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Debby Ryan reveals a fifth concussion left her with a 'life-altering brain injury', six months out of commission and undergoing neurological rehabilitation.

An AI Agent for the Household In most homes, the school newsletter, the swim schedule and the vet

Nvidia shares rose 2.5 per cent as technology stocks led a broad Wall Street rebound, pushing the Nasdaq to its strongest one-day gain since 4 August despite ongoing rate concerns.

Author(s): Kai-Isaak Ellers, Marios Christodoulou, K. C. Schwab, and K. Birgitta WhaleyA proposed lab-based quantum sensor could precisely measure within seconds the warping of spacetime caused by Earth’s rotation. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 121404] Published Thu Sep 17, 2026

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Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more  —  Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

Big Picture Bio Ltd., has been founded to identify, design and optimize promising cancer combination therapies, using a generative world model to understand how tumors, immune cells and surrounding tissue interact across disease sites and patient subgroups.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips AI’s biggest opportunity may not be in predicting what comes next, but in owning the companies that can survive whatever comes next. The post The AI Race Is Getting Harder to Predict, and That’s the Opportunity appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Quotient Sciences, a global integrated CRDMO (contract research, development and manufacturing organization), today reported interim results from a clinical study in which a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm selected modified-release formulation compositions and doses during the trial.

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.

An Ambulance for Humanoid Robots When one of its humanoid robots breaks down on the job, GMO no

A container image can include a validated cryptographic module. That does not make the whole image or application

Human Cortex Grown Inside Mice Stanford University researchers removed most of the cortex from developing mice and let

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Hyosung Heavy Industries is expanding its U.S. manufacturing footprint through a new joint venture to produce high-voltage circuit breakers in Pennsylvania. The company said June 16 that its subsidiary, Hyosung HICO, signed an agreement with a subsidiary of Quanta Services to establish Hyosung Hico Breaker, a joint venture for gas circuit breakers. The joint venture, incorporated in July, will begin manufacturing high-voltage circuit breakers ranging from 72.5 kilovolts to 800 kilovolts as early as October. Production will take place at Quanta's existing facility in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Quanta Services is a major U.S. engineering, procurement and construction company specializing in power and energy infrastructure. It serves utilities, power generation and energy storage projects, data centers, telecommunications providers and other customers across the United States. The partnership combines Hyosung's power equipment expertise with Quanta's infrastructure capabilities as the

A 13-year-old boy from eastern China has garnered significant attention online for his ability to leverage artificial intelligence and programming to solve everyday challenges. Yang Xizhe, a junior secondary school student from Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, stands at an impressive 1.9 metres tall and has amassed a following of over 500,000 on mainland social media platforms. Growing up in a city celebrated for its vibrant technology ecosystem, he identifies as an “AI native.” Yang believes that...

Norway's first fully automated facility for vegetable production was put into operation last fall. This spring, the first products hit store shelves.

UBtech has opened a robot factory wherein autonomous devices can produce 10,000 units a year.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology have discovered a previously unknown cellular defense system that protects the brain from abnormal glycogen accumulation, which is linked to severe neurological disorders.

AI firms are reportedly buying RTX 5090s by the pallet, which Nvidia's own driver license has prohibited since 2017.

Training systems that allow robots to negotiate the real world are getting more sophisticated.

Scientists at Warwick have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact a patchwork of different crystal structures throughout its bulk, using an advanced 3D imaging technique to see deep inside the crystal for the first time.

CC gives an AI agent its own Google account in your family or group and sends all members a daily briefing.

Update: Nine days later, Muse now includes a Mac app. You can download it here. Meta AI just launched a brand-new iPhone app called Muse from Meta. Similar to Grok Bot in presentation, Muse is a personal AI agent that handles tasks for you. more…

Mustafa Suleyman says he believes rival AI firm Anthropic is in effect teaching Claude it "may be conscious".

Nanodiamonds are tiny diamond particles that usually measure mere millionths of a millimeter. They are extremely hard, stable and heat-resistant and highly adaptable for various purposes in medicine, new materials, catalysis and energy technology. By compressing plastic with lasers, researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the University of Rostock are now able to systematically produce high-purity, ultra-small diamonds with a narrow size distribution. This is impossible to achieve with conventional methods such as explosions. As a scalable technology, laser compression offers great potential for improved, clean and sustainable production of ultra-small nanodiamonds.

