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Korean entertainment technology startup Galaxy Corp. said Monday it has opened a robot performance arena in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), its second such venue after the one set up in Korea. Galaxy Corp. partnered with Dubai-based Emaar Entertainment and Reel Cinemas to open Galaxy Robot Arena at Dubai Mall, the world's largest shopping mall by total area. At the launch event on Friday (local time), humanoid robots performed synchronized dances to K-pop and Middle Eastern music. Robots dressed as astronauts bearing the flags of Korea and the UAE also appeared, symbolizing bilateral cooperation, according to the company. Galaxy Corp. opened its first robot-themed park in Seoul in August and launched a promotional campaign in New York's Times Square last month. The company plans to bring its robot arenas to Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore as part of its strategy to expand its global presence in physical artificial intelligence (AI) entertainment.

As the U.S. government tightens national security reviews of foreign-made mobile robots, a South Korean robotics company has cleared a key regulatory hurdle, potentially strengthening its position in the North American market.T-Robotics, a South Korean company specializing in logistics and manufactu

A team of physicists from several universities in the Netherlands and the UK have developed one- and two-dimensional

Leslie Pickett says an AI-powered scammer posing as Jon Bon Jovi took more than $10,000 from her after months of personalised messages, videos and false promises.

The warning comes as Gartner forecasts that more than 80% of specialist cloud providers will cease operating independently by 2030.

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Amazon Bee Frontier review: a simple $75 AI wearable that excels at always-on listening, summarizing conversations, and suggesting follow-up actions  —  Amazon's quiet, listening AI wearable is also pretty killer?  —  I'm not sure people really understand what is coming with AI and wearables.

Financial Times: A look at Toyota's robotics expansion, including its Walden spinoff and a $6.4B annual plan to deploy 400K factory robots, as it competes with Tesla and China  —  Japanese group uses 20 years of research to commercialise intelligent robots  —  Toyota is setting its sights on becoming …

Scientists have discovered a way to operate multiple silicon qubits simultaneously with remarkable accuracy, overcoming a major challenge in scaling up quantum computers. Their new technique maintained accuracy of approximately 99.9% even when all five qubits were running at once, opening the door to larger and more powerful quantum processors.

Are China’s increasingly powerful open-weight AI models a cybersecurity threat, or could restricting them ultimately make the internet less secure? The dilemma has become a growing concern as Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Z.ai and Alibaba Group Holding – owner of the South China Morning Post – continue to challenge their American rivals by releasing models that anyone can download, modify and deploy. The growing impact of advanced AI on global cybersecurity has also forced governments...

While few dispute that China is narrowing the gap with the United States in developing artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is one area where Chinese firms are already the undisputed leaders: video. China has seen a proliferation of advanced generative AI video models – systems trained on visual data to generate or edit video content based on user inputs such as text prompts, images and audio. The country’s vast short-video ecosystems and looser copyright rules have helped give Chinese...

Elon Musk said in an X post that SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to purchase GPUs.

Elon Musk said in an X post that SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to purchase GPUs.

Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Israelis of a 'second Holocaust' if they elect a leader unable to confront Iran, accompanying the message with an AI-generated image of a nuclear explosion over Tel Aviv.

A combined numerical and machine-learning study simulates Williamson–Casson hybrid nanofluid flow over a curved stretching sheet, reporting a 19.05 percent rise in skin friction and a 15.83 percent gain in heat transfer when copper nanoparticles join alumina in water.

Many people across the business world are finding AI useful, but that doesn't mean it's making a wider impact on society – at least not yet

A laboratory study found that copper nanoparticles in a carbazole copolymer produced smaller threshold-voltage intervals, greater three-state current contrast and stable resistance states for more than three hours and 10^4 cycles.

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: Elon Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in GPU debt, debt markets have shut off credit for AI data center firms, and 200+ neoclouds face “death and consolidation”  —  Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn't have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we're investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means...

Researchers at Technical University of Munich published “NN-Based Transistor Modeling for Ultra-Fast SPICE Simulation and Standard Cell Library Characterization.” Abstract: “Neural network (NN)-based transistor models have proven to be a promising solution to accelerate device modeling. Although these models demonstrated remarkable speedup in circuit simulations, they were not rigorously tested in complex tasks within standard... » read more The post Neural Networks Speed 3nm Nanosheet SPICE Simulation (TU Munich) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

An in vitro study reports that chitosan-coated titanium oxide/coumarin nanoparticles inhibit E. coli and S. aureus, eliminate about 90 percent of bacterial colony-forming units at 100 µg/mL, reduce fungal colonies, appear non-toxic in cytotoxicity assays, and showed the fastest cell movement in wound healing tests.

