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The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment observed a particle interaction that could be interpreted as a signal from WIMPS, a dark

“ ‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence — Scientists are battling over whether supposedly simple organisms should be considered ‘intelligent’. The outcome could reshape our understanding of the natural world – and our own place within it”. So says the headline of a report by Samanth Subramanian, […]

“Autonomous AI will likely soon exceed both unaided physicians and physicians aided by AI at five core cognitive medical tasks,” write Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Abe Baker-Butler.

Apple will announce the new Apple Watch lineup later today, and Mark Gurman at Bloomberg has the early scoop. He reports that the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 will include a new AI feature that ambiently listens to the microphone, GPS, and uses other sensor data, to generate daily recaps of what you did, including conversation summaries. Gurman says the feature does not store audio recordings, and can be controlled to run all day long, or only when at certain locations. and generated Recaps will be stored inside the new Siri app. more…

Google on Wednesday said it would invest 13 billion euros ($15.1 billion) into AI infrastructure in Finland, marking the tech giant's largest single investment in Europe.

Google on Wednesday said it would invest 13 billion euros ($15.1 billion) into AI infrastructure in Finland, marking the tech giant's largest single investment in Europe.

In a finding that could reshape how researchers design the next generation of optoelectronic devices, physicists at the University of Anbar in Iraq have demonstrated that the optical personality of two technologically important semiconductors, indium antimonide (InSb) and palladium diselenide (PdSe₂), can be tuned simply by changing the dimensionality of the structures they are built […]

OpenAI's new ChatGPT Images 2.5 model brings faster generation, sharper details, and smarter edits, plus a fun new Sketch feature that turns doodles into finished art.

A new robotic system is drawing blood in adult patients, but its real-world impact may depend on how often it skips difficult veins.

Meta has launched a personal AI agent that will read your email, book your travel, fill in your forms, negotiate on your behalf, and pay for the results with your card. The company that built the world’s largest behavioural advertising business also says none of what you tell it will reach the ad systems. Muse […] This story continues at The Next Web

As AI moves into robotics, autonomous systems, industrial equipment, medical devices, defense applications, and edge systems, demand is expanding for the sensors that connect digital intelligence to the physical world. Atomica's new Physical AI Sensor Platform brings together MEMS,...

Meta introduces Muse, an AI agent that manages tasks like reading emails and making purchases, with user-controlled permissions and privacy safeguards

Researchers developed a sterically regulated electrolyte that uses a non-flammable cyclic fluorinated diluent to form isolated solvation nanoclusters, improving lithium-ion transport and stabilizing interfaces in lithium metal batteries. The system enabled NCM811 coin cells to retain 80% capacity after more than 800 cycles, while a separate 6 Ah pouch cell exceeded 500 Wh kg?¹ and showed favorable behavior in nail-penetration and severe overcharge tests.

Kakao Mobility is honing its end-to-end (E2E) self-driving technology to bring self-driving taxis into everyday use in Korea, building on driving data accumulated over the past six months through an ongoing pilot program in Seoul’s bustling Gangnam area. The ride-hailing platform held a press briefing on Wednesday, showcasing its latest progress in self-driving services and outlining its autonomous driving technology and integrated platform strategy. Kakao Mobility formed its autonomous driving team in 2018 and began testing the technology in 2020. In March this year, it launched an autonomous passenger transport service in Seoul’s Gangnam area, operating from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The service started with two vehicles and expanded to six in August. Kakao Mobility said the fleet has logged more than 13,000 kilometers so far, completed about 2,000 rides and received an average customer rating of 4.97 out of 5. Kakao Mobility’s pilot program seeks to operate a mixture of E2E technology and a

Author(s): Robin Scholle, Pietro M. Bonetti, Walter Metzner, and Demetrio VilardiThe authors analyze here the competition and coexistence of magnetic, charge, and d -wave superconducting orders in the two-dimensional Hubbard model using renormalization-group-improved Hartree–Fock calculations. The resulting phase diagram reveals superconductivity coexisting with Néel order on the electron-doped side and with spiral or stripe order on the hole-doped side. In the stripe phase, the superconducting gap is spatially modulated together with the charge order. [Phys. Rev. B 114, 185107] Published Tue Sep 08, 2026

Meta's new AI agent, Muse, doesn't just chat, it books tickets, plans your week, and shops for you from its own secure computer.

