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Google has announced the general availability of Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, a significant upgrade to its video generation capabilities that brings native 15-second video creation, improved reference adherence, and a 30% price reduction compared to its predecessor. This release represents a major step forward in making AI-powered video generation more accessible and practical for businesses, creators, and developers worldwide. What's New in Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash The latest iteration of Google's Gemin...

For the first time, an international team of researchers from Germany, Thailand, India, China and the United States has created a three-component Hubbard system with tunable interactions in the laboratory. In doing so, the team used a quantum gas microscope to make the individual atoms visible. The study, published in Science, provides an important foundation for future quantum simulations of nuclear physics and materials science.

Integrating vanadium pentoxide nanorods with carbon nanotubes and hydroxylated graphene enhances conductivity, surface area, and cycling stability in aqueous supercapacitor electrodes.

A systematic review examines how deep learning algorithms analyze gigapixel whole-slide images to classify tumors and predict transcriptomic profiles directly from tissue morphology.

Researchers evaluating green silver nanoparticles synthesized with wild garlic extract in cottonseed biodiesel blends found high-speed power gains alongside severe exhaust emission penalties.

The editors of AI, Brain and Child review their first volume of 20 articles and set a 2026 agenda aimed at synthesizing artificial intelligence, neuroscience and child development.

Europe's meteorological satellite agency, EUMETSAT, has released the first image from the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) on board Meteosat Third Generation Imager 2 (MTG-I2), just over two months after the satellite's launch on Aug. 27, 2026. The satellite will provide forecasters with high-resolution observations of Europe every 2.5 minutes. This unprecedented frequency will help forecasters monitor fast-developing weather hazards more closely and support earlier, more precise warnings.

PSI: AI physics startup PSI says a system running a non-public Anthropic model proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture, a quantum computing question open since 2008  —  The Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture is now a theorem.  —  Open since 2008, the conjecture of Scott Aaronson and Andris Ambainis concerns …

Microsoft is winding down a 2023 deal to rent AI computing from Oracle after declining to renew it, Bloomberg reports. The servers ran older Nvidia chips. Microsoft is reassessing more than $80B in contracts with outside cloud providers. Microsoft is winding down a deal to rent AI computing power from Oracle, Bloomberg reported on Friday, […] This story continues at The Next Web

Under conventional agricultural conditions, large-scale cannabinoid production faces substantial constraints, including extensive land and irrigation requirements, susceptibility to pests and diseases, and reliance on agrochemicals.

A multimodal framework modeling evidence trust improved cancer survival predictions across several patient cohorts while revealing performance attenuation under domain shift.

Microsoft is winding down the number of neoclouds it counts as partners, picking key suppliers and focusing on its own data centers.

Microsoft is winding down the number of neoclouds it counts as partners, picking key suppliers and focusing on its own data centers.

Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within its Muse AI assistant. The new feature, called "spaces," allows Muse to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the app. If you connect your space to a relevant app, Muse will update pricing, dates, and other information in the background. Meta says you can create a new space by describing it, and continue to tweak it by asking Muse. You can also interact with your spaces by checking things off, adding notes, and making edits. You can add spaces to the sidebar in the Muse a … Read the full story at The Verge.

Optical cavities are pairs of light-trapping mirrors and underpin the operation of lasers, atomic clocks and many types of precision sensors. If the distance between the mirrors is changed rapidly enough, some theories predict that the waves inside them should bunch together into short, intense pulses. So far, however, this prediction has never been tested directly.

Researchers evaluating text-to-image generative models found that automated tools struggle to reliably measure subtle gender-object stereotypes, often confounded by significant classifier errors and poor prompt adherence.

FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 2026 — An experimental implant might one day help people better recover from a spinal cord injury, a new study says.The tiny ultrasonic device could help doctors monitor injury sites and potentially stimulate recuperation...

A new physiology-informed neural network with attributable branches predicts blood glucose in type 1 diabetes while revealing which factors drive each forecast.

