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Todd Spangler / Variety: Moonvalley, which is developing “ethical” AI video models trained on licensed content, raised $84M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $154M  —  Moonvalley, an AI research company that says it is developing “ethical” foundational AI video models trained exclusively …

Sometimes in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources away from the one you care about. In the scientific community, one of the most devastating ways you can do that is by making the other methods appear to be too expensive to be feasible, or, better yep, prove they wouldn’t work at all due to some fundamental limitation. That is what a recent paper by Dr. Slava Turyshev, the world’s most prominent proponent of a Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL) telescope mission, does. He examines how effective alternative telescope technologies would be at creating a 10x10 pixel map of an exoplanet about 32 light years away. Unsurprisingly, there’s only one that is able to do so without giant leaps and bounds in technology development - the SGL telescope.

A glucose-sensitive nanovaccine delivers CRISPR to tumors, silences immune-suppressing genes, and activates a targeted immune response against cancer.

Silver nanoparticles derived from Magnolia alba leaf extract exhibit superior antioxidant properties and effective dye degradation, promising for medical use.

Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the early years of the new millennium. After he came to the University of California, Irvine in 2006, the concept evolved into an invention that would revolutionize research by enabling scientists to study the fundamental characteristics of matter at nanoscale resolution.

GPUHammer is a new Rowhammer-based attack targeting NVIDIA GPUs with GDDR6 memory. It flips bits in VRAM to silently corrupt AI models, dropping accuracy from 80% to under 1%. NVIDIA urges users to enable ECC, though it slightly reduces performance and available memory.

Researchers from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have leveraged their expertise in microfluidics to develop a novel method for deforming cells mechanically to facilitate intracellular delivery, revolutionizing personalized treatments at the cellular level.

In order to produce effective targeted therapies for cancer, scientists need to isolate the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of cancer cells, both within and across different tumors, because those differences impact how tumors respond to treatment.

Fresh ideas are needed to protect the workforce from AI fuelled unemployment, Jensen Huang says.

This AI system can analyze up to one million DNA letters at once, predicting how tiny changes in noncoding regions trigger everything from cancer to rare genetic disorders—and potentially revolutionizing personalized medicine

China’s fast-developing humanoid robot market segment is seeing demand from enterprises gather speed, as prominent start-ups AgiBot and Unitree Robotics have landed orders totalling 124 million yuan (US$17.3 million) from state-owned China Mobile, the world’s largest telecommunications firm by number of subscribers. That order from China Mobile’s subsidiary in Hangzhou, capital of eastern Zhejiang province, involves the supply of 78 million yuan worth of full-size humanoid robots from AgiBot and...

Google Gemini decided to call off its chess match against the ancient 1.19 Mhz Atari 2600 console after a friendly pre-game reminder about what happened to ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot.

WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) is one of the 11 Hot New Stocks to Invest in Now. On July 2, WeRide Inc. (NASDAQ:WRD) announced securing the first driverless logistics vehicle Test permit in Guangzhou’s Huangpu district. The company received this approval for its Robovan W5 vehicle. The Robovan W5 had already received permission to test in another part […]

AI and robots are part of Labour’s plans to build out a high-tech economy, but a robot workforce is a long way off

Tesla will introduce AI model Grok to select US models, using AMD Ryzen chip as Musk teases epic demo by end of 2025. read more

AWS is in prime position to power the AI revolution, rather than win it.

Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Chinese military is unlikely to use Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risk of the chips being “limited at any time” due to US export restrictions  —  Addressing the largest concern Washington has cited in placing increasing restrictions on US technology exports to the Asian nation …

My Notes AI helps Mac, iPad, and iPhone users record meetings, transcribe them, and instantly summarize it all.

A new technique allows 'self-driving laboratories' to collect at least 10 times more data than previous techniques at record speed. The advance dramatically expedites materials discovery research, while slashing costs and environmental impact.

In a significant step towards a carbon-neutral future, researchers developed an atomically precise copper nanocluster that demonstrates high stability and exceptional selectivity in electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reactions.

AI tools are revolutionizing coding and IT work, but are they making developers faster? One researcher says no. Find out why AI sometimes slows experts down and speeds up mistakes.

