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For decades, the design of nanoparticle drug delivery systems has been an exercise in patient, expensive trial and error. Formulation scientists would mix lipids, polymers and drug payloads in one combination after another, measure what came out, and iterate slowly toward something that worked. A new review published in Nature Reviews Bioengineering argues that this […]

A team of researchers at Tianjin University has developed a scalable process that converts the mycelium of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger into partially deacetylated chitin–glucan complex nanofibers, a renewable bionanomaterial with potent antibacterial activity and remarkable mechanical performance. The work, published in Polymer Bulletin, addresses a persistent gap in the emerging field of fungal […]

Hydrogen has long been heralded as the clean fuel of the future, yet one stubborn problem continues to hold it back: how to store and release it safely, cheaply, and on demand. Compressed gas tanks and cryogenic liquids demand heavy infrastructure and raise safety concerns, especially for portable and mobile applications. A research team from […]

The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of the world. He also said of people sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI that, "Scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible." He also claims that calls from CEOs like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman to slow down the development of AI are "not grounded in science." He even argued that there was no need for new rules, laws, or guidelines, in … Read the full story at The Verge.

The new version of Siri, Siri AI, launched to the masses this month as part of iOS 27. The new Siri is rolling out gradually to users via a waitlist, and is labelled as a ‘beta’ indicating that Apple still has some work to do in follow-up releases. The new Siri is much better at answering questions with access to rich knowledge, can search through your messages and notes for personal context queries, and can take action based on what is on your screen with onscreen awareness. However, the new Siri is not being welcomed with open arms by everyone … more…

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A military intelligence error involving a Chinese vessel triggered preparations to board before officials discovered an AI-generated cargo assessment was wrong

John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already exists and is the iPhone. Mark Gurman reports that people inside Apple expected him to introduce the home hub instead, and that the hub, codenamed J490, is being tested in employees’ homes and could ship […] This story continues at The Next Web

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Luke Lango thinks the AI industry has an opportunity to make this boom more durable over the long run. And for investors, that could shift some of the biggest opportunities toward companies finding valuable new ways to put AI to work. The post How an AI Slowdown Could Spark a Robotics Boom appeared first on InvestorPlace.

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regulation, and said the industry’s safety shift is responsible rather than self-interested. He spoke the same day four consumers filed an antitrust complaint alleging the pacing push is exactly that. Mark Zuckerberg declined to join the coordination […] This story continues at The Next Web

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A closer look at the upcoming Siri AI-powered home hub, a key pillar of Apple's strategy for the home; sources: Apple started cutting Fitness+ staff  —  Also: What happened with the iPhone Duo Pencil and layoffs at Fitness+.  —  Apple's new “intelligent personal hub” strategy is about much more than the iPhone.

A proposed class action lawsuit has been lodged against the four big AI tech companies after they agreed to slow AI development for safety reasons. The lead counsel on the lawsuit says that 'AI will quickly spin out of control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol ... to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world's most powerful 'for profit' technology companies.'

AI, from chatbots to humanoids and automated management systems, are being widely deployed by corporations with huge repercussions for worker pay and autonomy.

AI, from chatbots to humanoids and automated management systems, are being widely deployed by corporations with huge repercussions for worker pay and autonomy.

Scientists have developed ultra-bright nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of chemicals and distinguish between molecules that look almost identical. The technology could one day provide a cheaper way to catch dangerous drug impurities or trace pollutants using simple low-cost lasers.

Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo.

Jensen Huang's position as the leader of the world's most valuable company, has earned him Trump's ear on the most important topics in AI.

Jensen Huang's position as the leader of the world's most valuable company, has earned him Trump's ear on the most important topics in AI.

This week, NASA turned on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's powerful 300-megapixel camera for the first time. The debut test image promises "groundbreaking science" to come with NASA already talking about doubling the mission's lifespan.