TSMC is considering making advanced memory chips and has begun drafting plans for 3D DRAM at Nvidia’s request, The Information reports. It would put TSMC up against Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron as AI demand keeps memory scarce. TSMC is considering making advanced memory chips, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing The Information. The move would […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia loses nearly $1.4 trillion in market value after a 9.26% share-price plunge, fuelling concerns over AI spending, valuations, and future profits.

A critical narrative review and evidence map reveals that clinical evidence demonstrating incremental patient benefits from artificial intelligence in robotic total knee arthroplasty remains limited, with current machine learning tools functioning primarily in adjacent preoperative and postoperative tasks.

Researchers demonstrated bench-top feasibility of delivering a miniaturised optical ultrasound probe through a robotic bronchoscopy catheter for real-time transbronchial imaging guidance.

An iron coordination complex immobilised in zeolite-Y nanocavities acts as a robust heterogeneous catalyst for the oxidative coupling of β-naphthol, delivering high conversion and surviving four consecutive catalytic cycles.

A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space—without the help of astronauts—for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA's Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass-efficient Design (NOM4D) program, consists of an autonomous manipulator that picks up struts and joints held in nearby dispensers to repeatedly assemble identical sections, or bays, of a perimeter truss.

Layered double hydroxide nanobiocomposites hybridized with Arthrospira platensis hydrolysates enhanced early seedling root and shoot development by 15 to 45 percent in maize, barley, and wheat.

A Chinese research team built a soil-sensing robot that scans the ground, scores candidate insertion points and matched expert judgment on 95.78 percent of field tests.

Physicl, a Paris-based start-up that creates training data for AI systems that work in the physical world, has raised $10M in seed funding. Inovia Capital led the round, announced on Friday, with U.S. Venture Partners also taking part. The company focuses on what researchers call edge cases. These are the unusual situations, such as odd lighting or […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers have developed NuWebKit, an open web-based simulation framework that combines artificial intelligence code generation with modular runtime mathematical modeling.

Meta has hit pause on new terms of service for its business customers that would have granted it the right to grab any content from their websites. Not only that, but it would also have shifted the blame for every error produced through faulty AI to its customers. The new terms of service were revealed on October 19 and initially due to take effect on October 30, though Meta later pushed the start date back to November 20. But that small delay wasn’t enough to calm customer pushback, and now Meta has posted a note on Facebook’s business help center saying that the update had now been paused indefinitely. Given the strength of feeling, Meta’s U-turn will not have come as a surprise. The terms would have been seen as far too onerous for customers, as well as exposing them to a legal

Meta has hit pause on new terms of service for its business customers that would have granted it the right to grab any content from their websites. Not only that, but it would also have shifted the blame for every error produced through faulty AI to its customers. The new terms of service were revealed on October 19 and initially due to take effect on October 30, though Meta later pushed the start date back to November 20. But that small delay wasn’t enough to calm customer pushback, and now Meta has posted a note on Facebook’s business help center saying that the update had now been paused indefinitely. Given the strength of feeling, Meta’s U-turn will not have come as a surprise. The terms would have been seen as far too onerous for customers, as well as exposing them to a legal

Meta has bought Conductor, a startup whose app lets software engineers run several AI coding agents at once. Its team will join Meta Superintelligence Labs, chief executive Charlie Holtz said. Axios first reported the deal on Wednesday, and Meta did not disclose the price. Holtz confirmed the deal on X and in a post on […] This story continues at The Next Web

Emmy Martin / New York Times: Employees at Microsoft, long known for its stability in the industry, are grappling with its decision to offer buyouts to 60,000 people as AI spending grows  —  Within an hour of Microsoft's announcement of buyouts last week, employees rushed to an internal site to see whether they had been offered one.

Researchers have developed a dual-constrained pulse-coupled neural network algorithm that accelerates robotic path planning by suppressing redundant neuron activations without compromising trajectory quality.

Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian cloud providers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in its Fleet Intelligence tracking program, giving the chipmaker greater visibility into where its AI GPUs are deployed. The move comes as Washington increases pressure over suspected chip smuggling into China, with investigations involving Megaspeed International and Super Micro highlighting the challenges of enforcing U.S. export restrictions

The protesters stormed over the walls and took over the construction site, with the Stop Dirty Data Centers coalition saying that more actions are planned across Europe.

