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Johns Hopkins University engineers have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.

The technology could one day decode dreams—or reveal our most private thoughts. The post This AI Reconstructs What You’re Looking at From a Brain Scan appeared first on SingularityHub.

Video now carries product demos, onboarding, training, customer stories, and ads. Once a video performs in English, the

My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.”

Researchers have developed MAPLE, a black-box adversarial defense framework that jointly purifies adversarial images and recalibrates the classifier's decision margins to withstand transferable attacks.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Limerick (UL) has identified a new battery material from a renewable wood industry byproduct that could help reduce reliance on scarce and expensive materials.

Researchers have developed a graph-based deep learning network that decodes imagined movements from EEG signals with accuracies of up to 87.5 percent on standard benchmarks.

A sweeping review in the Journal of Advanced Research details how hydrogels, lipid nanoparticles, polymers, and biomimetic carriers are overcoming the solubility, toxicity, and delivery barriers that have long kept natural drug molecules out of the clinic.

Extracellular vesicles from black carrot lowered blood ammonia and shifted gut microbial lysine–butanoate metabolism in a rat model of hepatic encephalopathy, suggesting a food-based prophylactic therapy.

Australian scientists have used high-speed video to uncover the unique mechanism that allows a honey bee's stinger to continue to pump venom into its target even after it has separated from the bee's body.

As experts in autonomous warfare, U.S. Army robotics technicians will advise commanders on how best to deploy autonomous systems during operations.

Police in Cologne have seized a robot after it was filmed sexually harassing a 16-year-old girl Read Full Article at RT.com

Researchers have built a deep eutectic fluorescent composite paired with YOLOv8 computer vision that detects mercury ions at 60 nanomolar sensitivity and displays traffic-light-style safety verdicts in under half a second.

Researchers built an eight-variable machine learning model that predicts in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis-related myocardial injury and validated its performance, calibration, and interpretability across three independent intensive care cohorts.

As experts in autonomous warfare, U.S. Army robotics technicians will advise commanders on how best to deploy autonomous systems during operations.

A new Cluster Computing study using stroke prediction shows that federated learning in healthcare will fail unless it confronts severe class imbalance and ethical design alongside privacy-preserving architecture.

Diligent sleuthing by astronomers has broken open a cold case in the data archive of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In a study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers report uncovering a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet.

A chiral cerium-doped mesoporous silica nanoreactor loaded with indocyanine green enables NIR-II fluorescence-guided bladder tumor surgery while amplifying reactive oxygen species production through photothermal catalysis.

Meta has released Muse Wonder, known internally as Watermelon, and says it matches ChatGPT and Claude on coding and professional work. It has not said whether the weights will be published, which decides what it owes under the EU AI Act. Meta has released Muse Wonder, the most capable model to come out of the […] This story continues at The Next Web

For many years, the simplest view of dark energy has been that it remains unchanged. Throughout cosmic history, the mysterious ingredient believed to drive the universe's accelerated expansion is thought to have behaved in the same way at every epoch. However, an increasing number of observations are challenging this idea.

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When Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin," it was a reminder that for more than a century, scientists have treated Antarctica's environments as windows onto worlds beyond Earth.

Robert Hart / The Verge: Meta says it plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it “can bring to everyone using Muse”  —  Meta says the models compete with the industry's best and will soon power its Muse agent. … Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race.

Ina Fried / Axios: Meta says Wonder includes Active Memory and Active Focus, two features designed to help AI systems perform more useful work over extended periods  —  Meta on Monday launched a new family of AI models that it says can compete at the technological frontier, marking a major milestone …

A dual-center study shows that a deep learning radiomics model applied to routine mammograms can noninvasively predict HER2-positive and HER2-low breast cancer status, offering a potential preoperative adjunct to biopsy.

Meta introduced Muse Wonder, its latest AI model, but users have to pay for subscriptions to the Muse app to access it.

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: An interview with Mark Zuckerberg, who says Meta has caught up with rivals at the frontier of AI with its Wonder model and rejects calls for a slowdown  —  FT interview: tech billionaire touts release of new Muse Wonder model after vast spending to challenge rivals in AI race

HKUST researchers developed a cartilage-inspired shape-memory polymer nanocoating that suppresses cathode cracking and substantially extends lithium-ion battery lifespan.

Egyptian researchers have built a hybrid Vision Transformer and CNN framework with spectral band selection that outperforms few-shot learning methods on hyperspectral image classification while reducing computational cost.

Meta is making up for lost time in the AI race. After launching Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs division, and buzzy AI agent Muse, it's now launching two new models it claims can go toe-to-toe with the industry's best. The new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, are available for Muse Code subscribers starting today. Wonder can also be accessed through the Meta Model API, Meta said. Meta says it eventually plans to power its Muse AI agent with Wonder, starting with subscribers, and will develop specialized models it "can bring to everyone using Muse." It hasn't shared specifics or provided a tim … Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta introduced Muse Wonder, its latest AI model, but users have to pay for subscriptions to the Muse app to access it.

