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Top science & technology news, August 14, 2026
- Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-2.4T can now be run locally in Unsloth!
Models Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-2.4T are now available for local running in Unsloth with 17GB of RAM. They also support fine-tuning in Unsloth. Notably, Qwen3.8-27B is the strongest model of its size.
- AgelessRx wins $1m XPRIZE award to test anti-aging therapy in human trial
AgelessRx has won a $1 million prize from the XPRIZE Healthspan competition for testing an anti-aging therapy in a human clinical trial. The company reports that it completed a 90-day randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study with 26 adults aged 60 to 80.
- How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario
A giant battery is transforming the town centre in Cannington, Ontario, powering a local food bank and providing residents with additional amenities.
- Virtual cells learn to grow old
Insilico Medicine's Virtual Aging Cell platform models cellular changes across six biological scales, including aging dynamics
- AI Scribe Error During Medical Appointment Leaves Patient Devastated
An AI scribe falsely claimed a patient was taking illegal drugs during a medical appointment, causing her distress.
- The Geometry of Transformer Weights – A Canonical Basis for LLMs
A new version of the paper reveals a hidden internal structure within transformer language models by aligning them with their own weight matrices, establishing both descriptive and functional properties.
- OpenAI Introduces 'Ultrafast', a New Mode That Makes GPT-5.6 Sol Work at 14x the Speed
OpenAI introduces Ultrafast, a new mode that significantly accelerates the speed of its most powerful model, GPT-5.6 Sol, to work at 14 times the standard processing speed.
- Age norms for DunedinPACE: An epigenetic pace of aging biomarker
We developed age norms for DunedinPACE, an epigenetic measure of the Pace of Aging derived from DNA methylation. We used meta-analysis data from 11 cohorts to characterize the association between chronological and epigenetic ages.
- Exercise Slows Ovarian Aging
Experiments show physical activity delays ovarian aging in mice, and adiponectin knockout attenuates this protection.
- scKanFormer: A Transformer-KAN framework with biologically informed attention for cell type annotation in large-scale scRNA-seq data
The scKanFormer model uses a Transformer-KAN framework to annotate cell types in large-scale scRNA-seq datasets, leveraging biologically-informed attention mechanisms.
- Ageing conserves and redistributes local geometry in the human structural connectome: an Ollivier-Ricci curvature analysis across the adult lifespan
Network measures of the ageing connectome are dominated by magnitude: connection strength and density decline, and the topological summaries built on them decline with them. Whether the geometry of the network follows the same course is not known, because the quantities in common use do not separate how strong a connection is from how it sits among the connections around it.
- Preserved Implicit Metacognitive Sensitivity Distinguishes Psychosis Risk from First-Episode Psychosis: A Cross-Sectional Virtual Reality-Based Study
We used a novel implicit confidence measure derived from post-decision gaze in a virtual-reality probabilistic learning task to show that individuals at risk for psychosis have preserved implicit metacognitive sensitivity, distinguishing them from patients with first-episode psychosis.
- Modifiable Contributors to Socioeconomic Inequality in Brain Aging
Socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with accelerated brain aging. However, the modifiable factors accounting for this association, and whether they differ across socioeconomic indicators, remains unclear.
- LLM Inference Benchmarking
Production-grade LLM inference is a complex systems challenge, requiring deep co-designs - from hardware primitives (FLOPs, memory bandwidth, and interconnects) to sophisticated software layers - across the entire stack. Given the hardware variability across GPU providers like NVIDIA and AMD - including generational differences in numeric type performance (FP8, BF16, NVFP4 etc), HBM bandwidth and capacity, peak FLOPs etc - optimal performance is never guaranteed.
- Entanglement Distribution and Quantum Storage of More than 8000 Modes over a Metropolitan Network
This study developed a device capable of generating entanglement between telecom photons and matter, as well as storing more than 8000 quantum modes in a metropolitan network. This is crucial for implementing fiber-based quantum repeaters.
- Histological aging signatures for monitoring tissue-specific aging and disease
Scientists have developed histological markers to monitor specific types of tissue aging and diseases. These markers could be useful in clinical settings.
- World's first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, potentially eliminating huge numbers of costly, noise-producing microwave cables.
- Kog Goes Deeper to Extract More Inference from GPUs
French startup Kog bets that there's still a lot of power left in conventional GPUs, which are already owned by enterprises and used in datacenter servers.
- Capricor receives support after FDA advisory committee setback
After a disappointing FDA Advisory Committee meeting, Capricor Therapeutics has secured approval to file amendments to its Duchenne muscular dystrophy cell therapy application.
- Price War: Chinese AI Rivals Gain Ground
US AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are releasing cheaper models to retain cost-conscious customers switching from Chinese rivals. This helps Chinese developers, including Moonshot and DeepSeek, gain traction with users.
