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Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
This session will explore how early-stage companies are building teams where humans and AI agents work alongside each other — and how founders can do that without sacrificing speed, accountability, or culture. Learn more at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
Federal judge restricts warrantless immigration arrests in Southern California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has issued an order blocking immigration officers from making warrantless arrests in Southern California unless they determine the person is likely to escape. In a preliminary injunction granted Sept. 2 and unsealed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah
Scientists Grew Human Brain Tissue Inside Mice and It Actually Worked
The transplanted cells formed circuits, reached the spinal cord and responded to injury.
New hope for breast cancer patients as life-extending drug now on NHS in England
Enhertu, which can give patients an extra seven months to live on average, has been prescribed in Scotland for more than two years and is available.
NCAA says Michigan-Western Michigan result 'would have been different' if replay protocols were followed
The committee lacks authority to overturn the 13-12 result, but it confirmed no time should have been added for the Wolverines' game-winning Hail Mary
Trump threatens to end trade with Mexico and Europe after rate hike
US President Donald Trump had tried to pressure the Fed to lower rates, but it voted unanimously to raise them instead.
EXI: Industrials Dashboard For September
EXI: Industrials Dashboard For September
Kendall Jenner’s K-Beauty Routine Is on Sale—Here’s Where to Find It
These on-sale Anua skincare products are Kendall Jenner's secret to clear, glowy skin.
Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses
Since Specs' debut earlier this year, Snap has clearly been looking for an opportunity to explain why the smart glasses deserve to exist.
PANORAMA: Panoptic Grounded Captioning via Mask Proposal Selection
Intelligent systems that act in the world require image understanding that is both comprehensive and spatially grounded. Current vision-language models (VLMs) can generate fluent and detailed image captions, but reliably associating them with image pixels remains challenging. Existing methods that combine dense captioning with pixel-level grounding often produce either incomplete descriptions or inaccurate segmentation masks. We study this problem through panoptic grounded captioning, a task tha
Floquet-Plasmon Enhanced Charge Transfer at Catalytic Interfaces
Plasmonic excitation of metallic nanostructures can generate energetic carriers capable of transferring charge into nearby adsorbed molecules, providing a possible pathway for driving chemical transformations. In many theoretical descriptions of this process, charge transfer is determined by the equilibrium electronic structure of the molecule and substrate together with the time-dependent carrier distribution produced during plasmon decay. However, the intense transient electric fields associat
Quantum Probability Current Guided Reduction of Coupling Control Degrees of Freedom for Excitation Transport
Time-dependent coherent control can enhance excitation transport in open quantum networks, but independently controlling every inter-site coupling creates a control space of high dimension and leads to difficult optimization problems. We introduce an edge-ranking strategy based on the control-induced change in the gradient component of the time-integrated quantum probability current, which is obtained via a graph Hodge decomposition. When our strategy is applied to the seven-site Fenna-Matthews-
LSU lists QB Sam Leavitt as 'doubtful' on first injury report ahead of top-10 showdown with Ole Miss
Leavitt's surprising status -- which CBS Sports reports stems from an upper body injury -- adds another intriguing storyline to Lane Kiffin's anticipated first trip back to Oxford
US bars Palestinian president from attending UNGA for second year
The United States has declined to grant visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Martha Stewart on the Power of Human Expertise in the Age of AI
For decades, Martha Stewart has been one of the most trusted authorities on how people live in and care for their homes. Now, with her new company Hint, she’s aiming to bring real expertise to even more people at a moment when technology is reshaping how consumers make decisions. Join Stewart alongside Yih-Han Ma, Hint cofounder and CEO, and Brian Kelly, founder of the Points Guy and an investor in Hint, for a conversation on why expertise, curation, and human judgment—not just access to informa
Maria Sten: Neagley wants to uncover truth, stick it to bad guys - UPI.com
Maria Sten says there are several reasons why "private detective" is the perfect job for her character in the "Reacher" spin-off, "Neagley."
Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers, AI wearable, and robotics companies
A Zeroth-Order Paradigm for LLM Preference Alignment
Direct preference alignment methods are widely used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences because of their computational and memory efficiency. However, likelihood displacement motivates alternative ways to extract information from preference pairs with small likelihood margins. In this paper, we propose and analyze Comparison-based Preference Optimization (ComPO), a zeroth-order alignment method based on comparison oracles. ComPO extracts directional information from thes
Sharks on the move expose the need for international conservation efforts
Understanding the migration pathways of sharks and rays is key to conserving some of the world's most endangered marine species, according to new University of Queensland research.
Georgia health officials confirm 8 West Nile virus cases, 1 death - News4JAX
Older adults, people with compromised immune systems and those with other underlying medical conditions are at greater risk of severe complications, ...
Rockhampton's Olympic venue confirmed
The Fitzroy River in Rockhampton has been given the green light to host the Olympic and Paralympic rowing events.
Verstappen beats 100 go-karters in fun Silverstone race
Four-time Formula One champion Max Verstappen has beaten 100 go-karters in a competition at Silverstone, UK.
Australian tenants finally catch a break
Australian tenants have faced a torrid period since the pandemic, with advertised rents nationally soaring by more than 40% over the past five years. Gerard Burg, Cotality’s Head of Research, noted last month that “the median rent has risen by over $200 per week in the last five years” and that hous
Madonna To Open 2026 VMAs, Her First Live Performance At Show In 23 Years
Madonna, who heads into the VMAS with a leading 11 nominations, will open the 2026 awards shindig, her first live performance at the show in 23 years
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.
Manus Eyes $4 Billion Value in First Round Since Meta Breakup
Chinese-founded AI startup Manus is set to double its valuation to $4 billion in its first fundraising since Beijing ordered it to split from Meta Platforms Inc., charting a path to a fresh start after getting caught up in a geopolitical tussle.
Over 20,000 Items Removed From Hydrothermal Features at Yellowstone National Park
Learn more about the thousands of objects Yellowstone staff have removed from the park's hydrothermal features, including 280 hats, 54 lens caps, and $18 in loose change.
Neural noise enables accurate internal simulation of rare events
The brain needs an accurate internal model of the world to generate predictions and guide behavior. However, it must estimate the statistical structure of the environment from limited experience. This is particularly difficult for rare events, whose observed frequencies in a limited sample may substantially under- or overestimate their true frequencies. How the brain constructs an accurate internal model despite this sampling problem remains unclear. We address this problem using a Bayesian Conf
Fantasy football Week 2 Start 'Em & Sit 'Em: Baker Mayfield eyes revenge against Browns in Bucs' home opener
Jamey Eisenberg urges Fantasy managers not to overreact after Week 1, but injuries create concerns for several stars
Floods return to Valencia with 2024 tragedy still fresh in mind
Flooding hits Valencia, Spain, with torrential rain triggering rescues and major travel disruptions.
Shrinkage Bayesian Causal Forest with Instrumental Variable
Discovering interpretable subgroups whose complier effects deviate from the average is a central goal of instrumental variable analysis under imperfect compliance, yet existing tree-based methods degrade when most covariates are irrelevant to the effect. We propose Shrinkage Bayesian Causal Forest with Instrumental Variable (SBCF-IV) for discovering and estimating subgroups with heterogeneous Complier Average Causal Effects (CACE) in sparse high-dimensional settings. SBCF-IV places a sparsity-in
Trump's Kennedy Center Shutdown Is 'Unlawful,' Democratic Board Member Says
Rep. Joyce Beatty says the Kennedy Center violated a court order by closing its doors and seeks an emergency hearing.
Elastic Insights from Australia's AI Showcase
Elastic joined Australia's first Parliamentary AI Industry Showcase to make the case that better AI starts with better data — and that safety requires visibility through comprehensive, searchable logg...