Meta’s biggest model rivals the world’s best—and includes new features to keep agents from going off the rails.

Meta AI Research: Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks  —  Fourteen months ago, we began a ground-up overhaul of our artificial intelligence efforts.  In that time, we've gone from rebuilding our stack from first principles to pushing the frontier.

Psilocybin Sorts the Brain by Context Give a machine-learning model a moment of brain activity from someone on

"Photo 51" was a cleaner version of an earlier X-ray image, "Photo 49," that Rosalind Franklin had already used to calculate key features of DNA, challenging long-held assumptions about her role in the discovery of the double helix.

A landmark PET-MRI study has for the first time quantified how LSD occupies serotonin 2A receptors in the living human brain while revealing its distinct effects on cerebral blood flow and global connectivity compared with psilocybin.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an artificial intelligence framework

Researchers from Rutgers, IBM and collaborating institutions have shown that a quantum computer can check what is happening inside it and respond while it is running, repeatedly resetting parts of the system to bring chaotic behavior under control.

A marine polysaccharide hydrogel loaded with a zinc-iron MOF nanozyme and glucose oxidase induces ferroptosis and activates cGAS-STING immunity to suppress pancreatic tumors in mice.

A fusion of CT-based habitat radiomics and 3D deep learning predicted the hidden STAS invasion pattern in early-stage lung adenocarcinoma with an AUC of 0.824 before surgery.

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Neuralink is private, but Butterfly Network and Quantum-Si offer two very different public-market angles on brain-computer interfaces. The post 2 Brain-Computer Interface Stocks to Watch While Neuralink Stays Private appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Microsoft will make its own Maia chips the primary system for running AI in its products starting in 2027. The company set out the plan on Monday as it unveiled the Maia 300, the third generation of its custom AI chip. Microsoft plans deployments measured in gigawatts starting next year, which could mean more than […] This story continues at The Next Web

Researchers have developed a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm that outperforms eight competing heuristics in mobile robot path planning, cutting overall path costs by 18.31 percent on simple maps and improving path smoothness by up to 73.91 percent on intermediate grids.

Tesla's Optimus robot production reportedly increased in 2026. Here's what to know about Elon Musk's 2027 sales target, manufacturing challenges, and rollout. The post Elon Musk’s Tesla Optimus Timeline: Robots Targeted for 2027 Launch appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google has launched the Fitbit Edge, a $179.99 fitness tracker that sits between its screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, the company said on Monday. It is on pre-order now and reaches shops on 27 October. A Stephen Curry special edition costs $219.99. Bigger screen, longer battery The Edge has the largest and brightest screen […] This story continues at The Next Web

Plus, Volkswagen Group deliveries continue their freefall as sales dwindle, China and the EU strike a deal on imported Chinese hybrids and more.

Researchers used Barleria lawii leaf extract to synthesize stable silver nanoparticles that show strong antibacterial, antioxidant, anticancer, and catalytic properties in laboratory tests.

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituan’s investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said. […] This story continues at The Next Web

US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics. Wang Xingxing, also the CEO of the Hangzhou-based company, said on Monday that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen “within one or two years”. “It’s possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly...

Beyond a handful of big names, most venture capitalists are relatively unknown. Who are they, and what distinguishes the superstars from the rest?

By increasingly counting on its own chips, Microsoft stands to expand margins and bolster its AI stack.

By increasingly counting on its own chips, Microsoft stands to expand margins and bolster its AI stack.

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils its third-gen in-house AI chip, the Maia 300, built on TSMC's N2P process node and aimed at serving as its “primary AI inference system”  —  The new Maia 300 chip will start rolling out to production AI workloads in 2027.

A new review in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology finds that machine learning, especially multimodal AI, is transforming brain cancer outcome prediction, but clinical adoption still hinges on better data, validation, and interpretability.

Maia 300 is designed for the next generation of AI workloads, offering greater efficiency and power.

Nobel economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford are honoured for research that reshaped how central banks stabilise inflation, jobs and growth worldwide.

Microsoft’s Maia 300 chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing its third-generation Maia in-house AI chip today, designed to be the "primary AI inference system" for Microsoft's products and services. Maia 300 not only improves the cost and efficiency of running AI workloads in the cloud, it's also more capable of handling the latest reasoning models and agentic tasks. Maia 300 will start being rolled out to production in 2027, and it has been designed with efficiency in mind. "We expect Maia 300 to deliver 40 percent more tokens per megawatt compared to leading GPU-based systems," says Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud group. "And in a full 96-acceler … Read the full story at The Verge.

Researchers at Assiut University show that zinc oxide and magnesium oxide nanoparticles can suppress cercospora leaf spot in sugar beet, boost plant defense enzymes, and improve root yield and sucrose content as an eco-friendly alternative to fungicides.

The second-largest corporate employer has bet big on robot workers to scale.

Johns Hopkins engineers have developed wireless, magnetically steered millirobots that travel through the bloodstream to dock on a beating heart and deliver antibiotics directly to infected tissue, potentially replacing weeks of IV therapy or open-heart surgery.

