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Galileo Space Is Building Satellites That Turn Signals Into Answers in Orbit

Galileo Space is building satellites designed to turn signals into answers in orbit. Modern defense and commercial operations need fast answers about what is happening and where. Existing systems can

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

SpaceX set to launch astronauts and a classified Falcon Heavy mission on the same day

SpaceX plans three launches Thursday, including Crew-13 astronauts and Falcon Heavy's first classified NRO mission. The post SpaceX set to launch astronauts and a classified Falcon Heavy mission on th

Chicago Metra calls its new battery-electric locomotive a first of its kind

Metra’s diesel-engined commuter trains are familiar sights in and around Chicago, and so is the smell of spent diesel that surrounds them – but a new battery-electric FLIRT locomotive from Stadler is

Tesla Cybercab and Semi have more in common than you might think

Although the two vehicles are built for completely different use cases, Tesla utilized engineering expertise while developing both the Cybercab and Semi to build a thermal architecture that would fit

Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work and Cyber Defense

Gemini 4 Argon tops GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks, but access remains gated today. The post Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1M Output Tokens for Coding, Knowledge Work

Commercial EVs take off as Workhorse announces fresh, 200 truck order

Commercial delivery operator Gateway Fleets ordered 100 medium-duty electric box vans from Workhorse earlier this year. That experiment seems to be going well, because the company just ordered 200 mor

OpenAI Releases GPT-6.1 Sol: Near-Astra Coding and Computer Use at One-Fifth of Astra’s Token Price

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, 2026, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol. It reaches near-Astra results on agentic coding, computer use and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's token prices. It

Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

Ford’s $30,000 Fathom EV pickup production launch faces uncertainty

The Ford Fathom is expected to go on sale in early 2027, starting at $28,350. Ford CEO Jim Farley admitted, “It’s going to be a heck of an effort to launch this at scale, at cost, on time.” more…

Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Toyota dropped a 1,675 lb caravan on its electric truck, and it drove off unfazed [Video]

Toyota tried crushing its new electric truck with a 1,675-pound caravan to prove it’s still “the world’s toughest pick-up,” and it drove off as if nothing had happened. more…

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

BYD’s cheapest EV is getting bigger and fancier

BYD is giving its $10,000 EV a major overhaul. New images of the second-gen Seagull reveal a larger, more upscale design with a few surprise luxury features. more…

Monarc smart e-bikes get largest $838 FREE bundles, EcoFlow power station flash sale, Anker SOLIX E10 exclusive lows, Worx, more

We have a jam-packed midweek Green Deals for you, with a bunch of these deals coming from Amazon’s early fall Prime Day sale. Starting off today’s edition is the limited-time chance to score a larger-

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

E-bikes are giving teenagers something we thought they’d lost

If you’ve spent any time reading local neighborhood social media groups lately – and for your mental health, I hope you haven’t – you’ve probably encountered a familiar complaint: teenagers on e-bikes

The ugly economics of consumer AI

There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.

NVIDIA Opens Applications for 2027–2028 Graduate Fellowships With Awards Up to $60,000

Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems. To foster such inn

Rivian: LiDAR R2 reaches customers in 2027, employees get it this year

Rivian’s first R2s with LiDAR and its in-house RAP1 autonomy computer will go to employees before the end of 2026. Paying customers will have to wait until 2027. It could be interpreted as a delay com

The new 2027 BMW i3 is here with up to 468 miles of range, but it’s not cheap

BMW opened orders for the 2027 i3 early after strong initial demand. The all-new electric sedan can drive up to 468 miles on a single charge, but it’s not exactly cheap. more…

Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was tu

Tesla’s solar factory dragged into patent war between Chinese suppliers

Tesla’s planned solar factory in Texas has landed in the middle of a US patent lawsuit between two Chinese solar equipment makers, both chasing the ingot-growing furnaces Tesla needs to hit its 100 GW

DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food

By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub.

Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page

"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."

Instinct’s new product recommendations are giving some users the ick

Instinct is rolling out human-curated product and travel recommendations, but some users aren’t happy about getting suggestions they never asked for.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward

Elon Musk weather update tips Tesla Roadster speculation into Plaid Mode

Tesla CEO Elon Musk certainly tipped off some details of the Tesla Roadster event with a broadening of information regarding the company’s decision to delay the unveiling for two weeks. For years, peo

MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego

Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers in military maneuvers or business negotiations.

