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MORENA is a 1.5B African language model that beats larger rivals on benchmarks while requiring substantially less computing power.

Scientists have shown that the two exponents (inelastic scattering exponent and dephasing exponent) commonly used to describe electron scattering in graphene do not necessarily follow the same behavior. Using gated epitaxial graphene, a multi-institutional team of researchers independently extracted the two exponents through current-heating measurements and weak-localization analysis. The contrasting gate-voltage dependence provides evidence that energy relaxation and loss of quantum phase coherence can be governed by different microscopic processes.

Video has become one of the most demanding data types in modern computer vision. Object detection models that perform impressively on single photographs, from Faster R-CNN to YOLO and DETR, run into an unexpected problem when they are pointed at continuous video streams: most of the frames are essentially the same picture. Adjacent frames in […]

The United States is rejecting any global governance of advanced AI, telling the UN Security Council in New York today that each country should regulate the technology itself. Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, delivers the US statement after the meeting’s four briefers from science and industry. “The frontier of […] This story continues at The Next Web

The crop robotics sector is a dynamic and active innovation environment, but also one that is extremely competitive for startups. The post The Mixing Bowl says it’s still ‘early days’ for crop robotics but AI, M&A are driving advancement appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Amazon is contacting some former employees about returning for AI, machine learning and cloud roles, as the company competes for specialised talent after large-scale layoffs.

Suppliers say that stressing efficacy over novelty is key to new products gaining market acceptance. The post From Nanotech to AI: Rethinking Micronutrient Delivery appeared first on CropLife.

As companies race to build AI agents that can shop, browse and buy on your behalf, the walls between rival platforms are already going up.

YouTube is rolling out a huge collection of Gemini AI-powered tools that will enhance the homepage for viewers and video editing and presentation tools for creators.

Interpol says the AI's real job was decluttering the stack to 6,362 for a face matcher launched in 2016.

An adorable little bear that wants to help you buy things. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have to send email about it? Repeatedly? Totally unfair. These are the things that we've been told for years that AI will help us with. We'll all have a smart virtual assistant to triage and handle the tedious tasks we'd rather … Read the full story at The Verge.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completed its 200,000th orbit around Earth on Sept. 19, marking another milestone for an observatory that continues to transform our understanding of the universe.

For millions of people living with chronic urinary retention, the daily reality is a catheter. When the detrusor muscle of the bladder becomes underactive — a condition known as detrusor underactivity — the organ simply cannot generate enough pressure to empty itself, and the mainstay of treatment has remained essentially unchanged for decades: drainage by […]

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All signs point to Siri AI coming to HomePod soon via new hardware, and leaker pdfu today shared evidence of what the new Siri could look like on a HomePod. more…

All signs point to Siri AI coming to HomePod soon via new hardware, and leaker pdfu today shared evidence of what the new Siri could look like on a HomePod mini. more…

If you want to understand the origins of black holes, Yale astronomers say, you need to look beyond the centers of galaxies and start searching in the nooks and crannies. That's where you'll find the "wanderers"—black holes whose journeys may tell the story of how the first black holes formed.

A team from SUNY Polytechnic Institute has designed a quantum rule-based simulator known as Quantum Tic-Tac-Toe. The simulator was originally designed to help students learn abstract concepts in quantum mechanics without using matrix algebra, in a game-like environment. It has rules similar to classical tic-tac-toe but incorporates phenomena from quantum mechanics, such as wavefunction collapse, quantum entanglement and quantum superposition. These concepts are also cornerstones of how quantum computers operate.

Years before bladder cancer is diagnosed, faint warning signs may already be accumulating across a patient’s medical history. Bladder cancer causes about 220,000 deaths worldwide each year, but finding it early remains difficult. Blood in the urine is its best-known warning sign, yet the same symptom can result from kidney stones, prostate problems, and other [...]

The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge

The tech world and Wall Street are abuzz with Meta's new AI agent ahead of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's developers conference keynote.

For the first time, researchers have directly imaged the magnetization dynamics inside a spin Hall nano-oscillator—a nanoscale device that converts direct current into tunable microwave signals and is a promising building block for energy-efficient wireless communication and brain-inspired computing.

More smart glasses and possibly a VR headset are expected today

Two people arrested and dozens of websites seized in an organized operation against EvilTokens.

