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A multimodal analysis of commercial silicone hydrogel contact lenses shows that a nanometer-scale poly(HEMA) interface can improve wettability and reduce fouling while preserving oxygen transport and optical performance.

A knife-wielding intruder is confronted. A car is lifted to free a trapped victim. A pedestrian is pulled from the path of an oncoming vehicle. The scenes described are not from a Hollywood blockbuster, but a promotional clip for a new “guardian” robot created by the Chinese technology firm Unitree Robotics. The footage for the H2-X model, released on Wednesday, underscores a wider shift in strategy by the Hangzhou-based firm, as it focuses on finding practical, real-world uses for its athletic...

Combining artificial intelligence (AI) with eye tracking in virtual reality could one day help personalize treatment for millions living with chronic pain, according to world-first research from the University of East Anglia.

Computations found that isoproterenol binds favorably to Al₁₂N₁₂ and Al₁₂O₁₂ nanoclusters and that the loaded complexes dock more strongly to the β₁-adrenergic receptor than the free drug.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Big Tech earnings and the 2026 midterms will test whether Wall Street still rewards rising AI capex – or starts separating the winners. The post Meta Is About to Show Whether Bigger AI Capex Still Wins appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Scientists have shown that a material treated for 40 years as a uniform, textbook superconductor is in fact

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a concentration of heavy metals near the Milky Way's central black hole. The discovery deepens a mystery about why our black hole behaves the way it does.

Even when given the same drug, some patients respond well while others show little or no response. This is particularly true of immunotherapy. A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that can predict, in advance, which patients are likely to benefit from treatment.

Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027. "The scale of investment required to compete, sustain growth, expand infrastructure, and pursue new strategic initiatives amidst the AI transformation taking place in the industry is significant," Meta says in the press release. Susan Li, Meta's chief financial officer, added during an earnings call that the new class of shares will "expand our funding tools and gi … Read the full story at The Verge.

A planned 128-student randomized trial in China will test whether an AI-guided fitness app integrated with physical education can improve university students’ activity, fitness and psychological well-being.

A macrophage-targeted TIMD4 peptide nanoparticle reduced inflammation and monocyte recruitment in a mouse colitis model without establishing clinical benefit in humans.

An AI model created by researchers at King's can detect signs of faulty repair mechanisms in ovarian cancer cells, potentially leading to a low-cost, widely accessible diagnostic tool in the future. By analyzing tissue images, the model could accurately recognize tumors that contained broken DNA repair mechanisms. This could enable clinicians to choose treatments that exploit this flaw. The findings are published in Nature Communications.

Anthropic is today revealing Claude Duet, its new AI agent that rivals Muse, OpenAI Dots, but it’s not widely available just yet. more…

Stellar-mass black holes should be in our neighbourhood within about 50 light years of the Solar System. But they're likely isolated, without much to feed on, making them difficult to find. Gaia found some candidates, but confirming them is tough.

This Webb infrared image, released on October 6th, 2026, shows the star-forming region NGC 7129, about 3,300 light-years from Earth. The central star, LkHα 234, is a young star of 5–8 solar masses whose outflows have cleared a cavity about 3.5 light-years across. On the right side of the region, younger protostars shoot jets of very hot material that create shocks in the surrounding gas.

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital it needs for developing AI models, with an effective date in January 2027  —  The company, which reported record revenue of $64.2 billion for the third quarter, said the new stock won't affect Mark Zuckerberg's voting control

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Stellar-mass black holes should be in our neighbourhood within about 50 light years of the Solar System. But they're likely isolated, without much to feed on, making them difficult to find. Gaia found some candidates, but confirming them is tough.

A review of four magnetometry approaches finds that high-field asymptotic analysis more reliably estimates intrinsic nanoparticle anisotropy while largely suppressing dipolar interactions and collective surface effects.

Anthropic is introducing a new AI assistant that can proactively manage tasks across connected apps, keep track of emails and calendars, and continue working even when the app is closed. Here are the details. more…

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

A YOLOv5-LiDAR basketball-robot system achieved 97.85% detection accuracy and high task-success rates in controlled dataset evaluations and simulations, with extreme motion blur and dense occlusion remaining unresolved.

