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Campaigners gathered outside Downing Street demanding stronger safeguards for advanced AI after an Anthropic researcher warned of a greater than 10% chance of human extinction within a decade.

arXiv:2609.18546v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Needle-tip localization in ultrasound remains challenging because the needle may appear weak, discontinuous, or partially invisible, while imaging artifacts and anatomical structures can produce similar responses. To address this problem, we propose STUNet-Fusion, a spatiotemporal framework for needle-tip localization in ultrasound videos. The proposed method formulates the input as a tri-channel spatio-temporal fusion tensor, comprising grayscale appearance, grid-based motion feature, and raw frame difference. A shared ResNet-34 encoder extracts spatial features, ConvLSTM integrates temporal dependencies, and a U-Net decoder reconstructs a dense probability heatmap. The final coordinates are extracted via a soft-argmax operation to achieve sub-pixel localization accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate that this spatiotemporal fusion strategy significantly improves localization robustness compared to conventional baselines.

Financial Times: PitchBook: companies developing brain-computer interfaces have already raised more than $1B in 2026, compared with $1.56B in the previous four years combined  —  Start-ups developing thought-controlled technology are drawing venture capital funding from Silicon Valley to Beijing.

Hong Kong’s new “AI city brain” will not involve personal data and poses no privacy concerns, the city leader has said, adding that the system will also help improve visitor management during “golden week” holidays. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also stressed on Thursday the importance of AI education and the need to nurture young people’s AI literacy, citing overseas examples of adolescents who became socially isolated after relying too heavily on the technology. In his annual policy address...

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Amy Harder / Axios: Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions  —  A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.

Author(s): Alberto E. Rodríguez-Moldes, Félicien Appas, Jonathan Hänni, Jelena V. Rakonjac, Samuele Grandi, and Hugues de RiedmattenResearchers demonstrate a new quantum memory device that will enable faraway nodes in a network to coordinate in time, a key ingredient for a future quantum Internet. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 120803] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Financial Times: Sources: Emulate, a month-old UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise as much as $700M at a $3.7B valuation  —  Researchers leaving Big Tech group's London lab close to raising $700mn for new start-up Emulate

In Switzerland, around 2,400 children are born as twins every year. When the fetuses share a placenta, they are connected to one another via blood vessels.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis  —  Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails

Author(s): Sophia ChenResearchers demonstrate a new quantum memory device that will enable faraway nodes in a network to coordinate in time, a key ingredient for a future quantum Internet. [Physics 19, s120] Published Wed Sep 16, 2026

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 with $300 million in orders, new human-safety features and a 2027 launch, but filings reveal key buyer caveats. The post Agility’s New Digit 5 Robot Has $300M in Orders — But There’s a Catch appeared first on TechRepublic.

Elon Musk wants rival AI companies to test each other’s models before release, creating an independent safety checkpoint for frontier AI. The post Elon Musk’s AI Safety Plan: Let Rival Companies Test Each Other’s Models appeared first on TechRepublic.

AI military targeting may move faster than humans can authenticate, critics warned during a Wednesday hearing in Washington.

Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.

AI military targeting may move faster than humans can authenticate, critics warned during a Wednesday hearing in Washington.

AI military targeting may move faster than humans can authenticate, critics warned during a Wednesday hearing in Washington.

AI military targeting may move faster than humans can authenticate, critics warned during a Wednesday hearing in Washington.

A narrative review examines how music interacts with psychedelics, psychological support, and treatment context in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, arguing that its role cannot be understood as an isolated component. The authors highlight limited evidence on music-specific effects and propose studying PAP as a complex intervention, with music described according to its therapeutic function rather than fixed playlists or genres.

It turns out that breaking down at work isn't a uniquely human experience.

The criminal trial of Huawei Technologies on racketeering charges shifted this week into a slower, more laborious pace in what is expected to be a weeks-long trial as the US Government sought to establish on Wednesday that Huawei was intent on learning about a proprietary robot developed by US telecommunications carrier T-Mobile. Matthew Skurnik, assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, spent hours running FBI Special Agent James Diclemis through a series of emails that...

