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A new computational framework claims the best mean predictive performance across four English learner corpora, forecasting writing scores and speaking-proficiency levels for secondary-school students more accurately than conventional statistical models, recurrent neural networks, and pretrained Transformer baselines. The framework, called

A dolphin-inspired optimizer called DCFO produced the shortest aggregate paths for simulated robot teams of six and twelve navigating dynamic obstacle fields, beating five competing planners.

Biologist Paul Knoepfler asks: Could overdependence on AI make us less capable as researchers?

A Nature Communications study finds large reasoning models make more accurate primary diagnoses than standard language models but produce over 34 percent more false positives, with physician collaboration improving outcomes.

Scientists electrospun bacterial cellulose with cerium oxide nanoparticles and a nitric oxide donor into a nanofibrous mat showing antioxidant, antimicrobial, and biodegradable properties in early laboratory tests.

Bowen Wan's parents sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging GPT-4o built a 25-day plan to stop her seizure drug and told her to hide it from her doctors before she died.

Researchers combined a conditional diffusion model, a hypertuned YOLO26x detector and a Swin-V2-B classifier with a new SHAP-CAM explainability method to detect and classify faulty power grid insulators, achieving an F1-score of 0.98149 and mAP@[0.5] of 0.98951.

A new review maps how engineered gold and silver nanostructures, biochemical signal amplification and artificial intelligence are driving SERS biosensors to detect foodborne pathogens and toxins at limits as low as a few cells per milliliter.

Katie Zacharia rejected Piers Morgan's claim that she sounded like a robot during an Uncensored interview, while defending her loyalty to Donald Trump and declining to discuss their private conversations.

Researchers have stabilized the fragile curcumin-borate complex rosocyanine inside a sustainable tannic acid-polyvinylpyrrolidone nanocarrier, preserving its activity for months.

A new review maps how zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, carbon-based, silica, silver, selenium and copper nanoparticles could boost crops while warning of soil, plant and food-chain hazards.

Hyaluronic acid-modified taurine-polydopamine nanoparticles combined photothermal therapy with taurine-driven immune modulation to suppress gastric tumors in mice.

A hybrid framework combining floating car data, sparse traffic cameras, and physics-guided graph learning calibrates biased GPS counts into network-wide traffic volume estimates with uncertainty, demonstrated on Manhattan.

A new review finds edible source-derived exosome-like nanoparticles show preclinical promise against hepatocellular carcinoma, but clinical translation faces major hurdles.

Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg: National Student Clearinghouse: US computer science enrollment fell 12%+ for undergrads and 10%+ for grad students this fall, as AI reduces coding jobs  —  Computer and information science departments at US colleges saw an exodus of students this fall, with enrollment declining more than 12% …

Krafton Chairman Chang Byung-gyu urged aspiring entrepreneurs to venture beyond familiar territory, arguing that breakthroughs often begin when people abandon comfortable paths and embrace uncertainty. Chang delivered the keynote address, titled “Expanding Into Infinity,” at the 2026 Chung Ju-yung Startup Competition Demo Day on Wednesday at Coex in southern Seoul, where he discussed how personal choices, persistence and lessons from past ventures can open new avenues for growth. Hosted by the Asan Nanum Foundation, the competition marked its 15th edition this year under the theme “Infinite,” inspired by the late Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-yung’s belief that human potential is limitless. Chang opened by reflecting on the paradox of finite human lives and the impulse to contemplate infinity, recalling how preparing remarks for the groundbreaking ceremony of Krafton’s headquarters in Seongsu-dong led him to consider how ideas and beliefs embedded in buildings can outlast both

A single gold nanorod platform combining HER2-targeting, NIR imaging, photothermal heating, and doxorubicin delivery eliminated SK-BR-3 breast tumors in mice for 28 days.