“Today, we’re introducing two new text-to-speech models to the Gemini family, transforming voice generation from static presets into a dynamic creative studio,” Google wrote in its announcement. Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on Wednesday. Both are rolling out from today in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. They […] This story continues at The Next Web

Google: Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, its “most expressive audio generation models yet”, with support for more than 100 languages  —  Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet.

Alibaba Group's AI division has released Qwen 2.1 Image, an ultra-lightweight image generation model with just 7B parameters, able to run on local hardware like the RTX 3090.

In the world of legged robotics, endurance has long been the ultimate hurdle. While four-legged machines can backflip, negotiate rubble and scale staircases with uncanny agility, their high-performance motors typically drain battery reserves in less than an hour. But along the rural stretches of North Gyeongsang Province, a dog-like machine spent over four hours trotting past orchards and cheering spectators to rewrite the limits of mechanical stamina. Engineers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed RAIBO2, a quadrupedal robot that completed a full 42-kilometer marathon on a single battery charge. The landmark feat, detailed this week in the flagship scientific journal Nature, marks the first time robotics research from Korea has graced the main pages of the prestigious publication, signaling a major leap forward for long-distance autonomous field machines. The milestone unfolded during the annual Sangju Dried Persimmon Marathon — a local race

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: At its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants  —  Amazon announced new AI tools for its independent sellers Wednesday, led by a plugin that lets them run their Amazon businesses from Anthropic's Claude or Amazon's own Quick assistant.

In the natural world, organisms and their environments are locked in a constant conversation. Termites build nests that alter airflow and humidity, which in turn changes how the termites behave. Honeybee swarms adjust their collective shape in response to temperature, and the resulting cluster changes the thermal landscape the bees experience. Translating this kind of […]

Bill Gates warns of AI risks as Donald Trump rejects calls for new guardrails and claims there is a 'sick conspiracy' against the technology.

Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: YouTube rolls out tools for microdramas, an AI storytelling assistant for script analysis, video A/B-testing, and more, as it battles Netflix over top creators  —  Google-owned platform rolling out better tools for digital producers that could help it keep more of their content exclusively

AlphaGenome Atlas could make it easier for geneticists to access powerful AI, but its predictions aren't always accurate.

A quiet revolution is unfolding at the scale of a human hair. In work highlighted in a News and Views piece by Wenqi Hu of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, published in Nature Electronics on 23 September 2026, researchers have demonstrated microrobotic cilia that are integrated directly with complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, or CMOS, […]

WorldSkills 2026 opens in Shanghai with humanoid robots and human performers, as 1,385 competitors from 68 countries prepare for 64 events.

A research team led by faculty at the Duke Quantum Center (DQC) has observed string-breaking dynamics related to particle-antiparticle formation on a quantum simulator, among the first such observations in quantum physics.

According to Basecamp, EDEN offers the ability to design long and complex DNA sequences with large serine recombinases capable of delivering those sequences precisely. The post Anthropic-, Nvidia-Backed Basecamp Research Raise $140M Series C Financing Toward Advancing AI-Designed Drugs appeared first on GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: London-based AI life sciences startup Basecamp Research raised a $140M Series C led by S32, with participation from Anthropic, taking its total funding to $225M  —  Basecamp says it will use the funding to train a new generation of its AI models.  —  A UK life sciences startup using AI …

As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses market for the first half of 2026. Companies must define exactly what always-on cameras capture, he […] This story continues at The Next Web

Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.

Chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, remain among the world’s most persistent killers. In the European region alone, they account for nearly 400,000 deaths every year, with COPD responsible for roughly 80 percent of that toll, and globally respiratory illnesses rank as the third leading cause of death. […]

Anesthesia teleconsultations appear feasible for assessing children, although technical issues account for most of the failures, a study finds.

Generative artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at dreaming up molecules. Feed a model a protein pocket or a desired property profile, and it will happily pour out thousands of candidate structures that look, on a screen, like the next blockbuster drug. There is a catch that has haunted computational chemistry for years: a large […]

Few discoveries in modern condensed matter physics have energized the community quite like the rise of the nickelate superconductors. Since the first reports of superconductivity in layered nickel oxides, researchers have wondered whether these materials might rival the famous cuprates, whose superconducting transitions at temperatures well above those of conventional superconductors reshaped physics after 1986. […]

Meta's latest consumer AI product is sending such big shockwaves through the market that it's even inflaming a long-time rivalry in the brokerage business.

