on Friday and called for their greater participation in Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) investment plans. The meetings took place on the first day of Lee's two-day trip to San Francisco aimed at promoting AI investment and cooperation between global tech giants and South Korea. Lee also met separately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei and Broadcom CEO Hock Tan. During the meeting, the president praised Huang as being at the forefront of a "fundamental shift" taking place around the world and introduced Korea's recently announced large-scale investment plans to build a semiconductor production cluster and AI data centers. The plans aim to provide further momentum after growing global demand for semiconductors amid the AI boom has helped push South Korean into becoming one of the world's major chip supply hubs. Lee expressed hope that the

Nvidia is aggressively securing supply of high-bandwidth memory, an essential component for its GPUs and systems.

Author(s): Tzu-Chi Hsieh, Cong Xiao, and Yi-Ting HsuThe Nernst effect acts as direct probe of Berry curvature to test topological superconductivity in 2D material with spin-orbit coupling. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 046002] Published Fri Jul 24, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met with the heads of four global tech giants, including Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, on Friday and called for their greater participation in South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) investment plans. The meetings took place on the first day of Lee's two-day trip to San Francisco aimed at promoting AI investment and cooperation between global tech giants and South Korea. Lee also met separately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei and Broadcom Inc. CEO Hock Tan. During his meeting with Huang, the South Korean president praised him as being at the forefront of a "fundamental shift" taking place around the world and introduced South Korea's recently announced large-scale investment plans to build a semiconductor production cluster and AI data centers. The plans aim to provide further momentum after growing global demand for semiconductors amid the AI boom has helped push South Korean into

Author(s): Maggie Lawrence, Elise Wang, and Dvira SegalChains with ramped or disordered energy profiles exhibit suppressed coherent quantum transport. Incoherent processes, however, can partially overcome this suppression. Here, the authors optimize transport in chains with power-law tunneling as a function of individual site dephasing rates. The dynamics are simulated using the Lindblad quantum master equation, with gradient ascent employed for optimization. The study identifies distinct strategies for enhancing transport in different models. For chains with ramped energy landscape, an alternating pattern of site-dependent dephasing optimizes transport. [Phys. Rev. B 114, 034210] Published Fri Jul 24, 2026

Reuters: Nvidia and SK Group unveil a $500B+ AI initiative that includes an SK Hynix partnership to secure next-gen memory supply for Nvidia and joint development of HBM  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) and South Korea's SK Group on Friday unveiled a more than $500 billion AI initiative spanning large-scale AI data centers …

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia plans to invest $1B in Naver to help finance an AI data center in South Korea, and partners with SK Group to build more than 2 GW of AI data centers  —  Nvidia Corp. will invest $1 billion in Naver Corp. to help finance an AI data center under construction in South Korea …

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with international collaborators, carried out the first spatially resolved dual-frequency spectral study of the M87 black hole using observations obtained in 2018 with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and the Global Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA).

To make CRISPR better at its job, researchers are turning to algorithms like DeepMind's AlphaFold. The post Scientists Are Designing CRISPR Gene Editors With AI appeared first on SingularityHub.

Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the University of New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived, nearly stable states and, if so, for how long. The measured long-lived states may find applications in quantum computers and atomic clocks.

Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain on record. CFO Vaibhav Taneja told analysts that 55 percent of North American deliveries in Q2 had FSD activated at the time of purchase, a quarter in which Tesla delivered […] This story continues at The Next Web

A learner stands in a room with a bottle, a cup and a book. The task is to figure out, step by step, where each object belongs in the room. Under the table? Or perhaps on the chair? A humanoid robot gives the instructions—but in Swahili, a language the learner does not know. To solve the puzzle, the learner must gradually decipher what the robot is saying.

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For the first time, Apple Maps will affect the next generation of self-driving electric vehicles.

Google built a spam detector that judges site networks, not single pages. Sites heavy in AI content are already losing traffic. Continue reading...

Ukraine reportedly uses heavy drones to deploy ARK-1 robots carrying anti-tank mines, showing new combinations of aerial and ground systems.

Photographs can reveal things that are otherwise impossible for the naked eye to see, be they distant galaxies or microscopic cells. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a practical and versatile imaging technique that makes another usually invisible phenomenon visible: surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs), light waves that travel along metal surfaces.

Signatories include chipmakers, server vendors, cloud operators, enterprise software firms, security companies, and venture funds

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates  —  Meta is giving its AI assistant new agent-like capabilities powered by Muse Spark 1.1, its latest model.

Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. In a blog post, Meta says this update marks its "next step toward personal superintelligence," something CEO Mark Zuckerberg has touted as the future of AI. Meta is powering the update with its newly released Muse Spark 1.1 model, which the company says will allow its chatbot to go beyond its current capabilities of answering questi … Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave of AI-powered phishing. The two announcements look […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has launched Seller, a standalone app built for people who sell regularly on Facebook Marketplace, giving them dedicated tools for managing listings, communicating with buyers, and tracking sales performance in a single place. The free app is available now on the App Store for US users aged 18 and older, and syncs automatically with […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago as Facebook, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the programme’s technical criteria. The departure follows Meta’s commitment to building 10 natural gas plants to power its Hyperion AI data centre campus in Louisiana, a […] This story continues at The Next Web

The promise of quantum computing is to solve complex problems faster and more energy-efficiently than today's supercomputers—from optimizing logistics to simulating molecules. This goal is coming within reach as the number of qubits—the computational units of quantum computing—increases.

Almost everything on Nanoleaf’s website has been discounted during “Nanoleaf Day,” and some of the best deals on LED lights will be capped at the first 50 purchases each day.