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Google announces the expansion of ads in AI Mode into international markets, as growth in its core search advertising business slows  —  Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities …

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Google's search revenue rose 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, with Google attributing the slowdown to “lower monetization” in AI Mode  —  That's a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

A randomized controlled trial in Türkiye found that Metaverse- and VR-supported education in a digital breastfeeding museum raised breastfeeding knowledge, self-efficacy, and postpartum breastfeeding success among first-time mothers.

A new AI model fusing EEG, eye tracking, and physiological signals predicted people's ratings of car cockpit designs with high accuracy in a controlled study.

A South Korean court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by dozens of Tesla owners ‌seeking full refunds for money paid for Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver-assistance software, ruling that the carmaker had not breached its contractual obligations. The Seoul Central District Court ruled against the 88 plaintiffs, finding that the FSD option did not promise fully autonomous driving without human intervention and that Tesla had already provided some of the functions included in the package. The court...

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia  —  The iPhone maker for years bullied flash-storage makers into steep discounts—until AI hyperscalers bid up prices and gobbled up supply

A Caco-2 spheroid and organ-on-a-chip study reports that 20 nm polystyrene nanoplastics induced oxidative, inflammatory, and epithelial-associated alterations in a 3D intestinal model.

An innovative robotic device inspired by snake movement could someday help gastroenterologists diagnose and treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and other disorders of the small intestine and remove small polyps while reducing trauma to the organ's delicate tissues.

Author(s): Yizhou Wang, Haochen Shen, Zhongyuan Liu, Yue Yu, Shengwang Du, Chong Zu, and Chuanwei ZhangNanodiamond sensors can measure magnetic fields at the nanoscale, but their random orientations create a calibration paradox: sensing the field requires knowing the orientation, while finding the orientation assumes the field is known. This is particularly prominent where one needs to separate the local field from the sample from the applied external bias field. This study shows that applying four non-coplanar bias fields breaks this deadlock, revealing both quantities at once. This self-calibration could enable nanodiamond sensing in complex environments such as living cells and aqueous solutions, where precalibrating the sensor is not an option. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 044086] Published Wed Oct 28, 2026

Author(s): Alex A. Chapple, Boris M. Varbanov, Alexander McDonald, and Alexandre BlaisFluxonium qubits are promising candidates for fault-tolerant quantum processors, but their dispersive readout remains challenging due to measurement-induced state transitions (MIST) that populate higher-excited states. To address this, the authors systematically explore MIST across a broad range of fluxonium parameters using branch analysis. They find that lighter fluxoniums are less susceptible to these transitions than heavier counterparts, and trace this to three key mechanisms. These results provide a path toward optimizing fluxonium design for fast, high-fidelity readout. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 044084] Published Wed Oct 28, 2026

Author(s): Stuart Yi-Thomas and Jay D. SauA quantum point contact between fractional quantum Hall states with different fillings can act as a dissipationless voltage transformer and provide a physical realization of the boundary sine-Gordon model. However, the microscopic understanding across the full range of transmission has remained unclear, complicating the interpretation of a recent experiment. Here, the authors use analytical and tensor network calculations of a sliding charge density wave to solve this open problem and quantitatively connect the conductance to the boundary sine-Gordon model. [Phys. Rev. B 114, L231406] Published Wed Oct 28, 2026

Author(s): João Augusto Sobral, Pietro M. Bonetti, Subrata Mandal, and Mathias S. ScheurerWhile altermagnets have been primarily studied for their magnetic properties, another important aspect is the impact of strong quantum fluctuations that can lead to the loss of magnetic order. Here, the authors construct exactly solvable models for quantum-disordered altermagnets. They identify altermagnetic spin liquids—states that preserve spin-rotation and translation symmetries, yet break time-reversal symmetry through orbital moments, whose net value vanishes by symmetry— and study their excitations, and competing phases. [Phys. Rev. B 114, 235132] Published Wed Oct 28, 2026

Author(s): Xiang Li, Zheng-Yang Mei, Yang He, Si-Lu Zhao, Yan-Jun Liu, Xiao-Hui Song, Kai Xu, Zhong-Cheng Xiang, Dong-Ning Zheng, and Heng FanDeterministic remote entanglement of superconducting qutrits via time-bin microwave photons surpasses the negativity bound of two-qubit states. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 180801] Published Wed Oct 28, 2026

Google's Gemini app now offers Immersive Explorations, an interactive learning feature that lets you explore subjects like ancient trade routes, jet engines, and lightning through layered visual explanations.