New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positioned.

Steve Dent / Engadget: The UK CMA proposes rules requiring Google and Android OEMs to offer search choice screens on first use and via yearly prompts, new AI assistant rules, and more  —  It would also require smartphone makers to give users a choice of AI assistants.  —  The UK's Competition and Markets Authority …

Most exoplanets we find have been around a long time. They’ve cleared out their orbital path (one of the requirements of planethood, as fans of Pluto well know), have their own gravitational pull, and in many cases shine with their own infrared light. But it takes a long time to get to that point - finding “young” planets is much harder. But a new paper available in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by a research team led by Andrea Bernardi of Diego Portales University in Chile describes a new paper that definitely takes the prize as the youngest exoplanet we’ve yet found.

Curiosity has been photographing Mars in its search for evidence of water and life for over 5,000 Martian days. Here are 10 of the most surprising and weird photos the rover has sent back to Earth.

According to Frederico Meyer, US technology company Anthropic recently announced that it had "detected and prevented several attempts by artificial intelligence to create biological weapons"

A new study found that one in four professional football players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—a degenerative brain disease—but what about children who play these sports?

But it's a far cry from an orbital data center.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk described Chinese President Xi Jinping as “a great leader” and “very capable” during an interview with China’s state broadcaster on Wednesday, hours before Xi left China for a summit with US President Donald Trump. “He seems like a great leader. Under his tenure, China has prospered immensely. I’ve seen it first hand,” Musk said in an interview aired on CCTV’s WeChat account, according to video from the broadcaster. “And it’s also obvious to see just walking around the...

Robots are becoming more specialized, lightweight, and adaptable. From industrial robots and collaborative robots to humanoid and autonomous

The next time a UK Android user is asked to pick a search engine, ChatGPT could be one of the answers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published strengthened proposals on Wednesday that would require Google to include AI assistants on its Android and Chrome choice screens, provided they meet technical and security criteria. Under the […] This story continues at The Next Web

OpenEvidence, an AI tool used by American doctors, is now being offered in countries with limited access to medical literature. Reuters reported that the company is working with Anthropic to give clinicians in low- and middle-income countries free access to a specialized version of its platform. The initiative is being introduced in around 100 countries, […] This story continues at The Next Web

New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positioned.

Large language models are being welcomed into hospitals at a pace that has outstripped nearly every safety discipline in modern medicine. They draft discharge summaries, suggest differential diagnoses, and increasingly sit beside clinicians during time-critical decisions. Yet the yardstick most commonly used to judge them—aggregate accuracy on standardized benchmarks—may be quietly concealing the very failures […]

Tartrazine, the synthetic azo dye responsible for the bright yellow hue of countless soft drinks, candies, medicines and cosmetics, has long occupied an uneasy place on ingredient lists around the world. Labeled as E102 in Europe and Yellow 5 in the United States, the colorant is permitted by regulators but constrained by strict limits, and […]

China is targeting the next industrial revolution by doubling down on embodied AI and humanoid robotics, building directly on its vast manufacturing infrastructure. By Ellen H. Rumley and Allison Okamura Beyond the Robot Olympics Chinese robots have quickly entered global public consciousness in recent years, appearing as background robo-dancers in pop concerts and as humanoid […]

If you ask Meta’s new AI agent to call a hairdresser’s salon, the person on the other end of the line might not be an AI. According to an exclusive report by Reuters on Tuesday, citing internal company postings, Meta has been testing a “human concierge” for Muse, with contractors taking over some of the […] This story continues at The Next Web

Humans Behind Meta’s Muse Calls Some businesses hang up as soon as they realize an AI is on

Crash Tests for Children’s AI New cars reach showrooms only after someone has smashed them into walls and

BIO 2026 Start-Up Stadium winner generates human data to improve clinical translation. Artificial intelligence is opening new possibilities for drug discovery. But in neuroscience, […] The post BrainStorm Therapeutics combines brain organoids and AI for CNS drug discovery appeared first on Bio.News.

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campus in Groningen. The installation is scheduled for 2027, and the system is expected to be fully operational […] This story continues at The Next Web

AI video platform Synthesia is among the companies shipping tools that translate video into other languages using AI.

