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Meta's Muse Spark Open targets developers with powerful open-weight AI, Apple silicon support, and new deployment options. Here's what IT teams should know. The post Meta Unveils Muse Spark Open, Its Most Powerful Open-Weight AI Yet appeared first on TechRepublic.

Nvidia introduces three Nemotron AI models, including a 120B-parameter system and two smaller Bolt models designed for local AI agents and enterprise tasks. The post Nvidia Launches Three Nemotron AI Models, Including Two for Local AI Agents appeared first on TechRepublic.

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: Filings: Meta reduced its $65M midterms budget by $25M through refunds, primarily from a super PAC it launched in 2025 with $45M to fight state AI bills  —  The company outlined a $65 million budget last year when it embarked on an effort to elect state politicians friendly to the A.I. industry.

A deep learning model small enough to fit in roughly three megabytes of memory has been trained to spot epileptic seizures in children directly from raw brain recordings, and its designers say the most revealing result is not the detection

Researchers have developed and tested a new locking method for gravitational wave detectors that will advance the discovery of distant black holes and neutron stars colliding.

Researchers have integrated two energy-monitoring libraries into a single runtime system that measures and optimizes power consumption for MPI applications across Intel and ARM supercomputer architectures with negligible overhead.

Atoms confined to a single line can bind into clusters called Bethe strings. A new experiment points to a mix of many such clusters, though the evidence is still indirect.

A Caltech-led team has shown that a recurrent neural operator can forecast irreversible tipping points in climate and aerodynamic models years in advance.

The Journal of Materials Science has retracted a 2013 paper on magnetic chitosan nanoparticles formed from coaxial-electrospun composite nanofibers after four patterns in Figure 3 were found to display overlapping noise signatures for separate materials. The authors were unable to provide raw data or respond to concerns, and none responded to the publisher regarding the retraction.

Researchers in India used Pergularia daemia leaf extract to synthesize titanium dioxide nanoparticles that inhibit multidrug-resistant bacteria, suppress biofilms, and promote angiogenesis, all while showing minimal toxicity in blood, chromosomal, and zebrafish embryo assays.

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Bloomberg: Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal, the largest security services company in the US …

A new review shows that hybrid deep learning and swarm-optimized AI models are achieving near-perfect prediction of lithium-ion battery charge, health, and remaining lifespan for electric vehicles and grid storage.

Researchers at Zhejiang University developed a two-stage training framework that uses temporary virtual forces to help humanoid robots learn highly dynamic, contact-rich motions, then removes the assistance to yield physically realistic controllers deployed on real hardware.

A new review highlights how chitosan and hyaluronic acid nanoparticles are being engineered into multifunctional platforms that combine photothermal therapy, targeted drug delivery, and real-time imaging to overcome the limitations of conventional cancer treatment.

A hybrid CNN-BiLSTM model with multi-head self-attention classifies five EEG brain states, including seizures, with 98.83 percent accuracy on a standard benchmark.

A systematic review finds that nanoparticles conjugated with fibroblast activation protein inhibitors show strong preclinical promise for targeted cancer imaging and therapy, but safety and translation data remain limited.

A CT-based multimodal radiogenomic model combining tumor imaging, perirenal fat features, and genetic data outperformed conventional risk stratification for clear cell renal cell carcinoma and may identify which patients benefit from adjuvant targeted therapy.

Researchers outline a comprehensive blueprint for building trustworthy foundation models that emulate expensive physics simulations on exascale supercomputers.

Researchers redesigned lipid nanoparticles to cut liver accumulation of locally injected mRNA by up to eighty-fold in mice while preserving expression at the injection site.

A new review details how micro- and nanoencapsulation technologies are overcoming the poor stability, solubility, and bioavailability of plant-derived bioactive compounds for food, pharmaceutical, and nutraceutical applications.

OpenAI this week announced deeper integration between ChatGPT and Google Chrome, including the ability to hand control over your tabs to the AI assistant. more…

Seven billion light-years from Earth, there is an unexpected cluster of galaxies. It has two regions in the process of colliding with each other with a combined mass of more than two quadrillion solar masses. Given its mass, the distant cluster has been nicknamed El Gordo, the Fat One. What makes it unusual is that it's extraordinarily large for that period of the universe. How did such a large supercluster form so early?