Objective vs. Search: Decomposing What Makes a Good Tokeniser
Two dominant tokenisation algorithms are used by modern language models: byte-pair encoding (BPE) and UnigramLM. These differ along two orthogonal axes: their optimisation objective (compression vs. log-likelihood) and their search procedure (bottom-up merging vs. top-down pruning). Existing comparisons confound these axes, making it unclear whether their observed differences stem from what is being optimised vs. how it is being optimised. We disentangle the two by introducing two new tokenisati
Tracking visits to public points of interest can inform community health measures
It's not so much where people live, but where they frequently spend their time, that can provide useful information for predicting community health measures. A team led by geographers in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences found that adding place visitation data—geographic data poin
Warn women in their 30s about alcohol and breast cancer link
Women in their thirties, especially those who are overweight, should be warned about the link between alcohol and breast cancer, new research suggests.
Bill Belichick calls reports of girlfriend Jordon Hudson's involvement with program a 'flat-out lie'
Speaking on the subject for the first time since May 2025, Belichick tried to clear the air by saying his 25-year-old girlfriend has no role with the North Carolina program
Yemeni forces target Houthis and a Saudi base as US rules out direct role
Saudi Arabia requests missile defence support from allies as the US sees its own stock of interceptors dwindle.
How to Lead When Everyone’s Watching
Becoming CEO is one of the biggest—and most scrutinized—transitions in business. The moment you take the top job, employees are watching to see what kind of leader you’ll be. Meanwhile, society at large is watching CEOs more closely than ever amid growing skepticism of corporate power and leadership. In this candid conversation, three CEOs from very different industries share what they’re learning in the early days of leading at the top and how they’re navigating all the pressures that come with
Scrubs Season 2 Trailer Reunites Zach Braff & Donald Faison for Hilarious New Chapter
Scrubs Season 2 trailer reunites Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke as J.D., Turk, and Elliot return for hospital comedy and drama.
After accusations of selling ‘perv glasses,’ Meta prepares to sell a pair without a camera
Can Meta dodge the "pervert glasses" accusations with a new camera-free product?
Credentials Are Still the Shortest Path In
Credential testing now spans 14 more protocols, reuses confirmed logins across your environment, and finds RDP backdoors.
Divergence between long- and short-wavelength magnon damping in spinel ferrites
The realization of practical, high-speed magnonic devices requires engineering magnetic materials with low dissipation over wide frequency ranges. While optical and microwave probes are used to infer the damping of low energy/long wavelength modes, the degree to which these $q\sim0$ properties translate into higher-energy, finite-momentum modes remains an important open question. Here, we utilize a combination of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering on spinel fer
Automatic denoising and differentiation based on Savitzky-Golay filtering and Homogeneous Differentiators for attractor reconstruction via differential embedding
Differential embedding methods aim to reconstruct attractors of dynamical systems from noisy measured time series, but require accurate estimates of signal derivatives. We introduce SHADED (Savitzky-Golay and Homogeneous-differentiator based Automatic DEnoising and Differentiation), a novel methodology for denoising and estimation of derivatives up to an arbitrary order, which enables attractor reconstruction via differential embedding from noisy time series data. Homogeneous Differentiators (HD
Lionel Messi's 100th Inter Miami goal seals Campeones Cup final victory over Cruz Azul
Messi won another piece of hardware with the Herons on Wednesday night
Can AI regulation keep America ahead of China?
As Washington debates how to regulate AI, industry experts say that governance doesn’t have to mean hitting the brakes.
Weather today, September 17: IMD forecasts widespread rain, thunderstorms and gusty winds, heavy to very heavy rain warning in several states
Today weather Septemeber 17: Rainfall is likely across several parts of India through September 22, with fairly widespread to widespread showers forecast in parts of northwest, central, east, northeast, west and south peninsular regions. Thunderstorms, lightning and gusty winds are also expected in
Why Ciara Miller Made Carrie Ann Inaba Cry on Dancing With the Stars Premiere
After Ciara Miller’s first Dancing With the Stars performance—a foxtrot to Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”—judge Carrie Ann Inaba revealed why the dance made her emotional.
Agents – not humans – have picked the next $100b company
Supabase built apps around a database it expected humans to want. But AI agents are driving the growth of its software.
Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Apple is working on an AI server that would use Apple’s high-performance M-series Ultra chips found in Mac desktops. The potential product’s expected release in 2029 would mark the first Apple server to hit the market in nearly two decades—and could capitalize on the surging popularity of Apple hardware among AI developers. The enterprise server would come in two configurations that include either two or four of Apple’s future M8 Ultra chips, according to The Information.
Tech turns industrial waste heat into power, draws $100M investment
New $100M funding will help turn industrial waste heat into electricity using established organic Rankine cycle technology.
Racing Louisville's Savannah DeMelo sues doctors following mid-game cardiac arrest
... medical conditions, including, but not limited to, her cardiac disease.” This, the complaint alleges, led to DeMelo suffering severe physical ...
‘He’ll tear you apart’: Why Dane Gagai knew he couldn’t take a backward step against Latrell Mitchell
The 35-year-old Knights centre knew there was only one way to survive his battle with good mate Mitchell in the elimination final.
Morocco’s 2026 election: A test of political trust and engagement
Youth unemployment, living costs and public services are key issues before the September 23 vote.
Beyond Pretrends: A Discordance-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Difference-in-Differences
In the canonical Difference-in-Differences design, the control group's post-treatment change serves as an imputation of the treated group's counterfactual change in the same period, an imputation justified by parallel trends. However, differences in group composition can produce between-group differences in how outcomes would evolve over time, rendering this imputation vulnerable to confounding. An alternative imputation -- such as one based on the treated group's pre-treatment change -- avoids
Who Is Conner Leavitt? 5 Things to Know About the ‘Mormon Wives’ Star
Get to know Conner Leavitt, from his marriage to Whitney Leavitt to his appearance on ‘DWTS’ Season 35.
Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers — it’s what industry leaders are warning about
In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's more worried about the AI industry's own warnings about where the technology is headed.
Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them
On Tuesday, two survivors of child sex abuse accused the Justice Department of failing to notify dozens of victims found in Jeffrey Epstein’s massive collection of child sex images. In a proposed class action, survivors explained that Epstein apparently started collecting child sex images in the 1990s, many of which the DOJ recovered after his arrest.
An Atlas and Design Rules for Single- and Dual-Atom Alloys
A long-standing goal across heterogeneous catalysis, materials science, and condensed matter physics is to design alloys with prescribed local atomic arrangements. Recent experiments show that dilute trimetallic alloys unlock chemistries inaccessible to bimetallics, but realizing this potential requires knowing which dopant structures form across an enormous compositional space. Using density functional theory screening, we construct an atlas spanning transition metal single- and dual-atom alloy
Historical trends in identity-first and person-first language in books and news media
... health conditions (diabetes, disability, epilepsy, obesity). The IF and ... If mental health or disability conditions are understood as ...
Red Bull New York's Julian Hall earns USMNT call-up as Mauricio Pochettino set to name youthful squad
Head coach Mauricio Pochettino is expected to name multiple rising talents for the USMNT's first games after the World Cup
US extends visa ban on Palestinian officials before UN General Assembly
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is among those barred for the second year in a row.
PPML and Heavy-Tailed Trade and Factor Flows: Why Standard Inference Fails and How to Fix It
The Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) estimator is widely used for estimating bilateral gravity equations. Its consistency requires only a correctly specified conditional mean. Conventional inference, however, also requires finite-variance scores and Gaussian limits. We show that these conditions fail: bilateral flows are Pareto-tailed, PPML scores have a stable limit under a structural gravity data-generating process, and sandwich confidence intervals are too narrow. We retain PPML for p
Matthew Broderick & Richard Jenkins’ Underrated Comedy Movie Now Free to Stream
Matthew Broderick and Richard Jenkins' underrated 1986 comedy movie is now available for free streaming on YouTube.