Cancer treatment has long been constrained by a deceptively simple problem: getting enough drug into a tumor without poisoning the rest of the body. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy remain the pillars of clinical oncology, yet solid tumors frequently defeat them through a combination of abnormal vasculature, dense extracellular matrices, elevated interstitial pressure, and adaptive resistance […]

Evan Hubinger / @evanhub: Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and worries about recursive self-improvement  —  Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

In a development that could reshape how scientists approach two of the planet’s most stubborn environmental problems at once, an international team of researchers has engineered a three-component nanomaterial that uses nothing more than visible light to dismantle toxic dye pollution in water while simultaneously converting carbon dioxide into usable chemical fuels. The new photocatalyst, […]

The Korea Heritage Service held a donation ceremony on Tuesday to receive 10 wearable robotic devices from Hyundai Motor, intended to improve safety and efficiency for workers at regional heritage-care centers across the country. The ceremony, held at the Haenggung-dong administrative welfare center and Hwaryeongjeon Shrine in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, marked the handover of X-ble Shoulder devices — unpowered, wearable exoskeletons developed by the Hyundai Motor and Kia robotics lab to support shoulder muscles during repetitive overhead tasks. The devices will go to four regional heritage-care centers, in Gyeonggi Province, northern North Gyeongsang Province, western Jeonnam-Gwanju Special Metropolitan City and North Chungcheong Province. The agency said the equipment is expected to ease musculoskeletal strain and reduce the risk of workplace accidents for staff who often raise their arms repeatedly while inspecting and maintaining heritage sites. The regional heritage-care program is

A new class of engineered nanoparticles that home in on the endoplasmic reticulum of cancer cells and, when illuminated, devastate tumors from within has shown near-complete suppression of tumor growth in mouse models, according to a study published in Bioengineering & Translational Medicine. The work introduces quinoxalinone-based photosensitizer nanoparticles, abbreviated Qui-PS NPs, as a promising […]

Imagine swapping your daily cholesterol pill for a single injection that keeps “bad” cholesterol under control for a year, a decade – or even a lifetime. Two clinical trials, one in the United States and another in China, suggest that this one-and-done approach could become a reality. Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), better known as “bad” cholesterol, is a major driver of heart disease – the leading cause of death worldwide. Triglycerides, another type of blood fat, add to the...

Psilocybin prevented chemotherapy-related nerve damage in mice, while a non-hallucinogenic compound produced a similar protective effect.

In a development that could reshape how scientists study and steer living robots, researchers in Indonesia and Japan have unveiled a camera-based artificial intelligence system that tracks cyborg insects in real time without attaching a single physical marker to their bodies. The work, led by Habib Ja’far Nuur and Mochammad Ariyanto of Diponegoro University in […]

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don't have had theirs ejected during a galactic collision. That's because galaxies and their black holes have formed hand in hand. There is still some debate as to whether galaxies formed around the seeds of supermassive black holes or the other way around, but there is plenty of evidence to support the idea that the two evolve together.

Waterborne parasites circulating silently in rivers and sewage systems may be far more genetically diverse—and far more widespread—than conventional testing has ever revealed. A new study from southwestern Colombia has combined portable nanopore sequencing with multilocus genotyping to map the hidden diversity of two of the world’s most important diarrheal pathogens, Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium […]

Meta introduces Muse, an AI agent capable of managing tasks like emails and shopping, with a focus on privacy and user control. Available in the US, it marks a shift in AI usage.

Helium—the lightest atom that can be laser-cooled and controlled—powers a new design for high-powered, stable quantum computers.

High in the central tower of Angkor Wat, an ancient Cambodian temple, paintings depict horseback riders and a traditional musical ensemble. Thousands of visitors pass these images daily without noticing them because they are faded to the point of invisibility.

Decked out with a gimbal and shockingly good camera, the Robot Phone is one of the weirdest devices to come out of Honor. Even if you ignore the fact that it’s limited to China, Honor can’t keep up with demand. more…

I've compared using Siri AI to Gemini on Android— here's why Siri actually has an advantage.

Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a new physics-based artificial intelligence approach that, for the first time, enables accurate global-scale predictions of how dissolved organic carbon moves between seawater and marine sediments, a crucial but previously unquantifiable component of the planet's carbon cycle.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and xAI have signed Pentagon contracts worth up to $200 million to develop AI tools for military use, raising concerns about oversight and ethical implications.

I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an image based on that sketch. You can activate the Sketch feature by typing @Sketch into your chat box, and a window will pop up where you can make your drawing. I briefly tested it, and it successfully turned my bad doodle of a cat that I drew with my computer mouse into a realistic photo, per my instructions. You can also now leave comments directly on parts of images … Read the full story at The Verge.

Nanographenes can be considered molecular fragments of graphene, a 2D conductive material in which carbon atoms are connected in a honeycomb pattern. Because their electronic and photophysical properties vary depending on the size and shape of the molecule, nanographenes are expected to find applications in OLEDs, organic solar cells, organic field-effect transistors and more.

Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.

Intense, brief flashes of radio light called fast radio bursts (FRBs) travel across billions of light-years to reach Earth, passing through a fog of matter along the way. The bursts' origins are unclear but may originate from highly magnetized dead stars called magnetars. The denser the fog through which FRBs travel, the more dispersed their signals become—similar to the way a prism splits white light into a rainbow of colors.

Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

John Koetsier / Forbes: Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock  —  Figure AI pulled the wraps off Index last week.  It's a billion-dollar bet on real-world data for robot AI training …

China’s military is exploring humanoid robots for urban combat as the country’s commercial robotics industry dominates global shipments and manufacturing. The post China Is Turning Its Humanoid Robot Boom Toward the Battlefield appeared first on TechRepublic.

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week, with $20 and $100 monthly tiers  —  Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf, advancing Mark Zuckerberg's vision …

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…

Meta unveiled its Muse personal agent app that comes in a free tier or a monthly subscription costing $20 or $100 depending on usage.

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses  —  Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.

Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion dollar strategy overhaul designed to revitalize the company's ailing position in the AI race and help it catch up to rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Muse is a "personal AI agent" designed to help out with everyday tasks and projects, like online shopping, sending emails, and planning a trip. Once given a goal, Meta says Muse can work on its own, opening a browser, filling out forms, and even negotiating on users' behalf. F … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta unveiled its Muse personal agent app that comes in a free tier or a monthly subscription costing $20 or $100 depending on usage.

Muse, Meta's newly revealed AI agent, can perform tasks autonomously, if you trust it to do that.

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT  —  OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.

The Rentosertib analysis found a stronger biological-age signal at 30 mg twice daily, while Phase 3 is testing lung function instead

In April, OpenAI released upgraded image generation technology with ChatGPT Images 2. Five months later, the company is releasing an enhanced version, ChatGPT Images 2.5. more…

ChatGPT has just updated its Images tool to version 2.5, and it comes with a bunch of improvements. Here are the three you really need to know about.

Following last week’s Android Drop, Google is now rolling out an app update that brings the “Remembered” tab to Find Hub. more…

Patients who experience anxiety or claustrophobia can have difficulty completing important cardiac imaging, including Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Computerized Tomography (CT) scans.

It’s time for human doctors to get serious about AI.

Active black holes are easy to detect. Their superheated accretion disks emit bright X-rays, and the jets streaming from their poles are easily seen at visible and radio wavelengths. But most stellar-mass black holes are inactive. They either drift through the galaxy alone or orbit a companion star without consuming its material. We can't observe inactive black holes directly. We can only observe their effects on nearby objects. We currently know of three such black holes thanks to the Gaia spacecraft.

For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the most far-flung bodies in our solar system, trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). Some are the smallest and faintest ever directly seen. The researchers unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than expected and that the colors of these bodies followed the same relationships as those of their larger family members.

For at least two decades, thousands of Americans have been going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil to look for ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in sacred ceremonies in South America. Ayahuasca contains the psychedelic compound DMT, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine, and researchers are studying its effects on several conditions, including depression and addiction.

