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The FDA's TEMPO pilot now lists four devices, including an AI voice agent delivering therapy to Medicare patients without premarket authorization.

Google added Lyria 3.5, its most advanced AI music model, to the Gemini app, letting users generate full songs from text prompts or photos.

Cockroach milk, kissing evolution and the underwear soil test were among the unusual real studies honored at the Ig Nobel ceremony in Zurich.

Artificial intelligence has transformed biomedical research over the past decade, but most AI systems in biology remain confined to narrow tasks, single data types, or one biological scale at a time. A new Perspective article published in Advanced Science proposes a radical conceptual remedy: a hypothetical “Full-Body AI Agent,” a supervisory multi-agent framework designed to […]

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Bottlenecks have an interesting economic consequence. When everybody desperately needs the same scarce thing, the people who control it gain enormous leverage. The post Why Elon Musk Does NOT Want You to Know About These AI Bottlenecks appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Researchers have completely suppressed superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by screening interactions between electrons, helping resolve a long-running debate about the origin of the phenomenon.

Jonathan Randles / Bloomberg: Filing: AI training data startup Micro1 offers to pay $12.5M for Spirit Airlines' data; the offer faces hurdles as Spirit already has a $10M deal with Google  —  An artificial intelligence startup is attempting to wrest away a vast trove of Spirit Aviation Holdings Inc.'s business records from Google LLC.

Robots that crawl along steel walls to inspect ships, storage tanks, bridges, and pipelines have long faced a stubborn trade-off: the stronger the magnetic grip that keeps them attached, the harder it becomes for them to lift a wheel or leg over an obstacle. A team of researchers at Wuhan University of Science and Technology […]

Robot.com's R-dog uses articulated legs and wheels to climb stairs and deliver packages, while its built-in screens display paid ads along the route.

The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $10M and proposing an ombudsman chosen by Spirit’s advisers rather than the buyer. European law would treat the deidentification promise as a question about capability rather than a label, but none of it applies to an American liquidation. An […] This story continues at The Next Web

Bloomberg: Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is in talks to raise as much as $3.5B in financing, including $2B from Nvidia, ahead of a planned IPO  —  Nscale, a cloud computing firm focused on artificial intelligence, is in talks with potential investors to raise as much as $3.5 billion …

A joint research team from NIMS and the University of Tokyo has developed a new composite in which three-dimensional nano-interfaces are distributed throughout the material by coating the surfaces of magnetic-insulator powders with a metal and sintering them. Using this structure, the team succeeded in observing thermoelectric conversion driven by spins in an insulator, a phenomenon previously observed only at nanoscale thin-film interfaces, in a macroscale material.

Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point and about $2B from Nvidia. It is briefing investors that its contracts total roughly $103B, most of the increase coming from a $45B Anthropic deal that Microsoft and Google both passed on. […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI Overviews are changing branded search. Learn why healthcare organizations may need branded PPC to protect visibility, reduce confusion, and help patients find them.

Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump in mid-August, Politico reports. The two options still on the table are a FINRA-style body funded by the firms it would oversee and an MPA-style voluntary ratings scheme, so the debate is over how much self-regulation rather […] This story continues at The Next Web

Augmented reality (AR) glasses, lenses thinner than a human hair, and holograms floating above your fingertips may sound like technologies from science fiction. At the heart of these emerging technologies, however, lies a nanoscale optical device known as a "metasurface."

Something strange is happening in the way humanity talks about its greatest crisis. While greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere and global temperatures continue their relentless climb, researchers across multiple disciplines are documenting an equally significant phenomenon: the words, metaphors, and narrative frames we use to comprehend climate change are proving inadequate to the task. […]

Researchers have unveiled a new class of hollow gold nanocavities that can selectively amplify specific excitonic transitions in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide, offering a geometry-based route to control how these remarkable two-dimensional semiconductors absorb and emit light. Writing in the journal Results in Physics, Abdullah Efe Yildiz and Emre Ozan Polat present detailed finite-difference time-domain […]

Google has made Lyria 3.5 available in the Gemini app and API, generating full songs at 44.1kHz from text or images with SynthID watermarking. A Munich court ruled against Suno on 31 July over memorised works and infringing outputs, asserting jurisdiction over training done outside the EU. Google has put its Lyria 3.5 music model […] This story continues at The Next Web

Discover the top stories from Aug. 29 to Sept. 4, 2026, including how recreational drugs may be linked to stroke risk even in younger users and the surprising diet of an invasive spider in Georgia.