From Training to Production, NVIDIA and CoreWeave Close the Loop on Agentic AI

Building on nearly a decade of co-engineering, CoreWeave has built NVIDIA compute, networking and software into a cloud purpose-built for AI that’s still returning on investment across multiple genera

NaviGate successfully demonstrates onboard precise orbit determination aboard D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier

ROME, 30/09/2026 – NaviGate, an Italian space technology company spun out of Sapienza University of Rome, has successfully completed the in-orbit demonstration (IoD) of NaviCode Caravel, its autonomou

Range Rover Sport EV orders open at nearly $150,000 with up to 378 miles of range

The Range Rover Sport EV is bringing new levels of performance with an all-electric powertrain, but it isn’t cheap. more…

Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints di

Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents

Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be excep

Tesla snags $30B in fresh credit lines for expanding its biggest projects

Tesla has secured $30 billion in fresh credit lines from Citibank and Wells Fargo in an effort to scale its biggest current projects. Tesla agreed to a $20 billion three-year delayed-draw term loan fa

3 days left to exhibit: Turn visibility into your next opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Three days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Book by October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT to showcase your startup to 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.

The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engineers platform, events for engineers navigating AI

The initiative for engineers includes a news desk, a conference, research, and an advisory board, grounded in trusted editorial brands. The post The Robot Report parent Arrowfly launches AI for Engine

Tesla Robotaxi fleets are the new crypto treasury for zombie companies

A Nasdaq-listed company worth about $2.4 million says it wants to buy 500 Tesla Robotaxis. KIDZ AI, formerly an online coding school for kids, announced today that it sent Tesla a “procurement inquiry

Did AI Just Solve One of Mathematics’ Biggest Problems?

OpenAI’s agents reached a proposed solution in 88 hours. But the human research that came before, and the controversy that followed, raise a harder question: what actually counts as an AI discovery?

China’s 2,250kW chargers are already in service, while US thinks about 750kW next year

Just last week, Geely announced it would roll out 2.2 megawatt chargers, able to charge an EV in under 5 minutes. Those chargers are now already in service in 5 cities, with 15,000 charging sites plan

IONNA tops 180 charging sites, with discounts for these EV drivers

Rapidly expanding DC fast charging company IONNA now has more than 180 sites open across the US, and EV drivers of four of its founding automakers’ brands can now get discounts when they plug in. more

Quantum Space Executes Launch Processing Agreement with All Points Logistics for Prime Mission

ROCKVILLE, Md. and MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — September 30, 2026 — Quantum Space, LLC (the “Company” or “Quantum Space”), a company developing the next generation of advanced maneuverable spacecraft for [

Innodata opens motion-capture lab to help humanoids move more like people

Innodata uses Vicon cameras to measure movements with sub-millimeter accuracy and to collect real-world training data for robots. The post Innodata opens motion-capture lab to help humanoids move more

Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on autonomous fleets

ASI and SoftBank join forces with $225M to scale brand-agnostic autonomous heavy equipment across infrastructure projects. The post Tackling construction labor shortages: ASI and SoftBank partner on a

Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet

Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama ri

Airbnb adds AI search, more social features

Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations.

Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

Helping small businesses put AI to work

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.

Perplexity Introduces Photon: A Rust-Based Retrieval Engine That Cuts p99 Latency From 800 ms to 65 ms

Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house retrieval and ranking engine written in Rust. It replaces an open-source engine Perplexity had forked for its AI-native search stack. Photon now handles ret

NVIDIA Researchers Introduce Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Physical Language That Lifts Cosmos 3 Past Veo 3.1 on Physics Benchmarks

Video world models can render convincing clips that still break physics. Butter spreads like paint. Balls pass through walls. A team from NVIDIA, MIT and the University of Oxford argues the fix can co

jambuild

Near instant multiplayer vibecoding, just point and talk Discussion | Link

Elon Musk and Trump are closer than ever, and Tesla could be the big winner

Elon Musk sat beside Trump as AI leaders signed a voluntary White House safety accord. The post Elon Musk and Trump are closer than ever, and Tesla could be the big winner appeared first on TESLARATI

One Bad Prompt Took Down a Company’s Salesforce: RSA’s Jim Taylor on Agent ID and Taming the 4,000 Shadow AI Agents Hiding in Your Enterprise

RSA launched Agent ID at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It's an agentic identity security platform for finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure. It has 3 modules. Discover fin

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

Tesla takes on $30 billion in credit as it approaches unprofitability

Tesla opened $30 billion in lines of credit according to a regulatory filing today. The loans come as company profits have dropped in recent years, and as Tesla guides for more spending in upcoming qu

