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OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Two-color glowing molecule could make wind tunnel tests more accurate
Most sensors can measure only one thing at a time, like a thermometer for temperature or a pressure gauge for pressure. Measuring two properties accurately from the same surface at the same moment usually means using two separate instruments—adding cost and complexity to the process.
APOD: 2026 September 29 – Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 29 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula Explanation: What causes the swirl in the Shrimp Nebula? Its high speed is likely.
In Japan, anti-foreigner fake news drives far-right gains
Viral lies about foreign crime are fuelling political division in a country desperate for workers, analysts say.
Popular WWE star arrives at RAW with Rey Mysterio ahead of major match
A popular WWE star arrived at tonight's episode of RAW with Rey Mysterio ahead of a big match. Tonight's episode of RAW will air live from the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Iran’s Araghchi meets Qatari mediators as US calls for nuclear talks
Tehran awaits reply on Hormuz plan as a US official says there will be no deal unless nuclear issues are addressed.
The missing price feedback: Why studies overstate local peaks from synchronized home batteries under dynamic pricing
Existing studies consistently find that home batteries and electric vehicles optimized against real-time electricity prices create new load peaks in local distribution grids, because all assets respond to the same price signal in sync. However, all but one of the 18 studies reviewed here treat wholesale prices as exogenous. This paper argues that treating prices as non-responsive biases the result: in reality, charging in low-price hours raises the wholesale price, which dampens the incentive to
5 Best Historical TV Shows Streaming On Prime Video - TVLine
Some of the best historical shows of all time, like Downton Abbey, The Tudors, and The Underground Railroad are all streaming on Prime Video.
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Espionage boosted East Germany's economic output by 7.4%
East Germany's espionage activities in the West boosted the country's economic output by 7.4%. Value added in manufacturing alone increased by 22.3% through industrial espionage, equivalent to 20.2 billion East German marks or approximately 4.1 billion euros at 2020 prices.
Can Fingers of God be Resummed?
Fingers of God (FoGs), Doppler shifts due to the small-scale virial motions of galaxies, are one of the most significant challenges for analytic models of galaxy clustering in redshift surveys. In the effective field theory approach, the characteristic scale of these shifts introduces a new, large length scale, limiting the reach of the theory. This has motivated many phenomenological models of FoGs in the literature where their effect is approximated by a single damping function of the line-of-
NeuronSifter: Intervention Planning in CNS Microenvironments
Prioritizing central nervous system (CNS) interventions requires predicting how a dose, route, and schedule act on a partially observed microenvironment, then choosing the measurement that would change the decision. Action-conditioned predictors reduce a regimen to an identity token or a scalar exposure, discarding where and when the target is engaged; handing a point estimate to a separate planner then discards the joint uncertainty that makes a measurement worth running. We therefore treat dec
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UAE confirms Netanyahu met with Emirati president MBZ on Sunday
DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates officially acknowledges yesterday’s (Sunday’s) meeting between Emirati President Mohammed bin Zayed
Gold liquidation portends doom
DXY is paused at recent highs. EUR the opposite. North Asia is stalled. Adding more pressure to AUD. Gold was liquidated. Brent futures are a headline windsock. Dated is the version that matters. No growth shock in base metals yet. Big miners are less reassuring. EM stocks OK. But not for long, as j
Jennifer Lopez gets emotional as her twins prep to leave for college: ‘It’s time to revive some old dreams…’
View this post on Instagram A post shared by JLO Beauty by Jennifer Lopez (@jlobeauty)
Sonos launches Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones in Malaysia with ChatGPT control, priced from RM2,299
Sonos launches the Beam Ultra soundbar, Ace Ultra headphones and Sonos 27 in Malaysia, featuring ChatGPT control and Dolby Atmos. Pricing starts from RM2,299.
PDMD: Projected Distribution Matching Distillation for Video Diffusion Models
Modern video diffusion models require tens of denoising evaluations over long spatiotemporal token sequences. Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) reduces the number of function evaluations (NFE) to just a few. However, DMD samples can degrade during training, exhibiting progressive oversaturation and artifacts. We trace this instability to critic errors, which enter successive student updates and accumulate over time. We introduce Projected Distribution Matching Distillation (PDMD) to filte
Gauge Backreaction in Standard Model Warm Inflation
Standard-Model warm inflation (SMWI) makes QCD the microscopic origin of inflationary dissipation, so the real-time response of the gauge plasma enters the cosmological prediction. We show that a slowly relaxing gauge-helicity response cannot, in general, be absorbed into an effective friction coefficient and must instead remain dynamical. We therefore evolve the quark axial densities and a matched hard-helicity mode, with QCD sphalerons and an effective $2\leftrightarrow3$ channel generating bo
One in eight cancers are linked to infections, new study finds
One in eight cancers worldwide could be triggered by infections, many of which can be prevented through vaccinations, a study has found.
‘Working till 67, hoping for the best’
Three shifts one week, 10 the next. At 59, Antony is approaching retirement the way most Australians do: on instinct, and afraid.