More than 120 robots, including humanoid machines designed for factory work and elderly care, will be showcased at two major Hong Kong electronics fairs, as mainland Chinese manufacturers seek to expand the commercial applications of AI and tap overseas markets. The Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Autumn Edition) and electronicAsia will open on Tuesday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, bringing together more than 3,200 exhibitors from 15 countries and regions for four...

Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe On Tesla’s US website, the software still sells as “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” for

Bloomberg: Sources: DeepSeek agrees to lead robotic AI startup Winverse AI's seed funding round of tens of millions of dollars, valuing the startup at ~$400M post-money  —  DeepSeek aims to lead the first round of investment for a months-old startup building AI for robots, deploying capital …

A new structured review of underwater robotics finds that soft, bio-inspired, and autonomous vehicles excel in laboratory tests but face unresolved barriers in materials, energy, communication, and standardized field validation before they are ready for real ocean deployment.

Researchers have developed a bioadhesive nanoplatform that releases hydrogen slowly inside the scrotum, restoring sperm production in aged mice by stabilizing HIF-1α in Sertoli cells through peroxynitrite scavenging.

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A machine learning model trained on 26 hours of Kitepower flight data can predict critical tether load events one second before they occur with an F1-score of 90.9 percent.

A multicenter study of over 1,000 gastric cancer patients shows that machine learning analysis of routine CT scans can non-invasively predict microsatellite instability status with clinically useful accuracy.

Kodiak AI plans to haul IKEA freight on Texas highways with no one in the cab, raising urgent cybersecurity and safety questions for drivers.

Americans Robert Hall and Michael Woodford were awarded the Nobel economics prize Monday for their work on how monetary and fiscal policy can better stabilize disruptive economic fluctuations.

A sweeping new review maps seven interacting energy constraints in large-scale AI and argues that resource-allocation strategies from the 20-watt human brain can guide more sustainable language-model design.

STOCKHOLM — American-born economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel memorial prize in economics on Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, saying the two were being honored for work that has helped policymakers deal with economic fluctuations. “The laureates have helped us smooth out the economy’s peaks and troughs,” the academy said in a statement. Hall is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford with Columbia University in New York. Woodford spoke to the committee by phone Monday from New York, saying: “It’s a tremendous honor, it’s a surprise." “The laureates’ work has provided us with a stable theoretical foundation for the models that are now used by central banks and governments around the world,” John Hassler, chair of the Committee for the Prize in Economic

Mitchell Labiak / BBC: Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for global safety regulations for AI, arguing that milk and washing machines currently face more stringent safety standards  —  Milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than AI, the president of Microsoft has said.

Robots generate vast data, but connectivity is limiting their shared learning.

Many of nature's most important processes depend on how particles of matter interact with light and other force-carrying particles. So far, however, it has proven difficult for conventional computers to determine how individual particles behave in these interactions.

Sarah Kessler / New York Times: As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human “verification tax” bottleneck  —  As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.

Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford were awarded the prize for their insights that helped policymakers become “better equipped to deal with shocks in the economy,” the committee said.

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe.

TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported. “In the next two to three years, we’re going to have a real scientific […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nicolas Cage says he refused to sign an AI waiver from Amazon for “Spider-Noir”, the Prime Video series it cancelled last month. He told a New York Comic Con panel on Saturday that he will probably not work with the studio again, Variety reported. “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 […] This story continues at The Next Web

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk, as it continues to host more interesting discussions on AI and other fun and smart topics than rival platforms  —  X is the only place these posts go. … You may not like it that X has re-found its footing under Elon Musk's ownership, but it has.

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: US soldiers using AI tech during a July exercise say they encountered issues like drone overheating, highlighting challenges in the Army's modernization effort  —  A desert trial exposed equipment limitations and institutional hurdles in the Army's push to modernize and keep pace with an AI-savvy adversary

Nvidia is in talks to buy Reflection AI or invest more in the US open-weight model developer, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter. TNW has not independently verified the report. The talks are at an early stage and could still fall apart, according to the FT. The […] This story continues at The Next Web

UC San Diego nanoengineer Liangfang Zhang has won a 2026 MacArthur Fellowship for his pioneering cell-mimicking nanoparticles that camouflage drugs, soak up bacterial toxins, and fight drug-resistant infections.

Internet outages often appear sudden to the people experiencing them, but the underlying technical problems can develop long

This year saw a remarkable rise in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools, now built into everything from transportation

USC researchers combined ultra-high-resolution MRI with molecular and cellular brain maps to explore how the brain delivers energy

By Wai-keung Fung, Cardiff Metropolitan University At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangong Ultra even completed the 100 metres in 8.64 seconds, quicker than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second world record. But if we really want […]

Bill Gates challenges Trump’s hands-off AI approach, warning that unchecked technology could unleash devastating cyberattacks Read Full Article at RT.com

Brad Smith calls for global rules on AI, and says the UK is in the "best position" to lead the charge.