Google’s News AI Program Expands Google now pays more than 400 news publications for the right to turn

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove. Hubble captured the image as part of a survey looking at 260 satellite galaxies around 22 Milky Way–like host galaxies within a radius of about 32 million light-years from Earth. Hubble has already observed 111 of these satellite galaxies. The remaining galaxies will take an additional 149 Hubble orbits, one orbit for each galaxy, to observe.

A machine learning model combining a deep learning signature from spinal X-rays with clinical features accurately predicts short-term structural damage progression in axial spondyloarthritis.

Meta “streamlined” its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn it’s an AI power grab.

Indian workers are recording factory and household tasks to train AI robots, but concerns are growing over consent, exploitation, and future job losses.

Researchers report that cerium-doped strontium orthosilicate nanophosphors emit blue-green light at 468 nanometers, with concentration quenching governed by a dipole-dipole mechanism.

A University of Toronto-led team will use a $2.3 million Google.org award to build OpenPep, an open-access database and AI platform for predicting peptide-protein interactions in drug discovery.

Researchers have engineered chiral multiple quantum wells in halide perovskites that extend room-temperature spin coherence to about five nanoseconds through a spin cascade mechanism.

Researchers at the University of Connecticut show that increasing electrospinning collector speed from 1000 to 4000 rpm tightens PLLA nanofiber alignment and raises piezoelectric output from 3.37 to 5.92 pC/N.

Researchers in India found that adding as little as 1.5 weight percent of Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets to PVA/PEG polymer films lowers the indirect optical band gap from 5.17 to 3.28 electron-volts while non-monotonically tuning crystallinity, pointing to applications in flexible optoelectronics, sensing, and ultraviolet shielding.

Penicillin has cured syphilis cases since 1943, but symptoms of the sexually transmitted infection, known as "the great imitator," mimic many other diseases and can come and go without treatment while the infection keeps causing harm. If it remains undetected, it can spread to partners and to babies during pregnancy, causing lifelong effects.

Neutrinos come in three different flavors. A new study finds that neutrino flavor could play a significant role in whether a dying star becomes a supernova or collapses directly into a black hole.

To build faster and more energy-efficient computers, researchers need to understand nanoscale magnetic materials. But looking inside these tiny magnets is surprisingly difficult: Modern microscopes only measure the magnetic field outside the material, not the magnetic pattern inside. Because many different internal patterns can produce the exact same field, working backwards has long been a challenge.

Omega-3 fatty acids have long been celebrated for their anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial properties, but their Achilles heel has always been the same: they oxidize rapidly when exposed to light, oxygen, or heat, losing their therapeutic potency before they can do

Welcome to the week Apple became even more serious about artificial intelligence on Macs, with the company continuing to make moves to deliver the tech in the most cost effective, responsible way. While it’s true that today isiPhone Duo pre-order day, that’s arguably not really the big news. It is not the big news because Apple this week made huge steps in AI. Not only has it come up with a nifty tool to turn Macs into distributed inferencing data centers; not only does it now have a plan for Apple Intelligence in China; but it has also worked with Meta to make it possible to run on-premises instances of Muse Spark Open on a couple of Mac Studios. While working on that, its machine learning team also introduced a new version of MLX that enables AI researchers and developers to run large language models (LLMs) locally on Mac Studio with Apple silicon. What’s new to MLX from

A chain of vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser could have enabled researchers to take control of one billion Windows machines worldwide — and it cost them just $40,000 in AI compute time to discover it. Researchers at Xbow USA worked for six days on developing the exploit, which earned them a $250,000 bug bounty from Google, the first under the new 2026 rules. They chose OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol for the task to demonstrate what’s possible with a publicly available model rather than a specialist security implementation. They used it to search Chrome’s source code, test ideas, and build proofs of concept, while they set the strategy, chose where to look, and checked its work. They successfully chained together a vulnerability to escape first from the sandbox containing the V8

Google announced new Android scam defences on 14 October, led by an opt-in Enhanced protection mode in Google Messages that uses Gemini models in the cloud. Android will also end fake bank calls, hide login fields in Chrome during screen sharing, and block apps from silently forwarding calls. Google is adding new AI tools to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google hands out extended free trials to its AI Pro subscription frequently with new smartphone purchases and more, but trial users end up getting less access compared to paid subscribers in what is a bit of a misleading situation. more…

The El Gordo supercluster is unusually large given its distance. How could such a large galaxy cluster form so quickly? The answer could be that dark matter is self-interacting in an interesting two-state way.