In a laboratory comparison of conductive additives for a P2-type sodium-ion battery cathode, carbon nanotubes reached electronic percolation at 1 volume percent, while acetylene black delivered the highest discharge capacity and superior cycling stability.

One of the fundamental challenges of quantum computing is obtaining information from a quantum bit, or qubit. Unlike a conventional bit, which can be read repeatedly without altering its content, direct measurement of a quantum system typically causes the state to collapse before it can be determined. In other words, reading the information modifies it.

A Lehigh-led team received a four-year, $2.8 million NIH grant to develop UniBrain, a unified AI platform for streamlining brain-imaging analysis workflows.

A calibration and electromagnetic tracking system achieved sub-millimeter accuracy for real-time augmented reality overlays during 16 robot-assisted pelvic lymph node dissection procedures.

PVP-coated silver nanoparticles at 25 mg/L enhanced in vitro stevia growth and raised stevioside and rebaudioside A yields by about 1.36-fold, while RAPD and ISSR screening found no detectable genetic variation in the regenerants.

An explainable machine learning system trained on 336 Iraqi IT outsourcing projects predicts success from pre-contractual data, finding that fixed-price contracts and offshore global vendors matter more than raw budget, though it cannot detect failing projects.

The same substances that can alter perception and shift moods are now drawing scientific interest for their potential therapeutic abilities. Researchers across the globe are investigating whether psychedelics, such as psilocybin from magic mushrooms or LSD, could help treat mental health and brain-related disorders. In a recent study, researchers gathered many such studies and carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis focusing on the anti-inflammatory and immune-modulating properties of serotonergic psychedelics.

A collaborative laboratory study found that storage-buffer choice can change the structure, stability and cell-delivery performance of mRNA lipid nanoparticles after refrigerated storage or freezing.

The Qiongzhusi Formation shale, a target of intense interest because of its vast shale gas potential, fails at the drill site in ways that are ultimately dictated by processes occurring at scales thousands of times smaller than a core sample.

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Researchers report a feature-weighted, calibrated explainable AI framework that reached 91.07% accuracy on a cleaned heart disease dataset while exposing its reasoning through SHAP and LIME explanations.

The 2026 World Medical Innovation Forum showcased experimental precision-frozen pig organs, a preclinical pancreatic-cancer immunotherapy, AI-enabled cardiovascular screening and a digitally supported maternal-care model.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly weighing annual software fees of around $2,000 per GPU for enterprise AI, a model that could generate $10 billion a year if five million licenses were sold. The pricing and launch timeline remain unconfirmed, while Nvidia continues to expand its AI software and security tools for enterprise customers.

ClearSpace UK's robotic spacecraft with giant claws will chase down dead satellites at 17,000 mph, with a 2029 launch from Scotland planned.

A superconducting material studied for 40 years has turned out to be far more complex than scientists believed. Advanced 3D imaging revealed a hidden patchwork of crystal structures, with unusually wide boundaries that may weaken superconductivity. The discovery challenges decades of scientific assumptions and could explain why some superconductors outperform others.

Astronomers have discovered three actively feeding black holes inside a single galaxy more than 12.5 billion light-years away, revealing a remarkable scene from the universe’s infancy. Two of the black holes are separated by just 620 light-years and are expected to eventually merge, while a third lurks farther away. One weighs an astonishing 80 million suns, and another is growing faster than conventional theories predict.

A UC Davis-led project funded by up to $36.5 million will test whether intracellular polymer gels can stabilize therapeutic cells for room-temperature storage and transport.

A nano-TiO2/oxidized starch composite film optimized by response surface methodology suppressed browning and delayed senescence in postharvest Lanzhou lily bulbs by modulating antioxidant enzyme activities.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The digital publishing industry has relied on Google for a very long time. Many outlets spent time and money optimizing their webpages to show up at the top of the search engine, with the goal of getting readers to click on their articles or discover their websites for the first time. For years, the relationship between Google and publishers was largely reciprocal; online pub … Read the full story at The Verge.

A new analysis argues that AI-generated scientific results require graded scientific maturity across domain anchoring, representational integration, failure articulation and communal accountability, rather than model transparency alone.

A retraining-free generative framework called EndoRare synthesizes diverse images of rare gastrointestinal lesions from a single reference image, improving AI classifiers and novice endoscopists' recognition in an exploratory study.

Nvidia and PreussenElektra are studying whether decommissioned sites of German nuclear power plants can be repurposed as AI data centers, potentially cutting development time by reusing existing grid connections, land, and industrial infrastructure.

Stare into the transfixing eye of the "Seagull Nebula" in this newly-released test image from the visionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

A laboratory study found that 5% iron-doped nickel zincate delivered high supercapacitor performance and faster pollutant degradation under ultraviolet light.