Liquid AI Releases d1: A Decision Model That Returns Calibrated Probabilities With Zero Output Tokens

Liquid AI has released d1, a decision model built for structured choices instead of text generation. You give it context and a set of typed questions. It returns calibrated probabilities across a fixe

Upsolve Data Models

Teach AI your metric definitions and business vocabulary Discussion | Link

Commercial Defense Satcom Service Revenues to Surpass $22.6B by 2035

Paris, France | September 2026 — Novaspace’s Satellite Communications for Defense and Security, 2nd Edition highlights a defense Satcom market poised for rapid growth. By 2035, commercial satellite se

ForceN to give a crash course on force and torque sensing for humanoids at RoboBusiness

Attendees will learn about the many ways they can use force and torque sensors in humanoids and how to avoid breaking them while doing it. The post ForceN to give a crash course on force and torque se

AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation

Algorithms & Theory

OpenAI Launches dots: Always-On GPT-6 Astra Agents That Work From Their Own Cloud Computers

OpenAI just introduced dots at their DevDay today. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. Each dot gets its own cloud computer and browser. It works across 4,000+ apps through ChatGPT p

Nebius Opens 2026 Physical AI Awards: Five $150K Compute Credit Prizes

Nebius and NVIDIA are running the 2026 Physical AI Awards for startups with products in the field. Five category winners each get $150,000 in compute credits, joint promotion, executive mentorship, an

Terran Orbital Names Jamin Brown Chief Operating Officer

IRVINE, Calif. – Sept. 29, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, today announced the

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

How to Turn Excel Data Into PowerPoint Presentations With AI

Learn how to use Julius AI to analyze Excel data, verify key findings, and turn them into an editable PowerPoint presentation.

DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers

Ferndesk

The help center that never goes out of date Discussion | Link

NVIDIA Kumo Tabular Sets a New Accuracy-Efficiency Frontier for Tabular Prediction

Tesla Roadster’s new patent preps white-knuckle speeds, keeping it grounded

Ahead of its highly anticipated unveiling, Tesla’s upcoming Roadster received a new patent that aims to keep it grounded while enabling white-knuckle speeds. The patent, which was granted on September

Claude partial outage

freddy.health

talk to your body in Claude, ChatGPT, Muse, or any other AI Discussion | Link

Unsurprisingly, Meta's new Muse AI agent blatantly ignores users permissions

Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built for busy parents

Flourish is releasing a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot, targeting busy parents with personalized, cloud-trained chore automation. The post Meet Flourish One, the Raspberry Pi-powered humanoid built

SuperWhisper s1-mini: The 600M Parameter Model Built Just for Transcription

This is a summary of, and insights into, what I found digging into the recently-released Superwhisper S1 family of voice-to-text models.

Tesla showrooms picked clean ahead of Q3 end as demand looks strong

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) showrooms have been picked clean ahead of the end of the third quarter of the year, as demand looks to be strong and delivery estimates for new vehicles are pushed into late 2026

State of Robots in Manufacturing

The Robot Report looks at recent advances in automation for manufacturing, from improvements in technologies and use cases to the potential of humanoids and AI. The post State of Robots in Manufacturi

Datastory

Turn the world's data into stories worth sharing Discussion | Link

Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents

5 Free Courses to Learn AI Engineering

Learn LLM fundamentals, AI engineering, RAG, MLOps, fine-tuning, and deployment with five practical courses designed to help you become a stronger AI and machine learning engineer.

Foglio

Simple, private docs with smart AI templates, zero bloat. Discussion | Link

If AI cannot be trusted in a classroom, why should it be trusted in orbit?

On September 9, 2026, Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s alignment science lead, said on social media that he personally believed there was a greater than 10% chance that artificial intelligence could kill […

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]

Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced RRSI, a framework that lets LLM agents rewrite their own prompts, tools and memory while model weights stay frozen. It adds a leakage critic, a noise floor, a

H Company Releases Holo4: Open-Weight Computer-Use Models That Click, Code and Call Tools Across Desktop, Web, Android and APIs

H Company has released Holo4, a family of generalist computer-use models for AI agents. One set of weights clicks and types on screens. It also writes code and calls MCP or API tools. Holo4 ships in 2

Ship It: Idle Dev Tycoon

The idle game where App Review can reject you Discussion | Link

The effects of an “algorithmic monoculture” depend on the details

In a study focusing on hiring decisions, MIT researchers found the use of a single algorithm by many firms could benefit job seekers in certain situations.

