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CNBC: Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform  —  Long before the era of the hyperscalers and neoclouds, and decades ahead of the AI data center boom, there was Equinix.

Robot transformation, or RX, is expanding across manufacturing sites at major Samsung affiliates, from parts handling and consumables replacement at Samsung Electro-Mechanics factories to outdoor work at Samsung Heavy Industries.Samsung SDS said on Sept. 3 that it held RX ART 2026 for two days from

After a slow but extended selloff on Wall Steet, Google began September with renewed momentum, helped by new AI models.

After a slow but extended selloff on Wall Steet, Google began September with renewed momentum, helped by new AI models.

A Sungkyunkwan University research team has developed a novel nanocomposite material with enhanced electrical and thermal conductivity. The university said Tuesday that the team, led by professors Baik Seung-hyun and Choi Joon-myung of the School of Mechanical Engineering, developed the material and successfully applied it to a heat-dissipation technology for foldable smartphones. The findings were published online on Aug. 24 in the international journal Advanced Functional Materials under the title “Ballistic-like Thermal Transport Between Fillers in Highly Conductive Stretchable Nanocomposites.” Baik served as the corresponding author. Research professor C. Muhammed Ajmal and researcher Cheon Seong-su served as co-first authors. “The significance of this study lies in discovering a unique physical phenomenon in which thermal conductivity increases as the material is stretched through precise control of energy barriers between particles at the nanoscale,” Baik said. “The study also

Wired: Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch  —  The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch …

Humanoid robots are moving from testing grounds into daily warehouse operations at CJ Logistics, marking what company says is its first use of such robots in an actual logistics process. CJ Logistics said Thursday it has deployed two humanoid robots at its Olive Young logistics center in Yangji, Yongin, where they are being used to place cushioning material inside boxes during packaging. The move follows field testing at its Gunpo fulfillment center last year and is intended to turn data gathered from real logistics work into new training material for improving robot accuracy and responsiveness. Unlike fixed automation equipment designed for standardized tasks, humanoid robots can work within spaces built for people and potentially shift between different jobs as products and orders change. CJ Logistics is applying its own control technology, using logistics work data to develop what it describes as a robot foundation model, or RFM, that serves as the robot’s “brain.” The system

The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.

Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash.  The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an X post that 3.8 Flash delivers “significant leaps” from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning. For instance, it outperformed many large frontier models on the DeepSWE coding benchmark, at far lower cost.  Meanwhile, Flash Cyber is the company’s “most capable” cybersecurity model, Pichai said; it also matches frontier-level performance when it comes to discovering vulnerabilities and patching them at scale. The model achieved 86.2% on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark and 47.2% on CWE-Bench, which evaluates AI patching abilities. In an internal Google benchmark, the model achieved a more than 70%

A study tracking 2 million listings found Google's AI Mode shows identical products 21.6% pricier than traditional search, raising questions about whether AI shopping actually saves you money.

Elon Musk told a G20 innovation summit that humanoid robots could become one of the most disruptive forces in the global economy, predicting that at least 1 billion such machines may be operating within the next 10 years. The post Musk Predicts 1 Billion Humanoid Robots Could Outproduce Humanity Within a Decade appeared first on Worthy Christian News.

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purpose models from part of Article 53, but that exemption does not apply to models classified as carrying systemic risk. Meta has released […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers at UCSB and UT Austin have determined that a galactic merger kicked a supermassive black hole into intergalactic space.

Vodafone has launched a new SuperMobile connectivity plan that's fast enough to power the ‘new world of generative AI.’

The purchase of the four-legged robots built by Boston Dynamics is only the latest addition to an arsenal the Trump administration has been assembling for ICE with terrifying speed.

Using an engineered metasurface that traps light, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a new way to generate strong static magnetic fields without using external magnets or magnetic materials—an approach that could advance spintronics, quantum and photonic computing, and data storage.

Learn about the decagon wave that has appeared at Saturn's south pole, offering an opportunity to study an evolving atmospheric structure.

What happens when a superconductor becomes so thin that electrons can no longer behave as if they were moving through an ordinary three-dimensional piece of metal? This question has been at the center of my recent work on quantum confinement in metallic films. Over the past few years, I have been developing this line of theory with my colleague Giovanni Ummarino at Politecnico di Torino. Our initial goal was to understand something rather concrete: Why does shrinking the thickness of a superconducting film change the temperature at which superconductivity appears?

One of the major challenges in the quest to beat cancer is developing treatments that can selectively destroy cancer cells while leaving healthy cells unharmed. With this in mind, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have devised a gold nanorod-based platform that delivers therapeutic agents specifically to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a structure responsible for protein production and processing within cells, while also generating heat when exposed to near-infrared light.