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The researchers in the Quantum Detection Microscopy group at CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with chemists at CiQUS of the University of Santiago de Compostela, have demonstrated that adding or removing a single molecule from a quantum chain can fundamentally change its interaction with a superconductor.

A new diffusion-based framework called PACE-DP predicts how interaction relationships between two robotic arms and objects will evolve, delivering higher success rates on coordination-intensive bimanual tasks with only marginal computational overhead.

Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train" its AI products. The new policy applies to business accounts that promote their content across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger. As pointed out by Nieman Lab, these terms seem to allow Meta to bypass a licensing agreement and train its AI models on content posted by online publishers. Meta has foll … Read the full story at The Verge.

Researchers in Serbia have built and validated a modular collaborative robotic workstation that combines foundation-model perception with safe human-robot collaboration to sort small-batch packaging waste for the circular economy.

Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have developed an AI model that analyzes a person's DNA to better identify genetic risk factors for stroke, paving the way for more personalized risk assessments.

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's browser integration, enabling users to query open tabs and, with extra permissions and setup, complete tasks on supported websites.

Amazon's $75 Bee Frontier includes free AI notes, but longer memory costs extra. Here's what Bee Pro's $11.99 monthly plan unlocks. The post Amazon’s $75 Bee Frontier Includes Free AI Notes — Here’s What $11.99 a Month Adds appeared first on TechRepublic.

CERN and French AI company Mistral signed a statement of intent on 15 October to build a “Large Physics Model“, which CERN calls the first foundation model for collider physics. It will be trained on simulated Large Hadron Collider data to help reconstruct and identify particles. No budget or timeline was disclosed. CERN and Mistral […] This story continues at The Next Web

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Astronomers have discovered a star being torn apart by a massive black hole more than 1,000 parsecs from the center of its host galaxy. The tidal disruption event, TDE 2023mfm, was first discovered by ZTF and then studied with a wide range of telescopes, including Keck, Lick, Hubble, Swift, Chandra, XMM-Newton and the VLA. The discovery paper was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept. 28.

Germany plans to announce an agreement with Nvidia next week to help its industry make more use of AI, Handelsblatt reported. The sources said the deal will be a big boost for AI in industry, and that other partners besides Nvidia will join. The German government has not commented publicly, and we have not independently […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops, which launched on Friday, are built to run AI agents on the laptop itself. Users can install agents such as GitHub Copilot, Hermes, OpenClaw and Perplexity from the first start-up, without a command line, Nvidia said. Each laptop runs on a single superchip that pairs a Blackwell RTX graphics chip with […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University have developed a way to observe how antibodies interact with a cancer-related protein carried on tiny membrane-bound vesicles released by cells. Using high-speed atomic force microscopy, they found that measuring how much of the protein is present does not necessarily show how accessible it is to antibodies. The findings reported in the journal Small Methods provide a new way to investigate differences between individual cancer-derived vesicles although further research is needed before the approach can be used clinically.

The Surface Laptop Ultra is a true MacBook Pro competitor for Windows, and Microsoft has never been so close to dethroning Apple—if only it weren't for the lack of battery life.

New research illustrates the rapid rise of clinicians’ use of AI to answer medical questions despite little evidence of how it affects decision-making or patient outcomes. Researchers studied usage data from OpenEvidence, an AI search ...

Scientists have discovered that black holes of vastly different sizes appear to launch powerful jets according to the same universal rule. The breakthrough could explain why some black holes suddenly erupt years after devouring a star and help astronomers predict when these spectacular outbursts will happen.

Yale scientists have uncovered how the stress hormone cortisol helps the brain turn emotional experiences into stronger, longer-lasting memories. The discovery reveals that stress can reshape communication between brain networks involved in emotion and memory, potentially explaining why certain moments are so difficult to forget.