Russia pounds Ukraine’s Kyiv after deadly strike on Academy of Sciences
Footage of attack on Academy shows people leaning out of windows as bright flames engulf part of the historic building.
Representation Risk in Pretrained Image Encoders
Applied researchers increasingly convert images into features with pretrained encoders, then use those features in a downstream prediction model. The encoder is often treated as an implementation detail. We show that it can instead be a consequential source of model uncertainty. We call this uncertainty representation risk: plausible pretrained encoders map the same images into different feature spaces and can yield sharply different out-of-sample conclusions from predictive performance. We comp
'Avengers: Endgame Encore' Changes the Film's Ending — The Russo Brothers Explain Why They Went Back
"The idea of just going one moment past that perfect ending, and thinking about how radically that moment can change," Anthony Russo explains
Florida asks court to bar OpenAI from developing new models as part of child harm lawsuit
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Florida's attorney general asked a judge on Monday to bar OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without outside oversight as part of its lawsuit accusing the company of harming children.
MBSB Bank now lets you transfer money overseas in 20 currencies, powered by Wise
MBSB Bank has expanded its Wise powered GET remittance service on MJourney to 20 foreign currencies following a 250% in transfer volume.
One in eight new cancers are likely caused by infections—there’s an easy way to protect yourself
Many cancers associated with infection are preventable
An integrated geometric quantification and shape analysis framework for axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients
Quantitative characterization of lymph node morphology is important for assessing axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer. However, surfaces reconstructed from computed tomography (CT) segmentation may contain geometric and topological defects that compromise subsequent analysis, while conventional shape descriptors predominantly characterize global morphology. To address these issues, we developed an integrated framework combining topology-aware surface processing with multi-resolution
Asian Games 2026 India Medal Tally: Silver in Shooting Trap Event - Full List of Medals won by Indians till September 29
Check out the Full list of Medals for India at the Asian Games 2026. The Indian teams across all disciplines have started to secure medals and get the latest updates, live details here on September 29.
Gold’s rollercoaster ride shows the messy state of the global economy
If you were looking for an illustrated view of what’s been happening in the world economy and markets this year, you’d have to look no further than a chart of the gold price.
Electoral reform, AI policy, light rail among initiatives being floated as Winnipeg mayoral candidates roll out pledges
Mayoral contender Kevin Klein would seek new election rules to “level the playing field” for all future candidates, if elected.
Suriya opens up about his friendship with Fahadh Faasil; says, ‘We’ve talked until dawn and have so many memories together'; praises his approach to choosing films
Fahadh Faasil will mark his Telugu lead debut in the upcoming SS Rajamouli fantasy entertainer ‘Don’t Trouble The Trouble,’ presented by SS Rajamouli. Ahead of the film’s release, the team is travelling across multiple states to promote.
Meta taps MongoDB CEO Desai to drive enterprise AI push
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms has poached MongoDB CEO Chirantan "CJ" Desai to spearhead a new business designed to bring the social media giant's AI tools to corporate customers.
Telescopic Language Models
One deployed language model must often serve many compute budgets, yet serving each budget still means a separate training or compression run per point. We train a Telescopic Language Model (TLM) to be that continuum: a nested-capacity Transformer supervised by stochastic prefix supervision with a full anchor. At every step, one randomly truncated prefix of the capacity axis is trained against the full next-token target, alongside one full-capacity pass, so the trained artifact is a valid langua
Scientists built artificial beaver dams for streams; bat activity rose 3.9 times, and amphibians bred where they had been absent
Beavers can reshape streams simply by building dams, slowing flowing water and creating ponds that become useful habitat for wildlife. Scientists have now found that structures designed to mimic those effects can also change how animals use degraded streams.
Exercise before surgery improves outcomes and shortens recovery time – new research
Pre-surgery exercise has benefits, whether it is supervised or home-based. But professional supervision can help patients achieve higher exercise intensities.
Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House
The bipartisan bill aimed at stabilizing college sports passed its first test with Monday night's Senate vote, but more hurdles must be cleared in the House before it can be signed into law
AFL considering changes to free agency system
The AFL will consider changes to free agency in the interests of ensuring that the system does not skew the competitive balance of the competition in favour of the teams in premiership contention.
Daewoo E&C Wins 868.6 Billion-Won Yongin Semiconductor Project
Daewoo Engineering & Construction has once again demonstrated its capacity to carry out large-scale national projects by securing the contract for “Constructio
‘Love Is Blind’ Season 11 Cast Photos & Episode Release Guide Schedule For Netflix Dating Series
The pods are opening back up to welcome a group of singles for 'Love Is Blind' Season 11.
OpenAI holds off on releasing new model over safety concerns, saying it "didn't quite meet the bar"
OpenAI said it has chosen not to release its new GPT-6.1 Astra model due to concerns about safety, as industry leaders warn of the risks posed by ever-more-powerful AI technology.
Floating battery brings 40-kW mobile charging to electric boats
Photon Marine wins $1 million to demonstrate an electric workboat, fast charger and floating battery platform in New York.