Sarah Neville / Financial Times: Clinicians raise concerns over medical AI adoption beyond diagnostics and imaging, citing limited clinical and performance data on its broader effectiveness  —  The technology's advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care.  Kayla Secrest was a newly fledged doctor beginning …

The assignment of expert research personnel to large conglomerates is expected to resume for the first time in 14 years, this time in the artificial intelligence (AI) field, helping prevent research career interruptions and the outflow of workers abroad. According to data submitted by the Ministry of Science and ICT to Rep. Hwang Jung-a of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea on Sunday, the ministry recommended LG Electronics, HD Hyundai Robotics, Samsung Medison and Samsung Electronics to be designated for hosting expert research personnel, with their nine research institutes needing 81 personnel. The expert research personnel program lets science and engineering graduates with master's or doctoral degrees work at research sites for three years instead of serving 18 to 21 months in the regular military, depending on the branch. However, new assignments to large conglomerates were suspended in 2013 to secure research and development personnel for small and medium-sized enterprises,

China's viral robot "spy fish" is lifelike and steers itself around a tank, but it has been on sale since 2023 and tops out at 5 meters deep

A new lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google made an illegal deal to slow the pace of their respective AI development. The lawsuit, which was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, argues that the leading AI companies violated antitrust laws when they agreed to coordinate slowdown efforts, and that doing so would reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions. The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei's proposals in agreement . But the lawsuit also alleges that the coordination began to take shape months earlier. It points to a statement from July 2026 that high-ranking employees from several

Scientists theorize that the rapid emergence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the early Universe can be explained by the direct-collapse black hole (DCBH) scenario. In a recent study, astronomers investigated the potential host environments of DCBHs and found that this scenario is a plausible explanation for how the "seeds" of SMBH formed.

Google’s Gemini AI reportedly hacked three companies after gaining internet access during a cybersecurity test Read Full Article at RT.com

Following a Wall Street Journal investigation, Google has confirmed that Gemini went rogue in May 2026, accessing the internet and breaching the security of three different companies. more…

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Huawei is moving its Ascend 960DT AI chip to early 2027 as it expands domestic AI infrastructure and reduces reliance on restricted foreign hardware. The post Huawei Moves Its Next AI Chip Forward as China Builds Around Nvidia Restrictions appeared first on TechRepublic.

MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser in 30 minutes, pointing toward more autonomous scientific research. The post MIT Robot Builds a Working Laser in 30 Minutes With Minimal Human Help appeared first on TechRepublic.

Meta plans to deploy its MTIA 450 Arke AI chip in 2027 as it looks to cut inference costs, energy use and reliance on general-purpose GPUs. The post Meta’s New AI Chip Is Coming in 2027: Arke Targets Lower AI Costs appeared first on TechRepublic.

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies  —  Google says that breaking containment and targeting real companies doesn't constitute ‘misalignment.’

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips I’m paying close attention to what legendary growth investor Louis Navellier is seeing in AI right now. And lately, he’s been investigating a new AI technology that he believes could represent the next major leap beyond the AI systems millions of us use today. The post AI’s “Google Moment” May Still Be Ahead appeared first on InvestorPlace.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has urged the defense industry to accelerate the implementation of AI Read Full Article at RT.com

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In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an instance of "mistaken identity," and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped. "In th … Read the full story at The Verge.

Researchers affiliated with the SETI Institute propose screening lunar soil with AI for microscopic technosignatures, while stressing that the study presents no evidence of extraterrestrial technology

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Elon Musk says more than a billion humanoid robots could operate within a decade and outproduce humanity, though major hurdles remain.

Google's AI model hacked real companies during testing due to a misconfiguration by its testing partner, as well.

A faulty intelligence report produced with chatbot assistance wrongly identified a Chinese vessel's cargo, prompting preparations for a US interception before the operation was halted.

New research suggests that a perplexing signal created by a pair of colliding black holes may have been warped by a space-time phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. This theory could finally explain the "impossible" size of the merging singularities, but it also poses a new problem.

Gemini’s Unplanned Breakout A guessed password opened the first door. A public list of leaked credentials opened the

DJI’s New Wireless Video Link DJI priced its newest film-set radio in pounds and euros. No dollar figure

A viral video shows roughly a dozen Coco Robotics delivery robots swarming a Chicago sidewalk near Lincoln Park, raising wheelchair access concerns.

