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FTC chair suspicious of calls for AI antitrust exemptions
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday that "everyone should be deeply suspicious" about AI companies seeking antitrust exemptions while they also lobby for new regulations.
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.
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.
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
Fantasy football Week 2 TE preview: Isaiah Likely and Dalton Kincaid emerge as starting options
Heath Cummings breaks down Week 2 TEs, including Isaiah Likely and Dalton Kincaid as potential must-start options.
Poor but sexy Berlin heads to the polls, parties promise clean streets, syringe-free playgrounds
BERLIN, Sept 16 — Politicians campaigning for Sunday’s Berlin state election have painted an unflattering picture of the German capital, vowing to clear garbage-strewn streets...
The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future
Featuring Bill Ackman, CEO, Pershing Square Capital ManagementModerated by Stephanie Mehta, CEO and Chief Content Officer, Mansueto Ventures Design is often treated as a finishing touch: Make it beautiful. Make it intuitive. Make it sell. But what if design is something much bigger—a way to imagine what doesn’t exist yet, connect ideas that don’t seem connected, and see possibilities before they become obvious? In this conversation, investor Bill Ackman explores how design has shaped the way
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.
The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry
National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery.
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
Pumpless eVinci microreactor hits zero-power criticality at 1,225°F
Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor reaches criticality at 1,225°F and records a 1,852°F core temperature during high-temperature testing.
Want to lower your risk of dementia? It doesn't involve a blood test
New blood tests that might predict Alzheimer’s years before symptoms begin may sound tantalizing for people who worry about later-in-life dementia. But doctors say they aren't quite ready…
Let's kick off NFL Week 2: Seven things Solak thinks -- including that Houston's offense could be decent
Will the Titans score any points against the Eagles? Can Ben Johnson solve Brian Flores' Vikings defense? Get ready for Week 2 with seven takes.
The type of exercise that could help cancer patients live for longer
Exercise may have benefits that ‘extend beyond its traditional role in improving quality of life’, according to researchers
Beyond AI: Inside the Race to Reinvent the Physical World
Featuring Joseph Krause, Cofounder and CEO, Radical AI; Katie Rae, Managing Partner and CEO, Engine Ventures and Raef Sully, CEO, Lilac SolutionsModerated by Morgan Clendaniel, Executive Editor, Digital, Fast Company Everyone is talking about what AI can create. The bigger question is, what can it help us build? AI is accelerating the discovery and testing of new materials, opening the door to breakthroughs in everything from clean energy and advanced manufacturing to batteries, critical mine
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski Break Up After 9 Years of Marriage
Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski—who share daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5—have ended their relationship after nine years of marriage, the actors confirmed Sept. 15.
OpenAI is working with Anthropic, Google on AI safety, Bloomberg News reports
Sept 15 (Reuters) - OpenAI is working with rivals Anthropic and Alphabet's Google DeepMind on AI safety, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing the ChatGPT maker's global policy chief Chris Lehane.
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
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
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.
Ohtani takes first swings off tee since going on IL
Shohei Ohtani hit off a tee on Tuesday in Los Angeles and remains on track to return before the end of the regular season, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday.
Ed Sheeran blames US tour promoter for dropping Macklemore
The British musician said it was important to "set out some facts" after US rapper voiced support for Palestine.
The Business of Being Relevant: Reinventing a 100-Year-Old Institution
Featuring Richelieu Dennis, Executive Chairman, Sundial Group of Companies and Kirk McDonald, CEO, Sundial Media & Technology GroupModerated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive Director of Editorial Programming, Fast Company Everyone is racing to build with AI. Sundial Media & Technology Group is building something harder to replicate: trust. With a portfolio spanning media, beauty, technology, and live experiences including household names such as Essence, Refinery29, Afropunk, and Beautycon, S
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania reports teen as fourth measles death amid feud with RFK Jr.
Pennsylvania officials on Tuesday reported two additional measles-related deaths, bringing the total for the year to four. This is a record-setting year for measles in the U.S. The number of cases is at a 35-year high and there are more deaths than any year since 1992. The newest death according t
Lionel Messi to play his last-ever Argentina match in October in friendly in Buenos Aires
The Argentinian legend will play his farewell game with the Albiceleste at the Monumental
Why is the far-right embracing crypto?