A single-cell projectome map of mouse cortical neurons reveals parallel, segregated brainstem projections that inspired an AI architecture with 21 percent lower training loss.

A physics-informed TS-Mixer neural network predicted measured PEM fuel cell stack power with an R-squared of 0.969 on a 497-hour ageing dataset.

The Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Nanotechnology has retracted a 2023 paper on cetuximab-loaded egg serum albumin nanoparticles after concerns about figures in the study could not be resolved.

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon to selected cybersecurity defenders through Fairwind at $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, rising to $4 and $20 later  —  Google announced its latest and most intelligent frontier AI model today: Gemini 4 Carbon promises improvements in cybersecurity …

Nvidia and PreussenElektra are assessing Germany's retired nuclear sites for AI data centers, without restarting reactors or committing to construction.

A new review argues that tumor acidity, hypoxia, reactive oxygen species and microbial cues can fundamentally alter the degradation, activation and toxicity of NIR-responsive theranostic nanomaterials.

A new hierarchical feature attention network reconstructs high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs while keeping the model below one million parameters.

A new open-access study introduces a causal-structure-guided image editing framework built on FLUX rectified flow that reduces unintended changes to non-target attributes while preserving identity.

A new review finds that safety evidence for implanted brain-computer interfaces remains fragmented across small, hard-to-compare studies, and proposes a lifecycle framework for standardising how safety is assessed from implantation through end-of-use.

A hybrid classical-quantum support vector machine trained on more than 14,000 maternal records from Uganda and Pakistan predicted mental health risk competitively with the best classical models while SHAP explanations identified clinically meaningful predictors.

A new Perspective proposes VERSION-AI, a two-axis framework for deciding when updates to medical AI systems require renewed clinical evidence.

An open-access study combined label-free brightfield microscopy, machine learning, and SHAP-based explainability to classify 17,781 red blood cells across ten morphology classes with an F1 score of 0.89.

Researchers have developed tissue-based muscle actuators that can enable robots to jump, swim, and grasp

Reuters: Sources: the US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct  —  The US Department of Justice has made inquiries about how Nvidia's (NVDA.O) $12.93 billion deal to buy open-source platform Hugging Face …

A position paper argues that robots' direct, unmediated coupling with the physical world makes human-centered AI and robotics a distinct technical and ethical challenge.

A bibliometric analysis of 861 Scopus-indexed articles traces how computational social science evolved from agent-based modelling to generative artificial intelligence between 2011 and 2025.

A hybrid of probabilistic roadmaps and bidirectional A* search produced shorter paths and faster planning times than Dijkstra-based and conventional A* methods in MATLAB/Simulink simulations of static, dynamic, and multi-robot scenarios.

NASA has committed to launching a new, more powerful UV space telescope. Named UVEX, the UltraViolet EXplorer, it will launch in 2031. It's about 100 times more powerful than its predecessor, GALEX, whose mission ended in 2013. UVEX will perform a survey in UV that will complement infrared surveys by other telescopes.

A new review finds that essential oil nanoemulsions with droplets of 20 to 200 nanometres outperformed traditional formulations in several insect bioassays, though not uniformly, and that scalability, stability and regulation still stand between the laboratory and the field.

Researchers synthesized PVP-capped gold nanoparticles in one step with a plasma-under-liquid method and used their red-to-blue color change to detect Cr(VI) in water down to about 0.072 micromolar.

Which humanoid robots are closest to deployment in 2027? Compare Tesla, Figure AI, Agility Robotics, and other leaders in industrial automation. The post Humanoid Robots in 2027: Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Race to Deploy appeared first on TechRepublic.

An AAPS Open editorial spotlights chemical engineer Lucas Attia, whose PhD work matured nanoemulsion templating for drug nanoparticle formulation and who now builds molecular property prediction models at Eli Lilly.

Strontium hexaferrite nanoparticles processed by annealing, milling and PEGylation killed a substantial fraction of murine cancer cells in vitro under a low-frequency alternating magnetic field.

A Japanese pilot study found that AI-edited images of green spaces, modified according to a new psychological evaluation framework, received higher impression scores from participants.

A CEA-coated PLLA–ZnO nanowire nano-vaccine elicited balanced Th1/Th2 immunity and reduced tumor growth by 65–70% in a prophylactic mouse model.

Deep learning models trained on pre-procedural ultrasound videos predicted the success of transcatheter mitral valve edge-to-edge repair with an AUC of 0.76 in a single-center study of 467 patients, outperforming logistic regression and classical machine learning approaches.

A new review in Bioscience Nanotechnology outlines how smart nanocarriers can deliver biostimulants with sustained, stimulus-responsive release to support sustainable crop production.

A physics-aware, uncertainty-guided deep learning surrogate has been shown to replace expensive circuit simulations when optimizing ultra-low-power amplifiers for biosignal acquisition.

Carbon nanosphere-encapsulated iron–cobalt catalysts with a 1:2 iron-to-cobalt ratio showed improved CO2 conversion, C2–C4 olefin selectivity and 60-hour stability under atmospheric pressure.

A mini review used Swiss Target Prediction to map the probable protein targets of seven major classes of antidiabetic drugs used in type 2 diabetes.

Selenium nanoparticles made with Crataegus songarica extract averaged 83 nanometers and showed antifungal, anticancer, anti-inflammatory and antidiabetic activity in laboratory assays.

Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.

Google parent company Alphabet says that its AI investments are leading to a big growth in searches year-over-year, as noted in its Q3 2026 earnings today. "Our AI investments are driving overall Search query growth, including commercial queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says in a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query growth rate is the highest it's been in the last five years." Alphabet's consolidated revenues for the quarter were $127.6 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year, with its "Google Search & other" revenues up 12 percent year-over-year. Google Cloud revenue was also up 103 percent year-over-year to $30.7 billion. The earnings … Read the full story at The Verge.

A new AI system that NYU Fire Research Group describes as a digital twin of an active wildfire has, in early testing, shown the ability to forecast how a fire will spread in near real time.

A new review finds AI applications in CNS autoimmune diseases are expanding rapidly, yet no model has been prospectively validated for individual treatment selection.

Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind. The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google released earlier this month. It's currently only available to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, but it will eventually expand to other partners in its Fairwind Program. Carbon sits ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. | Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index" data-portal-copyright="Image: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"> The company says Carbon reflects the "pace at which we're pus … Read the full

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon targets complex coding and cybersecurity tasks, with the company touting stronger secure coding, fewer AI mistakes, and impressive benchmark results.

Researchers have built an explainable stacking machine learning framework that jointly forecasts electrical load and predicts transformer remaining lifespan in simulated 150 kV power systems.

An AI model trained on finite element simulations predicts the seismic health of shear wall buildings in under a minute using only ground motion records, achieving an overall regression accuracy of 97.528 percent.

A laboratory study reports that magnesium oxide nanoparticles synthesised with turnip leaf extract inhibited multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and reduced established biofilms by up to 99 percent.

The Defense Intelligence Agency's latest "Challenges to Security in Space" report included a declassified satellite photo of China's Shenlong, or "divine dragon," space plane, which has released at least nine mysterious payloads into low Earth orbit since 2022.

A new graph-based framework groups similar learners and augments sparse data to improve cognitive diagnosis predictions across three public datasets.

A retrospective study of 20 pediatric CNS tumors found long-read nanopore sequencing matched methylation arrays for copy-number profiling and tumor classification while adding genomic layers in one assay.

"Deeply flawed" metrics such as AI token usage aren't always a good measure of success, Amazon tells engineers.