For the first time, scientists can make quantum measurements on a positron particle

Amazon's AI expansion faces power and data-centre constraints, with AWS reportedly receiving NVIDIA hardware before some facilities are ready to deploy it.

Chemotherapy selectivity is limited by systemic toxicity. pH‑sensitive nanocarriers exploit tumor acidity as a release trigger but respond passively to a modest, heterogeneous gradient.

An international team of researchers, including members from the University of Michigan, has revealed surprising results that could rewrite our understanding of a key transition in the early universe.

An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data. But it’s not going to match a human author’s expertise.

Lucid’s European robotaxi deal now has a driver. Bolt announced today that its fleet of at least 25,000 autonomous Lucid vehicles will run Nvidia’s Alpamayo Stack self-driving software, starting with a data-collection program in Madrid in 2027. That gives Lucid two robotaxi customers on two different autonomy systems: Nuro’s software for Uber’s Gravity robotaxis in the US, and now Nvidia’s for Bolt in Europe. more…

In the early Universe, neutrinos interacted strongly with other matter before some of them "decoupled." The heaviest of these decoupled neutrinos may be the solution to the matter-antimatter cosmic mystery.

A Chalmers University modelling study combined Bayesian forecasts with transparent optimisation to coordinate large self-driving electric taxi fleets under uncertain demand, traffic and charging conditions.

A Gazebo Sim plugin reproduced lithium-ion cell voltages within 33.4–34.3 millivolts under matched test conditions while revealing that parameter provenance, temperature, and end-of-discharge behavior strongly shape accuracy.

Just like gloves, molecules can have left- and right-handed—or mirror-image—forms. Because the left- and right-handed molecules are still very similar, scientists have had trouble separating them from each other. But a team of researchers in Japan might have found a solution. In their new study, published in Science Advances, the team successfully separated an equal mixture of mirror-image molecules created by replacing hydrogen with deuterium in one form.

Advisory-first deployment, hard constraints and failsafe operating modes give operators a measured route from AI recommendation to controlled

AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has warned that advanced systems could threaten humanity unless designed to prioritise human welfare, while scientists debate machine consciousness and effective safeguards.

After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year, Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users. The conversational Gemini in navigation is available today for US drivers, with "rollout happening globally too," according to Google (we've asked for specific regional availability details). It's taken almost 12 months for Google to bring this to CarPlay users, but now they can talk to the voice assistant in Google Maps to get some hands-free help while driving. That includes asking it multi-step questions, such as recommendations on places to visit and then prompting it to direct you there while avoiding toll roads. Users … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google Maps in CarPlay now lets you access Gemini when navigating for a conversational driving experience. more…

Google Maps in CarPlay now lets you access Gemini when navigating for a conversational driving experience. more…

Drivers using iPhones will be able to ask natural-sounding questions, and Gemini will reply with relevant information.

For the first time, Northwestern University physicists have coaxed a single positron—the antimatter counterpart of an electron—into an exquisitely controlled quantum state.

An admission that 'AI has helped our design team' hasn't gone down well with some Windows 11 users.

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Mach9, which develops AI-powered CAD software trained on proprietary, in-house AI models using multimodal image and laser scan datasets, raised a $34M Series A  —  When Alex Baikovitz co-founded Mach9 Robotics in 2021, his goal was to build a better, faster, and cheaper way for civil engineers to do visual inspections.

While AI offers the ability to improve human experts' ability to diagnose and treat diseases like breast cancer, well-publicized errors across the broader AI field are cause for concern.

One former employee claimed the firm had “rapidly scaled headcount only to issue a sudden massive layoff months later, with some employees let go just weeks after starting.” The post Layoffs at Carbon Robotics as firm “realigns costs due to broader economic conditions” appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: ServiceNow and Nvidia launch Arc, a personal, long-running enterprise AI agent for productivity tasks across email and Teams, for RTX Spark and Nvidia OpenShell  —  The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.

A small randomized study found immediate knowledge gains and no statistically significant outcome differences between expert-curated AI-assisted and teacher-made thyroid eye disease videos, but it was not designed to establish equivalence.