Rockfill materials—the quarried rock masses that form the skeletons of embankment dams, road bases, and other heavy civil engineering structures—have long resisted quick, reliable measurement of their most important properties. Engineers need to know how the individual stones are distributed by size, what shapes they take, and how much void space remains between them, because […]

Influencer Frankie LaPenna fought a remote-controlled humanoid robot in San Francisco, with footage showing heavy kicks and no publicly available scorecard confirming the exhibition's outcome.

Counterpoint Research: Global AI glasses shipments, including display-less and AR & AI glasses, rose 263% YoY in H1 2026, driven by Meta and EssilorLuxottica's display-less lineup  —  AI glasses market accelerates in H1 2026, driven by display-less devices, Meta's dominance and growing AR & AI adoption.

arXiv:2609.26274v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid evolution of generative AI (e.g., Sora, Hunyuan) makes it essential to develop effective detection strategies that can generalize across ever-evolving synthesis techniques. This study is motivated by the observation of a fundamental challenge in generative models: the inherent difficulty of maintaining cross-modal consistency between appearance and motion. To this end, we propose a multi-modal framework for AIGC video forgery detection tasks, named Cross-Attention based Video Forgery Detector (CrossAtt-VFD), based on joint multi-view analysis of content.Methodologically, we introduce a dual-branch architecture that simultaneously extracts spatial-frequency and optical-flow features.This approach enables the modeling of videos from complementary perceptual perspectives.The core of this process is a dedicated cross-attention mechanism, which governs the alignment of the two modalities and translates cross-modal inconsistencies

arXiv:2609.25837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a video summarization algorithm based on multi-object tracking and person reidentification. We integrate facial embeddings, 3D body-shape features, and visual appearance into a unified tracking framework. These representations enable hierarchical identity assignment and tracking through bidirectional anchoring, which robustly recovers trajectories under severe occlusion or low visual quality. From these stable trajectories, we generate a compact set of summaries for each identity. We select keyframes using a multi-factor weighting scheme that optimizes biometric clarity, social interaction, and motion dynamics, while Adaptive Non-Maximum Suppression ensures temporal diversity. Evaluation on a custom dataset demonstrates tracking stability, achieving an IDF1 of 97.89% and a MOTA of 95.79%. Compared to Top-K selection, our algorithm also increases visual diversity by 146%, temporal coverage by 89%, and information

Author(s): Ajay K. Poonia, Naresh Aggarwal, Swapnil S. Deshpande, Barnali Mondal, Angshuman Nag, Sudip Chakraborty, and K. V. AdarshHot carriers in semiconductors typically cool within a picosecond, dissipating their excess energy as heat. Here, the authors demonstrate that intrinsic positional disorder in a metal halide perovskite quantum dot solid usually treated as a defect of such assemblies, can instead strongly suppress hot-carrier cooling. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy reveals hot carriers localized in continuum states, with cooling times more than an order of magnitude longer than those in uncoupled quantum dots. First-principles density functional theory traces this localization to disorder-induced local potential fluctuations. [Phys. Rev. B 114, L171406] Published Tue Sep 22, 2026

Author(s): Benjamin Kass, Spenser Talkington, and Martin ClaassenCavity engineering holds promise for manipulating material properties, but measuring induced changes and attributing them to light-matter interactions remains challenging. Here, the authors show that polarization-dependent photon counting measurements of transmitted photons provide a symmetry-sensitive probe of many-body correlations in cavity-embedded systems. Additionally, deviations from Poissonian photon statistics reveal the magnitude of light-induced material changes. The authors demonstrate this approach for the Kitaev-Heisenberg family of two-dimensional magnets, identifying stripy and antiferromagnetic phases and their phase boundary. [Phys. Rev. B 114, 165130] Published Tue Sep 22, 2026

Author(s): Tomer Alkalay, Emily Hajigeorgiou, Adbhut Gupta, Tapas Senapati, Priya Tiwari, Chia-Tse Tai, Siddharth Kumar Singh, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Mansour Shayegan, Mitali Banerjee, and Moty HeiblumShot-noise measurements through a quantum point contact reveal e/4-charged quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall state at ν=1/2, providing evidence consistent with the non-Abelian topological order sought for topological quantum computing. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 136503] Published Tue Sep 22, 2026

The global AI trade is staging a comeback, as a confluence of falling oil prices, Meta Platforms’ launch of a new agentic tool, and anticipation surrounding the China-US leadership summit reignite interest in technology stocks. The Nasdaq-100 Index hit an all-time high on Tuesday, surpassing the previous record set in June. In Asia, China’s chip-heavy Star Market 50 Index and South Korea’s Kospi gauge, which is heavily weighted towards memory chipmakers, have been bouncing back since July...