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

Watch Tesla’s “guardian angel” FSD feature take over for collision evasion

Tesla’s Automatic Collision Evasion feature can be seen in one of the first owner videos of it in action. Tesla owner Spencer (@scotsrule08) posted on Monday that the feature “worked flawlessly,” sayi

Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp

Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help

SelfJev

Jev-compatible self-hosted decisions mode Discussion | Link

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Tesla Roadster event gets delayed due to unfavorable weather

Tesla is delaying its event for the Roadster, moving it from this Thursday, October 1, to Thursday, October 15, due to unfavorable weather. The company has said it has been tracking the weather for th

How we will do better for Australia

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.

Watch the winning trailer from the Future Vision XPRIZE, The Gifted.

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

SpaceX turned a heralding moment for Starship into its greatest

Starship reached orbit despite losing an engine, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites on Flight 14. The post SpaceX turned a heralding moment for Starship into its greatest appeared first on TESLARATI .

Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control

Gecko Robotics is using the new NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to ensure the secure autonomous control of systems. The post Gecko Robotics works with NVIDIA to add AI agent security and control app

Space is everyone’s business: Economist Enterprise’s 4th annual Space Economy Summit returns to Orlando

ORLANDO, FL — September 28th, 2026 — Space is rapidly becoming a practical business tool for industries far beyond aerospace, as satellite intelligence, resilient connectivity and other space-enabled

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe

Here's how each got to where it is, a real use case and working code for both, and a side-by-side on the numbers that actually matter.

Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and crypto wallets for humanoids

Economics is both a robotics impetus and a constraint, as systems make deliveries on streets or do chores in households. The post Robonomics on the threshold: Economic autonomy, smart cities, and cryp

Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at RoboBusiness

Raise Robotics said attendees will learn a decision rule for allocating engineering capacity and a vocabulary for two hidden failure modes. The post Raise Robotics to discuss scaling field robots at R

SpaceX’s Starship rocket reaches orbit for the first time

Reaching orbit is a critical milestone that could let SpaceX start using Starship for regular commercial missions and, importantly, inch closer to its goal of making the mega-rocket fully reusable.

3 Numba Tricks for Python Runtime Optimization

When Numba code disappoints, it's nearly never the compiler, and usually ends up being the boundary around the compiled code: not crossing it, not making it wide enough, or crossing it during every ru

Agile Space Industries Expands Leadership Structure to Support Next Phase of Growth

DURANGO, Colo., Sept. 28, 2026 – Agile Space Industries today announced that Jason Wright will join the company as President in early October, strengthening Agile’s operational leadership as the compa

Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT engineers have found a way to stabilize the lipid nanoparticles used to deliver RNA vaccines, which could allow the vaccines to be more widely distributed.

Notely

Turn notes into tasks, with AI that asks first Discussion | Link

Zumbo

Open source local AI voice-to-text for Mac for private STT Discussion | Link

The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support

OpenAI is expanding the Lenfest AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program with $5 million in funding and up to $5 million in software credits and engineering support.

Voice Memo

Open-source voice notes that file your tasks and reminders Discussion | Link

Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program

Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

Squint

Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it Discussion | Link

Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe

Asimov's fictional Three Laws of Robotics famously set safeguards, and tech observers today raise similar concerns about AI. The post Asimov’s laws are not enough to keep robotics and AI safe appeared

From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will take to scale robotaxis?

While robotaxis prove their driving ability, scaling the industry globally requires solving the unglamorous challenge of fast, local vehicle servicing. The post From 14 cities to 15,000: What it will

MIT students gain a humanist lens on technical innovation in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The PKG Center for Social Impact expands Code.Tulsa experiential learning program.

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility

The new facility will produce products that power Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America. The post Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility appeared first o

General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain

Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities—helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors. The post General Robotics is betting on modular

Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Agility Robotics, maker of Digit humanoid, exploring wheeled robots

Agility Robotics is exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels, to address different operating environments and customer needs. The post Agility Robotics, maker of Digit hum

Batching by Length Instead of Looping Item by Item for SLM Optimization

We finish off our short series on SLM optimization with the third entry, focused on batching by length instead of looping item by item.

Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can help

Labor availability, costs, productivity, and efficiency are common concerns of farmers that technology can address, according to CNH. The post Farmers are facing more pressure; CNH says robotics can h

7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skills

Leveling up rarely means new syntax. It means learning what the language already promised you.