A numerical study of an MHD Eyring–Powell tri-hybrid nanofluid over a rotating disk finds that the two Eyring–Powell parameters have contrasting effects on entropy generation while surface transport rates vary far less.

Encapsulating oleanolic acid and asiatic acid in solid lipid nanoparticles preserved enzyme inhibition, lowered glucose in liver cell culture medium and showed low cytotoxicity in preliminary in vitro tests.

But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

Disorders of the small intestine are often difficult to diagnose and treat. More than 20 feet (6.1 meters) long, an inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter and located deep within the body, this organ is harder to access than other parts of the digestive tract, such as the colon or stomach.

Following the launch of Argon two weeks ago, Google today announced Gemini 4 Carbon as its next frontier model. more…

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems suggest medical tests and treatment plans that are more than three times as expensive as those recommended by doctors, a study has found.1A small head-to-head evaluation by Israeli and US researchers analysed how 24 AI systems responded to 200 real outpatient and emergency department clinical notes.These notes were sourced from MTSamples, a public collection of deidentified US format clinical notes contributed by practising clinicians.Each AI system received the notes as they were recorded by the treating physician. The AI then produced its own assessment and plan, which was compared with the physician’s plan documented in the original notes.Orders from both plans were priced at 2026 Medicare rates. New medicines were counted rather than priced.Publishing their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine,1 the researchers found that the primary reason AI treatment plans were more expensive was because the algorithms suggested more diagnostic

Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google: Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index  —  Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.

Google is expanding Connected Apps across Gemini and Search, with more than 50 integrations and a new developer platform that could make juggling multiple apps a thing of the past.

Google today announced the Connected Apps Platform as a “unified way for more app developers to bring their capabilities directly into Gemini and Search.” more…

As previewed in May, Google Chrome can now use Gemini and Personal Intelligence to autofill much more information. more…

RAM crisis will last the rest of this decade according to SK Hynix, and then 'physical AI' will come into play.

Oracle will rent out Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) in its cloud from 2027. That makes it the first hyperscale cloud outside Google to offer the chips. It is also putting OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex inside its business software. Oracle announced both deals on Tuesday, 27 October, at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas. New […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a world model that builds photorealistic worlds in real time. They come with sound, and with characters that speak. It opened to trusted testers as a research preview on 27 October, the lab said in a blog post. Users steer a simulation with text prompts as it runs, changing […] This story continues at The Next Web

It’s unclear when or how the Echo Studio with Home Camera starts analyzing your room – or whether you’ll need to opt in first.

Apple Creator Studio will add AI assistants to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote in November. Check pricing, device requirements, and business account limits. The post Apple Creator Studio to Add AI Assistants to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote appeared first on TechRepublic.

Using a new slow-motion electron camera, physicists from Regensburg, Marburg and Jülich revealed how intense electric fields drive electrons in graphene, causing them to jump across energy gaps in a seemingly paradoxical manner. This was made possible by a novel combination of laser technology and electron microscopy.

The parents of a woman who died after a seizure-related medical emergency allege that ChatGPT encouraged her to reduce epilepsy medication and dismissed warning signs. OpenAI disputes the claims.

The rare earth elements that help power electric vehicles, wind turbines, medical imaging machines and other advanced technologies

Google DeepMind’s Genie 4 In Google DeepMind’s newest world model, a Gemini model watches the action frame by

Introduction: A New Era of AI-Generated Worlds Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a revolutionary world model that represents a significant leap forward in AI-generated interactive simulations. Released as a research preview on October 27, 2026, Genie 4 combines photorealistic rendering, native audio generation, advanced physics simulation, and real-time interactivity powered by Gemini models. This breakthrough technology opens new possibilities for creative industries, robotics training, an...

Machenta, a London robotics startup spun out of Imperial College London, has raised a $40M seed round. It is building an AI model that teaches robots a new task from a single demonstration. Creandum and Union Square Ventures co-led the round, Imperial said on 27 October. The university calls it the largest seed round ever […] This story continues at The Next Web