Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
Enveda raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation to advance nature-derived AI drug candidates into clinical trials.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Enveda raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation to advance nature-derived AI drug candidates into clinical trials.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chip is 30% smaller than its predecessor, delivers double the AI capability, and cuts power consumption by up to 40% for next-generation “hearables.”
Sep 23, 2026 ·
CNET
Meta’s AI agent Muse (via an avatar called “Marley”) handled multiple real-world tasks in parallel, successfully completing several user requests end-to-end and leaving only the security-plan downgrade as a partial win because it required a phone call.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
Inherited positional information from the early embryo’s ectoderm sets a boundary where hindbrain fate stays separate from midbrain/forebrain fate, explaining why you don’t have “two brains.”
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
MJWarp advances MuJoCo physics for up to 2,048 parallel “worlds” in one batched call (mjw.step), shifting the bottleneck from single-world latency to aggregate throughput for large-scale robotics sampling and learning workflows.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Bull will integrate SiPearl’s Rhea1 CPUs into the CPU-only partition of Jupiter, supplying domestic European silicon to the EU’s first exascale supercomputer that came online last year.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Register
Anthropic says its Claude AI autonomously discovered a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages after searching DNA-sequence data and completing 21 hours of work involving nearly 950 agents and 210 million tokens.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
OpenAI is rolling out voice-based agentic features in the ChatGPT mobile app, letting Plus and Pro users trigger workflows in the Work tab like drafting documents, drafting emails, summarizing Slack messages, and creating presentations or sites while getting richer text output from voice conversations.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
About 68% of Americans who use AI daily are worried about it, and the U.S. also reports 74% worry overall while only 36% expect AI to mostly help the country.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
RAIBO2 ran 42.195 km in 4 hours, 19 minutes, and 52 seconds on a single 2,016 Wh battery, using 1,280 Wh in total and achieving a total cost of transport of 0.25 (vs a human benchmark of 0.37).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would make continued development of artificial superintelligence punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
AMD’s 6th-gen EPYC “Venice” for the SP7 platform is set to reach up to 256 cores with 16 channels of DDR5 (up to 12,800 MT/s with MRDIMMs) and 128 PCIe 6.0 lanes plus CXL 3.1, targeting about 1.3 TB/s STREAM Triad memory bandwidth (up from ~1.6 TB/s peak bandwidth).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
YouTube is rolling out a conversational editing tool for Shorts and the YouTube Create app that uses natural language to help refine long- and short-form footage, with availability in early 2027.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
YouTube Music is adding AI features including “Ask Music” for conversational music and podcast requests and “Your Podcast Lineup” for personalized weekly podcast discovery guides.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Jamf says it is overhauling Apple enterprise management toward autonomous, AI-driven IT, including an AI-powered self-service diagnostics system and an AI Governance suite that adds browser controls to block corporate files from being uploaded to personal AI accounts.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Computerworld
NETSCOUT says 81% of organizations believe insufficient data increases incident resolution time, and 42% estimate downtime costs $500,000–$999,000 per hour—driving demand for “forensic-grade” observability that AI operations can trust.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
YouTube will let users create custom homepage feeds using conversational AI prompts (rolling out in the US on web, mobile, and TVs) and add GIFs to video comments, with GIF search and selection arriving in the mobile app this fall.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
YouTube announced new creator tools in YouTube Studio, including expanding Ask Studio to iOS and Android and adding AI draft feedback that suggests pacing, structure, and storytelling for unpublished videos.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
NHTSA is investigating comma.ai after it received reports of five crashes involving drivers using comma.ai devices that crashed into stopped or slow-moving cars, killing 3 people and injuring 11 others, with two of the crashes resulting in deaths and 4 of the 5 involving injuries.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Nearly 70% of workers use AI regularly (67.8% use AI tools beyond ChatGPT at least a couple of days a week), but 56.4% say no time is allocated during work hours for upskilling and 84.3% spend 5 hours or less per week on training.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
ZDNet