Google’s licensing deal with the start-up comes after a possible acquisition by OpenAI fell through. Read more: Google taps Windsurf CEO and co-founder to join DeepMind

Meta has acquired voice AI startup PlayAI to strengthen its Superintelligence Labs and accelerate development of natural-sounding voice tech across AI characters, wearables, and content creation. read more

Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns Google’s Gemini chatbot declined to play Chess against the Atari 2600, after learning the vintage gaming console had already vanquished other AIs.…

A hi-tech Japanese hotel has left an influencer from Argentina stunned by its fully robot-staffed reception. The influencer said the hotel scene resembled the setting of the famous television series Black Mirror. The self-service hotel chain features humanoid robots in uniforms handling everything from check-in to checkout. An Argentine influencer identified as manuenalemania who has over 46,000 followers on social media, brought the hotel set-up to the public spotlight. On June 25, she told...

Malaysia has begun requiring trade permits for U.S.-origin AI chips, including those from Nvidia, in a move to curb unauthorized shipments to China amid mounting U.S. export pressure and global semiconductor tensions. read more

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A novel artificial intelligence (AI) application capable of diagnosing endocrine cancers with speed and accuracy is being presented Sunday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

A puzzling gravitational wave was detected, and astronomers have determined that it comes from a record-breaking black hole merger

Top German medical scientists Roland Eils and Irina Lehmann have joined Fudan University in Shanghai as full-time faculty members, according to the Chinese institution’s website. The married couple joined the university in April, their arrival marking another milestone in China’s growing ambitions in artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine – a field that Eils and Lehmann have helped to pioneer. Eils earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Heidelberg in 1995, and was elected...

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final black hole approximately 225 times the mass of our sun. The signal, designated GW231123, was detected during the fourth observing run of the LVK network on November 23, 2023.

As the AI chipmaker rockets past a $4 trillion valuation, CEO Jensen Huang lays out a stunning vision of a future with robot assistants and revived American factories, but admits the transition won't be painless.

A novel artificial intelligence (AI) application capable of diagnosing endocrine cancers with speed and accuracy is being presented Sunday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif.

Elon Musk's AI bot Grok generated Nazi content and antisemitic conspiracy theories after an update, raising concerns about AI safety and its role in essential industries

xAI’s chatbot spiraled into chaos after trying to sound more human. The fix reveals just how fragile truth-seeking AI really is.

A new mmWave imaging system allows warehouse robots to scan and create 3D models of objects inside sealed containers, potentially revolutionizing shipping processes.

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have proposed the existence of “dark dwarfs,” strange glowing objects potentially lurking at the center of our galaxy. These stars might form when brown dwarfs absorb enough dark matter to prevent cooling, transforming into long-lasting beacons of invisible energy. A specific form of lithium could give them away, and if detected, these eerie objects might reveal the true nature of dark matter itself.

Blue sharks shimmer with one of nature’s rarest colors, but their glow isn’t just for show — it’s built from microscopic crystals and pigments hidden in their skin. Scientists have discovered that the shark’s tooth-like skin scales house guanine platelets and melanin vesicles that work together to produce a vivid blue hue. What’s more, these [...]

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On July 10, Citizens JMP analyst Andrew Boone raised the price target on the stock to $285.00 (from $250.00) while maintaining a “Market Outperform” rating. Firm analysts are of the view that Amazon’s AWS opportunity remains underappreciated.  “With reach across 100M + U.S. […]

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SpaceX is reportedly investing USD 2 billion in Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, raising its valuation after merging with X.

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is one of the Trending AI Stocks on Wall Street. On July 9, BofA Securities analyst Justin Post raised the price target on the stock to $765.00 (from $690.00) while keeping a “Buy” rating. The rating affirmation followed reports that the AI giant has acquired almost 3% stake in its AI-eyewear partner EssilorLuxottica, […]

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A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could affect operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST.

LAS VEGAS — At Clinical Trials at the Summit, Dante Pieramici, MD, discusses the use of automated imaging aggregation and AI to improve candidate selection for geographic atrophy clinical trials.“I think this is what we’re going to see in the future. It’s much better than me just searching through my [electronic medical records] or looking through my patients as they come in to try and enroll these patients,” Pieramici, of California Retina Consultants, told Healio. “Conventional technology is going to be advanced to AI technology in the short future, and it’s

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which orbits the Milky Way.

Grok 4 users claim that the new version relies on the tech tycoon’s X posts, after a prior update caused a scandal with anti-Semitic replies Read Full Article at RT.com

When Einstein's predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical signals. Researchers have discovered that the same powerful magnets used to hunt for dark matter could double as gravitational wave detectors. This means experiments already searching for the universe's most elusive particles could simultaneously capture collisions between black holes and neutron stars, getting two of physics' most ambitious experiments for the price of one, while potentially opening entirely new windows into the universe's most violent events.