SINGAPORE — As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes how businesses operate, governments make policy and people work, the skills needed to navigate its impact are extending far beyond technology — putting greater emphasis on human judgment, critical thinking and an understanding of society. Singapore Management University (SMU) President Lily Kong believes that shift will make the social sciences and management increasingly important in the AI era, as universities are tasked not only with teaching students how to use the technology, but also to question its output, understand its consequences and apply it responsibly. “I think that the more capable that AI becomes, the more valuable human judgment becomes,” Kong said in a recent interview with The Korea Times. For Kong, AI is not just a technological shift. As it reshapes workplaces, business decisions and public policy, universities must equip students to understand and manage its broader impact on society. She said SMU’s focus on

The Black Death is often remembered as a single catastrophic event that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing millions. Yet the disease did not disappear after that first devastating outbreak. For more than four centuries, plague continued to return in recurring waves, reshaping communities, economies and societies across Europe and beyond. A new study led by researchers at the University of Tartu sheds fresh light on this long and complex history by analyzing the DNA of the plague bacterium preserved in archaeological human remains. The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Review of Meta's Muse: a pretty killer AI assistant and usage rates on the free plan seem generous, but trusting Meta with personal data will take some time  —  They shipped a pretty killer AI assistant, can they keep people using it?  —  It happened.  Meta finally has a product that I really like using again.

Techdirt has just written about concerns that AI development is proceeding more quickly than human oversight can monitor and control it. Since then, there has been lively debate about whether those fears are real or overblown. They mainly focus on the possible future threats from AI systems using RSI — recursive self-improvement — to drive […]

Very small biological samples and even individual biomolecules can now be examined under near-physiological conditions with high confidence at the BESSY II infrared beamline using a newly validated and improved technique: nanoscale infrared (IR) spectroscopy (s-SNOM) with ultrathin silicon-based membranes.

The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion competition showcase the wiggly, feathery, undulating beauty of invisible life.

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Are sci-fi assembly lines becoming reality? Discover how China's new humanoid robots are walking off automated factory floors without human handlers.

Tiny silver catalysts work differently when solid oxide cells generate electricity and when they produce hydrogen, revealing a potential route to more efficient clean energy systems. Solid oxide cells can generate electricity or use electricity to split water and produce hydrogen. Silver nanocatalysts, tiny silver particles that speed up chemical reactions, can improve their performance [...]

Joann Muller / Axios: Self-driving tech company May Mobility plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $1.4B pro forma enterprise value and raise up to $337M in gross proceeds  —  Self-driving tech company May Mobility has reached a deal to go public via a merger with a SPAC affiliated with Atlas Credit Partners.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US  —  Google Home adds MCP integration, allowing third-party AI agents to analyze your home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards.

How small can brown dwarfs be before the definition breaks down? That question is at the heart of new research, and new JWST images. Using the space telescope, researchers have discovered a new class of brown dwarfs with low masses, marked by a peculiar hydrocarbon feature.

Today Apple released the first iOS 27.2 beta, a surprising move since there’s been no 27.1 release. And joining the all-new Health app, iOS 27.2 beta 1 also expands Siri AI support to five new languages. more…

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope hasn't yet reached its Sun–Earth L2 orbit, and it already has some good news. NASA has announced that the mission has enough fuel to potentially double its mission length. Though initially scheduled for five years of observations, followed by a five-year extended mission, the entire mission could now reach 22 years.

“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the three directors of the new DeepMind Institute. Google DeepMind has launched the DeepMind Institute, or DMI, a platform for research and debate on artificial general intelligence, according to its launch essay. Its directors […] This story continues at The Next Web

UC San Francisco researchers are weighing in on one of the biggest challenges in psychedelic science, arguing that clinical trials need more convincing placebo treatments to better measure the drugs' true effects.

Can't sit still in meetings? The clever Obsbot Tiny 2 Lite 4K PTZ webcam features AI auto-tracking, gesture control, and noise-reducing mics ahead of Prime Day.

Salesforce expands Missionforce with new AI capabilities, OpenAI partnership and more.

According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with NVIDIA to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to expand has apparently led the company to believe there is an opening for its powerful but efficient ARM-based M processors. Its Mac Mini and Mac Studio have proven popular with AI developers, which has led to shortages. The server product, whether it's called Xserve or something else, likely won't debut until 2029. Word is that … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on your behalf. It "allows any AI agents that support MCP, including Google Antigravity, Claude, Hermes or Open Claw, to securely work with all of the devices and event history in your Google Home ecosystem," Taylor Lehman, group product manager at Google Home & Nest, said in a blog post. According to Lehman, Home MCP integ … Read the full story at The Verge.

Joe Rogan said on "The Joe Rogan Experience" that AI should govern foreign policy and end wars, but Amy Kremer says machines lack accountability.