A full-lifecycle field study found that foliar sprays of 50 mg per liter copper oxide nanoparticles and 100 to 200 mg per liter zinc oxide nanoparticles increased soybean seed yield and quality under both well-watered and drought conditions, while higher copper doses proved toxic.

A 5.0 mol% nickel-doped MoO₃ nanohollow sphere sensor produced about 3.7 times the response of pure MoO₃ at 100 ppm acetone while operating 80 °C below the undoped optimum.

An AI system called DxO, tested on a new sequential diagnostic benchmark of 629 clinical cases, outperformed participating physicians in accuracy while often reducing estimated testing costs.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 randomized controlled trials with 476 participants found that virtual reality-based rehabilitation significantly reduced pain and disability scores in patients with neck pain.

A proof-of-concept study fused EEG recordings with clinical interview transcripts from 520 participants, achieving near-ceiling accuracy under controlled conditions while emphasizing that independent prospective validation is still required.

An opinion article argues that medical AI should strengthen, rather than displace, bedside observation, clinical reasoning and the physician-patient relationship.

A narrative review maps how machine learning and deep learning now span oral cancer care from smartphone lesion triage and whole-slide computational pathology to prognostic modelling and treatment-response prediction, while warning that most evidence remains retrospective and internally validated.

A peer-reviewed experimental review in Artificial Intelligence Review examines how image enhancement, scaling, and evaluation metrics jointly determine the reliability of learning-based computer vision systems, and introduces a no-reference perceptual integrity measure for quantifying image quality.

Six AI assistants chasing a £350 train refund spammed officials, invented excuses, and leaked private health details, though each model was tested only once.

A simulation-based study reports that a federated Edge-AI framework combining smart neck collars and a hybrid GBoost-LSTM model predicted dairy cattle disease with 95.12 percent accuracy while keeping raw sensor data on participating farms.

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark  —  Applied artificial intelligence company Baba secured $40 million in series A funding to modernize the Medicare and Medicaid experience.

A two-center retrospective cohort study of 823 surgically resected pulmonary neuroendocrine carcinoma patients found that a Transformer-based AI model achieved the best survival prediction in most tasks, though logistic regression won at five-year landmarks and external calibration was less satisfactory.

A hierarchical Pd@CoAl-LDH/Ti3C2 nanosheet array catalyst achieved 99.2% yield in a model Heck coupling within 50 minutes and was reused five times without significant activity loss.

A ternary blend of ZnO, CuO and NiO nanoparticles enhances the crystallinity, dielectric response and flexibility of PVDF films, though tensile strength and hysteresis losses leave room for refinement.

An enhanced asynchronous actor-critic framework trained in simulation and on a physical mobile robot showed faster convergence, higher throughput, and stronger disturbance robustness than standard A3C, PPO, and SAC in dynamic robotic tasks.

Chinese researchers distilled three large neural networks into a lightweight model that identifies Ligustici Rhizoma et Radix decoction pieces and their confusable adulterants from smartphone photos with 99.73 percent accuracy.

A conditional generative adversarial network tuned by an Adaptive Jaya Algorithm generated synthetic forest images that, combined with EfficientNet-B0 feature extraction, lifted forest scene classification accuracy to 98.48 percent in a new study.

A meerkat-optimized gated recurrent unit model achieved 96.65 percent accuracy and an AUC of 0.97 in classifying table tennis skill levels from IoT training load data, outperforming existing models in a study published in Discover Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers have combined flame spray pyrolysis and electrospinning to create chitosan-containing nanofiber dressings that release sustained silver ions from embedded sub-10-nm nanoparticles, showing strong activity against MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in laboratory and ex vivo human skin tests without detectable nanoparticle release.

Nitrogen-doped titanium oxide nanowires synthesized with ammonium nitrate showed a 2.2-fold increase in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution over undoped titanium oxide, with the lowest dopant loading performing best.

A probabilistic dynamic graph deep learning model developed on Prince Edward Island predicted potato crop coefficients with R² values up to 0.997 across three soil types, outperforming seven benchmark models over two growing seasons.

Understanding instabilities and turbulence in plasmas is one of the key challenges across a wide range of plasma research fields, including nuclear fusion, astrophysics and laser-plasma physics. In plasmas, slight disturbances can grow due to instabilities, and energy is transferred between structures of various sizes due to turbulence. These phenomena give rise to structures ranging from very small to large, which significantly influence the overall motion and energy flow of the plasma.

Technology can contribute to better treatment for people struggling with anxiety and depression, according to researcher Sandra Klonteig.

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that uses a laser to produce a plasma beam antenna capable of transmitting

A new open-source tool called THEMISim lets researchers search the THEMIS project's archive of more than a billion auroral images for visually similar frames in milliseconds rather than hours.

