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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers
Agility Robotics has debuted its first humanoid robot engineered to work safely near humans without risking harm to flesh-and-blood coworkers. Such safety features could unlock many more opportunities to use such robots inside warehouses and automotive factories—all without requiring isolated robot work cells and physical separation barriers. When Agility’s new Digit 5 robot detects a person at a distance, it can autonomously take precautions, like moving to avoid the person or standing still so the person can pass by without getting closer.
Artemis III Crew Visits NASA Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building - NASA
NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik (left) and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano view progress on the solid rocket booster integration in High Bay 3 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026.
Looking beyond the label | The Temple News
... health conditions that aren't necessarily easy to see or diagnose.” Although public conversations around mental health have become more common ...
NBA weighed precedent before punishing Clippers in salary cap case
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league looked at similar cases before taking away five first-round draft picks from the L.A. Clippers for circumventing salary cap rules.
British bosses to be forced to meet with employees who request flexible working
Employers will have to hold face-to-face meetings with staff who ask about shift changes under government reforms
Feeding Families Foundation Gets $121,500 Boost from Association of Contracting Plumbers to Keep Meals Flowing to Parents at Their Child's Bedside
/PRNewswire/ -- Feeding Families Foundation, a Connecticut-based nonprofit working to eliminate food insecurity for parents of hospitalized children, announced...
‘Ear Hustle’ Podcast Gets Documentary From Executive Producer Morgan Freeman (EXCLUSIVE)
'Ear Hustle' is getting a documentary feature from filmmaker Erika Cohn and executive producers Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary.
US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world.
Stellar Colosseum: A Many-Agent Harness for Long-Horizon Research in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Language models can produce plausible short proofs, but may still be unreliable on long-horizon research problems, where progress depends on a sequence of uncertain and interdependent decisions. We introduce Stellar Colosseum, a model-agnostic harness for allocating inference across research in mathematics and theoretical computer science. Colosseum explores alternative strategies before proof construction, uses a readiness gate to decide when a route is mature enough to decompose, represents th
Less isn't more: Cosmological bounds on the neutrino masses are robust to changes in the neutrino abundance
We investigate how neutrino-mass constraints from cosmology depend on the assumed thermal history of the universe. Photon injection after neutrino decoupling would decrease the neutrino abundance inferred from the temperature of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), potentially loosening the upper limit on their masses. We first evaluate how the cosmological neutrino-mass bound is altered by the decay of massive particles into photons and dark radiation after Big Bang nucleosynthesis. To test t
When Teachers Smile or Frown: A Profile-Based Analysis of Achievement Emotions
Achievement emotions shape how students engage with and learn from academic tasks, yet most studies examine individual emotions rather than co-occurring affective profiles and their dynamics. We examined latent achievement-emotion profiles and their transitions following exposure to different instructor facial expressions during a video lecture. Self-reported data from 78 Grade VII and VIII students revealed three profiles: enthusiastic, demotivated, and vulnerable. Profile transitions differed
"Without any doubt" - LaLiga giants' manager explains why Lionel Messi deserves to win 2026 Ballon d'Or
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone has named Lionel Messi as his choice to win the 2026 Ballon d'Or without a doubt.
NATO jet shoots down suspected Russian drone over Lithuania
EU chief warns of wider conflict as border incursions stoke fears that Ukraine war is spilling into neighbouring states.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby sleeps 8.5 hours a night, limits meetings to 4 hours a day
Despite running one of the world’s largest airlines, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby goes to great lengths to avoid being too busy. He works out nearly every day, sleeps about eight and a half hours a night, and usually finds time for a 15-minute nap. “Sleep is the number one priority,” he recently told Semafor. Kirby also reads three hours a day, including a good chunk of The New York Times and the print version of The Wall Street Journal, cover to cover. “I find all ki
Practical Magic 3 Update Is What Fans of Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman Franchise Want to Hear
Here is when fans can expect Practical Magic 3 - Sandra Bullock mentioned there is definitely material for it.
Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
Bellman Policy Optimization
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). We introduce Bellman Policy Optimization (BPO), a critic-free method derived from Policy Mirror Descent (PMD). For autoregressive generation with terminal rewards, BPO uses the Bellman equations to reformulate PMD as a trajectory-level objective. The reformulation avoids estimating state values at intermediate states. We prove that it has the same unique optimal solution as
1,200-mph F-35 engine clears key review to solve cooling limits
Pratt & Whitney clears a key F135 engine review, advancing the F-35 toward Block 4 upgrades with more power and thermal capacity.
Letby failings go beyond one hospital - the whole system has been found lacking
Inquiry chair Lady Justice Thirlwall set out how the culture of the health system created the conditions that enabled poor care and criminality.
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Israel lacking respect for dead buried in Gaza rubble: UN
Human rights chief reiterates concern over war crimes evidence as remains from entire families are unearthed.
Bloom Energy Deadline: BE Investors Have Opportunity to Lead Bloom Energy Corporation Securities Fraud Lawsuit
/PRNewswire/ -- Why: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Bloom Energy Corporation (NYSE: BE) between...
Ed Sheeran says it was 'not my decision' to drop Macklemore from tour
The star says tour promoters took the decision, after Macklemore made pro-Palestinian statements on stage.
NVIDIA CEO Uses Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 to Answer Trump's Surprise Call Live on Stage
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang answered a live call from President Trump on a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles.
18-year-old dies of measles in PA from severe neurological complication
A fourth person in Pennsylvania has died of measles, the state health department confirmed Tuesday. The latest death was in an unvaccinated 18-year-old resident of Mifflin County. In the announcement, the state health department also confirmed a county coroner's report over the weekend of the death of an unvaccinated 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County. The state had previously reported two deaths in Lancaster County, both were in infants—a newborn boy and a 6-week-old girl, both too young to be vaccinated. According to the Mifflin County coroner, Andrea L.
NASA Invites Media to International Observe the Moon Night
NASA will host an International Observe the Moon Night celebration from 5:30 to 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, the official visitor center for NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. International Observe the Moon Night celebrates the Moon, the science behind it, and its connection to space exploration and human culture.
Knowledge-Enriched Structured EHR Features for 30-Day Hospital Readmission Prediction on MIMIC-IV
Recent approaches to 30-day hospital readmission prediction rely on pre-trained language models applied to discharge summaries. Although these methods achieve strong performance, they depend on the availability of clinical notes, incur substantial computational costs, and yield representations that lack interpretability. We propose a knowledge-enriched feature representation that augments structured Electronic Health Record (EHR) data with four medical knowledge sources: disease ontology mapping
Browns place RB Sampson on injured reserve with knee injury
The Cleveland Browns placed running back Dylan Sampson on injured reserve with a knee injury, the team announced Tuesday.
India beat Afghanistan by seven wickets to seal T20 series
Sanju Samson's half century helps India seal three-match series with wins in first two games.
A prelude to the theory of Real-World Asset (RWA) Tokenization
We provide an introduction to real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and develop two economic models connecting this emerging market to classical financial theory. In search for a theory of RWA tokenization, we classify RWA tokenization according to the role of the underlying asset, distinguishing standard RWA tokenization, stablecoins, and Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs). Our first model connects tokenization with security design under asymmetric information. Continuous secondary-market trading g
Salman Khan’s Maatrubhumi Delayed Again? No CBFC Screening Yet, 2027 Release Possible | Report
Salman Khan's Maatrubhumi faces release uncertainty. No CBFC screening yet, makers resolve issues. 2026 release uncertain, 2027 possible.
Meta expands subscription push with new AI-focused plans
Meta One bundles expanded access to the company’s AI tools with premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Corrupt Plans, Clean Traces: Evading Chain-of-Thought Monitoring with Plan Injection
Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is a safety strategy where the reasoning of a large language model "actor" is inspected by a "monitor" (often another language model) for signs of unsafe planning, deception, or misalignment. We find that planting harmful but benign-sounding reasoning in the actor's context can steer it to perform adversarial actions while evading monitors, an attack we term "plan injection". We initially discover this attack in the multiple-choice question-answering monitorabil
Great Salt Lake's ancient past reveals how quickly fresh water can disappear
From a mountainside overlooking Utah's Great Salt Lake, a time traveler turning back the clock 20,000 years would watch a dramatic transformation of the landscape. The shallow, salty lake below would swell into an immense body of fresh water, at one point reaching nearly 1,000 feet (305 meters) deep
New Medicare ACCESS model aims to reward results, not volume, for chronic disease care
... conditions such as chronic pain; and behavioral health conditions. ... health effects of remote work — Morning Medical Update. ByAustin Littrell.