Mars Has Its Charmes
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Australian firm drops US$842 million Sydney data centre plan after public fury
Goodman Group’s Project Mars development was 160 metres from a school, sparking anger from residents and activists.
Phillies vs. Braves NL Wild-Card Game 1 picks: Atlanta appears to have major pitching edge behind Chris Sale
The Phillies have to face Braves ace Chris Sale in Game 1 of their series Tuesday in Atlanta
Africa’s space ambitions are moving from policy to practice
As the Africa Space Expo closes in Abidjan, African innovators are showing what the continent can build.
JAKKS Pacific Stock: Catalysts Coming In 2027 (NASDAQ:JAKK)
JAKKS Pacific (JAKK) stock rated BUY: strong earnings, debt-free balance sheet, 4% dividend, and 2027 IP catalysts. Read here for a detailed analysis.
Reacher Renewed For Season 6 At Prime Video Ahead Of Season 5 - TVLine
The streamer can't get enough of its larger-than-life action hero. Get all the renewal details here.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation
NASA announced on Monday that it will exercise options to purchase two additional flights on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, as well as financially support the company in its efforts to return the crewed vehicle to flight and find a new rocket after the Atlas V vehicle retires. The space agency's announcement confirms reporting by Ars Technica earlier this month on NASA's plans to maintain access to low-Earth orbit after the impending retirement of SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle. "I do not think it's a secret that SpaceX intends to sunset older platforms like Falcon and Dragon as they concentrate
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New test could screen for type 2 diabetes in seconds using just speech
A tool that uses artificial intelligence to scan for changes in speech could be used to diagnose type 2 diabetes in just seconds, a new study has found.
Wizards' Anthony Davis to wait until summer for extension talks
Anthony Davis plans on finishing the season with the Washington Wizards before deciding on any potential contract extension, he said Monday.
Hungary lifts immunity of Prime Minister Magyar, two Orban-era ministers
Hungary's Parliament lifts immunity of incumbent leader and two former ministers, clearing the way for criminal probes.
AI-based matching improves refugee employment in a double-blind randomized trial
Refugee integration is a central policy challenge for host countries, and where governments initially place refugees shapes their integration trajectories. Yet placement officers often have limited information about where each case is most likely to succeed. Algorithmic refugee matching uses administrative data, machine learning, and constrained optimization to recommend employment-optimized placements in real time as cases arrive, with human placement officers retaining final authority. Between
X-Men Actor Cast in Arrowverse Creator’s New Prime Video Show Based on Beloved Horror Comic
An X-Men actor has been cast as the lead in Prime Video's new horror series based on a Skybound graphic novel.
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
FurE: Efficient Instance-Specific 3D Fur Reconstruction without Animal-Fur Datasets
Realistic and editable animal fur reconstruction from multi-view images is challenging due to fine-scale detail, self-occlusion and obfuscation, and, unlike human hair, the lack of animal-fur datasets. Fur usually covers most of an animal's body, with large inter-species and intra-species variability. We present FurE, an efficient strand-based animal fur reconstruction method that recovers a per-strand, editable groom by optimizing a root-conditioned latent field, decoded into strand geometry vi
GAIA meets LZ: a high velocity tail-tale sign for dark matter
The interpretation of high-energy nuclear recoils in direct-detection experiments can depend sensitively on the high-velocity tail of the galactic dark matter (DM) distribution. The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has recently reported an event, LZ230616, with nuclear recoil energy 248 $\pm$ 23 (stat) $\pm$ 23 (sys) keV, while the Gaia mission has provided an unprecedented view of the kinematics and mass distribution of the Milky Way. We bring these two probes together to investigate the inelastic DM
NeuronDiscover: Agent-in-Twin for Mechanistic Discovery in Neuronal Microenvironments with World Action Models
Mechanistic discovery in neuronal microenvironments requires interventions and measurements that separate competing explanations of solute transport and neuronal response. Predictive accuracy cannot settle the question: a real mechanistic change and an error in the computational twin leave the same signature in sparse observations. We formalize this twin confounding and reason over a joint mechanism--discrepancy belief, designing experiments that separate the two. NeuronDiscover is an Agent-in-T
Asian Games 2026: Who is Neeru Dhanda? Inspired by Cousin's Silver, India Military Naib Subedar wins her Own Medal
Neeru Dhanda qualifies for the Asian Games 2026 womens trap final with 118 and helps India win team silver alongside Aashima Ahlawat and Manisha Keer. Know about the trio here.
Fighter jets escort Pope Leo on final day of his France tour
Pope Leo XIV was escorted by fighter jets to Metz, the final stop of his four-day France tour.
ACT NOW: The M&A Class Action Firm Is Investigating the Merger--LXP, LXFR, NRIM, and PULM
/PRNewswire/ -- Class Action Attorney Juan Monteverde with Monteverde & Associates PC (the "M&A Class Action Firm"), has recovered millions of dollars for...
Penn Badgley's Wife Domino Kirke Clarifies Whether She Asked Him to Stop Doing Sex Scenes
Penn Badgley's wife Domino Kirke said it was the You actor's choice to stop performing sex scenes in his work, explaining, "It's just relational hygiene."