Levitating trains, ultra-efficient energy storage, and quantum computers: superconductivity could unlock a wealth of possibilities for the future. New research led by scientists from Utrecht, Leiden, and Munich has now shed light on one of the key requirements for achieving superconductivity at room temperature. Their findings, published in Science, bring scientists a step closer to understanding how this might be achieved.

The UK government now expects AI to add £55bn to £140bn to the economy by 2030. Its central estimate is £120bn. Its AI Opportunities Action Plan put the gain at £400bn, and AI minister Kanishka Narayan has now confirmed that Google commissioned the report behind that number. Narayan gave both figures in a written parliamentary […] This story continues at The Next Web

UCLA's PhoneBot turns old Android phones into the brain of a two-legged humanoid robot that walks, follows people and stands up after falling.

Researchers developed a PLZ4-targeted, transformable peptide nanoparticle that carries the doxorubicin prodrug Leu-DOX and releases it in response to MMP9 in the tumor microenvironment. In cell studies and mouse models of bladder cancer, the platform increased tumor drug retention and produced stronger antitumor effects with fewer measured signs of doxorubicin toxicity, supporting further preclinical investigation.

Researchers have developed 3D-printed carbon nanotube and graphene oxide patch antennas that maintain ultrawideband high-frequency performance across flat, curvilinear, and deformable surfaces.

A physics-informed graph neural network achieved 92.48% overall accuracy in predicting industrial robotic arm fatigue life across variable-load conditions.

Nanopit arrays promote greater cell spreading, focal adhesion maturation, and early osteogenic RUNX2 expression in human adipose-derived stem cells compared to nanopillar arrays.

Phytochemicals are bioactive compounds derived from plants, such as flavonoids, alkaloids and ginsenosides. They are key ingredients in functional foods and promising starting points for new drugs. Yet many of them never make it into the bloodstream because they are poorly absorbed in the intestine. Measuring their absorption one compound at a time requires laborious cell-based experiments, and this bottleneck has long slowed the screening of candidate ingredients.

Celebrated game director Hideo Kojima says AI mustn’t replace human craftsmanship in the creative industries.

A decentralized peer-to-peer robotics protocol paired with lightweight edge computer vision enables autonomous robot swarms to coordinate field scanning and predict crop quality in real time.

A structured narrative review maps how human-to-machine, machine-to-machine and machine-to-human learning could enable collaborative search and rescue robotics while exposing persistent deployment gaps.

US prosecutors charge three people over an alleged $129 million AI impersonation fraud targeting companies worldwide, with cryptocurrency used to launder proceeds.

Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta arrive in Philippine stores Nov. 10, with Tagalog AI support and four models spanning everyday, prescription, and sports use. The post Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta Are Finally Coming to the Philippines — With Tagalog AI and Four Models to Choose From appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google's Omni 1.2 Flash creates AI videos up to 15 seconds at 30% lower generation prices. See what changes for businesses and developers. The post Google’s New AI Video Model Creates 15-Second Clips at 30% Lower Prices appeared first on TechRepublic.

A patient-specific AI-powered biophysical model predicted radiofrequency ablation volumes in hepatocellular carcinoma with a median relative volume difference of 0.39, significantly better than the manufacturer estimate of 1.04.

Using machine learning, astronomers developed a new way of looking at James Webb telescope data that allows far-off planets to emerge from their star's glare.

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is requiring Southeast Asian customers seeking Nvidia Cloud Partner status to enroll in a program that tracks the locations of their AI chips  —  Nvidia Corp. is stepping up monitoring of AI accelerators sold in Southeast Asia, a strategic step to curtail semiconductor smuggling …

A 49-qubit fragment-encoded quantum convolutional neural network running on IBM's Heron r2 processor classified full-resolution images without classical preprocessing.

After nearly 22 years of exploring the universe’s most violent explosions, NASA’s Swift Observatory has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia. Originally designed to last just two years, the pioneering space telescope transformed our understanding of black holes, exploding stars, and mysterious cosmic outbursts.