The Navy’s top officer issued a directive to get high-energy lasers into sailors’ hands as soon as possible to adapt to the modern combat environment.

The Navy’s top officer issued a directive to get high-energy lasers into sailors’ hands as soon as possible to adapt to the modern combat environment.

Recent observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a giant, evolving, 10-sided atmospheric wave encircling Saturn's south pole. This discovery marks the first time a large, regular-sided jet pattern has been observed in the planet's southern hemisphere. The feature appears remarkably similar to Saturn's famous hexagon at its north pole but is also distinctly different, suggesting scientists may be witnessing a new atmospheric phenomenon developing on the iconic gas giant.

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, its third Flash release in six weeks, with the cyber model restricted to trusted testers and governments. Under the EU AI Act every general purpose model placed on the market carries documentation, copyright and training data obligations, and a systemic risk model must be […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and "calling tools iteratively." It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, but could still end up costing users more. Google warns that "the model might use more tokens to maximize performance, especially at higher effort levels." Developers can keep using Gemini 3.7 Flash if they want to minimize token usage. Gemini 3.8 Flash's launch was followed by some early … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.

Google Pics is rolling out to eligible Workspace customers with AI image generation, editing tools, and admin controls enabled by default. The post Google Pics Rolls Out to Workspace With Default-On AI Image Tools appeared first on TechRepublic.

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and TUM have developed Synthetic Transfer Vehicles (STVs), an entirely new class of RNA transporters.

Scientists developed tiny robots that use sound waves instead of motors to move, a design that could eventually benefit miniature medical devices.

Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, today announced the release of a series of frontier specialist models for chemistry and biology, trained through its MMAI Gym for Science framework.

Five new features are rolling out across various Android services, including Google Messages, Gemini Live, and more.

An international team including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Roger Penrose has observed a long-predicted effect of gravity on a falling quantum object for the first time. The result shows that a fundamental principle at the heart of Einstein's theory of gravity remains consistent with the behavior of matter in the quantum world. The study, led by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the University of Ulm and the University of Oxford, was published today (Sept. 2) in Science Advances.

Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and it will use AI to compare it "against a record of every message Amazon has sent," while also analyzing its contents, formatting, and the sender. As noted by Amazon, the assistant will only confirm that a message is real if it's "completely certain." An example shared by Amazon shows a customer asking, "Did Amazon just text me an OTP from 98626? Message came around 4: … Read the full story at The Verge.

Researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have developed an innovative method for coupling light non-linearly. This opens up new possibilities for telecommunications and quantum technology.

Neutrinos are pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars and our bodies by the trillions each second. The elementary particles are often described as "ghostly" for their near-zero mass and elusive nature, as they have very little interaction with normal matter.

Clinicians often use a medical test called a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to diagnose heart problems. It uses electrodes placed on the chest and limbs to record the heart's electrical activity. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are commonly used to assist with diagnoses based on ECGs. But current tools typically require large amounts of training data, hand-labeled with the presence or absence of specific diseases, which can make the tools less adaptable to other clinical tasks.

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The recent flood of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and content has undoubtedly brought along an unwelcome bug from the human-made content it scrapes from: bias. AI has been noted to form, copy, and amplify harmful stereotypes of already marginalized groups.

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Google has struck a deal with MrBeast, the most popular YouTuber, to promote Gemini and Google Health, with one of the first partnerships being a challenge in “the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes.” more…

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: MrBeast, whose YouTube channel recently hit 500M subs, will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multi-year Google deal  —  One of YouTube's biggest creators has a new deal to promote Gemini and Google Health.

Barratt Dewey / Tectonic Defense: The US Army awards $192M in contracts to Palantir and Anduril to produce eight TITAN AI-powered mobile ground stations, to be delivered over the next 18 months  —  Watch out, world.  The US Army's kill chain is going mobile.  —  On Tuesday, the Army awarded two contracts worth a combined $192M …

Caira’s new generative video tools can transform footage using natural-language instructions while keeping the original recording at the heart of every edit.

Google: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for partners in its new Fairwind Program, and says Gemini 3.8 Flash beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks  —  Our newest Gemini models deliver next-generation intelligence for agentic workflows and cybersecurity.

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice: First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew as they attempt to survive some of the most extreme and treacherous climates on Earth. Teams will race to navigate three of the planet's most unforgiving landscapes - the jungle, the desert, and the Arctic - using Gemini to help them identify dangers, survive brutal weather changes, and stay one step ahead. Google … Read the full story at The Verge.