Beauty and mystery—it is hard to imagine a more alluring combination, and this is precisely what we encounter when we observe phenomena in the nanoworld. But are we really sure that observations made using modern microscopic techniques do not influence what is happening there? A comparison of images of copper oxide nanoparticles reacting with chloroauric acid, obtained using electron and photon beams, has yielded unexpected results.

A team of researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed an approach that enabled them to directly observe how electrons interact with defects in advanced semiconductor devices in unprecedented detail. The team's methodology included an innovative simulation tool that enabled accurate theoretical interpretations of its experimental observations.

Cornell physicists have discovered that minimizing disorder, not varying electron count, is the key factor for controlling superconductivity in the unique material iron selenide (FeSe), a new insight for understanding high-temperature superconductors.

Physicists at The City College of New York have demonstrated a new way to transfer microwave signals onto light using magnetic waves inside a layered semiconductor. The work establishes a materials platform for building interfaces that could one day link quantum computers through optical networks. The research, titled "Microwave-to-optical transduction using magnon–exciton coupling," was led by the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) at CCNY, headed by physics professor Vinod M. Menon. It appears in the journal Nature Materials.

Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation  —  Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers …

Iron rusts on its own, slowly, over months or years. Now, researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to compress the process of metal reacting with water to form oxide, taking mere hours and using nothing more than ultrasound. Details were published in the journal Ultrasonics Sonochemistry.

Financial Times: NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive called AI training “an astonishing theft”  —  Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content

Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industry stokes them for publicity and to shape regulation. The EU AI Act already lists both the engineering risks he wants prioritised and the loss-of-control risks […] This story continues at The Next Web

What if signs of disease could be detected using nothing more than a tiny chip that fits in the palm of your hand and a camera, without ever visiting a hospital? A scene that once seemed possible only in science fiction has now moved one step closer to reality.

Somewhere between the microscopic realm of elementary particles and the macroscopic world of human beings, something strange happens: The rules of quantum physics, which work so exquisitely for tiny atoms, seem to lose their grip as objects grow larger. Pondering where and how this shift from small-scale quantum fuzziness to everyday sharp certainty happens gives rise to thought-experiment oddities like Schrödinger's famous dead-and-alive cat. The process by which quantum phenomena like superposition—the paradoxical affliction of Schrödinger's cat—fade into the classical reality we experience is known as decoherence.

Wait a minute… Is Siri on the Mac good now? It only took a decade, but with this week’s launch of macOS 27 Golden Gate, Siri has finally come to life on the Mac. It’s still in beta, and it’s not perfect, but the update represents a much improved and highly integrated experience that takes into account personal context while prioritizing privacy. Watch my full video as I walk through the top macOS 27 features: Siri AI edition, and be sure to subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos. more…

PARIS — Icarus Robotics, the New York startup developing dexterous mobile robots for space missions, conducted tests of its free-flying platform ahead of a 2027 demonstration on the International Space […] The post Icarus Robotics tests Joy in Canada ahead of ISS flight appeared first on SpaceNews.

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live models bring faster voice interactions and deeper background reasoning, with Extended Thinking able to work while it talks. The post Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live Models That Can Reason While They Talk appeared first on TechRepublic.

Apple is reportedly developing a 2029 AI server with two or four M8 Ultra chips and possible Nvidia networking. The post Apple Reportedly Plans M8 Ultra AI Server for 2029 appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google Cloud and Salesforce are connecting Gemini Enterprise, Agentforce, Hyperforce, and Tableau to reduce integration friction for enterprise AI workflows. The post Google Cloud, Salesforce Tie Gemini Enterprise to Agentforce and CRM Data appeared first on TechRepublic.

Siri AI is rolling out with iOS 27. Here are seven things you can do with Apple’s upgraded assistant, plus supported iPhones and limitations. The post Siri AI Is Finally Here: 7 Things You Can Actually Do With It appeared first on TechRepublic.

A new study published in the journal npj Breast Cancer demonstrates that an artificial intelligence (AI) model offers more accurate predictions of recurrence risk in patients with early-stage breast cancer than the widely used 21-gene Recurrence Score. This research, conducted by a team from the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG-ACRIN) and Caris Life Sciences, specifically targets hormone receptor-positive (HR+) and HER2-negative disease, the most common subtype of breast cancer, which accounts for about half of all breast cancer cases in the United States.

Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology aspires to deliver expert-level diagnosis across diverse clinical tasks, yet existing supervised strategies remain limited in scope. We developed RADAR, a generalist vision-language model trained on more than 400,...

The latest company to spin out of a Stanford Medicine lab is a biotech undertaking with 37,000 employees—and none of them are human. There's no lab space, no lunch breaks and no payroll. It's an artificial intelligence-powered virtual biotech company that's the brainchild of associate professor of biomedical data science James Zou, Ph.D., who is also the principal investigator of a virtual lab that launched in 2025, and graduate student Harrison Zhang.

A Stanford team has documented the first direct observation of quantum jumps of sound in a mechanical resonator, completing an arc of scientific exploration that started more than 100 years ago.

“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background noise, or an unfamiliar physical environment,” said Finnur Pind, co-founder and chief executive of Treble Technologies. The Reykjavík company has raised $18m, about €15m, in a Series A-2 round, it announced on 17 September. Paladin Capital Group led […] This story continues at The Next Web

Through a new “AI contribution pilot,” Google is testing directly paying websites and publishers when their content is used to flesh out AI Overviews and other AI results. more…

iOS 27 launched this week with the all-new Siri AI. David Pogue put the new Siri to the test by trying 125 requests, here’s how it went. more…

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

Quantum computers are no longer theoretical concepts. Today, they are being developed to tackle a range of complex problems, including exploring financial risk, modeling complex molecules and optimizing massive logistics networks. However, until now, there has been no way to benchmark the computational power of different systems on the same scale to see how they compare.

An AI agent approves a claim that was never real. Gartner says 60% of AI projects fail on bad data — and most CX leaders still aren't in the room. Continue reading...

Many people will learn CPR using a flat-chested manikin. A 2024 study of 20 models of CPR manikins sold worldwide found that three-quarters were described as male or had no sex specified. Of the 20, only one offered a breast overlay.

International researchers got a reprieve in the courts this week. What does that mean for U.S. medical research? Find out on this week's episode of "The Readout LOUD" podcast.

Of all the discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope, the multitude of Little Red Dots it has observed is among the most enigmatic. Now, simulations using the Japanese Supercomputer ATERUI III have explained the nature of the Little Red Dots without requiring any exotic assumptions. The simulations show that the Little Red Dots are black holes growing at a rate that would be impossible today because of conditions in the early universe.

Lucid and Bolt have announced a non-binding partnership to put at least 25,000 driverless Lucid crossovers on European roads, with no vehicles ordered, no money committed and no deployment date. The only EU-wide type approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year per type, and national approvals stop at […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have developed a technology that uses quantum sensors to measure biomagnetic signals, such as heart activity. Researchers from the DIAQNOS (DIAmond-based Quantum Sensing for NeurOSurgery) flagship project, coordinated by Dr. Arne Wickenbrock in Mainz, have demonstrated the potential of quantum technology for future medical applications.

An early-career Western Australian astrophysicist has helped uncover a universal rule behind one of the most powerful behaviors in the universe: when black holes launch jets. The discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows black holes appear to fire off powerful jets at the same critical point in their feeding cycle—whether they are about 10 times the mass of the sun or millions of times heavier.

Computer simulations find that overmassive black holes form readily in the early universe. Their spectra match that of Little Red Dots, which later become powerful quasars and supermassive galactic black holes.

Microsoft exec argues that we're 'seeding a new silicon species' that could 'compete with us for resources' — and something needs to be done.

A kimchi-derived bacterium can bind to nanoplastics under gut-like conditions and may help carry them out of the body. In mice, the probiotic more than doubled the amount of nanoplastics detected in feces, pointing to a surprising potential use for microbes from fermented foods.

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take months to run, requiring scientists to meticulously angle and adjust delicate light sources, mirrors, cameras and other components in a process of careful, constant tuning that can be physically tedious and time-consuming.

A psychedelic-like drug for a Parkinson's symptom, mice with half-human brains, and more biotech news in the Readout newsletter.

Wu Dahui said that cooperation should now shift more toward the field of new military technologies

Dark matter is one of the oldest open problems in physics. It makes up most of the matter in the universe and shapes how galaxies form and move, yet no one has ever directly detected it. Physicists have proposed dozens of candidates to explain it: exotic new particles, black holes formed moments after the Big Bang and more.