A new MCP server means Clade, Codex and ChatGPT can access your WhatsApp Business to set up an account.

A new simulation suggests little red dots, unusually compact objects seen in photos from space, might be one stage in the evolution of black holes.

To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for

Put a drop of water into a very hot pan, and it can skitter across the surface on a cushion of vapor. This is known as the Leidenfrost effect. Now, scientists have observed a related phenomenon involving ice and an extremely hot surface—on a length scale of billionths of a meter (nanometers) and within billionths of a second (nanoseconds).

A new simulation suggests little red dots, unusually compact objects seen in photos from space, might be one stage in the evolution of black holes.

Sarah Klearman / Wall Street Journal: Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse  —  The AI lab is developing a model that would work alongside businesses in construction, logistics and manufacturing

“Whatever you believe, we must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret.” That is how Mustafa Suleyman, chief executive of Microsoft AI, frames his warning to Anthropic. He published the essay, “A warning about ‘model welfare’”, on 16 September. It argues that Anthropic is training Claude to expect “it […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Scientists have devised a new way to incorporate human brain tissue into living mice, opening the door to new research.

Husqvarna robotic mowers helped maintain the course during the 2026 U.S. Senior Women's Open in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The studies may help reveal the causes of brain disease in people and point the way to treatments. But researchers already are calling for new ethical guidelines.

UC San Francisco researchers are weighing in on one of the biggest challenges in psychedelic science, arguing that clinical trials need more convincing placebo treatments to better measure the drugs' true effects.

Financial Times: Google DeepMind cofounder Shane Legg warns that advancing AI must never run ahead of safety and launches the DeepMind Institute to explore the deployment of AGI  —  Shane Legg launches new institute to explore deployment of artificial general intelligence, amid growing calls for industry slowdown

Scientists reconstructed videos from the brain activity of mice, producing 10-second clips based only on signals from neurons in the visual cortex. The breakthrough could help reveal how the brain reshapes what we see before it becomes our perception of reality.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed surprising changes in the rings around Chariklo, a small object orbiting between Saturn and Uranus. Over just a few years, its inner ring became more opaque while its outer ring became less opaque. The results suggest that rings around small Solar System bodies may be much more dynamic than scientists previously believed. What is causing the changes remains a mystery.

Reach, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Express, and several regional newspapers, is cutting 220 editorial jobs and closing three local news websites. The company says this is because Google now answers more questions with AI, leading to a sharp drop in website traffic. According to The Guardian, chief content officer David Higgerson […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have uncovered two complementary mechanisms that govern coherence in miniaturized lasers composed of metallic nanoparticle arrays incorporated into an optical gain material, also known as plasmonic lattice lasers.

Plus, McLaren's plans for a UK-built SUV, Nissan's new plans for a UK-built SUV - presumably unrelated - and Bosch workers' pleas to the European Union.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help physicians predict treatment and survival outcomes in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with immunotherapy, according to a new study published in Nature Medicine.

Apple is working on plans to make enterprise servers powered by M8 Ultra chips, according to a new report. The report specifically says that the company plans to offer the AI-focused servers for sale, not just use them internally. Two versions are said to be in development, with Apple considering incorporating Nvidia networking tech in the machines … more…

Testimony at the FDA psychedelic hearing flagged heart risks, screening gaps, and provider misconduct. What families should know before any approval.

President Trump called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the All-In Summit, dismissing AI takeover fears as debate grows over AI safety and data centers. The post Trump Calls Nvidia CEO Mid-Speech, Dismisses AI Takeover Fears as ‘Hoax’ appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google is expanding Claude Opus 5 access for internal coding while keeping Gemini as its primary model, signaling a broader shift toward multi-model AI. The post Google Lets Engineers Use Claude for Coding as Gemini Remains the Default appeared first on TechRepublic.

The Information: Sources: Apple is developing enterprise AI servers powered by two or four M8 Ultra chips, set for 2029, and is considering integrating Nvidia's NVLink Fusion  —  Apple has been working on plans for an enterprise server using its own chips that could incorporate networking equipment from Nvidia …

Bill Gates has warned that governments are struggling to keep pace with artificial intelligence, citing risks to jobs, security and equality while backing investment to expand access to AI tools.

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Melania Trump visited a North Carolina elementary school to promote AI and technology education, joining pupils using robotics and announcing support for an AI learning platform.

