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A team of researchers at Hassan II University of Casablanca has combined blockchain smart contracts with large language model agents to orchestrate crowdsourced pharmaceutical last-mile delivery, reporting that in matched simulations the AI-assisted workflow cut route time by 25 percent and planning time by nearly 79 percent compared with a human-operated baseline. The work addresses […]

In a new study, Apple researchers detail SimpleDesign, a streamlined AI model that can jointly generate protein sequences and structures. Here are the details. more…

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Some experts say Siri Recap and Live Rewind, always-listening AI features in new Apple Watches, could test eavesdropping laws despite privacy protections  —  Apple Inc.'s new always-listening artificial intelligence features for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could put eavesdropping laws to the test, according to legal experts.

Adelaide University researchers have developed a new way of using mRNA technology to reprogram tumor-supporting immune cells and strengthen the body's anti-cancer immune response.

Metallic nanostructures are exceptionally effective at concentrating light into tiny volumes, while dielectric nanostructures excel at storing light with minimal energy loss. Combining these complementary properties has traditionally required complicated hybrid structures in which the two optical modes become mixed, making them difficult to control independently.

Scientists at Adelaide University have unveiled a new mRNA-based strategy that could reshape one of the most stubborn obstacles in cancer treatment: the hostile environment that tumours build around themselves to keep the immune system at bay. In a study published in Science Advances, a multidisciplinary team spanning chemical engineering, biomedical science, oncology and immunology […]

Diazomethane is one of organic chemistry’s most useful and most feared reagents. The simple molecule CH2N2 is a superb methylating agent, capable of converting carboxylic acids into methyl esters with almost effortless efficiency, and it plays a quiet but essential role in pharmaceutical synthesis, natural product derivatization, and specialty chemical manufacturing. Yet the same reactivity […]

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center published a technical paper titled “REACH: Controller-Managed Long-Span ECC for HBM AI Inference.” Abstract Excerpt: “High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) cost motivates stronger controller protection that can support a wider range of device error rates.High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) cost motivates stronger controller protection that can support a... » read more The post Reducing HBM ECC Controller Overhead For AI Inference (RPI, IBM) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

The image, made to look like a movie poster for "Transformers," urged the man to self-deport. The agency later deleted it.

In a development that could reshape how scientists manufacture some of the most versatile materials in modern technology, an international team of researchers has published a sweeping review of plasma-induced liquid chemistry (PiLC), an emerging synthesis platform that creates functional nanocomposites at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. The comprehensive assessment, published in Advanced Composites and […]

Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean fuel of the future, but producing it at industrial scale still depends heavily on electricity, catalysts, and economics. A research team in China has now reported a catalyst made entirely from abundant, inexpensive elements that matches precious-metal benchmarks in the laboratory and, more importantly, survives punishing industrial-like […]

Business Insider: LinkedIn profiles show Google appears to have completed its talent deal, reportedly for $1.5B+, with AI coding startup Mechanize  —  Google has some fresh talent in the AI race.  —  The tech giant has completed its talent deal with San Francisco startup Mechanize Inc, public postings show.

Terence Tao / What's new: A group of 25 Fields Medal recipients says AI companies' push to solve mathematical problems as a benchmark is detrimental to the science of mathematics  —  I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week.

The proposed class action alleges Meta illegally harvested people’s Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build its unreleased “NameTag” face recognition feature.

Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in the driver’s seat and Uber taking the bookings. The pair want more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, but the only EU-wide approval route for a fully automated car is capped at 1,500 units a year […] This story continues at The Next Web

J&J is confident that Ottava, it's new robotic surgical system can compete in the robotic surgery market

Adelaide University researchers have developed a new way to use mRNA technology to reprogram tumor-supporting immune cells and strengthen the body's anticancer immune response.

The human digestive tract remains one of the most challenging environments in medicine to inspect thoroughly. Capsule endoscopy, in which patients swallow a camera-equipped pill that transmits images as it travels passively through the gut, has transformed diagnosis of the small intestine, yet it suffers from a fundamental limitation: the device drifts with the flow […]

A little known Croatian startup backed by Rimac is leading the way for robotaxis in Europe, with help from a Chinese AV company.

ARPA-H picked teams to build AI agents that could adjust heart failure care, aiming for FDA authorization. Safety questions patients should ask.

The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—feature of the brain. In a wide-ranging critical review, Gábor Háden of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Natural Sciences and Henkjan Honing of the University of Amsterdam evaluate more than two decades of research into how this capacity develops and has evolved. Their paper was published this week in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Sugon's record-breaking ParaStor F9000 storage systems have lost their IO500 Production crowns and have been moved to the Research list after failing to meet the benchmark's highest reproducibility requirements, which include widely available architecture details and general availability of hardware itself.

OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki is advocating for a slowing of AI development in order to better appreciate and understand machine intelligence.

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Following last week’s Android Drop, Google is now rolling out an app update that brings the “Remembered” tab to Find Hub. more…

New research finds there is no substitute for real-world observations, but that—under the right circumstances—AI-generated images can be used to improve the performance of computer models used for species identification and biodiversity monitoring.

Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism: Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters  —  “It just kept going and going, and that pit in my stomach just kept getting bigger and deeper.”

Siri AI launches next week in iOS 27, and it’s a huge upgrade to Apple’s assistant. There are tons of ways Siri is new and improved, but here are three examples of times Siri has impressed me so far. more…

NASA and IBM released an open-source AI model and dataset to help researchers map lunar craters, volcanic features and potential ice locations. The post NASA and IBM Launch Open AI Model for Lunar Research appeared first on TechRepublic.

Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters  —  The change comes after a viral video showed Meta AI prompting a user to identify the child in one of her videos.

Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby says the company "missed the mark," adding that "the feature never should have prompted the individual with questions like that." Last week, Instagram user Kalie Robins posted a video explaining how Meta AI presented her with an invasive suggestion after cross-posting a clip to Facebook. The AI prompt, "Who is the child passenger?" appeared beneath a video of her and her child sin … Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple CarPlay now works with six major third-party AI chatbot apps. Microsoft Copilot is the latest iPhone app to add CarPlay support. This leaves Google Gemini as the last major holdout for now. more…

Two studies find signs of strange black hole binary systems

A multidisciplinary scientific team at the University of Malaga has developed a new technology based on magnetic nanoparticles that enables precise, rapid and reliable diagnosis of allergy to beta-lactam antibiotics, including amoxicillin and other penicillins.

The study shows how task complexity affects skill retention in surgical robot teleoperation, offering a framework to improve training methods.

JoyIn, a Chinese robotics startup, has accused OpenAI of copying its ideas and its website. Its chief executive, Guo Renjie, set out the claims in an open letter in Chinese on the company’s WeChat account, dated 10 September. On the same day, JoyIn announced Aether, a model for controlling humanoid robots. “People often say major […] This story continues at The Next Web

From 25–27 August, UK RAS STEPS members came together at the University of York’s Institute for Safe Autonomy for a three-day Micromaze Robot Hackathon. Working in teams, participants were challenged to design, build and program autonomous robots capable of navigating a series of increasingly complex mazes. Each team used a custom Raspberry Pi Pico W […]

Amazon will let advertisers buy ads in ChatGPT through its own advertising platform. Amazon Ads announced the partnership with OpenAI in a blog post on 10 September. Select US advertisers are already testing it in a pilot. Advertisers who plan and run campaigns with Amazon Ads can now extend them to ChatGPT, the company said. […] This story continues at The Next Web

Brands can now buy ChatGPT ads directly through Amazon on either a cost per click or per thousand impressions basis.

Researchers have found a way to perform certain quantum operations more than 1,000 times faster, cutting thousands of repeated control cycles down to just one. The advance could reduce errors and bring reliable, fault-tolerant quantum computers closer to reality.

Scientists have created an ultra-small nanolaser that could eventually allow microchips to transmit information with light instead of electricity, potentially making computers faster while cutting energy use roughly in half. Thousands of the lasers could fit on a single chip, opening possibilities for more efficient data centers, smartphones, and advanced medical sensors.

AI can trawl vast amounts of health data which is not specifically related to migraines, but which can be used to identify people predisposed to the condition.

A new study looked at gray matter in the brain during puberty, pregnancy and menopause, finding distinct changes at different life stages.

The AI model could help scientists better identify lunar ice, volcanos and craters. Read more: NASA and IBM unveil an open source lunar AI model

An Open Model For Lunar Science Petabytes of Moon data have been sitting in archives for years, mostly

Pressure Over Driver Monitoring Video of a motorist asleep at highway speed used to be a curiosity. There

Nanoscope Therapeutics announced on 9 Sept. 2026 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted and filed its Biologics License Application seeking approval of MOGENRY (sonpiretigene isteparvovec, MCO-010), an intravitreal optogenetic gene therapy for patients with retinitis pigmentosa with severe vision loss. The filing is supported by efficacy and safety data from a Phase […] The post FDA accepts review for Nanoscope’s one-time vision loss gene therapy appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

Google’s new Windows app turns [Alt] + [Space] into a dedicated Gemini shortcut, making its AI faster and easier to access than through a browser.

Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a converted microkitchen in Gradient Canopy, a building at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. Some of the people said recent […] This story continues at The Next Web

For the past 15 years, Christopher Lowry, PhD, has led CrowdHydrology, a University at Buffalo citizen-science project that

A Deadline For Driverless Traffic Most countries are still arguing about where a self-driving car may legally turn

Ant-backed startup JoyIn's CEO published an article in Chinese that raised questions about similarities between his company's new model and OpenAI publications.

Ant-backed startup JoyIn's CEO published an article in Chinese that raised questions about similarities between his company's new model and OpenAI publications.

In a development that could reshape how farmers think about seed treatments, researchers in India have shown that a single plant hormone—indole-3-acetic acid, the auxin that gardeners have long exploited to make cuttings root—can serve double duty in the laboratory, acting simultaneously as the chemical engine that builds silver and gold nanoparticles and as the […]

A review of cellulose nanomaterial-based electrospun membranes finds that nanocellulose can increase mechanical strength, hydrophilicity, permeability, fouling resistance, and contaminant-removal capabilities across several water-treatment designs. The authors also examine solvent choice, hydraulic stability, manufacturing scale-up, life-cycle impacts, and the practical requirements for moving these membranes beyond laboratory studies.

Researchers in Brazil have shown that a fast, low-cost fiber fabrication technique can turn a common fluoropolymer into tough, water-repellent nanocomposite mats—but only up to a sharply defined tipping point. By blending montmorillonite clay into poly(vinylidene fluoride), or PVDF, and spinning the mixture into micro- and nanofibers with a method known as Solution Blow Spinning, […]

Artificial intelligence is moving into hospitals, clinics, and classrooms at a pace that few predicted a decade ago, and the students training to become the next generation of physicians and nurses are watching it happen in real time. A new study published in BMC Nursing offers one of the most granular looks yet at how […]

One solar company fined $100,000 for failing to have fall protection in place, another made to forfeit $6.2m of energy efficiency certificates over allegations of false claims and doctored photos. The post Doctored photos, unsafe installs: Regulators continue crackdown on solar and energy rebate breaches appeared first on Renew Economy.

Author(s): Tianqi Xiao, Yaxin Wang, Ying Xia, Zhihao Li, Juntao Li, and Xiaoqi ZhouThe authors present a combined theoretical and experimental advance showing that d +1 projective measurement bases suffice for complete quantum-state tomography in any finite dimension, without relying on mutually unbiased bases. They demonstrate the scheme on a silicon photonic chip, achieving fidelities above 0.96. [Phys. Rev. A 114, 032428] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Author(s): Matthew C. O'Brien and Eduardo FradkinRecent numerical advances have renewed interest in the two-dimensional quantum J 1 - J 3 Heisenberg antiferromagnet, but a detailed analytical theory has remained lacking. Here, the authors apply a semiclassical effective field theory and large- N analysis. They show that previously overlooked interactions stabilize a quantum vestigial nematic phase at zero temperature, where discrete rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken despite the loss of long-range antiferromagnetic spiral order. This phase continues the known finite-temperature

Author(s): Zhuang Ge, Tommi Eronen, Vasile Alin Sevestrean, Ovidiu Niţescu, Sabin Stoica, Marlom Ramalho, Jouni Suhonen, Anu Kankainen, Marjut Hukkanen, Arthur Jaries, Ari Jokinen, Joel Kostensalo, Jenni Kotila, Maxime Mougeot, Iain D. Moore, Wirunchana Rattanasakuldilok, Jouni Ruotsalainen, and Marek StryjczykHigh-precision measurements of nuclear decay energies can reveal rare low-Q transitions with enhanced sensitivity to the absolute neutrino mass. Using the JYFLTRAP double Penning trap and the PI-ICR technique, the electron-capture Q value of 113 Sn was determined with an eightfold improvement in precision over the previous evaluation. Combining the new mass result with known excited states in

