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In Meta commercial terms changes slated to kick in on October 30, the company will shift the liability for any mistakes made by its AI models to its enterprise customers. The new language also makes those IT executives responsible for anything done by a partner or contractor. The changes also finally put a stake into the heart of robots.txt, with Meta granting itself the right to grab, and use for its own purposes, any content associated with a Meta account. The language allows Meta to “use automated software such as web scrapers, bots, robots, spiders, crawlers, and user agents and create test credentials to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs, and any content available through them, that are associated with your products or services,” according to the new

Author(s): Blas Durá-Azorín, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, and Alejandro ManjavacasPeriodic lattices of quantum emitters are promising platforms for quantum information processing, single-photon storage, and precision sensing. However, their performance is limited by an incomplete understanding of how intrinsic quantum nonlinearities shape their behavior beyond the linear (single-excitation) regime. The authors theoretically investigate coherently driven emitter lattices and show that quantum anharmonicity populates a continuum of excitonic Bloch states, including modes outside the light cone (subradiant), giving rise to broadband, incoherent emission that dominates under strong driving, and revealing an unexpected bistable regime controlled by effective driving renormalization. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 044054] Published Mon Oct 19, 2026

Author(s): Gustav Romare, Daniel Shaffer, Alex Levchenko, Edwin Huang, and Ilya EsterlisUsing determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations, the authors compute here the superconducting transition temperature T c of the two-dimensional attractive Hubbard model near ordinary and higher-order Van Hove singularities. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors find that the maximal T c in the model occurs away from the Van Hove singularities, when the system is in the intermediate coupling regime. [Phys. Rev. B 114, 204506] Published Mon Oct 19, 2026

Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups as Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged businesses to embrace AI at an industry summit in Berlin.

Nvidia announced planned investments in four German startups as Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged businesses to embrace AI at an industry summit in Berlin.

I studied the available reviews of the RTX-powered Surface Laptop Ultra to see if its CPU, local AI, and raw graphics rendering power are actually worth the price.

The timeline for startups to do initial public offerings has accelerated, according to Granite Asia's Jenny Lee

A foundation model trained on more than 40 million facial images produced tools that estimate biological age and directly predict cancer survival, with combined predictions improving model fit in external validation.

A technology developed at The University of Queensland allowing scientists to observe how disease-related proteins behave inside living neurons will be used to advance early drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. The NASTIC (Nanoscale Spatiotemporal Indexing Clustering) platform, spun out into Brisbane-based startup Accretion Bio, enables researchers to study real-time biological processes in living cells across space and time at the single-molecule level for the first time.

When Severe Typhoon Dolphin approached eastern China in August, more than 110,000 delivery riders across Hangzhou received automatic alerts and personalised safety guidance on their mobile phones every minute. With a few taps, Hangzhou’s “riders’ code” system navigated them to the nearest shelters, which authorities said had reduced their occupational risks under extreme weather. Behind the tailored and quick support was Hangzhou’s artificial intelligence (AI) urban management system, which had...

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon helped researchers extend existing mathematical solutions for magnetic confinement, generating new configurations relevant to fusion simulation software.

Researchers tasked an algorithm with predicting cancer patients’ risk of dying. For some people, it was shockingly accurate

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have developed a new strategy for programming synthetic molecules to self-assemble into precisely defined three-dimensional structures. The study brings scientists a step closer to achieving the sophisticated molecular organization found in nature and could eventually open new possibilities for the development of advanced functional materials.

A laboratory casting study found that CuO nanoparticles refined A356 alloy grains and modified eutectic silicon while increasing microhardness, reducing thermal expansion below a rule-of-mixtures prediction, and improving dry sliding wear resistance.

Cognizant and Google Cloud have formed a Gemini Frontier Capability Group, with more than 18,000 Cognizant staff dedicated to building AI agents for clients on Google’s Gemini. It will focus on updating old systems, developer tools, business process automation and cyber defence. No financial terms were disclosed. Cognizant is dedicating more than 18,000 staff to […] This story continues at The Next Web

Iran's Revolutionary Guards pointed to undersea cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz in a veiled warning, though analysts say any disruption would be regional rather than global.

KNDS and S2M's REFURBOT conversion kit resurfaced at France's National Infantry Days as a heavy robotic mule for the 2nd REI, but it is still a prototype with no published payload, price, or order.