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Metallic materials used in extremely cold environments must maintain high strength, ductility and fracture toughness to support applications in aerospace, clean energy, superconducting systems and deep-space exploration. However, traditional alloys often suffer performance degradation at ultralow temperatures because of the long-standing trade-off between strength, ductility and toughness. Although metals may become stronger at lower temperatures, they can also become more brittle and prone to fracture.

A qualitative study of ten pharmacists at a Chinese tertiary hospital finds cautious acceptance of AI medication consultation, with pharmacists emphasizing AI's auxiliary value and their own irreplaceable role in personalized care and risk identification.

A ZIF-8 metal–organic framework co-loaded with organic MBT and zinc acetate gives epoxy coatings pH-triggered, dual-mechanism corrosion protection that reaches 97.6% active protection efficiency at scratch sites.

Indian workers wear forehead cameras to help train AI robots, raising questions about consent, surveillance and the future of their jobs.

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Researchers engineered small extracellular vesicles with two targeting tags that exploit the heart's fatty acid transport machinery, improving delivery of edaravone and PKA-silencing RNA and reducing cardiac injury in mouse models of ischemia-reperfusion and permanent infarction.

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A new Mamba-based segmentation network combines four-directional state space scanning, spatially guided channel attention, and parameter-free anatomical constraints to outperform U-Net, SwinUNet, and Mamba variants on cardiac, abdominal, and prostate benchmarks while running at 53.8 frames per second.

New aquabot offers a way to design small, efficient “biohybrid” robots. Continue reading MIT’s paper-thin robot swims with power from living cells on Tech Explorist.

Wondering why RTX 5090s are so hard to find? Leaked footage shows thousands of consumer GPUs, including Founders Editions, being torn apart for AI servers.

As Nvidia has gone from chipmaker to industry financier, some investors see the company taking on outsized risk tied to the AI buildout.

Leslie Pickett lost over $10,000 to a deepfake scam after a fake Jon Bon Jovi account on Instagram used AI videos to build trust over months.

As Nvidia has gone from chipmaker to industry financier, some investors see the company taking on outsized risk tied to the AI buildout.

We've got robotics updates from Unitree, Tesla, and Figure, as the companies announce their latest progress.

Carolyn Marvin, a 78-year-old retired professor, was arrested after blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot on a Philadelphia sidewalk for months.

Rachel Monroe / New Yorker: Inside Meta's law enforcement outreach team, which uses AI and human reviewers to analyze social media posts, aiming to prevent threats like school shootings  —  Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution.

Sol–gel synthesized SrV2O6 nanoparticles achieved 3.14 Wh/kg energy density and degraded up to 94% of organic dyes under light, a lab study in Ionics reports.

Researchers electrochemically deposited gold nanoparticles onto twisted carbon nanotube fibers, yielding flexible electrodes that recorded hippocampal activity in mice with a signal-to-noise ratio of 6.86.

A hyalurosomal hydrogel co-delivering nifedipine and citicoline sodium achieved a 51.85 percent maximum intraocular pressure reduction and 2.2-fold deeper corneal penetration than a control solution in rabbits, outperforming a marketed glaucoma drop in a preclinical study.

A systematic review of 11 studies finds that deep learning models using ultrasound show moderate sensitivity and high specificity for predicting axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer, but wide prediction intervals and geographic concentration limit immediate clinical use.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 39 studies reports pooled AI classification accuracy of 96.8 percent for brain tumor MRI, with CNN and hybrid models reaching about 98.5 percent, but finds that only 32 percent of studies shared code and fewer than 5 percent included uncertainty estimation, leaving explainability and transparency as the main barriers to clinical trust.

University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers report that a hybrid statistical and deep learning survival model outperformed comparison models on a dataset of 1,980 breast cancer patients.

A new study in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials takes a different route: it deliberately induces dielectric resonance, the collective oscillation of local electrons between adjacent but non-contacting particles under an external alternating electric field.

An international collaboration co-led by an IAS scholar has uncovered a universal rule governing one of the most

These robots have real muscles, and they’re finally making big moves. Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed muscle

Quantum computers only work when a control system reliably delivers algorithms to the hardware while immediately detecting and

Before you buy a local AI machine, know what you're actually optimizing for. Here's a breakdown of NVIDIA, AMD and Apple.

In a controlled comparison, zinc oxide nanoparticles degraded 85 percent of methyl red dye under xenon-lamp irradiation, outperforming magnesium oxide at 72 percent and copper oxide at 68 percent.

Author(s): T. Rõõm, A. Glezer Moshe, R. Nagarajan, U. Nagel, Hee Taek Yi, Seongshik Oh, and G. BlumbergTerahertz magneto-optics is established as a direct probe of helical vortex-core excitations, providing dynamical evidence for multiband CdGM states in iron-based superconductors. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 176001] Published Fri Oct 23, 2026