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos.  Tom and I have known each other for a long time — he was the chief technology officer …

Australian researchers have uncovered what happens behind the scenes in our brain when we’re faced with a predictable

Minisforum unveiled the NAS N5 Max-P495 and MS-S1 Max-P945 at IFA 2026. The NAS and mini-PC are powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, which can be configured with up to 192GB of unified memory and packs a Radeon 8065S integrated GPU.

IT industry experts and analysts are still trying to piece together Nvidia’s surprise plan to pay $12.9 billion for open-source AI company Hugging Face. Nvidia dominates AI with its GPUs, and the company generates billions of dollars in revenue through a proprietary approach to the fast-moving technology. Hugging Face, on the other hand, hosts open models and has been a neutral player between chip vendors and model labs. “This is about Nvidia having more say in how the stack gets built,” said Stephanie Walter, analyst at Hyperframe Research. Hugging Face is wildly popular with developers, and Nvidia is buying early influence with that crowd. “You have a better chance of being part of the production environment later,” Walter said, adding that she wasn’t sure how Nvidia reached a

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Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the UK’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode one on a wet morning this week and summarised the experience for Bloomberg as autonomous rides with hands still […] This story continues at The Next Web

Elon Musk's estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, fronts Desigual's anti-AI campaign, challenging tech, championing creatives, and urging LGBTQ+ voters to act.

The key to finding more critical minerals may lie in understanding how fluids and chemicals move through rock. As these fluids travel underground, they can dissolve, transport and concentrate valuable minerals in specific places.

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India in the next 3-4 years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics  —  Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans …

Pulsar Timing Arrays have been used to observe the background of gravitational waves in our galaxy. We aren't certain of their origin, but a new study shows a strong source could be early supermassive giants known as dark stars.

Mohammad Akraminia noted that Tehran does not rule out the possibility of conducting preventive operations in the event of threats

The rise of AI-assisted shopping during this year's back-to-school season may be an early window into evolving consumer buying habits.

The Netflix exclusive gameplay trailer pulled in 30m views in four days. What more can we learn about the most-anticipated title of the 21st century?

A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA's Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even snap photos more than a week after the rescue was abandoned.

The rise of AI-assisted shopping during this year's back-to-school season may be an early window into evolving consumer buying habits.

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Tesla is rolling out a new version of its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software that can take control of your car to avoid a crash, even when you’re driving manually. The automaker announced the feature, part of FSD Supervised v14.3.9, in a post from its AI team early Friday. more…

Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. Released as a beta, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR) connects devices running Windows, macOS or Linux to process AI inferencing workloads privately. While the system is aimed primarily at home users, it could find favour with enterprises looking to put idle desktop compute capacity to use. PAIR works with DGX Spark desktop supercomputers, PCs containing RTX GPUs, and some MacOS devices. The systems in the cluster run tasks in parallel, but PAIR does not turn them into a virtual GPU, Nvidia said. The beta version of Nvidia PAIR is available for download now.

Tesla launches its purpose-built Cybercab in Austin, Texas but its one million Robotaxi miles look tiny next to Waymo.

A Chinese defence industry research facility has unveiled what it calls the world’s first wheeled and legged robot guide dog for visually impaired people, in an example of the sector’s push into a growing range of civilian applications. Hangzhou-based Zhiyuan Research Institute, affiliated with China North Industries Group, the country’s largest defence contractor, launched the robot, dubbed Xiaoyuan, on Friday at the China Care and Rehabilitation Expo in Beijing. Equipped with wheels for smooth...

Predicting mortality risk in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is a crucial part of medical treatment, and recent research has found artificial intelligence could help clinicians make more efficient and accurate decisions.

Our 15 favorite innovations from the enormous IFA 2026 tech exhibition

UCLA researchers have discovered two powerful influences that help guide how the human brain forms before birth. Radial glia, stem cells responsible for producing much of the cerebral cortex, change their behavior depending on how they process glucose and on physical contact with signals arriving from the thalamus. Those signals can alter which types of neurons are produced, including upper-layer neurons that are especially prominent in humans.

The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected. Scientists are not claiming a discovery yet, but additional data could show whether this single mysterious event is the first hint of a long-sought dark matter particle.

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Prom is one of the most exciting events on the school calendar for many high school seniors.

Gmail Live, Keep Live and Docs Live are here for AI subscribers to interact with their emails and create new notes by just their voice.

Federal and state regulators are drawing new boundaries around medical AI, from how the tools are vetted to who bears responsibility when they fail.

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Google gives Gemini agentic video understanding, cutting token use and analysis costs by selectively inspecting the most relevant parts of videos. The post Google Gemini Can Now Decide Which Parts of a Video Matter appeared first on TechRepublic.

