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Google lets eligible users run AI-built Android apps through Google Play without a developer account. Learn who can use it and what limits to check. The post Google Makes It Easier to Put Your Own AI-Built App on Android appeared first on TechRepublic.

Theorists have shown that light can exert a pulling force on short carbon nanotubes, an effect that emerges from the non-local, spatially dispersive conductivity of the tubes' electrons and disappears under conventional local models.

A five-center study shows deep learning models, especially nnU-Net, predict aggressive meningioma grades from MRI more reliably across hospitals than handcrafted radiomics, which collapsed under external validation.

In a Columbia University School of Nursing study surveying 1,185 U.S.-based adults about AI use in secure medical portals, 63% of patients said they would not endorse AI-generated medical responses without a clinician's review. This suggests that while patients see value in using AI for certain health care tasks, they prefer a human review when medical advice is involved. The study, "Public Perceptions of Timeliness for AI Use and Human Oversight," was published in the JAMA Network Open on Oct. 14, 2026.

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year  —  YouTube Music announced Wednesday the rollout of a new labeling system aimed at improving transparency around songs created with the help of generative AI.

Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December with iOS 27.3, two years after the US, excluding the rebuilt Siri AI. Siri AI is also still missing in the EU, with no indication of when approval might come. Apple will ship Apple Intelligence in mainland China in December, two years after America […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google Home is getting a fresh update with improvements to reordering your favorite devices, redesigned controls for third-party smart home devices, and some much-needed fixes for Gemini commands. more…

Movement-induced flares in chronic back pain activate brain regions involved in self-reflection, suggesting chronic pain may be processed differently than acute pain.

Bloomberg reports that Apple plans to finally launch Apple Intelligence in China in December, although some important features could still be missing. Here are the details. more…

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Intelligence in China in December via iOS 27.3, with features first rolled out in 2024; the launch won't include Siri AI  —  Apple Inc. is gearing up to release its artificial intelligence platform in mainland China, following a lengthy regulatory delay …

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers show that oxygen micro-nano bubbles can restructure waterlogged paddy soil, boost nutrient availability, and cut methane emissions by over 60 percent.

Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in London he would halt chip supply to a customer building unsafe AI, while saying the current level of concern is not warranted. His prescription is to accelerate containment and monitoring technology, which Nvidia is building a team to sell. Nvidia’s chief executive says he would stop supplying a customer building […] This story continues at The Next Web

A new multimodal AI framework called MEGH-DDI combines chemical language models with graph neural networks to predict drug–drug interactions with over 98 percent accuracy.

"Have you ever seen a world born?"

Researchers synthesized europium-doped hydroxyapatite nanofibers via a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method, showing tunable structure, red photoluminescence, and preliminary quercetin adsorption for potential biomedical drug-delivery platforms.

German police have seized a humanoid robot after it allegedly groped a 16-year-old girl in Cologne, as two suspects face investigation.

Organizations are unprepared for the risks posed by quantum computing, IBM's Europe and Africa vice president Alessandro Curioni told AFP Wednesday, referring to the high-speed technology that could crack security encryptions and enable large-scale cyberattacks.

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.

Researchers have trained a deep neural network on 130,000 simulated samples to predict the reflection coefficients of an eight-port terahertz MIMO antenna in microseconds, slashing the computational cost of designing antennas for 6G networks.

New partnership between Nvidia and Vertiv aims to improve data center efficiency and build facilities that are sustainable.

A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests. Researchers have developed an algorithm that enables off-the-shelf computers to run quantum simulations previously only possible using the world's most powerful supercomputers.

Donald Trump faces criticism for sharing footage of a fatal Yorkshire tiger attack and posting an AI-generated video of himself wrestling a tiger.

NASA’s PUNCH mission is showing a rarely seen aspect of our nearest star—the churning chaos of the solar corona

Splitting lipid nanoparticle manufacturing into multiple mixing steps can help better control the size, shape, and stability of particles, with the aim of improving product quality during commercial-scale production. The post Turning Process Understanding Into Control of Lipid Nanoparticles appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

Siri AI is a tentpole addition to HomePod mini 2, but a CNET report today originally claimed Siri AI was coming to older HomePod mini models too. However, the story has since been updated with a correction. more…

Researchers have developed S2Fusion, a local-to-global framework that improves infrared and visible image fusion through cross-modal dynamic kernels and a heat-conduction-inspired global operator.

Researchers have built a 10.97-million-parameter neural network that classifies brain tumors on MRI with 99.2 percent accuracy while quantifying its own uncertainty in a single pass.

Doug Field will take his EV experience at Ford and Tesla to help Rivian build semi-humanoid manufacturing robots.

Deliveroo has started trialing robot deliveries in the UK, but a trade union representing couriers has criticized the rollout.