Portrait of a galaxy cluster

Meta is on a relentless pursuit for AI specialists, with remuneration packages that outstrip those of professional sports stars and Fortune 500 CEOs. read more

Aigen's Element robot uses solar power and AI to provide farmers with a sustainable alternative to herbicides, working efficiently in cotton and soy fields.

NutriSelect.ai, Inc., the company redefining how supplements are rated through AI and clinical rigor, has entered a strategic collaboration with California-based Radicle Science, the health tech pioneer delivering clinical evidence for wellness products through its AI-driven, proof-as-a-service platform.

Terbine, a leader in AI-driven machine coordination, today announced its acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception program, a premier initiative designed to support startups revolutionizing industries with AI-based solutions.

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In the escalating war for AI talent, Google is pulling out all the stops, offering substantial salaries to lure top-tier professionals. read more

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it's real because its mass prevents galaxies from falling apart. But we don't know what it is.

After coming to the web and iOS, the Gemini app is beginning to roll out chat search on Android. more…

Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen. After joining the company, the team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, who used to oversee speech AI research for Google and who was also a recent hire from another voice AI startup.  PlayAI's tool can clone a user's voice and can generate new human-like voices, which can be used on websites, apps and phones. Meta reportedly noted in its memo that the PlayAI team's work is a "great match" for its own work and roadmap across various products, including Meta AI, its AI Characters and its wearables. The company has confirmed the acquisition to Bloomberg, but it didn't reveal how much it paid for the deal.  Mark Zuckerberg has been personally involved in building

Blue sharks possess a secret hidden in their skin: a sophisticated arrangement of microscopic crystals and pigments that create their brilliant blue appearance — and may allow them to change color. Scientists have discovered that these nanostructures, found inside tooth-like skin scales, act like nature’s version of layered mirrors and light filters. What's more, changes in the spacing of these layers — possibly triggered by environmental factors like water pressure — could enable the sharks to shift their color from blue to green or gold. The discovery not only unravels a biological mystery but hints at a new frontier in bio-inspired materials with applications in sustainable design and camouflage technology.

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new method for creating quantum states by twisting materials at the M-point, revealing exotic phenomena previously out of reach. This new direction dramatically expands the moiré toolkit and may soon lead to the experimental realization of long-sought quantum spin liquids.

Scientists at ETH Zurich have broken new ground by generating over 400 types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab, far surpassing previous efforts that produced only a few dozen. By systematically experimenting with combinations of morphogens and gene regulators, the researchers replicated the vast diversity of neurons found in the human brain. This breakthrough holds major promise for studying neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, creating more accurate models for drug testing, and eventually even enabling neuron replacement therapies.

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Richtech Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ:RR) is one of the 10 most popular AI penny stocks to buy according to billionaires. On June 30, the company signed a sales agreement valued at over $4 million with Beijing Tongchuang Technology Development Co., Ltd. The transaction was complicated through Richtech’s Chinese joint venture, Boyu Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. […]

Plus: OnePlus debuts five new devices, iOS 26 has Beta drama, and Honor's new folding phone is slimmer than Samsung's.

Author(s): Baptiste Debecker, Lukas Pausch, Jonathan Louvet, Thierry Bastin, John Martin, and François DamanetThe authors study how the coupling of a quantum system to a non-Markovian environment can be used to generate and reshape phase transitions and squeezing in matter phases, and introduce the concept of directional spontaneous symmetry breaking. They also propose an experimental implementation of their non-Markovian model in a cavity-QED setup. [Phys. Rev. A 112, 012210] Published Fri Jul 11, 2025

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang stated that AI-driven productivity gains could lead to widespread job losses if industries fail to innovate. read more

SemiAnalysis: A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years  —  Meta's shocking purchase of 49% of Scale AI at a ~$30B valuation shows that money is of no concern for the $100B annual cashflow ad machine.

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to be a world first.

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000  —  The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT's release in late 2022.

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Meta has completed a deal to acquire AI voice technology startup PlayAI, and the “entire PlayAI team” is set to join Meta next week, per an internal memo  —  The “entire PlayAI team” is set to join Meta next week, according to an internal memo that was reviewed by Bloomberg.

It's assumed that our region of the Universe isn't special, and the Hubble Tension, or mismatch of expansion rates of the Universe at different times, is happening everywhere. But what if our place is unusual, for example, if the Milky Way is inside a lower-density region of the Universe, with stronger gravity pulling material away from us in all directions? A new paper suggests we might be in a void that's emptying out towards higher-density regions all around us.

Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.

Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.

A new technical paper titled “Rationally Engineered Heterometallic Metalladithiolene Coordination Nanosheets with Defined Atomic Arrangements” was published by researchers at Tokyo University of Science. Abstract “Coordination nanosheets are 2D polymers formed by coordination bonds between metal ions and planar organic molecules. They offer high molecular design freedom and unique electronic and chemical properties, making them... » read more The post Colloidal Coordination Nanosheets, And Their Use as Inks For Coating (Tokyo University of Science) appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.

A new study utilizes compact neural networks to uncover the underlying mechanisms behind human decision-making. Scientists have long studied how people and animals make decisions, often looking at how recent experiences and trial-and-error shape behavior. But traditional models may miss key aspects of how decisions are made, largely because they assume individuals always try to [...]

The rivalry between HD Hyundai and Hanwha in shipbuilding has evolved into a race to develop welding robots for shipyards. Subsidiaries of the two Korean conglomerates are working with international partners to secure technologies that address labor shortages and improve welder safety by reducing the need for work in confined spaces. Earlier this month, HD Hyundai Samho, a shipbuilder under HD Hyundai, announced a partnership with Germany's NEURA Robotics to develop four-legged and humanoid robots to advance welding automation at shipyards. Drawing on its experience with collaborative robots and automated equipment, HD Hyundai Samho will test the feasibility of NEURA Robotics’ humanoid technology for shipyard use. HD Hyundai Robotics, a robotics subsidiary, will support the collaboration by leveraging its years of data on automated welding. “This strategic partnership once again demonstrates the versatility of cognitive robots — even in one of the most demanding industrial environments

December 24th, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the Sun so far, coming within just 6.1 million km from the surface of the Sun. During this flyby, it captured data and images, including this incredible picture using the Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. In this WISPR image, you can see the corona and solar wind, charged particles coming from the Sun, hurled across the Solar System. The next pass will happen in September.

Hayden Field / The Verge: Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind  —  Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. … OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off …

Enterprise AI agent adoption is accelerating faster than predicted. Get the 4 key takeaways from VB Transform 2025 on how leaders from Intuit, Capital One, and more are deploying agents in production and reshaping their teams for a new era of AI.

Elon Musk has launched xAI’s Grok 4—calling it the “world’s smartest AI” and claiming it can ace Ph.D.-level exams and outpace rivals such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s o3 on tough benchmarks

CLEVELAND — While effective use of AI in medicine relies on technology, physicians must prioritize learning to properly implement it, according to a speaker at Cleveland Clinic’s A.I. Summit for Healthcare Professionals.“We sometimes forget about that implementation piece because that is really our role as physicians,” David C. Rhew, MD, global chief medical officer and vice president of healthcare at Microsoft, said. “Implement it in the workflow. Implement it such that it actually leads to the best outcomes.”According to Rhew, high-performing AI models

Close encounters with massive objects can alter the orbits of planets around their stars. Stellar flybys can change planetary orbits, and may be responsible for some of the rogue or free-floating planets astronomers have discovered. But stars aren't the only massive objects out there, and new research suggests that primordial black holes may alter the orbits of exoplanets.

New research suggests Sonoran Desert toads went into steep decline after stories of their mind-bending chemical properties began circulating among drug users.

Data poisoning, meet data detox ai-pocalypse  Computer scientists say they've devised a way to remove image-based protection mechanisms developed to protect artists from unwanted use of their work for AI training.…

Labour’s AI fellowship will see experts use open source AI tools in a bid deliver better public services at lower cost

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During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil probe saw.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is ushering in a transformative era for traditional medicine, one where centuries-old healing systems are enhanced by cutting-edge technologies to deliver more safe, personalized, effective, and accessible care.

Forget video generators and AI slop; smart glasses are the place I want to see AI end up.

Ecovac's Winbot W2 Omni is so good, it made me wish I had more windows in my house to see it work all day. But this Prime Day price is almost over.

Satellites have captured before-and-after images of the devastating floods in Texas, highlighting a trail of devastation on the Guadalupe River.

Lip-Bu Tan seemingly also said that "we are not in the top 10 semiconductor companies" any longer - a frank admission indeed.

Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their observed oscillations suggest that they do in fact have a mass, which is very low. A further characteristic of these particles is that they only weakly interact with other matter, which makes them very difficult to detect using conventional experimental methods.

The ATLAS collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson and a photon.

Experiments show that carbon nanotubes transfer heat inefficiently at small scales, raising concerns for cooling and performance in nanoelectronic devices.