The US State Department announced on Monday that it was imposing sweeping sanctions under the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act (PAIPA) on five Chinese entities suspected of stealing trade secrets from American companies. The targets include Shanghai Zhisuan Technology, founded by former Google software engineer Ding Linwei, venture capital firm MiraclePlus and three related entities. Ding was convicted of seven counts of trade secret theft in January. A federal judge subsequently...

Researchers are using AI tools to analyze simple facial photographs to determine key indicators of a person's health. Mass General Brigham researchers built FAHR-Face (Foundation Artificial Intelligence for Health Recognition), a large AI foundation model trained on over 40 million face images.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features the brilliant golden galaxies belonging to the MACS J0454.1-0300 galaxy cluster.

John Koetsier / Forbes: Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures  —  This voice experience is generated by AI.  Learn more. … Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs.

KAIST chemists have built an automated platform that combines robots, continuous-flow chemistry and visible light to synthesize drug candidate compounds around the clock without human intervention.

A new deep learning architecture called TexTNet integrates local binary pattern texture features into a Swin Transformer's attention mechanism to improve Gleason grade segmentation of prostate cancer in whole slide images.

A new review shows that trace impurities, reaction timing and facet chemistry can determine whether gold and palladium nanoparticles form reproducible rods, cubes, stars or sheets.

What happens when scientists start changing the brain—the very system through which an animal's mental states are expressed in behavior?

The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals, researchers at McGill University's Trottier Space Institute have found. The metal enrichment probably resulted from stars that exploded and released material into the black hole's surroundings over time, they said.

The ESA's Euclid space telescope was launched in July, 2026, and its mission is to observe billions of galaxies. The goal is to measure their redshifts over 10 billion years of Universal expansion, to better understand dark matter and dark energy. Surprisingly, the telescope has discovered a brand new comet, now named C/2026 S1 (Euclid).

Researchers in Lahore report a biphasic chromium-zirconium oxide nanocomposite wired with carbon nanotubes that achieves 748 F g⁻¹ and an energy density of 112.68 Wh kg⁻¹ for supercapacitors.

The EU’s List of Acquisitions website was updated today with details of a deal struck in June between Apple and Samplab, a Swiss startup that described itself as offering “music production for the age of AI.” Here are the details. more…

A gene variant called APOE4 is the biggest genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. Scientists are finally figuring out how it works.

A two-center study of 116 older adults found that dynamic trunk balance control, measured on a robotic tilting bicycle and the Four Square Step Test, is weakly but independently linked to outdoor cycling competence.

A new mouse study shows banana starch nanoparticles worsen colitis by damaging tight junctions and disrupting gut microbes, while native banana starch protects the intestinal barrier.

Microsoft introduces MAI-Base-2, a 2.8 trillion-parameter AI model, claiming major training efficiency gains as it expands its independent AI strategy. The post Microsoft Unveils 2.8 Trillion-Parameter AI Model, Claims Major Efficiency Gains appeared first on TechRepublic.

At the 2026 OCP Global Summit, Nvidia opened up its Vera Rubin rack designs, released open-source AI factory software, and announced plans with Cisco for a new pluggable-optics specification. Here's why openness has become a scaling requirement, and what IT pros should do about it. The post Nvidia’s OCP Moves Highlight How Openness Can Help Scale AI appeared first on TechRepublic.

Faraday Future unveiled a $2,490 humanoid robot and $299 mini model for developers and students, with robotics training, AI tools and phased availability. The post Faraday Future Launches $2,490 Humanoid Robot and $299 Mini appeared first on TechRepublic.

Thailand becomes the first country in Microsoft's 19-nation AI jobs initiative, linking AI education and workforce training with employer demand. The post Thailand Becomes First to Launch Microsoft’s 19-Country AI Jobs Initiative appeared first on TechRepublic.

Modal plans to run its Sandboxes product on Nvidia’s Arm-based Vera CPU, its first step away from x86 chips. In Modal’s own tests, Vera handled up to twice as many tasks as an Intel server when packed with containers. The results have not been independently checked. Modal plans to run its AI agent sandboxes on […] This story continues at The Next Web

Voltage fluctuations, light fluctuations, temperature fluctuations—any fluctuations are troublesome and thus undesirable. They don't just cause discomfort; in engineering and medical applications, they affect the accuracy of measurements or introduce errors in controls. Even at the minute level of quantum phenomena, fluctuations are considered undesirable.

Caution is still important when scaling up AI, IBM warns - but don't let that temper your excitement.