A Times reporter and editors discuss the challenges of sifting through what’s real and what’s not in pursuit of the news.

SpaceX posts first profit since listing as AI revenue jumps to 7.56 billion dollars, overtaking connectivity, while Elon Musk weighs a possible Tesla merger.

Thomas Claburn / The Register: Nvidia launches its OpenShell Reference Architecture, a framework to secure, monitor, and govern AI agents, and partners with Canonical, AWS, BBVA, and others  —  Nvidia has proposed a new way to keep corporate AI agents in line.  —  Nvidia on Wednesday introduced its OpenShell Reference Architecture.

Unitree Robotics has revealed its impressive new H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian robot —a humanoid bodyguard from our sci-fi dreams.

Two lawsuits filed in Chicago claim that delivery robots carried out face and body scans without permission.

A federal judge has allowed the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit over alleged pollution from turbines powering Elon Musk's xAI data centre to continue.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April  —  OpenAI will make its artificial intelligence models available for developers through Google's cloud, following years of competition between the two companies.

Microsoft wants to help lead the way when it comes to getting your business up to speed on AI.

European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooling water use to almost zero. The news came a day after Germany signed an AI partnership with Nvidia at a Berlin investment summit. Nvidia calls these sites AI […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice.

OpenAI will now have its models on all three of the top clouds, giving corporate developers more choice.

British rapper IAMDDB accused Israel's official social media accounts of using her likeness without consent in an AI-generated music video that was subsequently deleted.

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The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.

A critical review identifies the biologically acquired capping layer as the most promising—and least controlled—feature of antimicrobial nanoparticles made through biological synthesis.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS are among the companies working with it, Nvidia said. Nvidia announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture at its GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday. It is available now. Last week, Nvidia […] This story continues at The Next Web

Emily Mullin / Wired: Coherence Neuro, which is developing AI models and brain implants to help combat brain tumors, raised a $45M seed from the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund  —  It's the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.  —  OpenAI's venture capital arm …

A narrative review finds that artificial intelligence can support Gamma Knife planning, outcome prediction and toxicity assessment, but predominantly retrospective evidence and limited validation constrain clinical use.

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: Demis Hassabis says he expects AGI within two to three years, down from his three-to-five-year prediction earlier in 2026, and discusses AI's science potential  —  YOU CAN LEARN a lot about the people racing to build the world's most powerful technology by asking what keeps them up at night.

Researchers engineered hybrid strontium sulfite nanoparticle-modified lipid nanoparticles to deliver p53 mRNA, producing higher reporter-gene expression, higher p53 transcript levels, and greater apoptosis in breast cancer cells than conventional LNPs. In mice, the p53 mRNA-loaded hybrid carrier slowed 4T1 tumor growth, although the study was small and preclinical, and the clearest biodistribution advantage appeared after PEGylation.

An experiment in semimetallic rhombohedral hexalayer graphene found correlated insulators, several superconducting pockets and two orbital magnetic orders, including a ferroelectric state whose magnetism switches under an electric field.

HPE’s Spaceborne Computer-4 will ride Astrolab’s FLIP rover to the Moon’s south pole to run HPL, HPCG, and AI tests.

A material that carries electricity without resistance may be held back by its own structure, challenging 40 years of assumptions about copper-based superconductors. A crystal that scientists thought had the same structure throughout is actually a patchwork of two subtly different arrangements of atoms. The boundaries between those regions are hundreds of times wider than [...]

A seven-degree-of-freedom robotic arm completed all 30 trials with familiar objects and 52.9% of trials with seven unseen household objects in cluttered scenes.

Amazon faces scrutiny over Atlas, an alleged AI system that assessed warehouse union risk using worker feedback, Reddit posts, and workplace data.

Ferrocene-derived multi-walled carbon nanotubes inhibited E. coli ATCC 25922 in laboratory assays, with reported minimum inhibitory and bactericidal concentrations of 256 micrograms per milliliter.