A theoretical perspective by roboticist Frank Kirchner demonstrates how Alan Turing's early work on embodiment provides an architectural roadmap for transitioning from narrow functional artificial intelligence toward integrated real-world robotic systems.

A new review proposes matching lipid nanoparticle designs to specific Alzheimer's disease pathways, from neuronal BACE1 siRNA delivery to microglia-targeted clearance carriers.

An international team of scientists has outlined how a new generation of artificial intelligence models could transform our understanding of ecosystems and help predict their responses to environmental change.

I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San Francisco, I immediately signed…

Google expanded employee buyouts to five more countries amid heavy AI spending. Learn what is confirmed and what business customers should watch. The post Google Confirms Wider Employee Buyouts Amid Heavy AI Spending appeared first on TechRepublic.

Apple is updating App Store age ratings for dating and romantic AI companion apps. Here's what the new rules mean for parents, users, and developers. The post Apple Sets 18+ Ratings for Dating Apps and Romantic AI Companions appeared first on TechRepublic.

Nvidia-backed Agility Robotics goes public at a $2.5 billion valuation, raising $465 million in gross capital to expand its Digit humanoid robot business. The post Nvidia-Backed Agility Robotics Goes Public at $2.5B in Humanoid Robot Milestone appeared first on TechRepublic.

Researchers have developed a real-time robotic sorting framework that models waste management as an orienteering problem with time windows to maximize recovered economic utility rather than pick counts.

“For AI to achieve its full potential in women’s health, medical records need to tell the complete story,” experts write.

Two sol–gel-made strontium–magnesium–manganese oxide/carbon nanohybrids removed the toxic cationic dye Methyl Violet 2B from water, with the 600 °C sample reaching a Langmuir maximum capacity of 444.44 mg/g and regenerating efficiently over several reuse cycles.

Deep learning models trained on sparse expert annotations can segment anatomical structures in pediatric swallowing endoscopy videos from unseen patients, though independent testing revealed a substantial performance drop compared with frame-level validation.

A new Perspective argues telemedicine, online collaborative platforms, immersive technology and artificial intelligence could help close the global neurosurgical care gap.

A contactless deep learning framework estimated window-averaged zygomaticus major sEMG envelope amplitude from facial video with a mean correlation of 0.661 across five folds, while a far simpler landmark-based model matched it.

A systematic review and meta-analysis found artificial intelligence models demonstrated 92.0% sensitivity and 87.9% specificity for pediatric appendicular fracture detection, though substantial study heterogeneity remains a limitation.

The Simpsons is back in the spotlight as viewers debate its references to Trump, an alleged OpenAI surveillance attempt and fears about AI

A $7.34 CAD 3D-printed rack-and-pinion module lets an Opentrons OT-2 liquid handler passively flip substrates 180 degrees without motors, automating 48 contact lens transfers over 144 minutes with an average angular error of +0.77 degrees.

A Frontiers editorial outlines how EEG-based biomarkers, machine learning and BCI technologies could support personalised mental healthcare while facing low clinician awareness and unresolved ethical challenges.

Korea has opened its first dedicated data production facility for bipedal humanoid robots, which records teleoperated task data to train AI models iteratively.

Researchers show that interpretable speech features largely account for how well audio foundation models predict brain responses, while also revealing semantic capacities that grow with model size and context length.

Superconductivity has many important practical applications, including creating powerful magnets used in high-resolution medical scans, transporting electricity efficiently,

When the Shopper Is a Bot Amazon and Walmart hold a combined 88% of the estimated $74.4 billion

The Compute Bill for Personal AI Agents OpenAI built its Dots assistants to run on GPT-6 Astra, its

A Rescue Window for Hubble The Hubble Space Telescope has no engine to hold its orbit. Atmospheric drag

A smart hospital accommodated a 370 percent increase in surgical volume while improving turnover compliance by integrating an operating room information system with autonomous mobile robots.

Colloidal quantum dots are prized for their size-tunable optical properties and solution processability, making them attractive for next-generation displays and lighting.