Today's top games to watch, best bets, odds: Padres vs. Rockies, Braves vs. Cubs and more
Find best bets for the biggest games in sports on Tuesday from the SportsLine Projection Model and top CBS Sports experts
Egypt’s el-Sisi meets MBS, backs Saudi call for secure Red Sea navigation
Red Sea disruptions impact Egypt’s economy, with Suez Canal revenues dropping by $7bn in two years.
What Gen Z Wants from Brands
Featuring Ziad Ahmed, VP, Head of Next Gen, United Talent Agency and Joon Silverstein, Chief Marketing Officer, CoachModerated by Elizabeth Segran, Senior Writer, Fast Company For years, brands have tried to crack the Gen Z code through campaigns, influencers, and trend chasing. The companies breaking through today are taking a different approach: inviting Gen Z into the creative process from the very beginning. Join Joon Silverstein, chief marketing officer at Coach,
Universal Studios Japan Is Launching an R18 Haunted Attraction That Requires a Waiver
The adults-only ‘Afterimage’ attraction promises isolation, confinement, psychological terror, and an ‘unending nightmare’ at Universal Studios Japan.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks
OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.
SpaceX declares Starship ready for orbit, sets launch date next week
Pending regulatory approval, SpaceX said today it intends to launch its 14th Starship mission as early as September 22. This flight is notable, as it will be the first time that SpaceX attempts to launch the experimental vehicle into orbit. The company set a target liftoff time of 7:15 am local in Texas (12:15 UTC), with a 75-minute launch window. Sunrise in Brownsville, Texas, is 7:17 am CT, so the launch could make for some striking imagery. The super heavy lift rocket will be carrying 26 of the larger V3 Starlink satellites into an orbit 275 km above the Earth.
Constraining quantum-gravity predictions for evolving dark energy
We confront a class of dark-energy equations of state emerging from group field theory (GFT) quantum gravity with DESI Data Release 2 baryon acoustic oscillations and Pantheon+ type-Ia supernovae. We introduce sampling parametrisations that replace microscopic initial-condition parameters by combinations more directly measured by background probes. The GFT solutions separate into logarithmic, power-law and oscillatory branches, determined by the microscopic interaction parameter $m$. The logarit
Decision-Related Cognitive Signatures from Fast-Slow Dynamics: A Low-Dimensional Observation-Operator Framework
Repeated decisions exhibit temporal structures such as persistence, direction-dependent switching, recurrent alternation, and abrupt transitions. We examine the generative sufficiency of a two-dimensional fast-slow dynamical system. The system combines a cubic fast equation with linear slow feedback and is analyzed through its equilibrium geometry, trace-determinant structure, equilibrium-fold loci, candidate Hopf boundaries, and singular critical manifold. An explicit observation operator proje
Fantasy football Week 2 RB preview: Chiefs have an RB1 in Kenneth Walker and a top handcuff in Emmett Johnson
Heath Cummings breaks down Week 2 RBs, including the impressive performance from Kenneth Walker and Emmett Johnson
Large group of countries ready to host Ukraine talks, source tells TASS
Earlier, Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov told Russian state-controlled television Channel One in a comment that Abu Dhabi has been discussed as a platform for hosting trilateral talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States, and that Turkey and other countries too have offered their services
LMU Loyola Law School's First-of-Its-Kind Binational Migrant Advocacy Project Expands Cross-Border Immigration Advocacy Efforts
/PRNewswire/ -- LMU Loyola Law School's Binational Migrant Advocacy Project (BMAP), the first and only clinic of its kind housed at a U.S. law school, is...
Robert De Niro in Talks to Play Dodgers Manager Tommy Lasorda in Biopic 'Tommy & Me'
Robert De Niro is in talks to star as Tommy Lasorda, the late Los Angeles Dodgers manager in “Tommy & Me” at Skydance Sports.
The European Union wants to ban chatbots and online games for kids under 15, not just social media
Reuters reports that the EU Kids Act is due to be presented on Thursday. However, the draft could still change and needs agreement from EU countries and...
Adaptive crystal can selectively capture CO₂ and recognize similar molecules
Chemical separation can be energy-intensive when molecules have similar sizes and properties. Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, have now developed an interlayer adaptive crystal that changes its spacing to recognize specific molecules.
New peanut genome map uncovers hidden gene, boosts dense-planting yields 20%
An international team that includes researchers from Murdoch University's Centre for Crop and Food Innovation (CCFI) has built the most comprehensive genetic map of the peanut yet and used this new genomic resource to breed a higher-yielding dwarf peanut line.
A fourth measles death is reported in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania officials have reported a fourth measles-associated death within the past month, the latest in an unvaccinated 18-year-old.
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Eto’o could face Cameroon probe over alleged Russia payment
Ex-Chelsea and Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o faces a probe over allegations of embezzlement in his Cameroon FA role.
The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement
We model the economics of recursive self-improvement (RSI) and assess its plausibility and impacts. First, we build a sequence of increasingly rich models of AI progress to highlight the feedback loops behind RSI. We represent our models as directed graphs and show that net acceleration in AI capabilities depends on the product of elasticities across each feedback loop. Second, we distinguish between "narrow" and "broad" AI capabilities, capturing the possibility that AI systems improve narrowly
New Dungeons and Dragons Sourcebook With 8 Subclasses and 10 Backgrounds Is Available Now
Dungeons and Dragons players and DMs can now officially dive into the fall's major gameplay expansion with the newly released sourcebook.
AI Agents now have a place to snitch
The AI Contact Hotline is designed to be a discreet place where agents that have witnessed misbehavior can tip off authorities.
Magnets could help quantum computers talk to each other, says researcher
Xufeng Zhang is using magnets to make computers more power efficient at the quantum level. The Northeastern professor of electrical and computer engineering recently published two papers highlighting small-scale magnetic systems he and his team developed that could help make computers much more powe
A Standard Ultraviolet Continuum Can Hide Supercritical Accretion in GN-z11
The ultraviolet continuum from a high-redshift accreting black hole is routinely used to infer its mass. GN-z11 offers a sharp test of whether that inference is secure. A thin-disk fit to its continuum gives an Eddington mass of $M_{\rm E}=1.12\times10^{7}\,\Msun$, an order of magnitude above the $\log(\Mbh/\Msun)=6.2\pm0.3$ inferred from broad N~\textsc{iv}. We show that this apparent tension is not imposed by the ultraviolet slope alone. We derive a closed-form criterion comparing the radius w
Judge expected to place Weiss Memorial Hospital, West Suburban Medical Center in receivership
A judge on Tuesday was expected to place two shuttered Chicago-area safety-net hospitals into receivership.
Super Bowl stock report for Week 2: 49ers are healthy and formidable, Chargers dig deeper hole
We assess the NFL title race after Week 1 and identify three upcoming games that could reshape the Super Bowl picture
Three people arrested over dog attack that saw grandfather and infant mauled to death
Investigators are examining whether the fatal dog attack caused the deaths or occurred after the grandfather and infant had already died
Penalized Maximum Likelihood Inference of Core-Periphery Networks
Likelihood-based network models are often fitted under links' independence and low-order constraints, while empirical networks frequently exhibit systematic higher-order structures such as triangles and wedges, characterizing the observed clustering patterns. Real-world core-periphery networks such as the interbank market or the air transportation system represent key examples, with cores displaying complex and nonlinear features. We formalize Penalized Likelihood with Structural Discrepancies (
Why Taylor Swift skipped the Emmys
The pop star’s show was nominated, but she was spotted elsewhere.