RealFeedApp betaTop science & technology news, October 24, 2026
- Chip tracks brain activity in real time
EPFL researchers developed an implantable neural chip that decodes interactions between brain regions, identifying cognitive and emotional states. The system operates in real time, overcoming limitations of existing deep brain stimulation systems that often rely on signals from a single region.
- ThinkRail opens a repo as a project
ThinkRail from JetBrains integrates agents with the IDE by using intent specifications stored in graphs that agents read to operate across Monaco tabs and terminals.
- Kimi Code costs $1.37 for 5 hours of usage
A user spent $19 testing K3.1 Pro Standard and exhausted the 5-hour quota in minutes, processing 1.59M tokens. This represents less than 5% of the usable capacity offered by Claude Code on a $20 subscription.
- Dessa is trained fully on human speech without text in the pipeline
Dorsey launched Dessa, a locally trained full-duplex model capable of simultaneous speech and listening, powered by a single NVIDIA GPU and human speech data.
- Study reveals bias in Grok and GPT models
A Convovo study found Grok 4.7 recommended the Republican candidate in 92% of answers, while GPT-6.1 picked the Democrat in 97%. The models agreed on less than 10% of nearly 500 races.
- Yorba welcomes its first researchers
Platforms view transparency as a risk, yet independent research can deliver novel customer insights. Yorba has opened its data to the first researchers.
- Laurentide ice reached minimum size 3,600 years ago
A study reveals the Laurentide Ice Sheet reached its minimum size around 3,600 years ago and began re-expanding roughly 2,000 years ago. Human-induced warming around 1960 reversed this expansion.
- OpenAI cuts off internet for frontier model training
OpenAI announced training frontier AI models without internet access to prevent security risks and protect infrastructure from rogue AI incidents.
- Comparison of TS-Portable and Python implementation on 100 scans
The study found TS-Portable to be noninferior to the reference implementation across 15 abdominal organs while accelerating processing on 100 external CT scans. TS-Portable operates as a standalone executable without Python dependencies.
- Model predicted abstinence from binge drinking by age 16–17
A machine learning model trained on structural and diffusion MRI data from two cohorts identified top-10 features predicting binge drinking by age 16-17. Targeted maximum likelihood estimation confirmed the causal role of these features.
- Cloud stretched over 1,000 miles near Mars volcano
Researchers successfully modeled the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, revealing a physical process previously unseen in planetary atmospheres.
- Context optimization cuts costs for agents without requiring code changes
Induction AI implements a mechanism that artificially clears request caches during benchmarks to accurately measure inference costs without distortion. This allows agents to perform tasks with the same accuracy while reducing overall computation expenses.
- UK invests $134 million into AI Biosecurity Lab
The UK government and major AI companies will fund the independent lab to detect biological threats and accelerate vaccine development.
- Surface reservoirs hold only 15 months of water
Researchers from Virginia Tech and Indiana University Bloomington reveal that groundwater supplies in the Colorado River Basin are rapidly declining, threatening the ~40 million people who rely on these hidden water sources.
- AI experiment failed to create scorpion antivenom
Citrini Research asked Anthropic to create scorpion antivenom using Claude, but the result was only a theoretical foundation without a real drug.
- Butyrate alters human cell transcriptome
Treating human lymphoblastoid cell lines from eight donors with 1 mM sodium butyrate dysregulated genes linked to cancer, neuroinflammation, and autism.
- E-cig vaping during gestation augments experimental AAA in adult offspring
Maternal e-cigarette exposure increased the risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm in offspring mice. The study identified transgenerational epigenetic alterations linked to nicotine.
- Researchers created a macroscopic soliton in a lab
Physicist Chuliang Zhou and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences achieved the first controlled generation of a macroscopic, long-lived soliton driven by relativistic terahertz electromagnetic fields.
- Speed limits on Starshield caused two deaths and 17 injuries
Starshield satellites used by the Ukrainian military were restricted by speed limits, causing interceptor systems to fail and resulting in two deaths.
- Concept design operates stably for over 72 hours under light
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University built a system that produces hydrogen from seawater and degrades hydrazine. Tests showed hydrazine concentration dropped from 0.5 M to 0.5 ppb in about 30 hours.
