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Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […] This story continues at The Next Web

Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our

A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.

Researchers from MIT have designed a new qubit architecture that enables qubits to interact with each other much

Author(s): Pedro Ornelas, Tatjana Kleine, André G. de Oliveira, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Andrew Forbes, and Isaac Nape offers a promising route to robust information encoding, but its practical realization is limited by the challenge of generating high-quality states in a reconfigurable manner. The authors demonstrate an interferometric approach that generates high-fidelity topological structured light by mapping spatial-mode entanglement onto hybrid spatial-polarization entangled states, with the interferometer implementing a reconfigurable controlled-unitary operation through programmable spatial modulation. This versatile platform for generating high-quality topological quantum states enables adaptable architectures for photonic quantum information processing. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 034043] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Miguel Zumalacárregui and Xikai ShanGravitational waves lensed by galaxies and clusters can also be diffracted by the stars and compact remnants embedded within them, leaving frequency-dependent signatures in the observed signal that are computationally expensive to model. This paper introduces Reduced-Order Stochastic Diffraction, an efficient framework for modeling these complex microlensing effects with a computationally inexpensive surrogate model. The method can be readily incorporated into Bayesian GW analyses and adapted to different detectors, sources, and microlens populations. It therefore opens a new avenue for probing stellar populations through gravitational-wave lensing. [Phys. Rev. D 114, 063038] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Gang Li, Chuan-Qiang Song, Feng-Jie Tang, and Jiang-Hao YuCoherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering provides crucial information for precision studies of neutrinos as well as searches for dark matter and other new physics. This paper develops a comprehensive Effective Field Theory treatment up to dimension eight which can account for new physics effects from energies above 100 GeV down to nuclear scales in a consistent manner. The authors include renormalization effects, careful power counting and matching of different theories at the appropriate scales, and possible UV completions of the effective operators. [Phys. Rev. D 114, 055032] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Abhishek Gupta, Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Nicholas Jaegersberg, Komal Chawla, and Ramathasan ThevamaranVertically aligned carbon nanotube foams exhibit return point memory, opening new opportunities for mechanical computing applications. [Phys. Rev. X 16, 031073] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Google’s consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems through guessing login credentials, the company said, the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions, which have generated safety concerns. The hacks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place in May and were discovered by Google in July. “In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, Google’s...

Author(s): Michael SchirberA carbon nanotube foam springs back to its initial state, regardless of the speed of the compression, a property that could lead to a new type of shock absorber. [Physics 19, 129] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Sam JarmanA recent experiment points the way toward making the intense, energetic beams of positrons needed for next-generation electron–positron colliders. [Physics 19, 127] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider: Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8  —  Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring “personal superintelligence” to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

CNN's sources claim the US nearly attacked a Chinese ship it believed was carrying nuclear weapon components.

Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems  —  The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it didn't consider it an instance of model misalignment

Learn how tracing the brain’s separate origins helped researchers grow nerve cells that could aid studies of ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.

Scientists predict that AI will one day be able to outdo humans on not just some, but all, tasks that we currently excel in

Learn how a Stanford team transplanted human brain tissue into mice to study disease while weighing the ethical questions raised by the work.

Samsung joined Euclyd's $231 million funding round as the Dutch startup develops an alternative AI chip architecture for commercial deployment in 2028.

Dog behavior experts offered a variety of explanations for why Nash the golden retriever wagged his tail and carried a toy near a man who broke into his owner’s home.

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent  —  Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.

In the past week, Musk has agreed with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while getting contradicted by President Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

In the past week, Musk has agreed with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while getting contradicted by President Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The formation of these tiny, fleeting objects at the LHC represents one way theorists have sought to resolve anomalies in our understanding of the basic structure of spacetime, while the method used to look for them demonstrates a new way of searching for new particles.

CNN: Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East  —  The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran …

Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. more…

Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the clinician actually writes, describing what the patient said, how they are coping, what side effects they mentioned and why a medication was changed.

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in bacteria and other microbes, helping defend them against invading viruses. But now, two new studies, published in Science, describe a similar RNA-guided system that originated in the viruses themselves and appears to be a precursor to CRISPR.

Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang reportedly urged President Trump to reject an industry-funded AI regulator as debate over frontier AI oversight intensifies. The post Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator appeared first on TechRepublic.

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It's one of more than a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

The humble coffee filter has the relatively simple job of letting the coffee through and leaving the grounds behind. But researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation (COE-CSI) are exploring whether a filter operating on the molecular scale can do something much more difficult: separate the caffeine from the coffee itself.