We know the universe is constantly expanding. We also know that gravitationally bound objects, such as solar systems and black holes, seem to be immune to that expansion. But a new paper by theoretical physicists Valerio Faraoni and Massimiliano Rinaldi challenges that assumption. They suggest that black holes can't just ignore the expanding universe around them. Instead, they have to expand along with it. Their paper is posted to the arXiv preprint server.

New observations find that a few supermassive black holes are unexpectedly large given the size of their galaxies. This suggests the connection between black holes and galaxies isn't as strong as we thought.

For decades, physicists have worked to prove the strange predictions of quantum mechanics with real experiments. As quantum computers have grown more powerful, researchers have devised increasingly sophisticated ways to test whether these machines are truly harnessing quantum effects—but every method so far has run into limits.

Google: Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1PB dataset of predicted molecular effects for all ~9B possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome  —  AlphaGenome Atlas is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology.  —  VP Science, Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist, Google Cloud

AlphaGenome Atlas predicts the effect of any single change in the fundamental structure of DNA

Nvidia PAIR is a free open-source tool that distributes local AI workloads across PCs and Macs, letting idle hardware help run multi-agent tasks. The post Nvidia Launches Free PAIR Tool to Share AI Workloads Across PCs and Macs appeared first on TechRepublic.

COBLESKILL, N.Y.  – SUNY Cobleskill Ag & Tech has received a $30,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to build a prototype virtual reality (VR) course in agricultural engineering and lay the groundwork to test it with students, a step toward giving rural and place-bound farmers a way […] The post SUNY Cobleskill Ag & Tech Awarded USDA Grant to Develop Virtual Reality Course in Agricultural Engineering appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Superfluid helium could offer a new way to tackle one of the biggest challenges in scaling up quantum computers, say researchers from the University of Surrey. The research team has introduced a conceptual design for a new type of qubit that could be much less vulnerable to errors.

A more realistic quantum model has revealed evidence that strange, nearly immobile quasiparticles called fractons could exist in solid materials. Their inability to move freely could make them promising building blocks for unusually robust quantum information storage.

Physicists have directly observed a long-predicted quantum effect of gravity, putting one of Einstein’s foundational ideas to a striking new test. Using ultracold atoms, researchers split an atom’s quantum wave so that one part was held in place while the other fell freely under gravity, then reunited the two to measure the tiny difference that emerged.

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Google Cloud and Accenture form the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group to train up to 1,000 Accenture forward deployed engineers for Gemini Enterprise  —  The new group will be made up of 1,000 forward-deployed engineers  —  Google Cloud and Accenture are the latest companies to bet …

Ari Levy / CNBC: Qualcomm signs a deal with Amazon to provide “multiple generations of customized silicon” to help build AWS' AI infrastructure; QCOM jumps 6%+  —  Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.  — CNBC Councils

Six proteomic aging clocks found rentosertib lowered predicted biological age in 42 lung fibrosis patients. The smaller dose gave the broadest signal.

The most comprehensive catalog of exploding white dwarf stars ever assembled has revealed new clues about dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe's accelerating expansion. Researchers at The University of Queensland's School of Mathematics and Physics have led a global effort to compile a dataset containing information on 2,884 Type Ia supernovae used to measure cosmic distances.

Password protection controls who opens a video the first time and nothing after that. Secure video hosting platforms

Patients who experience anxiety or claustrophobia can have difficulty completing important cardiac imaging, including positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scans.

The world of semiconductor packaging may be on the verge of a quiet materials revolution. Researchers in India have demonstrated that boron nitride nanosheet-reinforced polyether ether ketone, one of the most demanding engineering plastics ever synthesized, can be transformed into a 3D-printable composite that conducts heat far better than the base polymer while remaining an […]

Science ministry plans to invest 4.7 trillion won ($3.49 billion) for a project to develop a homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) model that will be on par with global frontier models, government officials said Tuesday. The science ministry plans to form an independent fund to that end, according to the officials. The money will be included in the 9.4 trillion-won AI budget proposed by the ministry in its 2027 budget request. Exact details of the project have yet to be decided, an official from the science ministry said. The latest endeavor comes amid growing calls for increased government support in developing a homegrown frontier AI model, as the global race to develop highly advanced AI is intensifying due to massive capital investments and unprecedented reasoning upgrades. Science Minister Bae Kyung-hoon has stressed the importance of creating a sovereign frontier model to prevent Korea from becoming subordinate to other nations, especially at a time of intensifying geopolitical

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

We know the universe is constantly expanding. We also know that gravitationally bound objects, such as solar systems and black holes, seem to be immune to that expansion. But a new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv by theoretical physicists Valerio Faraoni and Massimiliano Rinaldi challenges that assumption. They suggest that black holes can’t just ignore the expanding universe around them. Instead they have to expand along with it.