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has stated that AI should not be subject to the same regulations as social media since it is a technology, not a product. According to POLITICO, Huang made these comments to journalists on Thursday at the AI event held by King Charles at Dumfries House in Scotland. As Huang pointed […] This story continues at The Next Web

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation.  It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a 37-page statement called the “Humanist AI Code of Conduct,” which lays out the company’s principles around AI development and even its philosophy around really thorny issues like AI consciousness.  If you’ll recall from his last appearance on the show, Mustafa thinks companies like Anthropic have gotten really confused about this concept of so-called model welfare in fairly dangerous ways. He actually put out a companion essay this week specifically criticizing Anthropic’s philosophy around AI

Researchers found that human-inspired vertical hip motion reduces modeled biped robot walking energy by approximately 14%, largely by lowering stance-knee energy use.

There are some reasonably impressive visuals in this 5-minute shortened down take on The Odyssey, as well as lots of issues.

Autonomous race cars hit Laguna Seca and Imola Circuit at speeds topping 157 mph, but the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League faces a fan problem.

A gastrointestinal robotic endoscopy system has received FDA 510(k) clearance for use in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures throughout the colon.The Triton 1 System (Neptune Medical) was designed to improve endoscopic precision, stability and control and “elevate any endoscopist’s capabilities for screening, surveillance and diagnostic colonoscopies,” according to a manufacturer press release.The system also can be used for other procedures in the colon, including mucosal resections and submucosal dissections.“Bringing robotics to lower GI procedures is an exciting prospect for us,” Jason

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. If the blood circulation becomes unbalanced, this can be life-threatening for both, as too much blood flows from one fetus to the other.

New supercomputer simulations suggest JWST’s puzzling Little Red Dots are rapidly growing black holes from the early Universe. Extreme radiation may have helped create unusually massive black hole seeds, while dense surrounding gas allowed them to grow dozens of times faster than black holes can today. The simulated objects closely resemble the Little Red Dots seen by Webb. If correct, they could solve the mystery of how enormous black holes formed so soon after the Big Bang.

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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 review: new colors and materials, revamped Health Sensing System, an S11 chip, and future AI features, but few design changes  —  The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are all about what's happening underneath.  Headlined by a new Health Sensing System …

American nonprofit C4ADS, a monitoring organization funded mostly by the U.S. government, produced a report shedding light on the many ways that American AI accelerators reach China.

Meta wants people to pay for more AI, but growing demand for control suggests the next premium feature could be the ability to turn AI off

Robotic home-builder Reframe Systems, a company founded by former Amazon Robotics executives, will use a new $40m tranche of equity financing to build a second automated component factory in Massachusetts.… The post Former Amazon Robotics executives take on house-building appeared first on Global Construction Review.

A new coalition of tech giants aims to speed AI data center grid connections in exchange for more flexibility.

Apple is reportedly interested in using Nvidia's NVLink Fusion for its own data center platforms.

Security experts from the US and China have proposed a set of safeguards for military AI modelled on the rules that grew up around nuclear weapons, including a ban on letting AI decide whether to launch them, Reuters reported. The recommendations, published last week, come from the US-China AI and National Security Dialogue, a track […] This story continues at The Next Web

Charles will convene senior tech leaders today as the debate around the risks involved in AI development ramps up.

The Paris-based quantum computing company Alice & Bob and France’s Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) announced today that they will collaborate on software enabling quantum computers to run alongside conventional supercomputers, without either party disclosing the financial terms. The project focuses on Qaptiva, a quantum application platform created by the French state-owned company […] This story continues at The Next Web

The SuperC consortium aims to develop a room-temperature superconductor, a discovery which would deliver enormous energy savings. What’s

A memory card showing “0 photos,” a reformatted drive, or a failed transfer can make photo loss feel

Charles will convene senior tech leaders today as the debate around the risks involved in AI development ramps up.

The Oversight Board is asking Meta to prioritize AI content when it's reported.

Reuters: US and Chinese experts propose nuclear-style AI safeguards, including a dedicated AI military hotline, as part of a dialogue ahead of planned bilateral talks  —  An AI system that interferes with a nuclear command network or launches a military cyber operation could leave Washington or Beijing …

When rigid instruments reach their limits, magnetic fields provide welcome assistance: researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a robotic platform designed to make procedures for complications in twin pregnancies safer, more manageable and more precise.

ChatGPT can now create eerily realistic images. I mixed them with my own travel photos, can you spot the fakes?

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.