Scientists discovered that atomic steps just one atom high can guide quantum vortices through superconductors, making them move more than 1,000 times more easily in one direction than another. This remarkable control over quantum motion could lead to a new generation of ultra-efficient superconducting electronics.

Amazon’s New Bee AI Devices Promise a colleague a report by Friday, forget about it, and a $75

Elon Musk praised AI music at X Takeover and described 'cyber psychosis', raising questions about what he meant and how AI shapes creativity.

Glimpses of the "gallium anomaly" were first seen in the mid-1990s, but it was first clearly discovered and stated in 2007 by neutrino physicist Carlo Giunti of Italy. The problem is simple to state but potentially very important: about 20% fewer electron neutrinos were seen to be captured by gallium nuclei than expected.

Claire chatted to Rika Antonova from the University of Cambridge about using artificial intelligence to develop complimentary robot hardware and algorithms. Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include co-design, automated algorithm discovery, data-efficient reinforcement learning, exploration, active learning, and​ robotics. After completing a research Master’s degree at […]

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: US candidates and PACs, mostly tied to Republicans, have spent $137M+ on 220 AI-generated campaign ads in 2026; ~70% of the 220 videos didn't disclose AI use  —  Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.

A new study shows that doping zinc oxide nanoparticles with silver simultaneously increases their hardness and elastic moduli while boosting dielectric constant, conductivity, and capacitance, revealing a direct correlation between mechanical strength and electrical performance.

Researchers at the University of Virginia show that AWS Lambda functions using direct TCP hole-punching communication achieve scaling efficiency within 6.5 percent of EC2 virtual machines for distributed machine learning data processing.

Faraday Future and FF EAI Robotics Ecosystem launched two humanoid robots on 15 October: the $2,490 FF Nova for developers and schools, and the $299 FF Nova Mini for children. Nova’s first 100 units are invitation-only. The launch follows FFR’s agreement to buy FF’s robotics business in a $200M all-stock deal. Faraday Future and its […] This story continues at The Next Web

arXiv:2610.21505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world video denoising for communication systems must handle mixed degradations such as sensor noise, compression artifacts, and motion-induced inconsistency while remaining deployable under tight latency budgets. Purely deep models often achieve high accuracy but come with significant computational cost, whereas classical filters are robust and efficient but insufficiently adaptive. We present FilterFusion, a prior-guided multi-frame denoising framework that combines temporally-aware learned features with an interpretable bank of denoising branches. The model predicts a low-cost guidance signal and uses it to adaptively mix a compact set of denoising responses at the original resolution. The lightweight design uses only 109K parameters and explicitly injects temporal variance and spatial variance cues into the low-resolution controller. On CRVD (real sensor noise), it reaches 34.72 dB PSNR and 0.9330 SSIM with only 0.18 GFLOPs

Among online GLP-1 users taking compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide, about two thirds say they use a brand name drug, but photos of their medication show otherwise.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Kim Kyu-ha has called for the deployment of robots and drones for dangerous missions in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), saying he raised the idea with the top U.S. commander in Korea, following a land mine explosion that injured three South Korean soldiers last month. Kim said Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander of U.S. Forces Korea, agreed that unmanned systems could help keep troops out of harm’s way, although both commanders recognized the risks of operating them near the inter-Korean border. “After the incident, I told Gen. Brunson that sending our personnel into the DMZ involves dangers and difficulties, and that robots and drones should go in instead,” Kim said at an Army policy briefing at the Yangpyeong General Training Ground in Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday. “He agreed,” Kim said, adding that they also shared the view that the systems must be thoroughly tested before deployment. On Sept. 21, three South Korean service members were injured when a North Korean

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Reuters: Chinese state media: during an interview, Tim Cook says China has approved Apple Intelligence, and a test version will arrive in late October without Siri AI  —  Apple's (AAPL.O) chairman Tim Cook said Apple Intelligence has been approved in China and a test version is due later in October …

A Columbia Nursing survey of 1,185 U.S. adults found that 63 percent would not endorse AI-generated medical responses without clinician review, though most accepted fast AI replies for logistical tasks.