A new mathematical formula tracks an AI's internal "compass needle" to flag undesirable outputs before they happen.

Quantum information systems could one day shape everyday life through faster computing, sharper sensing and more secure communication. A new result from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) marks an important step toward enabling magnetic spins—a quantum property of matter that can be used to store and manipulate information—to play a role in the future of quantum information processing.

Begone, Bot. | Image: Google / Android Android is introducing new scam defense features that aim to make it easier for users to evade mobile fraud, including bolstered protection in Google Messages and additional safeguarding tools. Building on the Scam Detection feature in Google Messages, a new "enhanced protection" setting will be rolling out in the coming weeks that taps into cloud-based Gemini AI models to quickly evaluate a potential scammer's intentions in conversations with an unrecognized sender. "Scammers often disguise their true motives behind slow-burn conversations," Google said in its update announcement. "This secure cloud analysis augments and extends our existi … Read the full story at The Verge.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — AI tools were less likely to flag emergencies and deliver accurate, comprehensive gastroenterology advice in the six most common U.S. languages after English, according to a presenter at ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.“AI is already part of everyday life, and people are turning to it with health questions, often before speaking with a physician,” Harika Dadigiri, MD, resident physician at New York Medical College at Saint Mary’s and Saint Clare’s Hospital in New Jersey, told Healio regarding her presentation. “For patients who struggle to find reliable medical information in

Researchers in China built a multimodal AI framework combining clinical data, CT enterography radiomics and deep learning on double-balloon enteroscopy images that outperformed single-modality models in assessing small bowel Crohn's disease activity.

Microsoft’s Million-Chip Maia Plan Microsoft’s next AI build-out is easier to measure in power plants than in chip

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine partner to develop AI tools for physician training and clinical care, with a focus on medical reasoning and patient safety. The post OpenEvidence, Johns Hopkins Partner to Bring AI Into Medical Training and Patient Care appeared first on TechRepublic.

An XGBoost artificial intelligence model trained on Swedish neurointensive care data has successfully predicted dangerous intracranial pressure surges in traumatic brain injury patients across 21 European centres, retaining AUROC above 96 percent in bidirectional external validation.

Introduction Google DeepMind has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, marking a significant leap forward in frontier artificial intelligence capabilities. This latest iteration of the Gemini family represents a paradigm shift in how AI can be leveraged for complex software engineering tasks, scientific research, and enterprise automation. With 1,383 points and 986 comments on Hacker News, the community's response has been overwhelmingly positive, though tempered with important technical considerations. The...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Austin-based Icon, which builds robotic 3D-printing construction systems and software, raised a $200M Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock  —  Icon, an Austin, Texas-based robotic construction startup, announced a $200 million Series D co-led by Baillie Gifford and BlackRock on Tuesday.

Join the audience for a live webinar at 2 p.m. GMT/3 p.m. CET on 12 November 2026 Explore how precise sample manipulation enables complementary nanoscale techniques to work together on one sample The post One sample, many dimensions: prospects for multimodal nanoscale characterization appeared first on Physics World.

Donald Trump has faced criticism after sharing an apparent AI-generated tiger video shortly after posting footage of a fatal attack in England, despite the victim's family appealing for privacy.

In 2021, Texas suffered the worst energy infrastructure failure in state history, following three severe winter storms in February. At least 246 people were killed as a result of the disruptions, which led to food, water, heat and electricity shortages.

Scientists have developed a material that can grow and coordinate its own movement until the entire structure pulses in unison, paving the way for versatile robots that behave more like living systems.

Signatories called on companies to 'exercise caution' and 'default to air-gapping cyber-capable models'. Read more: Geoffrey Hinton among 415 scientists calling for joint effort for AI safety

Could a wearable robot help people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) walk farther? A new study from Toho University in Japan examined walking performance and quality of life in 30 patients with ALS who underwent training with the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL).

Researchers have engineered salamander-inspired gold-silver nanocages that cascade-target injured kidney cells and their mitochondria, delivering the antioxidant idebenone while enabling CT visualization, and significantly reversing ischemia-reperfusion acute kidney injury in mice.

A collision may have left these galaxies without dark matter. That spells trouble for alternative gravity theories. The post Triplet of ‘Ghostly’ Galaxies Hints at What Dark Matter Is — and Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Understanding and controlling phase transitions are fundamental to physics and central to many technological revolutions. There is currently strong interest in materials with coupled structural and electronic phase transitions, where controlling the transition plasticity naturally yields built-in memory—a key step in emulating neurons and synapses for "neuromorphic" or brain-like computing technologies.

