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A team led by Microsoft Research published a retrosynthesis model called RetroChimera in Nature on Sept. 21, 2026, and released its code and trained weights the same day on GitHub under the MIT…
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google Ireland Limited €403 million on Sept. 21 and ordered the company to bring its handling of location data into compliance within six months, ending an…
Three AI systems that control robot arms almost never turned down hazardous instructions in an independent test published Sept. 18, 2026. Robocurve, the group that ran the test, reports that…
The Chinese chipmaker CXMT said on Sept. 20 that its fifth-generation platform for making DRAM, the working memory used in phones and computers, is now in mass production. The company showed two…
Alibaba's Qwen team published the weights of a new image model, Qwen-Image-2.1, on Sept. 20. The team posted the files on Hugging Face and ModelScope under a license that allows research and…
Bernard Muller studies what happens to a voice when the nervous system behind it fails. He also lives it: ALS has taken his own speech, and he works through an eye-gaze interface, as the paper…
A palm-sized drone has flown through a pitch-dark room, followed the contours of walls and mapped an enclosed space using nothing but a 3.2-gram set of artificial whiskers. Researchers at Delft…
A computer made of DNA strands ran 10 programs, among them an addition of 25-bit numbers that its authors call "a 100-bit computation." The work was published Sept. 16 in Nature. Nothing drives the…
Stephen A. Weis has published the two prime factors of RSA-896, a 270-digit number from the RSA Factoring Challenge that nobody had broken in public before. He dates the factorization to Sept. 19,…
EPB, the city-owned electric and internet utility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise quantum computer at its EPB Quantum Center on Sept. 18, 2026, installing it in the…
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Neptune Medical's Triton 1, a robotic system for flexible endoscopy, for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures throughout the colon. The Burlingame,…
Helpfeel Inc., the Kyoto company behind the screenshot-sharing service Gyazo, said on Sept. 16, 2026, that an intruder had exploited a flaw in its image upload server and taken about 23.62 million…