Such devices could tackle problems beyond the reach of today’s most powerful computers, researchers say. Researchers from Rutgers,

A study of 15 volunteers found that strongly coupling two robot arms during kinesthetic teaching cut mean task time by 22.3% and lowered perceived workload, although interaction forces rose and placement accuracy did not change significantly.

HemiBot matched motion-capture performance classifications in 120 repetitions and correctly adapted task difficulty for 16 healthy participants, but the technical test did not establish clinical benefit or safety in people with stroke-related neglect.

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A benchmark study found that an AI service hub combining sensor, text and visual data achieved high fault-detection and maintenance performance and a modeled 30% operating-cost reduction on public smart-grid datasets.

Plant-mediated silver nanoparticles delayed tumors and reduced tumor incidence in a mouse skin-cancer model while showing dose-dependent toxicity against A431 cells in vitro.

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: OpenEvidence says nearly two-thirds of ~1M US physicians use its AI search engine; a source says it is on track to generate $400M-$500M in 2026 ad revenue  —  Founder of OpenEvidence chatbot says two-thirds of US physicians use the ad-powered tool, prompting a debate about patient care

Adversarial domain adaptation raised normal-case specificity on robotic echocardiograms from 65.7% to 89.3% without using robotic pathological cases, but validation in healthy participants alone remains insufficient for clinical use.

Spirit Airlines data sale explained: see what Google's $10M purchase includes, why pilots fear for safety reporting, and when the bankruptcy court will rule.

Korean customers will be able to use Apple Inc.'s generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered assistant soon, as the tech giant is set to support Korean on its Siri AI starting this month, industry sources said Wednesday. The latest service expansion comes after Apple made a beta launch of the new Siri in English in September. Siri AI is a profoundly more capable and conversational assistant with personal context understanding, broad world knowledge, onscreen awareness and even more systemwide app actions, the company said in a release. For example, if a user asks Siri what the recipe was for a dish eaten during a previous trip, it can search the user's message logs and pull up a link of the recipe for that specific dish. Another function of Siri AI is its visual intelligence, which offers powerful image understanding and multimodal capabilities. Users can ask questions about visual content across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, the company explained. Apple is said to have

Gabrielle Ng / Bloomberg: Google, Temasek, and Bain: online spending in SE Asia to rise ~17% YoY to $368B in 2026 despite economic headwinds, as businesses harness AI to spur spending  —  Artificial intelligence is helping Southeast Asia's digital economy deliver robust growth in the face of rising prices and teetering demand …

A review finds that AI-enabled microfluidic wearables and implants could support continuous personalized monitoring, but clinical adoption requires stable materials, unbiased algorithms, interoperable systems and rigorous validation.

AI may help doctors judge how ill a patient is using a single photograph of their face, say US researchers.

A dual-carbon Li3V2(PO4)3 cathode combining PEG-derived coating with multi-walled carbon nanotubes delivered 127.2 mAh g−1 after 200 cycles at 1 C.

Author(s): Balázs Gulácsi and Guido BurkardSuperconducting qubits are a leading platform for quantum computing, but scaling up their circuitry is limited by crosstalk between qubits, and by the growing density of control wiring. This theoretical study uncovers a particular kind of crosstalk: When the magnetic flux through one qubit varies in time, that qubit’s neighbors see this as a voltage source woven into the circuit itself, in a circuit version of Faraday’s law of induction. Rather than a bane, though, this crosstalk mechanism could be turned into a boon, enabling quantum gates with less wiring per qubit. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 044056] Published Tue Oct 20, 2026

South Korean robotics company T-Robotics has secured a U.S. patent for a key technology in the emerging glass substrate market, widely regarded as a potential game changer in next-generation semiconductor packaging. The company, which specializes in humanoid and industrial robots, announced on Oct.

A reinforcement-learning method combining contraction theory was tested in simulation and on three robot platforms, providing stability guarantees and improving tracking performance by up to 15% over existing methods in the reported experiments.

Imagine stepping into a virtual world while sensors embedded in wearable technology track the way that you move outside in the real world. For an individual with Parkinson's disease, this opportunity gives researchers a detailed look into how the disease affects movement and offers insight into how it can be more effectively treated.