Explore the Honor Robot Phone’s 200MP gimbal camera, flagship specs, China pricing, key trade-offs, and whether this experimental phone is worth buying. The post Honor Robot Phone Cheat Sheet: Specs, Price and Who Should Buy It appeared first on TechRepublic.

An image from NASA Worldview shows how brittle Arctic sea ice is becoming due to global warming, with large patches of open water visible near the North Pole on Aug. 29.

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Nvidia becomes a leading global strategic tech backer, with the value of its equity investments up 10x in the past year to $99B, as it bolsters the AI sector  —  Nvidia has become one of the world's largest corporate backers of tech companies as the value of its equity investments soared …

Prescription renewal systems raise liability and safety questions when clots may signal a catastrophic prognosis, and the merits of writing clinical notes.

According to a new research report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight, the humanoid robotics industry has entered an early phase of long-term commercial growth.

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Sanders and Casar want to ban superintelligent AI and jail violators for 20 years, comparing it to nuclear crimes, days after OpenAI said its new model may already be AGI.

Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonA precisely engineered material interface can host the spin currents needed for practical spin-based electronics. [Physics 19, s108] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Researchers developed modular organ-targeting metal-phenolic network coatings that altered where diverse nanoparticles accumulated after intravenous administration in mice. By tuning metal ions, phenolic ligands, and PEG molecular weight, the researchers redirected nanoparticles toward the lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain while preserving functional mRNA delivery in coated lipid nanoparticles.

arXiv:2609.03520v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In conditional coding-based neural video compression, the quality of temporal context directly affects compression per- formance. Existing methods mostly construct context from prop- agated reference features, but they are vulnerable to motion esti- mation and local alignment errors in regions with complex mo- tion, occlusion, and high-frequency textures, resulting in inaccu- rate temporal information. To address this issue, this paper pro- poses a method combining deformable temporal alignment and difference-aware spatial selective fusion. A Context-aware Tem- poral Alignment Module is used to generate complementary tem- poral context, while a Difference-aware Spatial Selective Fusion module adaptively selects reliable temporal information and sup- presses misalignment. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves certain rate-distortion performance improve- ment over DCVC-DC.

Stress-induced fracture has long been recognized as one of the primary culprits behind the degradation of positive electrode active materials in lithium-based batteries, quietly undermining the performance of everything from electric vehicle packs to grid-scale storage systems. Each time a cell is charged and discharged, the cathode particles inside swell and contract, generating mechanical stresses […]

Author(s): Yuxuan Zhang, Shuo Qiao, Anliang Lu, Xiaohui Sun, Jun Lyu, Jinlong Du, Yang Lu, and Lin YangStrain-gradient engineering provides a doping-free route to modulate broadband optical emission in microfabricated diamond. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 106201] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

Author(s): A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)The first search for production of a Higgs boson along with a pair of vector bosons yields constraints on Higgs self-coupling constants. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 101806] Published Thu Sep 03, 2026

LG will bring together its top technology executives with representatives from Nvidia, Google, Amazon and Microsoft at a two-week artificial intelligence event running Sept. 7-17 at LG Science Park, the company's research and development hub in southwestern Seoul's Magok area, the company said. The event, called LG SPARK 2026, began in 2018 as a series of internal events for LG affiliates to share R&D progress and was consolidated in 2023 into a single festival combining technology, culture and the arts. It drew about 60,000 attendees last year and has grown into LG's largest annual event. This year's edition has been reorganized to spread examples of AI transformation (AX) across the group. The festival opens Sept. 7-8 with a Tech Fair showcasing 41 new technologies, including 13 developed jointly across LG affiliates in physical AI, AI data centers and mobility, and 28 additional technologies in AI, biotechnology and clean technology — three areas Chairman Koo Kwang-mo has designated

H&L Advanced, the first integrated entity created under South Korea’s petrochemical industry restructuring drive, has officially launched. HD Hyundai Chemical merged with Lotte Daesan Petrochemical and changed its name to H&L Advanced, holding an official launch ceremony on Sept. 4 at the Daesan pla

Lan Xiaohuan is a professor of economics at China Europe International Business School. His book, How China Works: An Introduction to China’s State-led Economic Development, has sold millions of copies in China and has been translated into multiple languages. Here, he discusses the economic realities behind China’s record trade surplus, the case for a stronger social safety net, and how public data infrastructure shapes the artificial intelligence race with the United States. SCMP Plus readers...