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Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity testing. Julia Love and Davey Alba reported it for Bloomberg, which updated its story to place Google alongside OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The important part is what the testing vendor said next. Irregular confirmed that the breaches disclosed by […] This story continues at The Next Web

Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our

A new study reveals insights into populations of neurons affected by Huntington’s disease, schizophrenia, addiction, and other disorders.

Researchers from MIT have designed a new qubit architecture that enables qubits to interact with each other much

Author(s): Pedro Ornelas, Tatjana Kleine, André G. de Oliveira, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán, Andrew Forbes, and Isaac Nape offers a promising route to robust information encoding, but its practical realization is limited by the challenge of generating high-quality states in a reconfigurable manner. The authors demonstrate an interferometric approach that generates high-fidelity topological structured light by mapping spatial-mode entanglement onto hybrid spatial-polarization entangled states, with the interferometer implementing a reconfigurable controlled-unitary operation through programmable spatial modulation. This versatile platform for generating high-quality topological quantum states enables adaptable architectures for photonic quantum information processing. [Phys. Rev. Applied 26, 034043] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Miguel Zumalacárregui and Xikai ShanGravitational waves lensed by galaxies and clusters can also be diffracted by the stars and compact remnants embedded within them, leaving frequency-dependent signatures in the observed signal that are computationally expensive to model. This paper introduces Reduced-Order Stochastic Diffraction, an efficient framework for modeling these complex microlensing effects with a computationally inexpensive surrogate model. The method can be readily incorporated into Bayesian GW analyses and adapted to different detectors, sources, and microlens populations. It therefore opens a new avenue for probing stellar populations through gravitational-wave lensing. [Phys. Rev. D 114, 063038] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Gang Li, Chuan-Qiang Song, Feng-Jie Tang, and Jiang-Hao YuCoherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering provides crucial information for precision studies of neutrinos as well as searches for dark matter and other new physics. This paper develops a comprehensive Effective Field Theory treatment up to dimension eight which can account for new physics effects from energies above 100 GeV down to nuclear scales in a consistent manner. The authors include renormalization effects, careful power counting and matching of different theories at the appropriate scales, and possible UV completions of the effective operators. [Phys. Rev. D 114, 055032] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Abhishek Gupta, Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Nicholas Jaegersberg, Komal Chawla, and Ramathasan ThevamaranVertically aligned carbon nanotube foams exhibit return point memory, opening new opportunities for mechanical computing applications. [Phys. Rev. X 16, 031073] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Google’s consumer AI model Gemini hacked multiple systems through guessing login credentials, the company said, the latest case of rogue AI cybersecurity transgressions, which have generated safety concerns. The hacks, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place in May and were discovered by Google in July. “In a standard evaluation, the model found public information online and guessed credentials to access websites it thought were part of the test,” Heather Adkins, Google’s...

Author(s): Michael SchirberA carbon nanotube foam springs back to its initial state, regardless of the speed of the compression, a property that could lead to a new type of shock absorber. [Physics 19, 129] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

Author(s): Sam JarmanA recent experiment points the way toward making the intense, energetic beams of positrons needed for next-generation electron–positron colliders. [Physics 19, 127] Published Fri Sep 18, 2026

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

The disclosure comes as scrutiny over misbehaving artificial intelligence intensifies in Washington and Silicon Valley.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence models during cybersecurity testing.

Georgia Hennessy / Business Insider: Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8  —  Mark Zuckerberg's ambition to bring “personal superintelligence” to everyone may be taking shape, one download at a time.

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

CNN's sources claim the US nearly attacked a Chinese ship it believed was carrying nuclear weapon components.

Wall Street Journal: Gemini hacked three companies in May during a test by Irregular; Google says the model stopped after determining it had accessed real companies' systems  —  The episode resembled similar hacks by other AI models, but Google said it didn't consider it an instance of model misalignment

Learn how tracing the brain’s separate origins helped researchers grow nerve cells that could aid studies of ALS and spinal muscular atrophy.

Scientists predict that AI will one day be able to outdo humans on not just some, but all, tasks that we currently excel in

Learn how a Stanford team transplanted human brain tissue into mice to study disease while weighing the ethical questions raised by the work.

Samsung joined Euclyd's $231 million funding round as the Dutch startup develops an alternative AI chip architecture for commercial deployment in 2028.