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The Labor Day sale at Amazon and the massive Best Buy event are now live, alongside a chance to land Pixel 11 series phones up to $320 off. However, today we are also featuring Nothing Ear (3a) buds at $79 as well as open-box listing now down at $67 alongside all Galaxy Z Flip 8 models at $150 off (bundle offers deliver up to $320 in savings) Those offers join a giant $620 discount on Lenovo’s 2026 IdeaPad 2K touchscreen Copilot+ laptop, ASUS’ wild dual-screen 3K OLED Zephyrus Duo gaming laptop at $500 off, and Sony’s 2026 BRAVIA 7 II HDR Google TV with Gemini at $800 off for Labor Day. Check it out below.  more…

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash, three weeks after 3.7 Flash launch, for an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens until December 31  —  After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash.  This marks the third Flash update in three months.

Astronomers study dark matter through simulations of stellar streams around the Milky Way. They found that kinks and clumps within these streams aren't caused by dark matter clusters within the galactic halo.

Elon Musk tells the G20 Summit that AI could add 20 to 30 trillion dollars a year to the global economy and soon outclass humans at writing software.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Musk says SpaceX's AI segment could become its biggest business this month after revenue surged 247% and major compute deals piled up. The post Elon Musk Says AI Will Overtake Rockets at SpaceX… This Month appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to NGC 7253—a pair of spiral galaxies caught in each other's gravity. Captured by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai'i, the image created a spectacular symbolic display for this year's interns participating in Project Hōkūlani.

The search for dark matter has reached another milestone - in this case the start of science for one of the world’s newest detectors. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) SNOLAB just began its scientific operations in Ontario, and over the course of the next few years, hope to find direct evidence of “light” dark matter for the first time.

Her nonprofit, The Hydrous, creates augmented and virtual reality experiences that connect people with the marine environment.

In the space of a year, US AI model share has dropped considerably as cheaper Chinese alternatives take their places.

Elon University has partnered with The Washington Post to conduct what turned out to be a worrying survey about Americans viewing AI chatbots as virtual friends or therapists. The results very much vindicate Apple’s careful decision to ensure that Siri AI doesn’t encourage such pseudo-relationships … more…

Colin Demarest / Axios: New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers “robotic sovereignty as a service” and “edge AI weapon systems”, emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell  —  - “Warfare has totally transformed over the past few years,” co-founder Daniel Almog told Axios.

The recent flood of artificial intelligence (AI) models and content has undoubtedly introduced an unwelcome flaw from the human-made content it scrapes: bias. AI has been shown to form, copy and amplify harmful stereotypes of already marginalized groups. This phenomenon has far-reaching effects as AI becomes a normal part of everyday life.

Imagine overhearing on a bus that the city council plans to implement new restrictions under an urban planning program called "15-minute cities." Curious, you search the term on Google.

Greenpeace says the adoption of AI poses the biggest threat to Apple’s environmental track record, and argues that how the company responds will be the “defining test” of whether it really means what it says. Apple’s environmental achievements to date have been unrivalled, but the massive data center demands created by Siri AI and other Apple Intelligence features could change all of that … more…

Fitbit users are reporting Google Health’s AI logging wildly incorrect food metrics.

Bill Gates warns AI companion apps could create a 'protected greenhouse' for children, dulling resilience and critical thinking, and calls for tighter safeguards.

iRobot has launched the $1,199 Roomba Max 875 Combo and the $899 Roomba Plus 678 Combo at IFA 2026.

The Next Generation of AI Models Anthropic has announced the release of Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, marking a significant milestone in artificial intelligence development. These models represent the company's most advanced offerings yet for coding, knowledge work, and scientific research capabilities. The announcement comes as the AI industry continues to push boundaries in model performance and practical applications. Performance Improvements and Cost Efficiency Claude Fable 5.1 del...

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LG’s CLOiD is a robot housekeeper on wheels, not legs. The company says it’s developing a robot foundation model by training hundreds of CLOiDs in home environments. | Image: LG The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot housekeeper has never felt close to rolling into our homes. Until now. This has been the year of the humanoid robot. At CES, there were dozens of human-shaped bots on the show floor, a handful designed for homes. US-based robotics company 1X has already put its $20,000 Neo robot into homes to do housework (with a lot of remote assistance); and this week at the IFA tech show in Berlin, around half a dozen humanoids, mostly from China, will take to a catwalk to show off the alarming (?) accele … Read the full story at The

The Suppliers Behind the AI Buildout Nvidia gets the headlines. The companies making the electrical gear and cooling

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M  —  Lyte, a fast-growing robotics and artificial intelligence startup from top members of Apple Inc.'s Face ID team …

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"There are certainly signals, in our view, that Meta's product pipeline could start flowing following this legal clearing event," analysts said.

"There are certainly signals, in our view, that Meta's product pipeline could start flowing following this legal clearing event," analysts said.