Author(s): Andrey A. Shevyrin, Askhat K. Bakarov, and Arthur G. PogosovA nanomechanical resonator provides a simple way to directly measure the torque generated by electron vortices. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116302] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Author(s): Kirill Shulga, Shunsuke Nishimura, Pavel A. Volkov, Miu Hirano, Toshiaki Inada, Ryota Hasegawa, Takeyuki Tsuji, Takayuki Iwasaki, Mutsuko Hatano, Kento Sasaki, and Kensuke KobayashiA coplanar superconducting resonator makes possible the direct observation of the real-time entry of individual Abrikosov vortices. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 116001] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Author(s): Anton M. Graf, Saul Atwood, Mingxuan Xiao, Roland Ketzmerick, Eric J. Heller, and Joonas Keski-RahkonenResearchers develop a theoretical framework showing that quantum systems permanently retain a memory of their initial state and early dynamics, in defiance of classical expectations. [Phys. Rev. X 16, 031063] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

In what could reshape how search-and-rescue teams, security services, and environmental scientists deploy autonomous systems, researchers have unveiled a decentralized algorithm that allows a network of robots to track more moving targets than there are robots in the network — a problem long considered one of the thorniest computational challenges in multi-robot coordination. The work, […]

Deep inside every jet engine, turbine blades endure one of the harshest environments in engineering. Spinning at tremendous speeds, exposed to extreme temperatures, intense pressures and violent vibrations, these components gradually degrade, with the blade crown in particular suffering from cracking and deformation because it sits farthest from the rotational axis and bears the greatest […]

Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame, an Nvidia rival and one of China's "four little dragons," made its Shanghai market debut.

Enflame Technology, one of the major challengers to Nvidia in China, saw its share price surge 188 per cent in its Shanghai trading debut on Friday, giving the Tencent Holdings-backed artificial intelligence chipmaker a market capitalisation of 176.4 billion yuan (US$26.3 million). The Shanghai-based company opened at 410 yuan, up from its issue price of 142.18 yuan. The performance reflects continued investor appetite for domestic AI chip champions, with Enflame being the last of China’s “four...

Cancer remains one of the most stubborn challenges in modern medicine, and despite decades of progress in surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy, a new review argues that a fundamentally different kind of technology could reshape how the disease is prevented, detected and treated. Writing in the journal Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, […]

For the growing number of patients diagnosed with small kidney tumors each year, cryoablation has become an attractive alternative to surgery. The minimally invasive procedure uses image-guided needles to freeze cancerous tissue in place, sparing patients a scalpel while preserving kidney function. Yet not every frozen tumor stays frozen. In a subset of cases, viable […]

Author(s): Michael SchirberA crystal with special geometric properties can be optically driven to produce an output beam with any desired polarization. [Physics 19, s113] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

Author(s): Klaus RichterTheorists find a persistent signature of a chaotic quantum system’s initial state, implying a memory effect—called a quantum birthmark—that resists thermodynamic equilibration. [Physics 19, 125] Published Thu Sep 10, 2026

To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special signal—the unique pattern of gamma rays emitted by specific radioactive elements. However, some of these elements also emit X-rays in the same energy range as the gamma-ray emissions, masking the signal and making nuclear stockpiles harder to assess.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips I'll show you evidence that humanoids are beginning to move beyond flashy demonstrations and into real factory work... The post Who Gets Paid When Musk Builds 10 Million Robots? appeared first on InvestorPlace.

A Contract Instead of a Regulation The American Federation of Teachers could not make Congress write rules for

Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft plans to expand its data center capacity from 12 GW today to 38+ GW by 2032, with about a third of the 38 GW centered on AI-specific chips  —  Shortages forced the company to turn away some AI and cloud business.  Now it's planning for 38 gigawatts of data center capacity to meet demand.

Copper has become the metal that the modern world cannot live without, and the pressure on mining companies to squeeze more of it out of progressively poorer ores has never been greater. Wind turbines, solar panels and electric vehicles all depend on the red metal, yet the high-grade sulfide deposits that historically supplied industry are […]

Apple chief John Ternus tells us how it feels to be CEO, what innovation looks like, and how excited he is about what comes next.

Upstate Medical University cardiologist Ankur Kalra helped lead a team of researchers that developed and tested a scoring system to help identify patients at high risk of bleeding into damaged heart muscle after a severe heart attack using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).

CISA’s ChatGPT incident exposes a growing AI governance gap as enterprises struggle to define who is accountable for actions taken by AI agents. The post CISA’s ChatGPT Incident Exposes a Bigger AI Governance Problem appeared first on TechRepublic.

Editing a plant's genes is only half the battle. Before a new, improved trait can ever reach a farmer's field, scientists must be able to grow a whole plant from just a few edited cells—a process that can be slow, unreliable and, for some plant species, impossible.