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has remeasured a key transition frequency of the strontium (Sr) atom for the first time in 88 years, since 1938, using a photonic grating chip. It has established a new absolute frequency value with a measurement uncertainty reduced by more than 50 times. By providing an accurate reference value for next-generation quantum technologies, this achievement is expected to contribute to the precise control and miniaturization of quantum devices, including atomic clocks and neutral-atom quantum computers. The work is published in the journal Metrologia.

Supermassive black holes power tremendous jets that extend far beyond their galaxy. A new study finds how they can also warm material at the outer edge of a galaxy and reduce the rate of star production over time.

A joint research group led by Ryo Tanifuji and Hiroki Oguri from the University of Tokyo and Yoshikazu Tanaka from Tohoku University has successfully visualized SacC, an enzyme that plays a key role in building the complex five-ring core of safracin B.

Forestry contractors face growing demand for timber, forest management, and wildfire-resilience but struggle to find and retain reliable operators. The post Kodama nets $7m to scale physical AI for ‘intelligent forestry’ appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Researchers have built a core-shell Ag@Au nanoparticle biosensor that pairs plasmonic sensing with smartphone-based machine learning to rapidly and selectively detect E. coli.

Microsoft reportedly terminates its contract for Nscale's planned UK AI supercomputer in Loughton as grid delays threaten the Essex project.

They're still a long way off from mass-producing Terminators.

They're still a long way off from mass-producing Terminators.

A new report from Newmark expects the sectors to drive future demand, even as a quarter of the city’s office space remains vacant. The post Could AI and robotics help fill Cambridge’s empty offices? appeared first on Boston.com.

Even when AI designs molecules with potential as medicines, drug development can be delayed if the process of producing them is slow. KAIST researchers have developed an "unmanned synthesis platform" that uses synthesis robots and light to automatically carry out the entire process from mixing raw materials to synthesis and analysis. The technology is expected to help secure a wider range of drug candidate compounds by reducing the burden of repetitive experiments.

A new study combines an improved graph capsule neural network with a user-aware A* path planning algorithm to create an immersive virtual display system for Yi cultural heritage in China.

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) has won central processor chip business with another fast-growing AI startup that until now relied entirely on chips …

The day after receiving their Ig Nobel Prizes in a gala ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland on September 3, 2026, many of the new winners gathered to ask each other questions about their work, and to answer questions from an audience. This video documents that event.

Microsoft has announced new tools to control AI agents in Microsoft 365 E7 and its Project Perception platform. The tools limit what each agent can reach and tighten those limits when its risk increases. Hayete Gallot, executive vice president of Microsoft Security, set out the approach in a post on Monday. She wrote that companies should […] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple marketing chief Greg Joswiak didn’t hold back when he described the most ambitious figures in the AI race as the “lunatic fringe” of Silicon Valley. The piece suggested that the iPhone maker is hoping to position itself as being on the right side of a growing AI backlash. Given the pace of development, trying to predict the future of AI is a risky business, but I do think Apple is absolutely right about the dangers … more…

Researchers in China have designed a cable-driven parallel robot that mimics the human cervical spine, achieving 30-degree bending with stiffness tunable from 3900 to 4700 N/m.

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A Johns Hopkins clinician-historian argues that archival methods like deep reading and reading against the grain can recover patient details that interviews, medical records, and AI summaries miss.

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown as the technology grows more advanced, with hackers using the tools to carry out large-scale attacks. At the same time, rogue AI agents are carrying out attacks of their own after escaping from testing environments. Researchers at Norforge uncovered the attacks through exposed work on Cai … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google is starting to move its support pages from detailed articles to AI summaries with a chatbot, with an added set of steps to access the full details of the any given page. more…

Claude’s Quantum Circuit Designs Cutting the estimated cost of simulating FeMoco, the iron-sulfur cluster bacteria use to fix

U.S. Army Cyber Command is constantly refining human oversight of artificial intelligence, Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said last week.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft unveils new security tools in its 365 E7 bundle and Project Perception system to treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments  —  Microsoft is coming out with new security tools that treat AI agents as potential insider threats, continuously assessing their risk …

Meta says a Claude AI tool triggered the mistaken suspension of the No Kings Instagram account, but who was behind the activity remains a mystery.

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: How Democrats, who polls predict will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, are preparing to aggressively scrutinize the AI industry  —  At a moment when voters are fearful of AI, Democrats are finding their footing. … Democrats could win back control of Congress this November …

Elon Musk says Trump 'likes to be liked' and argues that AI and robots offer the only way to tackle America's $40 trillion national debt.

The Nvidia-backed company planned to deliver 23,000 AI chips in Britain next year, but its grid connection may not be ready until the 2030s.