From billionaire donors backing parties to far-right activists raising funds in Bitcoin.
Is the PLS Group share price a buy in September?
The PLS Group Ltd (ASX: PLS) share price has charged higher recently. Is the ASX lithium share a buy today?
Emmys 2026 Ratings Fall Nearly 12% From Last Year With 6.7 Million Viewers
The 2026 Emmys saw viewership fall nearly 12% from last year, per early numbers for the ceremony.
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.
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
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
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
CFP Bubble Watch: Could the SEC get six teams in?
Putting the spotlight on select teams and questions around others as the early playoff picture takes shape.
Algeria faces calls to drop death penalty plans after wildfires
Rights group warns Algeria could exploit proposed death penalty laws to suppress domestic political opposition.
The real reason AI researchers suddenly want to slow down
For years, AI safety organizations have warned that the big labs are racing to develop more intelligent and autonomous systems without a clear and realistic strategy for managing the risks. Independent researchers have argued that investments in safety and alignment lag far behind investments in capabilities. Employees have quit. Experts have predicted catastrophe. And none of it did much to slow the race. But over the past few weeks, the warnings have started to sound different—they’re
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.
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.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope doubles its lifetime with super-precise engine burn
Originally planned to have a five-year mission followed by a five-year extended mission, the Roman Space Telescope will now operate for over two decades.
18-year-old dies in Pennsylvania's 4th measles-associated death
The U.S. is experiencing its worst measles year since 1991, with seven deaths in two years.
PICTURES: David Ortiz's fiancee Maria Yeribel rocks leopard print wide-leg jumpsuit, strikes confident poses
Having made his debut in 1997, David Ortiz went on to spend 20 years in the major leagues.
'US Treasury chief to meet He Lifeng this weekend'
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that he would meet Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend for talks inc...
Putting Culture at the Core of Your Business
Featuring Cherien Dabis, Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker and Actress, Visibility Films; Sean Sherman, Founder and CEO, NATIFS and the Sioux Chef and Wilglory Tanjong, Founder, Anima IrisModerated by Tania Rahman, Social Media Director, Fast Company What happens when your culture isn’t just part of your brand story—it’s the foundation of the business itself? From reviving Indigenous foodways to celebrating African craftsmanship to storytelling with a broader scope of inclusivity, this conversation ex
'Slow Horses' Season 6 Episode Release Schedule
Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb and his crew of MI5 misfits are back for more misadventures. Here is how to watch "Slow Horses" Season 6.
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.
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.
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
Letby hospital consultant says inquiry makes for grim reading
The Thirlwall Inquiry finds some babies could have been saved if action had been taken earlier.
Carlos Correa (ankle) won't rejoin Astros this season
Carlos Correa will not return to the Astros this season, manager Joe Espada told reporters Tuesday.
Hundreds protest in DR Congo against third presidential term
Hundreds protest in DR Congo against third presidential term
Lawrenceville restaurant named to New York Times best restaurants list
The restaurant is the third in the city to earn this recognition since the Times first began publishing the list in 2021.
Why Taylor Swift skipped the Emmys
The pop star’s show was nominated, but she was spotted elsewhere.
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.
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
She Can’t Feel Pain or Anxiety. Her Genetic Mutations Hold the Key to Eliminating Human Suffering, Scientists Claim.
A life without pain seems miraculous. But denying this hallmark of human existence could come with its own set of challenges.
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
Adam Silver discusses Clippers punishment, NBA expansion, why Blazers leaving Portland would be 'failure'
Silver was clear there is no room for re-negotiation by the Clippers, who were hit with severe sanctions for cap circumvention
Republican congressman calls to impeach US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth
GOP Representative Thomas Massie has emerged as outspoken critic of war on Iran and overseas military interventions.
Infratil hikes earnings guidance as data centre growth accelerates
Infratil Ltd (ASX: IFT) lifts FY27 guidance as CDC Data Centres and Longroad Energy drive strong growth.
Trump says Kennedy Center will shutter 'immediately', as judge rules his name must stay off building
The ruling came as the centre's Trump-appointed board was reportedly scheduled to vote on closing it for two years.