Garlic and sweet flag, two plants with centuries of use in traditional medicine, have now been fused into a single nanoparticle platform that kills bacteria, neutralizes oxidative stress, and devastates mosquito larvae while showing markedly lower toxicity to soil organisms than commercial synthetic pesticides. In a study published in Applied Nanoscience, researchers report the green […]

Researchers in Turkey have engineered an electrospun nanofiber wound dressing that closes nearly all of a full-thickness wound within two weeks, and their results suggest the material could become a new tool for treating injuries sustained in chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) incidents. The study, published in Polymer Bulletin by Nilay Tufan, Halis Uğuz, […]

Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor  —  Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing …

In a development that could reshape how clinicians manage one of the most stubborn problems in wound care, a team of researchers in China has engineered a “smart” wound dressing modeled on the hexagonal architecture of a honeycomb. The dressing, described in a new open-access paper in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, does something conventional […]

An international collaboration of researchers has used ANSTO's facilities to uncover new properties of one of the most fundamental everyday materials, water, and answer an important scientific question. The findings, published in Nature Communications, have practical implications for understanding water at very low temperatures. The findings are relevant to cryopreservation of biological materials, food-freezing technologies and understanding water in living cells, where it is often confined at the nanoscale.

WashU Medicine surgeons report the first robotic combined liver-kidney transplant, replacing a 16-inch incision with one of about three inches.

Molecular dynamics simulations have revealed how nickel–palladium core–shell nanoparticles melt, fuse, and—crucially—emerge from the process stronger and more ductile than either of their pure-metal building blocks. The study, published in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research by Taslima Hossain Sanjana, Sadia Afrin, and Mohammad Nasim Hasan of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Bangladesh University of […]

A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and boxes leaving the building. Most days, nobody has a reason to watch any of it. The footage only becomes useful when a package goes missing, an accident happens or somebody needs to work backwards from an […] This story continues at The Next Web

The latest first-party app that Gemini Spark can control is Google Photos. The personal agent can “handle complex, multi-stage workflows” with your library. more…

With the rapid spread of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and data centers, global energy consumption is rising to new heights. A promising way to reduce this burden is to develop memory devices that store information magnetically yet are written using electric fields. Magnetic memories are nonvolatile, meaning stored information is retained without a power supply.

A flash detected by the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector in South Dakota intrigues physicists, offering a potential hint of dark matter, though alternative explanations remain possible.

Nvidia locked in an October 2026 launch for RTX Spark, detailing two N1X chip configurations built for Windows-on-Arm gaming.

The Hubble Space Telescope spied a large atmospheric phenomenon on Saturn: a decagon surrounding the south pole.

Cross-disciplinary research at Perimeter Institute and University of Maryland shows that dark photons could be lurking in more places than previously thought.

Cilia are tiny, whip-like filaments that line many of the body’s internal passages, and when they beat in coordinated waves they can push fluid along without any external pump. Now, a team of researchers has built one of the most complete mathematical models yet of how such cilia-driven pumping moves blood laced with engineered nanoparticles […]

Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at quantum scales.

WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.

The 346-MW Gibson City Solar Project, developed by Earthrise Energy and constructed by Burns & McDonnell, achieved commercial operation in Illinois using Earthrise Energy’s surplus interconnection strategy. By connecting through the existing switchyard of an adjacent gas-fired peaking facility, the project leveraged available grid capacity rather than requiring a new interconnection, illustrating one approach to accelerating… The post Illinois solar project uses terrain-following trackers, installation robots to reduce engineering effort appeared first on Solar Power World.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy. At just 160,000 light-years away, the LMC offers a close look at highly active star-forming sites like the one in this image. This photogenic nebula, named LHA 120-N44, or N44, is in the constellation Dorado.

Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its support for competing models, clouds, and hardware platforms.

Nvidia’s new PAIR software turns every idle PC in your house into a shared AI cluster, free, open-source, and live in beta starting today.

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Microsoft AI debuts MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech recognition model that it says beats Gemini 3.5 Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, at $0.10/audio hour through 2026  —  Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.  —  That figure deserves a pause. … Thursday's early-bird price cuts that by roughly 72%.

Politico: A White House official says Zuckerberg opposed a US AI regulator in a call with Trump last month; another source says he didn't ask Trump to change his stance  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed concerns about plans for a national AI regulator in a previously unreported phone call …

Ten research teams were honored Thursday at a satirical science awards ceremony that was hosted outside the U.S. for the first time due to travel concerns.

Lenovo’s new Yoga Pro laptops use Nvidia RTX Spark to deliver powerful local AI performance for creators, developers, gamers and 3D professionals.

The color of penguin poop, as seen from space, is offering a new window into how Antarctica's ecology and environment are changing over time.

Mayo Clinic researchers tested an approach that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help people without previous ultrasound experience capture heart images and identify patients who may have a common and serious heart valve condition.

A compound found in certain mushrooms prevents nerve damage during chemotherapy