A new multimodal AI model from South Korea classifies five neurological language disorders from spontaneous speech while also estimating severity and tracking recovery.

Exploratory phase 3 data suggest that gefurulimab may reduce the need for rescue therapy and hospitalizations in patients with generalized myasthenia gravis.

A widely shared image linked to unrest in France was flagged as AI-generated or altered, but the alleged robbery involving an elderly couple has not been independently confirmed

A new systematic review and meta-analysis finds that adding non-invasive brain stimulation to brain-computer interface training does not clearly improve arm motor recovery after stroke, with pooled results unstable and evidence certainty low.

Researchers developed eggshell membrane-supported zinc oxide nanocomposites and found that the thermally synthesized formulation provided the strongest sperm cryoprotection and antimicrobial activity in laboratory tests, including semen from 120 men. In rats, it was associated with changes in reproductive, renal, and tissue measures, but the study did not demonstrate improved fertility through mating or establish a clinical treatment.

A comprehensive magnetotransport study of electron-doped La2−xCexCuO4 shows that superconductivity in these cuprates is mediated by antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations, while revealing that hole-doped cuprates demand fundamentally different physics.

A retrospective cohort study from Xi'an finds that combining robot-assisted navigation with a double reverse traction frame shortened operations, cut blood loss and X-ray use, and improved alignment and knee function in distal femoral fracture repair.

And there’s no opt-out available.

For millions of people living with gout, the painful reality of the disease is written in lumps of crystallized uric acid called tophi. These chalky deposits build up slowly around joints, tendons and soft tissues, and their size and number

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price  —  The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.

With $5 billion already deployed off its balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is racing ahead on direct investments in defense tech, hardware and supply chains.

This is the first of a two-part feature on quantum biology. In the second part, Songi Han and

With $5 billion already deployed off its balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is racing ahead on direct investments in defense tech, hardware and supply chains.

With $5 billion already deployed off its balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is racing ahead on direct investments in defense tech, hardware and supply chains.

Microsoft has withdrawn from an agreement involving Nscale's planned £2bn AI data centre in Loughton, Essex, after grid delays threatened the facility's original 2027 opening timetable.

With $5 billion already deployed off its balance sheet, JPMorgan Chase is racing ahead on direct investments in defense tech, hardware and supply chains.

Wccftech: Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more  —  NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm to an orchestrated …

Researchers report a non-viral, OCT-guided method using gold nanorods and a 980-nm laser to deliver the opsin MCO-020 to targeted retinal regions in degenerating mouse retinas, with expression and visual-cortical responses persisting for 52 weeks.

Researchers have built a two-stage deep learning system in which a transformer makes an initial electricity demand forecast and an attention-guided recurrent network then learns to correct its errors, outperforming standard models on datasets from India and Panama.

Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic’s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, gave the new explanation in a social media post on Sunday. The No Kings Coalition, an organisation opposed to Trump, stated that its page […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta says activity involving Anthropic's Claude AI resembled bot traffic and triggered the temporary suspension of the No Kings Instagram account during nationwide demonstrations.

A new systematic review of 29 prediction models finds striking performance numbers but limited external validation, leaving AI tools for radiation gut toxicity promising but not yet clinic-ready.

MIT engineers’ new aquabot offers a way to design small, efficient “biohybrid” robots.

A new review in Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials explains why polymeric micelle drug carriers remain fragile in the bloodstream and details the cross-linking, stimulus-responsive and polymer-drug conjugate strategies being developed to stabilize them.

Turkish researchers show that electrospun nanofiber membranes loaded with thyme essential oil reduce weight loss and preserve vitamin C, flavonoids, and antioxidant activity in autumn olive fruit during 12 days of shelf life.

A morphology-preserving sulfidation method converts cobalt oxide nanowires into Co₉S₈ electrodes that deliver high lithium storage capacity and retain over 900 mAh g⁻¹ after 200 cycles.

A new Frontiers in Materials editorial maps how functional additives, multi-scale analysis, and machine learning are turning road construction into a quantifiably sustainable, data-driven discipline.

Integrating sensors, compute, and actuators into autonomous systems adds new challenges for chip design. The post Why Physical AI Is So Hard To Engineer appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

A viral video allegedly showing the Eiffel Tower burning has caused confusion online, but no credible evidence links student protesters to damage, and claims of AI generation remain unconfirmed.

AI is transforming personal budgeting from tracking past spending to predicting future spending. Predictive budgeting tools can make