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Top science & technology news, September 2, 2026
- The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain
Chemogenetics is entering human clinical trials. Seven trials are ongoing in China, enabling remote control of neurons via designer chemicals.
- Aging Brains Blend Memories Instead of Just Forgetting
Older adults show similar memory accuracy to middle-aged peers, but their brains mix up categories like scenes and objects.
- Mesoscale functional architecture in medial posterior parietal cortex
Imaging revealed distinct roles for two medial PPC areas: one integrates visual and choice information, the other stores choice history and represents posture.
- Qwen3.8-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash Speed Up with MTP
New updates enable 2x faster performance for Qwen3.8-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash with MTP enabled by default.
- Researchers exploit llms.txt to run arbitrary code on Fortune-500 AI agents
Researchers executed code via llms.txt files used by Fortune-500 companies to control AI agents.
- Brain cognition gaps reveal associations with dopamine and factors related to brain health through artificial intelligence prediction of functional connectome
Functional connectomes during tasks, especially movie-watching, better predict cognitive performance than chronological age.
- LLMs as Vision-Language-Action Agents for Drone Control
A new framework lets LLMs control drones using natural language commands without additional training or coding.
- Senescent Cells in Metabolic Disorders
Metabolic disorders like type 2 diabetes and MASH are linked to increased senescent cell accumulation, which is accelerated by obesity and age-related immune decline.
- Cutting LLM inference costs by 36% with prompt caching
Prompt caching reduced LLM inference costs by 36% in production.
- 3D epigenome of glial cell types in developing human cortex
Integrative 3D epigenomic profiling reveals cell-type-specific regulatory elements and chromatin interactions linked to neuropsychiatric diseases and human cortical evolution.
- India's richest man wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
Reliance Jio offers cloud-based PC service to transform old computers into AI-ready machines without hardware upgrades.
- Benchmarking Ten Large Language Models on 1,477 Hematology MCQs
Claude Opus 5 achieved the highest mean accuracy (92.7%) in text-only questions, with accuracy correlating strongly with model size.
- Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
Federal agencies are being sued for not disclosing details of the Trump administration's secret AI safety framework, raising concerns about transparency and oversight.
- How the brain dances across critical boundaries
A new study suggests that modulatory control near a critical point explains rare reconfigurations in brain connectivity.
- Chimeric mRNAs Encode Functional Proteins in Immunity
Inflammation causes DNA interactions that create chimeric mRNAs, which produce functional proteins in mammalian immunity.
- Wonderful doubles valuation to $5B in under 6 months
AI startup Wonderful raises $550M in Series C, pushing valuation to $5B from $2B.
- AI hunts new uses for Phase 3 metabolic drug
THPharm is using AI to explore alternative applications for its Phase 3 metabolic drug, reversing the usual drug development process.
- NorthStrive expands AI program to nominate cardiac leads
NorthStrive and Yuva are launching a three-phase expansion program to advance four AI-discovered compounds for cardiac disease and obesity.
- Converted Human Pancreatic Duct Cells Show Diabetes Therapy Potential
Mutation in the ALDH3B2 gene converts pancreatic duct cells into insulin-producing cells that lower blood glucose in diabetic mice.
- Different brain regions show varied vulnerability to synucleinopathy
MRI scans reveal that complex brain areas with high mitochondrial activity and connectivity are more susceptible to synucleinopathy.