Ace from Automat Workforce

Meet Ace, an agentic teammate for work Discussion | Link

Estimating suicide risk from text

A new language-processing tool could help identify the highest-risk individuals from natural language, enabling swifter interventions.

Automating coherent long-form video generation

Generative AI

Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools su

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

True or false on space industry trends with Pacôme Révillon

In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss and Novaspace CEO Pacôme Révillon look at what to expect from the space industry in the next year by playing a game of true […] The post True or false on space i

Moog Completes ISO Class 8 Clean Room at Niagara Falls Facility to Expand Thruster Production

East Aurora, NY — Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) announced the completion and commissioning of a new ISO Class 8 certified clean room at its Niagara Falls facility. This […] The post Moog Completes

Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark

MCP Explained in 5 Minutes

A visual guide to MCP that explains how it works, how to use it with Claude Code, Tavily, GitHub, and Playwright, and what is new through simple diagrams that make the whole concept easy for anyone to

How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic

When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The n

Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW

A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the r

The promise and peril of using visual AI to study cities

In their new book, “How AI Sees the City,” the leaders of MIT’s Senseable City Lab examine the technology’s implications for researching urban life.

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers

We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, and partnering with Industrious for an extended network.

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

Ethereal Space Awarded NOAA SBEM Task Order 1

DENVER, Colorado – September 2026 – Ethereal Space, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded Task Order 1 under NOAA’s ProTech 2.0 Space-Based Environmental Monitoring (SBEM) program, following N

Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the sha

OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia

NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced too

Poitras Center to fuel early careers of 50 young scientists dedicated to psychiatric disorders research

Patricia and James Poitras ’63 provide fellowships for graduate students and postdocs who will shape the future of mental health research.

Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too. After starting her career

NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development

To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project

Macaly Cloud

Build and publish sites with your Claude or ChatGPT Discussion | Link

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories

Every AI factory needs power and cooling that fit its computing architecture. As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints are shaping what builders can deploy. Choos

Why Deploying Physical AI at Scale Demands Safety at Every Layer

Physical AI is moving rapidly from research to large-scale deployment. By 2035, ABI Research projects an installed base of 49 million level 3-5 autonomous vehicles (AVs), while Omdia estimates that ro

From Enablement to Execution, Egypt’s AI Ecosystem Reaches Production Scale

Today, Egypt’s AI builders gathered in the Grand Egyptian Museum for a reception that highlighted the nation’s rapidly growing AI ecosystem — spanning AI natives, developers, researchers, startups and

Commercial Space Federation (CSF) Welcomes Two New Members

September 21, 2026— Washington, D.C.—The Commercial Space Federation (CSF) is pleased to welcome ORBITInsure and Renaissance Strategic Advisors (RSA) as its newest members. ORBITInsure joins CSF as a

AI Security Is an Engineering Problem — How to Solve It at Every Layer of the Agent Stack

AI security is an engineering problem. That means defined security requirements, enforceable controls, named owners and evidence that protections work. As AI becomes more capable, the industry must ac

NotchDodo

NotchDodo turns your notch into a full-blown dashboard. Discussion | Link

5 Companies Using NVIDIA AI for Clean Energy

Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timeli

tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured

MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics

Algorithms & Theory

A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

Video Friday: Two Birotors Make a Quadrotor

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Terran Orbital Promotes Margherita Cardi to Vice President of European Operations & Head of Strategic Programs

IRVINE, Calif. and TORINO, Italy – Sept. 17, 2026 – Terran Orbital, a Lockheed Martin company and a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, [

New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team

We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.

Co-creating the future of fashion with Google

Google worked side-by-side with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools to prep for NYFW.

The future of practice: Enabling teachers to create learning interactives with generative UI

Education Innovation

Making global data easier to explore

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.

Satrec Initiative to build 10-centimeter-class optical satellites for Hanwha constellation

PARIS — South Korean company Satrec Initiative is working with parent company Hanwha Aerospace to provide high-resolution Earth imagery for the synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) constellation announced i

Simera Sense and IDOM partner to develop and produce xScape350 optical system as demand for high-resolution EO imagery surges

LEUVEN, BELGIUM and BILBAO, SPAIN – 17 September 2026—Simera Sense, a leading European provider of optical payload solutions for small satellites, today announced a strategic partnership with IDOM, on

Cute Critters Come to the Cloud: ‘Aniimo’ Launches on GeForce NOW

A new creature-catching adventure is ready to stream from the cloud this week. Pawprint Studio’s Aniimo arrives on GeForce NOW at launch, inviting gamers to explore the vibrant continent of Idyll acro

Musk’s long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors

Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.