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the universe for signs of dark matter and energy

Molecular gases are a new form of artificial quantum matter. However, when these molecules collide, they are often lost extremely rapidly. Researchers from Radboud University and Columbia University have been able to suppress this collisional loss, paving the way for strongly interacting quantum matter. This new artificial quantum matter allows researchers to study quantum behavior relevant to electrons in real materials. Their results are published in Science.

Google Home now lets Claude and other compatible AI agents inspect devices, review activity, and perform approved actions through Home MCP. The post Google Opens Google Home to Claude and Other AI Agents — Here’s What They Can Control appeared first on TechRepublic.

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Sept. 14–18. The post AI Expansion, Robot Factories, and Escalating Security Threats Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang reportedly warned Donald Trump that an industry-funded AI watchdog could entrench the dominance of leading AI laboratories.

XPeng is trying to turn its self-driving and smart-cockpit systems into a licensing business, courting automakers, suppliers, and software firms well beyond its existing Volkswagen deal, according to a Reuters report. It’s the exact playbook Tesla has been pitching for years with “Full Self-Driving.” The difference is that XPeng is finding interest. more…

I’ve waited years for Apple to fix Siri, and now I’ve started using it again

Japan's busiest railway station is testing mobile robotic rubbish bins in Tokyo, with the aim of easing the workload of sanitation workers.

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Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was designed to analyse contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and identify a broad range of diseases and other abnormalities, such as malignant...

Suleyman joined "Squawk Box" to discuss OpenAI's latest incidents of "concerning model behavior" disclosed earlier this week.

Suleyman joined "Squawk Box" to discuss OpenAI's latest incidents of "concerning model behavior" disclosed earlier this week.

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond "in silico" or computer evaluations. In a Reuters interview on Tuesday, Anthropic's head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirmed the startup's wet lab. "We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work," he said. "We absolutely are doing that today, and I would describe our approach as being typical of what you would see in most biotech companies, where there's some amount of that that we're doing in our own facilities and some amount of that that we're working with

The AI Energy Management Alliance wants to lay the framework for how future data centers can use energy more sympathetically with the grid.

The NYT filed a legal brief revealing potentially damaging statements from Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the copyright infringement case it brought against the two companies. The publication is now seeking a summary judgment from the court, almost three years since it started the case.

The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main responsibility is building the pipeline that supports training runs. OpenAI’s careers page lists […] This story continues at The Next Web

Technology continues to pave a new path in the medical field. Mercy Medical Center is the first hospital in the region to offer a new way to perform shoulder replacement surgery, a procedure that some women may need as they age.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and additional expected savings could keep the powerful observatory studying the universe for decades.

Reception is where most practices leak revenue. Calls go unanswered at lunch, after hours and during every appointment

Reuters: Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research  —  Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science.

Scientists found that declining levels of the brain protein Menin may help drive aging, with lower levels in mice linked to inflammation, cognitive decline, weaker bones, and thinner skin. Restoring Menin reversed several age-related changes, while the amino acid D-serine improved cognition, hinting at a potentially intriguing new target for healthy aging.

NYT and countless other publications impacted by AI scraping and dropping click-throughs, but Trump seems to support it.

Google has rebuilt CC as a shared AI agent that can organize calendars, tasks, forms, documents, and daily briefings for up to six adults. The post Google CC AI Agent Manages Family Calendars and Tasks appeared first on TechRepublic.

By Celia Luterbacher Imagine a robot designed to install solar panels with much greater speed and precision than a human. The robot is made from expensive materials and powered by a heavy battery that must be recharged every few hours. If the costs of building and operating the robot outweigh the benefits of the clean […]

The discovery of “hypersoft” X-ray beacons could help solve some mysteries about the universe.

“The Social Reckoning” and other movies reflect growing discontent with Silicon Valley founders. But such films may be at the mercy of the companies themselves.

A new method, called CW-Net, translates the reasoning process of an autonomous vehicle’s AI system into understandable concepts

Insilico Medicine published a study in Cell introducing an open AI longevity discovery toolkit made up of three resources: LongevityBench, Longevity-LLMs and Longevity Claw. The paper presents LongevityBench as an open benchmark to evaluate AI reasoning across multiple domains of aging biology, describes Longevity-LLMs as compact open-source language models trained on clinical and multi-omics aging […] The post Insilico Medicine opens AI longevity discovery toolkit appeared first on Longevity.Technology.

Singapore marks Waymo’s first expansion into Southeast Asia & outside of the US Autonomous ride-hailing operator Waymo will roll out its fully self-driving ride-hailing service in Singapore by 2028, marking its first foray into Southeast Asia. The Alphabet-owned company announced on Friday (Sep 18) that it is partnering with the Ministry of Transport and Land […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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