A new review in PhotoniX Life maps how deep learning is improving fluorescence microscopy across imaging quality, speed, throughput and biological analysis while warning that reliable AI-assisted imaging demands physics-informed models and rigorous validation.

A first-of-its-kind benchmark from the Technical University of Munich compares algorithms for optimizing industrial robot base placement, finding that an Adam-based gradient method solves the most real-world tasks while genetic algorithms deliver the fastest cycles.

Researchers have combined conflict-based search with model predictive control to let four autonomous magnetic movers plan and execute collision-free paths in real time, passing all ten test scenarios and shrugging off deliberate disruptions on a planar drive demonstrator.

A deep learning model called DROID-RV measures right ventricular size and function from routine echocardiograms and predicts mortality, atrial fibrillation and heart failure risk.

A new review highlights how electrospun hydrogen-rich polymer nanofiber composites could deliver lightweight, multifunctional radiation shielding for long-duration lunar and Mars missions.

A prospective two-phase observer-performance study found that a confidence-aware AI system with a radiologist-editable interface improved radiologists' accuracy and agreement in distinguishing the two most common benign parotid tumors on ultrasound.

A spatiotemporal attention network that reads fNIRS blood-oxygen signals while patients listen to music classifies levels of consciousness with 88.72 percent accuracy, outperforming traditional and single-stream deep-learning methods.

The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened the city’s first experimental hub for embodied artificial intelligence on Thursday with the participation of seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including industry leaders Unitree Robotics and Galbot, as the city looks to carve out a role in the global robotics boom. Located at the HKPC Building in Kowloon Tong, the Embodied AI International Applications Hub, housed under the HKPC’s industrial AI and robotics centre, features simulated...

A compact deep learning model that mathematically separates normal machining signals from anomalous disturbances has set new benchmarks for predicting CNC tool wear and failure.

A six-week Japanese study found that encouragement from both a human partner and the social robot RoBoHoN was linked to improved well-being in older adults, with robots showing stronger effects on daily emotional balance and humans on life satisfaction.

Researchers propose combining deep learning with organism-based ecology and new sensory instruments to build AI models capable of forecasting how ecological communities will change.

A neuro-fuzzy risk index that fuses braking demand and inter-vehicle gap helped a simulated Level 3 autonomous car detect lane-change hazards nearly a full second earlier than time-to-collision thresholds while achieving zero collisions across 1,000 randomized simulations.

A new Frontiers perspective details how the BiotrAIn project, a partnership between EMBL-EBI, the University of Costa Rica, and CABANAnet, trained hundreds of Latin American bioscientists in AI while exposing the structural barriers still holding the region back.

A new review argues that nanocomposite membranes infused with silver, titanium dioxide, graphene oxide, and metal-organic frameworks can overcome the fouling, energy, and nutrient trade-offs that limit wastewater reuse in agriculture.

Microsoft AI: Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base  —  In June, we announced MAI-Thinking-1, a general-purpose foundation model post-trained on top of MAI-Base-1 with strong reasoning performance.

A new hierarchical reinforcement learning framework pairing DDQN and DDPG cuts collision rates by more than half and reduces passenger jerk in complex simulated traffic.

Author(s): Roman A. Syrovatka, Vadim N. Naumkin, Andrey M. Lipaev, Alexandr D. Usachev, Mikhail M. Vasiliev, Oleg F. Petrov, and Andrey V. ZobninInteractions in a plasma between microparticles of two different diameters are investigated. In these experiments, the smaller microparticles form a layer above the larger microparticles in the plasma sheath, and three-dimensional trajectories are determined from videos. The authors deduce ion-wake forces and microparticle charges from the measured oscillation frequencies. #WellStructured [Phys. Rev. E 114, 045207] Published Thu Oct 15, 2026

The tech giants are racing to turn AI devices into must-have gifts and get them on store shelves before the holiday rush.

Indian researchers used papaya latex to synthesize cadmium oxide nanoparticles that show antibacterial, antifungal, anticancer, and photocatalytic activity in laboratory tests.

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InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips AI infrastructure financing is expanding as Wall Street turns GPU-backed loans and long-term contracts into new data center capacity. The post What SpaceX’s $40 Billion Nvidia Chip Plan Says About the AI Boom appeared first on InvestorPlace.