Hear why Science Corp CEO Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At this year's Disrupt, Science Corp CEO Max Hodak will present a vision for screen-free interfaces that can even offer medical help. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.

Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe wh

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut

System performance, efficient infrastructure scaling and continuous software optimization are key levers that determine AI inference economics. Higher system performance means more tokens generated, r

New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery.

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers

AI factories are the infrastructure of the intelligence era. Scaling them responsibly will depend as much on innovation across the grid as inside the data center. Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA

Measure by measure, studying society accurately

Naoki Egami has become a standout in political methodology, helping refine tools that give scholars durable results.

Bypassing inference bottlenecks: Accelerating complex AI search with Retrieve-for-Train

Algorithms & Theory

SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 28

Elon Musk's company will also attempt to deploy the first V3 Starlink satellites into its orbital internet constellation.

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

AI for Societal Impact

Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …

AI for everyone in every language

We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.

Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe

Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bi

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS

We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.

Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.

Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.

DevFest is back

DevFest 2026 is back and here’s how you can connect with one of the more than 800 global events to build, secure, and scale in the agentic AI era.

New method enables AI for safety-critical situations

The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when “pretty close” doesn’t cut it.

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.

An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment le

Video Friday: Humanoid Robot Takes On Monkey Bars

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ToolGrad: Efficient tool-use dataset generation with textual "gradients"

Machine Intelligence

Robots Are Learning to Feel

Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has h

3 ways to prep for your next big race with Search

Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

Get ready for the game with new football features in Search

Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.

Recreating a 70-year love story frame by frame

Discover how filmmakers and Google DeepMind used AI to recreate a couple's unrecorded past in the short film "Love, Rendered."

Besxar is building an orbital semiconductor factory, one SpaceX rocket at a time

Besxar, a startup founded by former OpenAI staffer Ashley Pilipiszyn, wants to make the key precursors for advanced semiconductors by taking advantage of the vacuum of space.

The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the largest-ever Series C by a European space company.”

AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

Stoke Space raises another billion to rival SpaceX at re-flying rockets

Stoke has "completed the initial closing" of a $1B Series E round intended to help it reach orbit and prepare a new, larger rocket for operations.

This Robot Will Draw Your Blood Now

You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. A

Cyborg Roaches Can Stab You With Needles

Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnervin

Video Friday: Digit Redecorates

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Transfer learning for genomic prediction in underrepresented populations

General Science

A connectomics milestone: Mapping the complete male fruit fly brain

General Science

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp . In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycle

The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball

On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable rob

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.

Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning

Climate & Sustainability

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting

Data Management

Video Friday: Meet Microduck

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Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI

Earth AI

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control

Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.

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Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

GlucoFM: Foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring

Health & Bioscience

Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents

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AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR

Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization

SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana

The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.

An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data

Generative AI

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

How mobility gives language models a deeper understanding of place

Algorithms & Theory

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival i

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels

The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.

Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On T

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech — a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Science Corp. raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market

A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.

China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B fundi

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Read more

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation

Neuralink last year received "breakthrough device" clearance from the U.S. FDA. Three people have so far received implants made by Neuralink.

Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean it has cured blindness

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean the outfit has developed a cure for blindness,

Ars chats with Precision, the brain-chip maker taking the road less invasive

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human

How soon can I get a computer-brain implant?

Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news -- and you might be glad to know today was not all about OpenAI.

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing

Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in?

Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials

Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype and Siri sucking (still)

For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic in its fundraising. Now entering its fifth year, the firm just closed a $200 mil

Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already

Neuralink’s ambition to provide a brain-computer interface orders of magnitude better than what’s out there now has hit headwinds with the FDA, Reuters reports. The agency reportedly rejected the comp

Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says

Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges

Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. Precision Neuroscience is building a modern alternati

Neuralink faces federal probe over alleged animal abuse, “hack job” surgeries

Over a year later, Musk’s Neuralink still 6 months from human trials

It sounds like Elon Musk is still trying to get out of his own Twitter deal

According to a new report from The Washington Post that relies heavily on anonymous sources, the world’s richest man is still looking for a way out of a $44 billion deal of his own making. The Post re

High-bandwidth wireless BCI demonstrated in humans for first time

The big advance in Elon Musk’s Pong-playing monkey is what you can’t see