From Dance Floor to Drill Ground At the World Humanoid Robot Games in China last month, machines boxed,

XPENG’s IRON humanoid has walked off a newly commissioned production line, with the automaker targeting mass production this year and commercial deliveries in China and overseas markets in 2027.

Hospitals are, by their very nature, places of healing, but for certain patients they can also become places of profound psychological strain. Among the most difficult experiences in modern medicine is protective isolation, the practice of placing patients with severely weakened immune systems in single rooms to shield them from everyday pathogens. Cancer patients undergoing […]

Scientists mapped the complete brain and central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly for the first time. Days later the full MaleCNS v1.0 fruit fly connectome was being trained to play Doom and Mario 64.

Hey, happy Tuesday. How was your long weekend? I hope it involved a little Windows 98-style downtime, maybe some pickleball with Andre Agassi, a dive into the origins of the newly UN-endorsed Equal Earth map, a few examples of GPT-6 Astra blowing minds. As a reminder, Inbox is the tech newsletter that goes beyond the news cycle. We cover the most important 9to5Google stories from the last couple of days along with a few highlights from around the web. We publish every Tuesday and Thursday, and if you like what you read, please subscribe. more…

Developers won't be writing code forever, but that's not to say their jobs are entirely at risk as responsibilities evolve.

A viral video of a humanoid robot seemingly performing kung-fu moves on a customer in Russia has sparked debates about AI safety and whether the incident was staged.

In a development that could reshape the economics of clean energy conversion, an international team of researchers from Algeria and Turkey has demonstrated that humble magnesium oxide—one of the most abundant and inexpensive ceramic materials known to chemistry—can be engineered into a nanorod architecture that rivals noble-metal catalysts in driving the electrochemical oxidation of hydrazine. […]

Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature publishes landmark papers, award winning news, leading comment and expert opinion on important, topical scientific news and events that enable readers to share the latest discoveries in science and evolve the discussion amongst the global scientific community.

A new study with contributions from DTU Space could pave the way for more localized tidal models and

Getting tech infrastructure right is just one piece of a complex puzzle that needs to be solved to deploy AI safely in business

I tried Yarbo’s modular M Series at IFA 2026, swapping attachments and driving its tracked Core while discovering why one robot for multiple outdoor chores makes sense.

A handful of home-grown Chinese companies involved in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) are moving towards initial public offerings (IPOs) on onshore markets, taking advantage of the sector’s status as a new darling of private capital. The trend fits into a broad pattern of hi-tech firms flocking to list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s Nasdaq-style Star Market. Among the BCI hopefuls, Shanghai-based Arfysica Innovation is the latest to register for IPO coaching for a Star Market listing,...

During the Sept. 11 attacks, NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson — the only American not on Earth at the time — snapped a "sobering" shot of smoke pouring across New York City as the second tower fell.

Most of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy sit neatly on a flat plane. But the space around our galaxy is

Xpeng's engineers have designed a humanoid robot that they say is the first in the world that will walk itself off the production line.

The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) hosted the 2026 Global Forum on Mechanical Engineering on Sept. 7 at the Science and Technology Convention Center in Seoul to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Under the theme "Robotics Shaping Tomorrow's Industrial Ecosystem with Physical AI," the

A comprehensive review examined how nanomaterials could protect healthy tissues from radiation damage through targeted drug delivery, reactive oxygen species scavenging, anti-inflammatory activity, and physical radiation shielding. Although experimental studies show promising protection across several tissues and organ systems, most approaches remain preclinical, with long-term safety, biodistribution, scalability, and selective protection of healthy tissue still requiring investigation.