For more than a decade, PI (Physik Instrumente) has supplied precision motion and piezoelectric technologies for the development, alignment, testing, and flight hardware of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Financial Times: Sources and Nscale's US SEC filings: ByteDance accounted for nearly 75% of Nscale's sales in 2025 and used Nscale's facility in Norway to access Nvidia AI chips  —  Chinese tech giant was AI cloud provider's largest customer last year but is not prominently named in pitch to stock market investors

AI replaces human brain

An electric, autonomous robot that inspects the panels of solar farms will make its debut in Australia as part of an Arena-backed initiative to test and deploy new technologies to deliver even cheaper solar. The post Electric, autonomous solar robots put to real-world test in new Arena-backed trial appeared first on Renew Economy.

Nancy Lapid / Reuters: Anthropic and OpenEvidence partner to offer a specialized version of OpenEvidence's AI search tool for physicians in about 100 low- and middle-income countries  —  Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and medical knowledge platform OpenEvidence are collaborating to bring AI-powered …

Physicists searching through Large Hadron Collider data found no evidence that the machine has been producing microscopic quantum black holes, but the result sharply narrows where such exotic physics could still be hiding. These hypothetical black holes could form if extra spatial dimensions make gravity much stronger at extremely tiny scales, potentially offering clues toward the long-sought theory of quantum gravity.

Thousands of reinforced concrete apartment blocks across southern Europe were built before modern seismic codes existed, and engineers have long struggled to assess how quickly each one would fail under a major earthquake. A new study published in Neural Computing and Applications by Gianni D’Angelo, Francesco Nigro and Enzo Martinelli of the University of Salerno […]

Cisplatin has long been a cornerstone of breast cancer chemotherapy, but for thousands of patients whose tumors develop resistance to this platinum-based drug, treatment options narrow dramatically. Now, a research team reporting in Materials Today Bio has engineered an ultrasound-activated nanomaterial that attacks resistant cancer cells through a fundamentally different route—one that bypasses the cellular […]

Some of the most useful magnetic materials in modern technology hide their most important secrets in the way their magnetization surrenders to a strong external field. A team of researchers from the V.G. Baryakhtar Institute of Magnetism, the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, the Institute of Physics, and the V.I. […]

Acupuncture needles have been a fixture of East Asian medicine for millennia, crafted first from bamboo and bone and later from sterilized stainless steel. Now, a comprehensive review published in Advances in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry argues that these humble therapeutic tools are undergoing a transformation that few practitioners could have predicted. By applying electrochemical […]

DNA–protein hydrogels extend DNA nanotechnology from precisely organized nanoscale structures into dynamic soft materials that combine molecular recognition, catalysis, responsiveness, and tunable mechanical properties. The Perspective identifies a major challenge in predicting how DNA sequence, network architecture, and protein incorporation translate into material behaviour across molecular, network, and macroscopic scales.

China’s leading technology companies are stepping up their development of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, intensifying competition in the global AI market. Alibaba and Tencent unveiled their latest AI chip and model on the same day, highlighting their push for greater tech

The two most urgent shopping lists in modern materials science—clean water and cheap solar power—rarely share a single item. Yet a team of researchers in India now reports a hybrid nanocomposite that ticks both boxes at once: a porous cobalt ferrite–polyaniline material that shreds antibiotic molecules under visible light and, in the same breath, nearly […]

Structural biologists searching for a faster way to visualize the smallest and most stubborn proteins now have a new tool at their disposal. A research team in China has designed and validated S1.0, a synthetic nanobody library purpose-built for ribosome display and engineered from the ground up to plug directly into the Legobody system used […]

Integrated photonics has quietly become one of the most consequential technologies of the modern era, carrying the data that flow through data centers, enabling LiDAR systems, and increasingly underpinning quantum information processing. Yet for all its maturity, the field has long been constrained by a deceptively simple problem: no single material can do everything well. […]