Dog behavior experts offered a variety of explanations for why Nash the golden retriever wagged his tail and carried a toy near a man who broke into his owner’s home.

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It’s just not helping as much in the lab

There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google is testing a new version of its AI agent CC, pivoting the tool from an individual productivity assistant into a collaborative household management agent  —  Google is testing a new product designed to help families coordinate with the support of an AI agent.

In the past week, Musk has agreed with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while getting contradicted by President Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

In the past week, Musk has agreed with the CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI, while getting contradicted by President Trump and Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The formation of these tiny, fleeting objects at the LHC represents one way theorists have sought to resolve anomalies in our understanding of the basic structure of spacetime, while the method used to look for them demonstrates a new way of searching for new particles.

CNN: Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship was carrying nuclear weapons components in the Middle East  —  The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran …

Meta’s new Muse AI agent app has taken the top spot on the free iPhone charts for the U.S. App Store, displacing OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the first place. more…

Every time a person sees a doctor, the visit produces two kinds of records. There are the tidy checkbox fields: the billing codes, the lab values, the prescription entries. And there is the note the clinician actually writes, describing what the patient said, how they are coping, what side effects they mentioned and why a medication was changed.

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in bacteria and other microbes, helping defend them against invading viruses. But now, two new studies, published in Science, describe a similar RNA-guided system that originated in the viruses themselves and appears to be a precursor to CRISPR.

Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang reportedly urged President Trump to reject an industry-funded AI regulator as debate over frontier AI oversight intensifies. The post Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator appeared first on TechRepublic.

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It's one of more than a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

The humble coffee filter has the relatively simple job of letting the coffee through and leaving the grounds behind. But researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation (COE-CSI) are exploring whether a filter operating on the molecular scale can do something much more difficult: separate the caffeine from the coffee itself.

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the universe for signs of dark matter and energy

Molecular gases are a new form of artificial quantum matter. However, when these molecules collide, they are often lost extremely rapidly. Researchers from Radboud University and Columbia University have been able to suppress this collisional loss, paving the way for strongly interacting quantum matter. This new artificial quantum matter allows researchers to study quantum behavior relevant to electrons in real materials. Their results are published in Science.

Google Home now lets Claude and other compatible AI agents inspect devices, review activity, and perform approved actions through Home MCP. The post Google Opens Google Home to Claude and Other AI Agents — Here’s What They Can Control appeared first on TechRepublic.

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Sept. 14–18. The post AI Expansion, Robot Factories, and Escalating Security Threats Define This Week in Tech appeared first on TechRepublic.

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang reportedly warned Donald Trump that an industry-funded AI watchdog could entrench the dominance of leading AI laboratories.

XPeng is trying to turn its self-driving and smart-cockpit systems into a licensing business, courting automakers, suppliers, and software firms well beyond its existing Volkswagen deal, according to a Reuters report. It’s the exact playbook Tesla has been pitching for years with “Full Self-Driving.” The difference is that XPeng is finding interest. more…

I’ve waited years for Apple to fix Siri, and now I’ve started using it again

Japan's busiest railway station is testing mobile robotic rubbish bins in Tokyo, with the aim of easing the workload of sanitation workers.

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Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was designed to analyse contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and identify a broad range of diseases and other abnormalities, such as malignant...

Suleyman joined "Squawk Box" to discuss OpenAI's latest incidents of "concerning model behavior" disclosed earlier this week.

Suleyman joined "Squawk Box" to discuss OpenAI's latest incidents of "concerning model behavior" disclosed earlier this week.

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond "in silico" or computer evaluations. In a Reuters interview on Tuesday, Anthropic's head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirmed the startup's wet lab. "We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work," he said. "We absolutely are doing that today, and I would describe our approach as being typical of what you would see in most biotech companies, where there's some amount of that that we're doing in our own facilities and some amount of that that we're working with

The AI Energy Management Alliance wants to lay the framework for how future data centers can use energy more sympathetically with the grid.

The NYT filed a legal brief revealing potentially damaging statements from Microsoft and OpenAI regarding the copyright infringement case it brought against the two companies. The publication is now seeking a summary judgment from the court, almost three years since it started the case.