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Astronomers have found two actively feeding supermassive black holes separated by just 175 parsecs (570 light-years) in a galaxy seen when the universe was only about 2 billion years old. The system, MG B2016+112, lies at a redshift of 3.273 and is the most compact dual AGN known at this redshift. The study was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Sept. 25.

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang announced plans to invest $2 billion in European deals during a tour of the region …

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Bitdeer is expanding its AI infrastructure footprint in Malaysia with a new 67 MW facility designed for NVIDIA Blackwell systems. Here's what's confirmed about its rollout and customer commitments. The post Bitdeer Secures 67 MW for Nvidia AI in Malaysia, but No Customer Deal Announced appeared first on TechRepublic.

Bill Gates has warned that criminals using advanced AI without safeguards could cause major cyber disruptions within a year, while also highlighting the risk of AI-enabled biological attacks.

A viral AI-generated campaign from the Australian Hotels Association imagines the disruption caused by fewer migrant workers as Australia debates proposed immigration cuts and labour shortages.

Researchers used spatiotemporal terahertz emission nanoscopy to map the electromagnetic signatures of ultrafast spin-driven charge currents in a fiber-coupled spintronic terahertz emitter with femtosecond temporal resolution and nanoscale spatial sensitivity. The study shows how localized in-plane currents produce detectable out-of-plane electric fields, clarifying how near-field terahertz measurements can probe ultrafast spin-to-charge transport.

The headline feature of the new HomePod mini 2 is support for Siri AI, something that won’t be available for the first-gen model. But there’s hope that existing full size HomePods may also get access to the smarter intelligent assistant. A leaker noticed two clues on Apple’s website seemingly pointing to this, but it’s possible that it was an error on the part of the company … more…

Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.

A research team from the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Tokyo City University, Kanazawa University, the University of Tokyo and other institutions has successfully completed the test operations conducted since the satellite was released into orbit. Having confirmed that the satellite meets its specified performance requirements, the team has begun routine operations for scientific astronomical observations.

Hesai Group, the world’s largest maker of lidar sensors for vehicles, has launched a 3D spatial camera as it expands into physical artificial intelligence in search of new growth opportunities. The handheld device, called Kosmo, is described by Hesai as a “physical AI eye” and converts real-world environments into detailed, editable 3D models. The company said it was designed to standardise the digitisation of complex spaces such as campuses and factories. “Our interesting new products, which...

Signatories called on companies to 'exercise caution' and 'default to air-gapping cyber-capable models'. Read more: Geoffrey Hinton among 415 scientists calling for joint effort for AI safety

Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger coding performance and advanced reasoning with an introductory pricing model that doubles after November 30. The model “excels at deep work in complex, real-world tasks,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president of Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google, wrote in a blog post. Google said that its engineers used Argon to refactor a legacy folder of about six million lines within Chromium’s 40 million-line codebase, finishing in weeks rather than months. Teams using Argon in Antigravity increased agentic code submissions by more than 35% and cut code rollbacks by nearly a third, the company said, without detailing how it measured either figure.

A new tomographic study of the three-qubit CCZ gate on IBM superconducting processors reveals that output fidelity depends heavily on both the input quantum state and the specific machine, ranging from over 99 percent in ideal simulation to as low as 50.3 percent on real hardware.

A federal judge in San Jose hears two opposed motions on the same day, Apple’s request to stop OpenAI using anything taken from it and OpenAI’s request to throw the case out. Apple won part of its expedited discovery on Tuesday, and was refused part of it. Apple and OpenAI are in court in San […] This story continues at The Next Web

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers, and magazine articles. OpenAI, Microsoft, and other Big AI firms have been stealing every piece of intellectual property (IP) they can find for training. With few exceptions, instead of paying the people and publishers who labored to create that intellectual property, Big AI steals it and call it “fair use.” But just-released evidence shows that from the start, many employees and executives at Microsoft and OpenAI warned their companies that they were committing theft — and added that

Quantum networks are systems that connect different users or devices using principles of quantum mechanics. In the future, these networks could help improve the security of communications.

A new deep learning radiomics model built on preoperative multiparametric MRI achieved AUCs up to 0.95 in predicting three-year breast cancer recurrence-free survival and successfully stratified patients into distinct risk groups.

The large language model took less than a day to identify the curious stretch of DNA

Nvidia will provide £250m of computing resources over five years to three UK university-led research groups studying the safety and security of autonomous AI systems.

Small FPV strike drones have become one of the most dangerous and widely used weapons in the war

Scientists Want Risky AI Models Air-Gapped Hundreds of computer scientists want the most cyber-capable AI models cut off

Reuters: Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pledging $250M in accelerated computing resources over five years to fund UK AI security and agentic safety research  —  US chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O) has pledged $250 million worth of computing resources to Britain over five years, to fund AI security research …

Researchers at Hacettepe University have created molecularly imprinted, silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles that selectively capture methylene blue from real water samples and remain reusable over seven cycles.

