This is pretty interesting. Researchers looked at Oura Ring data and found that people reporting more serious depression and anxiety The post Oura Ring study finds sleep and HRV changes linked to depression and anxiety appeared first on Gadgets & Wearables.

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

As virtual nursing continues to develop across U.S. health systems, training the next generation on this growing care delivery model has become a priority for Rutgers School of Nursing. Through a Caregility partnership, the school is bringing training for virtual nursing enabled by artificial intelligence into its undergraduate program to prepare students for workflows now used in highly connected patient rooms, tele-intensive care and hospital-at-home programs. “Virtual nursing has been out there for the past 30 years,” says Angela Starkweather, dean and professor at the Rutgers School of…

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

AI Is Reshaping Gene Transfer Technologies — $258.7 Billion in VC Signals a Structural Shift in Biotech Investment  GlobeNewswire

Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model family ships in 2 tiers. Embed 5 Pro targets maximum retrieval quality. Embed 5 Fast targets latency and cost on the live query path. Both accept text, images, and fused text plus image inputs. Both […] The post Cohere Releases Embed 5: How It Compares to Voyage 4 Large, Gemini Embedding 2, and OpenAI appeared first on MarkTechPost.

What You Should Know Healthcare conversational and agentic access platform Parakeet Health announced an oversubscribed $10M Series A financing round led by Canvas Ventures, with participation from Blank Space Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and HMC INQ, bringing cumulative funding to $13M. The financing follows 10x year-over-year annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth, fueled by an enterprise operational ... Read More

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.

Cardiff Metropolitan University has secured £176,000 in funding to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to improve food safety practices in workplaces and homes, helping to reduce the risk of foodborne illness and encourage safer hygiene behaviours.  The funding has been awarded to the University’s Smart Hygiene Intelligence project, led by Dr Issam …

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

Google yesterday unveiled its new flagship Gemini 4 model with some impressive scores, but a report suggests that it might “struggle” in some cases. more…

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

CRM is becoming optional; the assumption underneath it is cracking now. For twenty years, enterprise software got built on top of CRM because it was the system that had data. It was never fully trusted because it depended on people to enter information whose job wasn’t to enter complete and accurate data.  Gartner projects that …

The Cardiovascular Strategic Roundup covering 27 August 2026 to 30 September 2026 explores how the market is shifting toward next-generation intervention strategies focused on anatomical adaptability, physiological restoration, and technology-enabled precision. The roundup examines major strategic themes shaping structural heart, coronary intervention, imaging, robotics, and clinical evidence generation. Watch the full Strategic Roundup for deeper strategic analysis.

Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI.

Only two of five vehicles finished the race around a notoriously difficult Formula 1 track, exposing what happens when autonomous systems meet blind corners, sensor failures, and physics.

The global data centre market is expanding rapidly, driven by cloud growth, digital transformation and the accelerating demand of AI. Valued at around US$350 to 450 billion today, the sector is growing at 10 to 15% annually. The UK is a major player in that growth story, representing approximately 4 to 5% of global market …

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Cats are finally getting the dog treatment. This smart cat collar features GPS location, activity, and sleep tracking, plus all-new heart and respiratory rate monitoring.

Good morning and happy October. Today, I’m cringing at this gaggle of billionaires pretending to be human, vibing to the new Tinashe album, Popstar, and heartily dining on all the brutal ‘Digger’ reviews. As a reminder, Inbox is the tech newsletter that goes beyond the news cycle. We cover the most important 9to5Google stories from the last couple of days along with a few highlights from around the web. We publish every Tuesday and Thursday, and if you like what you read, please subscribe. more…

A phase 3 trial of Boehringer Ingelheim’s survodutide in people with obesity and Type 2 diabetes has met its co-primary endpoints. Yet, with the readout echoing earlier data that underwhelmed analysts, shares in Boehringer’s partner Zealand Pharma fell 12% in early trading in Denmark.

The Mac Studio can run frontier-level AI language models locally. It’s only a preview of what’s to come.

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Most of the vibe coding conversation so far has centered on speed: how fast a solo builder can ship a side project, an internal tool, or an MVP. That framing undersells what’s actually happening. The more interesting test of vibe coding isn’t how quickly it can build things in low-stakes environments. It’s whether it can …

What You Should Know The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to MODI, a prescription software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) application developed by DreaMed Diabetes Ltd. that calculates and delivers autonomous insulin dose titration recommendations directly to patients. The clearance establishes a new digital therapeutics category by bringing automated algorithmic dose optimization to the ... Read More

High-performance mountaineering and hiking apparel doesn't have to break the bank.

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals And 2 Other Top Biotech Stocks To Own  simplywall.st

The AI conversation is coming to Cleveland. And this year, you can listen to it in real time.

Drug development rarely follows a straight line. A promising target can attract a crowd, disappoint in the clinic and quietly…

Ahead of the Googlebook launch, Google Antigravity is now available in the Play Store. more…

Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.

President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.

VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.

Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.

DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.

“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.

Today’s best Google Play app and game deals are now up for grabs alongside the thousands of price drops in Amazon’s early fall Prime Day sale. Highlights include Methods: Detective Competition, TABS Pocket Edition, Cyberlords – Arcology PREMIUM, Laser Tanks: Pixel RPG, Kingdom Rush Frontiers TD, Screw Puzzle Premium, and more. Just be sure to dive into this giant $650 price drop hits Galaxy Z Fold 7 at Amazon ($750 less than Fold 8) and the brand new Fire TV Stick 4K that launched today at 50% off. The apps await below. more…

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

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Polar has just pushed out a pretty chunky update to six of its watches. Firmware 6.0.18 adds new health graphs, more control over buttons and sport settings, an 80% charging limit and a decent refresh of the menus. And there is actually quite a lot here. Vantage V3, Vantage M3, Grit X2 Pro, Grit X2, Ignite 3 and Street X all get changes you are likely to notice, rather than the usual collection of small fixes buried in a changelog. There is a bit more context here too. For Grit X2 Pro owners, the previous major firmware release landed back in January, so this arrives after more than eight months without another big update.  More of your data is finally visible on the watch To start with, Polar is adding proper The post Polar rolls out huge 6.0.18 update to six watches appeared first on Gadgets & Wearables.

Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.

As we spotted over the weekend, Gemini is replacing Gems with skills, and Google today fully detailed the migration. more…

With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit monitoring, operations, and passenger communication.

The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases.