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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?
On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.
Wrong Organ, Right Physics: Transferring Echocardiography Pretraining to Lung Ultrasound for Tuberculosis Screening
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is attractive for tuberculosis (TB) screening at primary-care level, but labelled cohorts are small. Echocardiography carries no such constraint, while sharing the same underlying ultrasound imaging physics, signal processing and B-mode appearance as LUS. We ask whether an encoder pretrained on that high-resource ultrasound domain carries representations that remain usable in the low-resource one. Only the encoder varies, across seventeen encoders spanning three architectur
A climate threat may lurk beneath Antarctica's last great unknown
A region of Antarctica with some of the greatest potential to reshape the natural world and human society is also the least scientifically understood and explored.
Inside India's forest villages, where a dangerous mix of crises led to 32 child deaths
At least 32 children have died in India's Balaghat district since May amid outbreaks of measles and malaria.
How the Chiefs ground out a win against Raiders in Las Vegas to remain undefeated
Kansas City enters its bye week with a perfect 4-0 record.
Ethiopia’s forces retake Mekelle amid renewed Tigray fighting
The capture of Tigray’s regional capital revives fears of another prolonged conflict, displacement and crisis.
Clay Stevenson set for first Winnipeg Jets start against Penguins
DETROIT — Clay Stevenson, the stage is yours.
Daily Wire's ICE Agent Thriller Ordered to Suspend Filming as City Reviews 'Disruptive' Production
The Daily Wire's film based on the killing of Renée Good has temporarily suspended production as Livingston, Mont. reviews permits.
Tech powerhouse’s regulatory push bears similarities to a notorious Washington strategy
Anthropic's AI regulation push mirrors Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto lobbying playbook, with millions in donations and safety rhetoric critics call capture.
JOVE: Joint Execution and Verification for Resource-Aware LLM Task Graphs
Complex reasoning queries can be decomposed into directed acyclic task graphs and distributed across heterogeneous LLMs, reducing latency through parallelism and enabling smaller models to solve complex tasks. In practice, however, the suitability of an LLM for a given subtask may be a priori unknown, and execution alone does not reveal output correctness. We propose JOVE, an online framework that jointly assigns executor LLMs and selects intermediate outputs for paid verification. Verification
Smart wallpaper turns your wall into a small indoor powerplant
Rooftop solar panels power millions of homes around the world. But a team of researchers at Binghamton University is asking what happens if some of that electricity came from inside the house. Their answer is a study, described in Advanced Energy Materials, that turns indoor humidity into a small…
What families overlook: Addiction is often a symptom, not the whole story - ABC17NEWS
... health conditions.” She also discusses the difficulty many find in accessing care for mental health, stating that some communities are so lacking ...
Chiefs grades: Big day for Walker and offense, painful for wide receivers in win
Here’s how the Kansas City Chiefs graded out during their win over the Las Vegas Raiders.
Extreme heat putting pregnant women, newborns at risk: UN climate chief
NADI, Fiji: Extreme heat is putting pregnant mothers and their newborns at increasing risk, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell will warn on Monday (Oct 5).Speaking at the "pre-COP" summit in Nadi, Fiji, Stiell will cite a new survey showing more than two-thirds of health professionals across
Chick-fil-A on whether AI will take over its drive-thru as rivals embrace new tech
Chick-fil-A is drawing a line on AI in its drive-thru — even as major fast-food competitors embrace the technology.
'Fearmongering, false statements’: Todd Blanche hits back at armed poll monitor claims
AG Blanche made the remarks Sunday in an interview, as Democrats warned Trump could deploy federal agents at polling places
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner is danderbandit with a comment about the California ruling against a rogue sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots: So a sheriff broke the law, was confirmed by the sta…
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V2G system sucks energy out of parked EVs to supply the grid
Electric vehicles already solve a lot of problems: they reduce our dependence on gas and help reduce emissions. At the same time, EVs are a major source of electricity consumption, and most existing electricity grids were simply not designed for this level of demand. That creates new challenges,…
Multimodal reasoning for broadly neutralizing antibody discovery from label-free human B cell repertoires across virus families
Discovering broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) from human natural immune repertoires remains a fundamental challenge in immunology, hindered by: the extreme rarity of bnAb, incomplete understanding of their cellular origins across pathogens, and the inability of existing computational tools to generalize across emerging viral threats. Here we present ImmuneAgent, a closed-loop AI system that integrates multimodal reasoning with continual meta-learning and wet-lab feedback to overcome these
Falcons vs. Saints predictions, odds, time: Week 4 'Monday Night Football' picks from proven model
SportsLine's model has revealed its Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints picks for 'Monday Night Football'
Israel face spitting allegation as Ireland boss ‘delighted’ ties after over
Ireland manager says 'disciplinary committee will look at' allegations Israel player spat at one of his coaching staff.
Cross-Fitting Under Nonregularity: Normality and Inference via Locality
Cross-fitting is routine in much of applied research. While conventional confidence intervals that ignore cross-fold dependence are asymptotically valid in several settings, they undercover in many applications that share a common form of nonregularity: from the classic cross-validation problem of testing whether a fitted model outperforms another, to testing for heterogeneous treatment effects with machine learning, to estimating the value of a potentially non-unique optimal treatment regime. E
Bassam Tariq Defends Kevin Feige After Their Failed 'Blade' Reboot: Competing With Wesley Snipes Was an 'Impossible Task'
"Blade" with Mahershala Ali never happened, but director Bassam Tariq still thinks Marvel chief Kevin Feige is a "good dude."
Former Anthropic researcher Coxon to testify at New York AI hearing, Bloomberg reports
News agency Reuters could not immediately verify the report Read more at The Business Times.
S$^{2}$-PINN: Stochastic Separable Physics-Informed Neural Networks
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for random partial differential equations (PDEs) is ubiquitous in computational science and engineering. However, classical spectral solvers for this class of problems face the curse of dimensionality, and existing neural solvers often ignore the stochastic structure that makes moments and calibration tractable. We introduce a stochastic separable physics-informed neural network, dubbed S$^{2}$-PINN, that represents the solution $u(t,\mathbf{x},\mathbf{Z})$ of a r
Meet Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan, improved polluted Rio Grande water and designed a self-dosing cleanup raft
A fishing trip along the Rio Grande led a La Joya, Texas, seventh-grader to investigate whether discarded shellfish shells could help remove pollution from water. Nathan Gael Montelongo became interested in the problem after a local fisherman warned him that recent fish catches had been found to con
Training for Your First Marathon? Avoid These Common Injuries - Baptist Health
Individual needs vary considerably based on fitness, running history, age, previous injuries and health conditions. Dr. Swartzon has previously ...
NFL reviewing incident between official and Cardinals' Trey McBride, NFLPA issues statement
The altercation between the two went viral following New York's win over Arizona
Iran war live: Fighting intensifies in Yemen; Tehran says ready for US war
Yemeni government announces major offensive against Houthis, as Iran says it is ready to defend itself if US attacks.
Will Australian housing turn Kiwi?
According to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand’s (REINZ) leading house price index, which is used by the Reserve Bank, home prices nationally have collapsed back to late 2017 levels in real terms following a near five-year decline: New data from Cotality likewise shows that New Zealand’s hous
Trump Lashes Out at Fox News for 'Not Covering' His Ohio Rally: 'Who Makes These Decisions?'
President Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News on Truth Social, claiming the network wasn't covering his rally in Ohio.
Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
ASUS ROG STRIX G16 (G615LM) Review - Breaking The Mold
Here is our in depth look at the new ASUS ROG STRIX G16 (G615LM) with an all-new design, alongside the debut of Intel's most powerful laptop processor to date.