A bioinspired material that coats yeast-derived polysaccharides with antioxidant nanozymes reduced gut inflammation, repaired the intestinal barrier, rebalanced the microbiome, and eased anxiety and depression in mouse models of inflammatory bowel disease.

Up to 200 European researchers will get direct access to Google’s most advanced science AI models, plus $3 million in computing credits, Google said today. The offer comes from its AI lab, Google DeepMind, and its cloud arm, Google Cloud. The models include AlphaFold 3, which predicts the structure of proteins and other molecules, and WeatherNext, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Apple HomeView Smart Display Apple’s first smart display decides what to show by looking at whoever walks up

Gemini 4 Argon Goes Public Developers who want Google’s strongest model at its launch price have until November

Internal documents disclosed during a Canadian labour dispute show Amazon is using an artificial intelligence-powered risk-scoring system named Atlas to track union organising among its workforce, while training managers on how to handle what it perceives as the ‘threat’ of union activity

Nvidia has committed $250M over five years to UK agentic safety and security research, in the form of compute access rather than cash. Provider selection and commercial terms have still to be agreed. Nvidia has committed $250M to British AI safety research over the next five years. The commitment is compute access, not cash, and […] This story continues at The Next Web

A retrospective study found that combining a thymoma with a three-millimeter rim of surrounding tissue on CT scans improved machine learning prediction of perioperative complications in myasthenia gravis patients, though the absolute accuracy remained modest.

Lobbying groups for doctors and hospitals and trade groups are working behind the scenes on how to regulate AI in medicine.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Google DeepMind and Google Cloud plan to provide up to 200 European scientific researchers with access to their frontier AI models and $3M in compute credits  —  Google DeepMind and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) cloud service Google Cloud will provide up to 200 European scientific researchers …

A new study shows that coating mixed-phase copper oxide nanoparticles with the polymer polyethyleneimine reduces their toxicity to germinating seeds of Indian mustard and maize, particularly at moderate concentrations.

A viral image suggesting Mia Goth commented on her divorce from Shia LaBeouf was AI-generated, her representative says. Meta removed the verified Instagram fan account for impersonation.

An Indian research team has developed GraphX, an explainable graph transformer framework that classifies nail diseases with 94.97 percent accuracy while showing clinicians exactly where its attention focused.

Underwater robots are having a moment. From mapping fragile deep-sea ecosystems to inspecting offshore wind turbines and hunting for missing aircraft on the ocean floor, unmanned underwater vehicles, or UUVs, are being asked to operate with more autonomy and precision

A new deep learning framework can detect six types of cyber-attacks on EEG signals and reconstruct the corrupted brain data in real time, with detection accuracy reaching up to 99 percent.

LG Electronics has built an alliance with Apple in the home artificial intelligence (AI) sector, unveiling a range of internet of things (IoT) devices that will be integrated into Apple's ecosystem. The two companies’ partnership is now extending into the home appliance sector, evolving from component supplies and service integration to jointly developing finished products. For LG Electronics, the collaboration provides access to Apple’s global ecosystem, while Apple can leverage LG’s expertise in home appliances to strengthen its presence in the smart home market. LG Electronics and Apple jointly held a new product showcase in Manhattan, New York, Tuesday (local time), unveiling seven IoT devices. LG Electronics North America CEO Kwack Do-yeong, LG Electronics Home Appliance Solution Platform Business Center Head Jung Ki-hyun and Apple Vice President of Hardware Engineering Matthew Costello attended the event. Dubbed as smart home accessories, the devices include indoor and outdoor

Researchers in Mexico have created graphene oxide-modified titanium dioxide nanotube-nanoring photoanodes that degrade 85 percent of methylene blue under solar light in acidic conditions while remaining stable over repeated use.

Leo Marchandon / Reuters: Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting  —  Around 400 scientists, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, on Tuesday called for an international body …

Researchers have developed a systemically administered nanosystem that captures circulating endothelial exosomes and redirects them to ischemic heart tissue, improving cardiomyocyte survival and preserving cardiac function in male mice.

Researchers have built an integrated framework that fuses conflict reports, web images, and scanned maps into a single multimodal spatiotemporal knowledge graph, with cascaded OCR significantly improving coordinate recognition.

Apple is bringing Siri AI to older Apple TV 4K models via a free software update, so you might not need to buy a new model to get its smarter assistant.

HD Hyundai is turning to robotics to help address the chronic labor shortage in the U.S. shipbuilding industry. HD Hyundai Robotics, the group’s robotics affiliate, will participate in FABTECH 2026, North America’s largest exhibition for metal forming, fabricating, welding and finishing, from Oct. 2