Google gave publishers a way to opt out of its AI search features in June without affecting their ordinary search rankings. The European Commission has spent the summer trying to work out whether that option actually gives publishers any meaningful choice. The Commission sent publishers a questionnaire in July, with a deadline of August 28, […] This story continues at The Next Web

A complete path from AI model, to trusted silicon, to deployable system. The post EBook – Accelerate Silicon Design for Physical AI (Part 1) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

SemiAnalysis: A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix  —  Korea hosts a Squid Games, National AI Tournament, the best non-Chinese open source model gets eliminated, why Nvidia needs open source, implications for Hynix and Samsung

Researchers reviewed 88 studies to assess how nanotechnology could improve firefighters' thermal protective clothing by enhancing flame resistance, thermal management, breathability, and particle filtration, and by adding functions such as sensing. The review finds strong potential for multifunctional nano-engineered textiles but highlights major barriers including scalability, durability, cost, standardized testing, and nanomaterial safety.

Financial Times: Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments  —  Executives and biosecurity experts are concerned that future models could help users create novel viruses or bioweapons.

Author(s): Marric StephensResearchers have identified the reason a high-pressure, high-temperature superconductor outperforms other similar compounds. [Physics 19, s109] Published Tue Sep 01, 2026

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Hyundai Mobis is emerging as the Hyundai Motor Group affiliate poised to be the first to translate the group’s expanding investment in physical artificial intelligence (AI) into earnings. The company has secured orders for all actuators, a key component used in the Atlas humanoid robot, positioning

Kai Williams / Understanding AI: A look at the current state of humanoid robotics and challenges like generalization and completing long tasks, which may take years or even decades to overcome  —  A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.  —  Today's Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours …

Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemagglutinin (HA), which controls how the virus attaches to human cells before entering them.

Jeonbuk National University has been selected for the government-funded Support Program for Specialized Graduate Schools in Advanced Industries. The university said Tuesday that the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy designated the university’s Specialized Graduate School for Robotics as a specialized graduate school for national strategic advanced industries on Monday. The university added that the specialized graduate school will be operated primarily through the Department of Advanced Robotics under the university’s Graduate School. Under the program, the university will receive 15 billion won ($10.9 million) in government funding over the next five years. The university said the funding will be used to foster master’s- and doctoral-level professionals who will lead the fields of manufacturing robots and artificial intelligence (AI). The funding will also be used to establish a robotics industry innovation hub linked to the region’s advanced manufacturing and mobility

Author(s): Zefang Wang, Wenbo Zhao, Yuan Ma, Hanyu Liu, and Yanming MaWhy does LaSc 2 H 24 exhibit superior superconductivity compared with LaH 10 ? Here, the authors indicate that scandium not only distorts the hydrogen cage structure but also creates MgB 2 -like Sc-H states at the Fermi level. This synergy enhances electron-phonon coupling, unifies strongly coupled H-H states with widely distributed Sc-H states on the Fermi surface, and leads to

Dark matter is the invisible stuff that accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the universe, and for decades, physicists have been trying to figure out what it's made of. Now an experimental facility located nearly a mile below ground in South Dakota has recorded a single interaction between subatomic particles that doesn't match what's expected from normal matter. Has a dark-matter particle been detected at last? It's too early to say, but the anomaly is definitely attracting attention from dark-matter detectives.

Extreme quasars near the dawn of time are giving astrophysicists clues to the formation of supermassive black holes.

We know from a wealth of research that children's picture books support language learning.

STILLWATER, Okla. — Every time antibiotics are used to keep livestock healthy, traces of those medications, along with the genetic material that allows bacteria to resist them, can remain in farm wastewater. If left untreated, those contaminants can move beyond the farm, contributing to antimicrobial resistance, one of the world’s fastest-growing public health challenges. In […] The post OSU Researchers Explore Nanobubble Technology to Help Curb Spread of Antibiotic Resistance From Agricultural Wastewater appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common method for controlling laboratory equipment, robots, and other programmable physical machines.

Influenza viruses constantly shapeshift to evade recognition by the immune system. This shapeshifting occurs in critical proteins like hemagglutinin (HA), which controls how the virus attaches to human cells before entering them. Influenza viruses can evade immunity in two major ways: through the gradual accumulation of mutations that make HA harder for the immune system to recognize or through reassortment events that can introduce substantially different viral proteins and potentially lead to flu pandemics. To address this challenge, seasonal flu vaccines remain the primary approach because they can be developed to target the flu viruses circulating most predominantly in a given season.

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also give Google a significant advantage in its race to outpace other AI companies. But while there's little downside for Google, these deals pose a distinct set of risks to each of the studios that might be thinking about going all-in on AI. Getting into bed with Google this way might benefit Hollywood in the short term, but … Read the full story at The Verge.