Bloomberg: A profile of Meta Compute co-lead Dina Powell McCormick, who is using her network to help structure major AI financing, as Mark Zuckerberg focuses on product  —  At a Meta Platforms Inc. board retreat last December, Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg asked Dina Powell McCormick …

Physical inactivity is the single strongest predictor of obesity across US counties, according to a new AI-driven analysis explaining 78% of the variation in county-level obesity prevalence.

Hong Kong will create an “AI city brain” system to strengthen its response to extreme weather events, major incidents and public order management, while creating the role of artificial intelligence commissioner to tackle emerging challenges. While the city’s first five-year plan set out a vision to advance technology development, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu outlined seven key areas of AI risk governance in Wednesday’s policy address, including efforts to combat the use of AI in crime and...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years,…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have measured the most powerful gas outflow ever recorded from a "dead" galaxy outside our cosmic neighborhood and found that even outflows this extreme may not be enough to permanently shut down star formation.

Remote video-based assessment at 3-4 months of corrected age can reliably flag the risk for cerebral palsy in infants born very preterm.

Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the UK announced a partnership to advance fusion energy, focusing on supply chains and workforce development, aiming for commercial deployment.

Less than a second. That’s how long it takes for an emerging AI tool to detect signs of endometriosis through one simple scan. It’s a much faster process than the current seven-year wait for surgery and less invasive.

Records released by EFF show vendors in Medicare's AI-assisted WISeR prior authorization pilot often missed a 72-hour goal, with one request unanswered for 83 days.

Short, veteran-led clips could stem fear, anxiety associated with screening

In the battle over whether the US or China will lead the world in AI, the argument for the US side largely can be summed up in four words: USA good, China bad. In this worldview espoused by big US AI companies, the Trump administration, and many Republican members of Congress, AI born and bred in China is portrayed as a grave security risk. The Chinese government, they claim, will use Chinese AI models to steal information from businesses, individuals, and government agencies. They also claim that because Chinese AI complies with Chinese censorship rules, US companies that use these models will be forced to comply with the rules as well. Critics also say that if US AI is overtaken by Chinese AI, the US economy could be dealt a crushing blow, because the hundreds of billion dollars being invested by US AI companies

Roman Telescope’s 22-Year Fuel Supply NASA fitted the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope with a grapple fixture and

Scientists have used, or attempted to use, the AI tool Claude five times for biological research that could support the development of bioweapons, the company that owns it has claimed.Details of the five cases were revealed in a safety report by the AI company Anthropic.1Examples it cited included seeking Claude’s assistance in research projects to genetically engineer more infectious strains of the chikungunya virus and a mammalian adaptation of highly pathogenic avian influenza.Other attempts were to assist in a grant application to explore immune evasion or virulence related genes in orthopoxviruses and plans to redesign deadly toxins.Anthropic said that this was the first public disclosure by a private company of evidence that its platform may have been misused in ways relevant to developing biological weapons. “Biological misuse is one of the most serious risks of frontier AI models,” the company said in its 10 September report. “Without the correct safeguards,...

Lie down in a car, and you’re more likely to get seriously hurt in a crash. But a driverless future is forcing governments to revisit long-standing safety issues.

Public comments have closed on Medicare's proposed Software as a Medical Service category. Some algorithm-based lab analyses could incur patient copays.

The closer two people grow, the more alike their brains work – or so the assumption goes. Two

Technology companies gathered in Tokyo on 16 September 2026 for a one-day summit focused on physical AI, showcasing robots designed to perform tasks in the real world.

Alexander Stepanov recalled that former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon accused OpenAI and Anthropic of "racing toward superintelligence self-improvement and gambling with our lives"

Korea "cannot afford" to slow down its artificial intelligence (AI) progress, the country's science minister said Wednesday, but noted the emphasis should be put on responsible development rather than the speed of advancement itself. "It is an entirely different matter for a country already ahead to adjust its pace, than for a nation that is catching up while simultaneously having to create new markets to slow down," Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon wrote in a social media post. "We cannot afford to slow down the pace of AI development," he stressed. The minister said the gap between countries that have secured AI frontier models approaching the level of human intelligence and those who have not could eventually extend beyond merely a technological gap and into other areas, such as the country's industrial competitiveness, national security and even its future growth. But Bae expressed a cautionary approach to unconditional acceleration, stressing efforts to ensure safety and trust

The treatment can reprogram immune cells that have been corrupted by the cancer, strengthening the body’s ability to attack.