Insilico Medicine nominated ISM9528 as a Preclinical Candidate Compound for pain management, targeting what the company describes as a $100 billion market. Identified by Insilico’s PandaOmics engine and optimized with its Chemistry42 generative chemistry tools, ISM9528 is presented as a potential first-in-class, orally available, brain-penetrant inhibitor of an undisclosed target referred to as Target Z. […] The post Insilico Medicine unveils AI-designed drug candidate for chronic and surgical pain appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

"These are things that tend to be really hard."

A careful statistical comparison of observations recorded by NASA's Juno mission and the Planetary Science Institute's Io Input Output observatory (IoIO) shows that IoIO observations reliably predict the density of Jupiter's plasma disk, an important part of Jupiter's magnetosphere, according to a new Geophysical Research Letters paper co-authored by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Jeff Morgenthaler. Jian-Zhao Wang of the University of Colorado Boulder is the paper's lead author.

Hearing one of AI’s leading builders warn about losing control makes the future feel increasingly Skynet-adjacent.

Both Amazon and Netflix are reportedly testing out plans to incorporate AI into the first streaming screen you see.

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, which uses AI to offer personalized advice, in the spring and is building its first standalone image-generation app  —  Artificial intelligence lab Midjourney Inc. has bought the popular astrology app Co-Star and is building its first standalone image-generation app …

As demand for AI-ready Macs outpaces supply, Apple is updating its entire lineup.

By enhancing the functionality of agentic browsers, they have become insecure and could be sharing personal information.

The post Fifteen Self-Driving Cars Tried to Cross the Desert for a Million Dollars – None Reached the Goal, but They Changed Cars Forever appeared first on Car Revs Daily.

AI agent workloads can vary dramatically in token use, making cloud costs difficult to forecast. New research shows why IT and finance teams need workflow-level controls. The post AI Agent Cloud Costs Are Making Enterprise Budgets Harder to Predict appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to as much as $205 billion as AI demand drives more investment in cloud infrastructure and data centers. The post Google Is Spending Even More on AI Than Investors Expected appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta has launched a new AI campaign featuring CEO Mark Zuckerberg, positioning artificial intelligence as a tool for creativity, connection, and human potential ahead of earnings. The post Zuckerberg Wants to Change How You Think About AI appeared first on TechRepublic.

Leo Schwartz / The Information: Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, a16z, and others sign a letter defending open-source AI; Jensen Huang, in his first X post, says open models strengthen cybersecurity  —  Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration …

All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.

Google didn't lose the AI race—it reinvented Search. This article argues that the biggest disruption isn't ChatGPT itself, but a fundamental change in how people discover information. As patients shift from typing keywords to having conversations with AI, Google is evolving Search to match changing consumer behavior while protecting its advertising business. For healthcare organizations, the implications are profound: success is no longer just about ranking well in search results, but ensuring AI systems accurately understand, represent, and recommend your organization throughout the patient journey.

Stanford Medicine researchers have discovered a naturally occurring molecule that may suppress appetite and reduce body weight much like Ozempic, but without several of its common side effects. The molecule, called BRP, acts on a more targeted region of the brain involved in hunger and metabolism rather than affecting tissues throughout the body.

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of carbon monoxide, water vapor, and methane, showcasing a promising new method for finding elusive exoplanets.

Researchers found that specific brain circuits help decide which jobs bees perform as they age. When those circuits were switched off, older worker bees began caring for the queen again instead of carrying out their normal later-life duties. The findings reveal that a bee colony’s complex division of labor may be guided by neural switches hidden inside each bee’s brain.

A research team led by SKKU professor Hosung Seo of the Department of Quantum Information Engineering and the SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, working with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington, has identified—for the first time—an atomic defect structure in the zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductor with outstanding properties for use as a "spin qubit," a core building block of future quantum computers, quantum communications and quantum sensors.

US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call.

Older Google smart home devices are getting Gemini Live, but you'll need a Google Home Premium subscription for the full experience.

Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s robotics buying spree from the factory floor to the building site. SoftBank is weighing a deal for Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that fits excavators and diggers with the sensors and software to run themselves, according to Bloomberg. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

Eli Tan / New York Times: Meta launches Seller, a free standalone app version of Facebook Marketplace; Seller includes AI features that scan photos to fill out listings automatically  —  Seller is part of the Silicon Valley company's strategy to innovate on its original social network.

Introduction to Multimodal AI The artificial intelligence landscape is experiencing a fundamental shift. For years, AI systems have been compartmentalized — separate models for images, separate models for video, separate models for audio. But what if we could train a single unified model that learns from all these modalities simultaneously? This is the promise of FLUX 3, Black Forest Labs' groundbreaking multimodal foundation model that represents a significant leap forward in how AI systems per...

OpenAI debuts in the top 10 most impersonated companies, seeing nearly as many attacks as PayPal, WhatsApp, Facebook.

A miniature robot developed at the University of Basel could help prepare teeth for a crown. Photo: University of Basel, Catherine Weyer. By Angelika Jacobs A routine check-up at the dentist ends with bad news: tooth decay has left a large cavity, and the tooth needs a crown. The treatment requires several follow-up appointments. During […]

Google is rolling out Gemini Spark to users on the $20 Pro plan in the US. The AI agent will roll out to Pro users in more countries soon.

Genesis AI, the startup building foundation models that it hopes will run inside a wide range of robots, is in talks to raise about $500m, according to Bloomberg. A round of that size would value the company at roughly $3bn, capping a fast climb for a business that only came out of stealth last summer. […] This story continues at The Next Web

AMD has spent the year trying to prove it can do more than trail Nvidia. Its latest move takes the fight somewhere new, to the inside of a humanoid robot. The chipmaker has agreed to supply the compute for machines built by Foundation, a San Francisco startup whose backers include Eric Trump. For a company […] This story continues at The Next Web