Orally delivered exosome-like nanoparticles from Houttuynia cordata suppressed lung cancer tumors in mice, and a new multi-omics screening framework identified dual microRNA and metabolite cargo mechanisms behind the effect.

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After launching on Android, WhatsApp’s Meta AI photo expansion is now coming to iPhone, letting you widen the frame of any picture before you send it to friends or share it on your status.

A comprehensive expert review concludes that manual chamber counting and microscopic examination remain the gold standards for cerebrospinal fluid cytology, while artificial intelligence and telecytology require validated workflows before routine adoption.

Joel Khalili / Wired: Potential Sciences, an AI startup building large-scale chemical data sets, secured backing from the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, as part of an eight-figure raise  —  Potential Sciences, a startup backed by the UK government, is betting that training AI models on computer-generated biochemical data …

Nvidia's forward valuation has dropped below several consumer staples companies as investors reassess AI stocks, despite analysts continuing to raise earnings forecasts ahead of its 17 November results.

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A review of 42 studies finds speech emotion systems degrade by an average of 8.6 percent and facial systems by 14.4 percent when robots move from laboratory to real-world settings.

A ternary MoS2/cobalt ferrite/ceria nanocomposite with 40 mol% ceria reached 1141.41 F g−1 at 1.8 A g−1 and retained 97.1% capacitance over 6000 cycles in 3 M KOH.

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Google rolls out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, which creates clips up to 15 seconds, vs. 10 seconds with Omni 1.1, has better reference adherence, and costs 30% less  —  Ask about this article...  Google says Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is rolling out through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio …

Author(s): Maël Le Garrec, Ewen Hamish Maclean, Félix Simon Carlier, and Rogelio TomásAt injection energy, high-order magnetic field errors limit how long the LHC beam survives, and the third-order chromaticity driven by decapolar fields has long disagreed with the magnetic model. Using forced oscillations from an AC dipole, the authors directly measure chromatic amplitude detuning and a decapolar resonance driving term for the first time. They trace the discrepancy mainly to the decay of decapolar fields in the main dipoles, and show that sextupoles and octupoles also drive decapole-like resonances. Corrections derived from this work are now used in LHC operation and improve beam lifetime. [Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 29, 113501] Published Thu Nov 05, 2026

Author(s): N. Marquardt, C. Duffy, C. Proust, S. Badoux, M. Amano Patino, G. Lapertot, D. Aoki, J.-P. Brison, G. Knebel, and D. LeBoeufThe authors study here the field-reentrant superconducting phase of the unconventional superconductor UTe 2 using ultrasound measurements up to 77 T and down to 0.5 K. They find clear signatures of the field reentrant superconducting phase found for a field angle of 30 degrees from the b to the c axis in a longitudinal elastic mode, establishing the bulk nature of this superconducting phase. The authors observe an intriguing excess attenuation across the

Children who used a virtual reality (VR) headset before surgery showed reduced self-reported distress and fear, along with lower heart rate and blood pressure, according to a new study published November 5th in the open access journal PLOS Digital Health by Dayanjan Wijesinghe of Virginia Commonwealth University, US, and colleagues.

Nanoemulsion delivery improved the colloidal stability and sensory acceptability of essential-oil-enriched apple juice compared with direct homogenized dispersion.

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzRandom tangles of vortex lines have been observed untangling in an ultracold gas. [Physics 19, s137] Published Thu Nov 05, 2026

A deep learning model analyzing diagnostic biopsies accurately predicts whether esophageal adenocarcinoma patients will respond to preoperative radiochemotherapy.

The former Bitcoin mining heavyweight plans to become a pure-play data center provider in 2027, with mining now accounting for just 7.5% of quarterly revenue.

X-rays with wavelengths between approximately 2.3 and 4.4 nanometers, i.e., in the so-called water window, are particularly well suited to examining biological samples in their natural, aqueous environment. To date, however, it has been technically difficult to access this type of radiation at an appropriate quality and intensity, as only free-electron lasers in large-scale accelerator systems are capable of generating it.