Kinesin is a molecular motor responsible for hauling essential cargoes within cells by walking step by step along filamentous tracks known as microtubules. To move efficiently and avoid falling off, the motor's two feet must coordinate their stepping in a precise direction. Scientists have known that a connecting segment called the neck region is crucial for coordinating this motion. However, its exact three-dimensional structure and how it physically interacts with the microtubule track have remained a mystery because of the limitations of current imaging techniques.

Scientists led by the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona and the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, have revealed the chemical reactions in nanoparticles that created a unique, shimmering effect in the painting on ninth-century Islamic ceramics. The results are published in Science Advances.

Over a decade ago, the Fermi satellite detected an excess of gamma-ray emissions in the galactic center. Potential explanations included Sgr. A*, the Milky Way's SMBH, pulsars, and even self-annihilating dark matter. There's no clear answer yet, since the region is so difficult to observe. But recent research shows that dark matter can't be ruled out.

Coal remains a cornerstone of the global energy supply even as renewables expand, and its extraction carries a hidden prize: methane, the main component of coal mine gas, which is simultaneously a potent greenhouse gas and a clean-burning fuel. A new study published in the Journal of Saudi Chemical Society shows that combining physics-based simulation […]

Within tiny halos of light clinging to a vanishingly thin wisp of optical fiber, scientist Jongmin Lee guides atoms like marbles through a narrow pipe. Rock the fiber and the atoms shift side by side; they just don't fall off. But don't be deceived by the seemingly delicate nature of his experiment. Lee is exploring how to measure motion precisely in rough-and-tumble environments.

WeRide, Uber and AVOMO have received Spain’s first national permit for Level 4 autonomous passenger vehicles on public roads, the three companies announced on Thursday. Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) issued it under its ES-AV framework for autonomous vehicles. Reuters also reported the permit. AVOMO is the autonomous vehicle division of the Moove Cars […] This story continues at The Next Web

China’s GEAIR 2.0 humanoid robot pollinates tomato flowers in under 10 seconds, combining AI, robotics and gene editing for crop breeding and farm automation. The post China’s GEAIR 2.0 Robot Pollinates Crops in Under 10 Seconds appeared first on TechRepublic.

South Korea will launch the 614-petaflop Hangang supercomputer in December, opening high-end compute to researchers, national projects, and companies. The post South Korea to Launch 614-Petaflop Supercomputer: What It Can Do appeared first on TechRepublic.

NVIDIA unveiled new AI for Media tools at IBC 2026 for real-time video upscaling, frame generation, synthetic-video detection and live broadcasting. The post NVIDIA Pushes AI Deeper Into Live Broadcasting With New Real-Time Video Tools appeared first on TechRepublic.

FDA regulators said they’re open to “innovative approaches” for studying the effects of psychedelic therapies, including the use of comparators other than placebo. The comments echo recently finalized regulatory guidance and signal ...

Quantum technologies are poised to transform fields ranging from medicine and sensing to computing and communications by manipulating the energy states of atoms and molecules. These manipulations are achieved by controlling quantum states with laser pulses.

Apple orchard robots are being developed by researchers at Cornell University to take on some of the most labor-intensive tasks in apple production. The four-year, $7.5 million USDA-funded project will explore ... Read More The post Apple Orchard Robots Target Labor Challenges appeared first on AgNet West.

Billy Joel says brain shunt surgery for normal pressure hydrocephalus has improved his memory and balance, but doctors have advised him to limit live performances during recovery.

Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta less than a year after he joined. His reported pay offer from the company had made him a symbol of the AI talent war. Reed Albergotti first reported the departure for Semafor on Wednesday, citing a person briefed on the matter. The Wall Street Journal followed on Thursday and reported […] This story continues at The Next Web

So far, quantum computers have been held back by their extreme sensitivity to errors and external disturbances. The longer a quantum operation takes, the greater the risk of computational errors.

Apple does seem to have tried to ensure its controversial Audio Intelligence feature isn’t abused. Alongside the iPhone Duo and new iPhone 18 Pro range, Apple on Wednesday introduced a new Apple Watch equipped with a brand new feature it calls Audio Intelligence. The existence of this surprising tool was confirmed only on the eve of the launch event. Enabled by the new S11 chip on the latest Watch devices, this is actually a collection of four features: Siri Recap, which creates high-level summaries of conversations during your day. Live Rewind, which transcribes the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as text. Music recognition, which relies on Shazam. Sound recognition, which can identify things like sirens or alarms. All of these features must be consciously enabled by the user and are not on by default. What

Microsoft has had to change how it reviews extensions... again... because of how frequently developers are submitting.