Illuminating early ZrC oxidation using ensemble small-cell DFT with dynamic gas management
During zirconium carbide oxidation, liberated carbon can remain beneath the oxide or escape as gas, complicating the interpretation of mass measurements. We adapt the small-cell ensemble method using sixteen 140 ps ab initio molecular dynamics trajectories at 873-1273 K under a sustained high oxygen flux with gas removal. The average rates of net mass gain and total carbon transfer into gas or retained chains follow Arrhenius trends. Above 973 K, gas evolution levels off while total carbon trans
Response Variability and Stability in Human Reasoning
Understanding how humans reason -- and how reasoning responses vary across tasks and individuals -- remains a core challenge for modeling and explanation in cognitive science. We investigate the stability of response patterns within reasoners and whether variation in these patterns can be used to predict learning effects. We introduce a formal, geometry-based method to quantify distances between individual reasoning patterns and their internal variability, grounded in heuristic theories. The pro
Eagles' offense completely collapses vs. Rams: Who's to blame and what needs to change
The offensive meltdown after having the chance to deliver the knockout punch to Los Angeles highlights an uncomfortable truth in Philadelphia
Nearly 1,500 migrants arrive in Myanmar from Malaysia despite UN warnings
Malaysia continues mass refugee deportations despite warnings from the UN about unsafe conditions in an active war zone.
Schneider Electric is said to near deal to buy PTC for more than $20B
Schneider Electric is said to near deal to buy PTC for more than $20B
'Tracker' Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Air?
Justin Hartley returns as Colter Shaw, a skilled tracker and lone-wolf survivalist, when "Tracker" heads back to CBS this fall.
US lead in AI over China narrows after DeepSeek gains, BI says
That improving performance spells further market share gains for Chinese contenders Read more at The Business Times.
You should avoid using a screen protector on your MacBook — here's why - Engadget
Screen protectors can do more harm than good.
Algebra of symmetry allowed physical properties of crystals
The symmetry of a physical system given by the 122 magnetic point groups (MPGs) leads to only 21 sets of restrictions on any physical tensors. Those, so called, tenor forms were labeled by letters from A to U by R. R. Birss (Symmetry and Magnetism, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1964). A new concept of property-related point groups (PRPGs) is proposed. It is shown that the 21 PRPGs isomorphic to the 21 non-centrosymmetric crystallographic point groups (CPGs) corresponds to the 21 tensor forms. Theref
Exercise before surgery improves outcomes and shortens recovery time – new research
Globally, about two in three people will need major surgery at some point in their lives. While preparing for a major operation, patients usually focus on the surgery…
NFL Week 4 grades for all 32 teams: Ben Johnson, Bears earn 'A-' despite injury woes; Bengals slip again
We're handing out grades for every Week 4 game
Four African leaders issue joint declaration as Ethiopia war escalates
Egyptian, Eritrean, Somali and Sudanese leaders also call for talks to end the civil war in Sudan.
No Women No Innovation? The Effect of Women on Boards on Hard and Soft Innovation in SMEs
The role of women on corporate boards and its impact on innovation remains heavily debated. While existing literature offers conflicting perspectives on whether female board representation spurs or hinders innovaiton, most research has focused exlusively on large firms. This studt adresses this gap by investigating the causal impact of women on boards on both "hard" (technological) and "soft" (non-technological) innovation within SMEs. Using a longitudinal dataset f 2762 Italian innovative SMEs
Ted Lasso's Hannah Waddingham Had A Small Role In A Popular Primetime Soap Opera - TVLine
Before Hannah Waddingham was cast as Rebecca in Ted Lasso, she appeared on the long-running British soap opera Brookside one year before the series ended.
Shlexball: Mac file search that understands descriptions
Describe what you remember and Shlexball finds the file on your Mac. It searches names and the text inside PDFs and Word documents, with an AI model that runs entirely on your Mac.
What causes screen tearing and how can you fix it? - Engadget
Screen tearing is a long-time gaming problem that has seen improved solutions over the years, so it's not something you have to worry much about now.
Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio Mosaics More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars Odyssey More Mars Missions Mars Home 3 min read Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image of the “Basque Lakes” drill site after the pre-load test, using its Mars Hand Len
What does marathon training do to your body? A reporter becomes the test subject
Before running the New York City Marathon, NPR's Elissa Nadworny gets a bone scan, blood work and a treadmill test to settle a question from Mom: Is this bad for my body?
Panthers vs. Lions predictions, odds, time: Week 4 'Sunday Night Football' picks by proven model
SportsLine's model has revealed its Detroit Lions vs. Carolina Panthers picks for 'Sunday Night Football'
Brazil election: Early count puts populist Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil's populist ex-leader Jair Bolsonaro, took on incumbent left-wing Lula da Silva in a presidential race. Early results show Bolsonaro in the lead.
From nearsightedness to self-harm: Meta-review looks at how digital media impacts young people’s health
Digital media has become inescapable, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about its effects on young people’s physical and mental health. But we do have enough evidence of its harms to warrant government action, say the authors of a series on “digital determinants of health” published today in The Lancet. The three-paper series and related meta-review, which analyzed existing research that included data from 9 million people younger than 25, were authored b
‘Avengers: Endgame’ Overtakes ‘Avatar’ as Highest-Grossing Movie in History With $2.925 Billion After ‘Encore’ Re-Release
"Avengers: Endgame" is once again the highest-grossing movie in box office history, reclaiming the title from "Avatar."
Why Oracle’s 1.3GW Project Lighthouse may not see full power until 2029
After 10 months of review, Oracle’s 1.3 GW Wisconsin Data Center fails to get power approval — restarts the entire process
These Prime Day Deals Slash Up to $501 Off TCL TVs and Gaming Monitors - CNET
Upgrade your computer monitor or TV with these TCL deals, starting at $219.
Second-order Raman and anharmonic lattice dynamics in lead-halide perovskites
We explore the microscopic origin of THz-driven lattice dynamics in methylammonium lead bromide CH$_3$NH$_3$PbBr$_3$ using two-dimensional THz Kerr-effect spectroscopy. The analysis of the experiment enables discrimination between competing nonlinear excitation mechanisms and reveals that the dominant pathway is phonon-mediated rather than purely photonic. In particular, we argue that the commonly observed 1.15~THz Raman-active $A_g$ mode is not excited directly by the THz electric field. Instea
NeuroLens: Learning Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics from Chronic Recordings
Understanding how neural activity represents higher-order cognition and how these representations evolve over time has long been a central pursuit in neuroscience. However, current analytical tools cannot easily distinguish representational plasticity from recording instability in chronic neural recordings. Here, we introduce NeuroLens (Latent Embeddings of Neural Semantics), a self-supervised model based on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) framework that learns denoised, seman
Week 4 Fantasy Football panic meter: Early Week 5 waiver wire adds, Keon Coleman emerging as post-hype sleeper
There's nothing quite like the overreactions from Fantasy Football managers that pour in after every Sunday, so let's try and parse through what actually matters.
Harms are no longer hypothetical: UN experts slam US third-country deportations
UN rights experts have asked the Trump administration to stop deporting migrants to third countries. They said the policy is exposing vulnerable people to torture, persecution and other abuses.
Evaluating Threshold Policies in Randomized Threshold Designs: A Cautionary Tale for Regression Discontinuity Designs
Many policies assign treatment according to whether a score crosses a cutoff. Regression discontinuity (RD) designs identify the effect of treatment assignment, but the threshold policy itself may also reshape individuals' incentives, inducing behavioral responses that affect outcomes even holding treatment status fixed---a channel that conventional RD designs cannot capture. We develop a framework that exploits randomized variation in policy thresholds, together with rank-invariance-type restri
In Metallica's hands, Sphere is a totally brutal Vegas vacation
Metallica makes no bones about their ambitions. Of course they were curious about Sphere, a venue that could go toe-to-toe with their firepower.