A neuron's molecular clock: NMDA timing shapes the flow of information

In the brain, what matters is not only whether a signal reaches a nerve cell, but also how long its chemical gate remains ...

Mitochondrial RNA escape may explain how chronic immune signaling helps tumors grow

Cancer biology—and, in turn, cancer treatment—have come a long way in the last few decades. Most people recognize this ...

U.S. Bank’s Stablecoin Pilot on Stellar Sends a Clear Signal: Banks Want Their Own Rails

U.S. Bank completed a live cross-border payment using its proprietary USBDC stablecoin on the Stellar network on September 9, 2026, exactly seven days before the scheduled mainnet launch of Circle Arc ...

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs.
Science

Learning stochastic dynamics and cell-fate landscapes from single-cell snapshots via optimal transport

The temporal dynamics and stochasticity of gene expression are critical to cell fate decisions, yet integrating snapshot ...
CISA

China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies

China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies are conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies’ models through industrial-scale knowledge ...
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Quantum nanoparticles mix frequencies to cut imaging noise

Lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles, or UCNPs, act as frequency mixers, generating beat frequencies from modulated ...
Reuters

China's Z.ai says new model nears Anthropic's Mythos 5 in cyber-defence tests

Z.ai says GLM-5.3 performed slightly better than Mythos 5 at finding software flaws It still trailed Anthropic's model at developing working attacks from those flaws Z.ai plans public release after a ...