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Agility Robotics is taking humanoid robots public in a first for Wall Street
Agility Robotics is about to give Wall Street a reality check on the humanoid robot boom.
The Oregon startup, whose two-legged robots carry heavy materials and sort goods in factories and warehouses, is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq on Thursday, becoming the first humanoid-focused company to go public in the US. Its financial disclosures show just how far the industry still has to go before robots become a profitable business.
Agility brought in just $1.8 million in revenue last year while reporting a $138.1 million net loss, according to its merger filings. More than half its revenue came from five robots purchased by one of its investors.
Astronaut and Earth
CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk is pictured during the Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk. The International Space Station was soaring 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean at the time of this photograph. Kutryk and NASA astronaut Anil Menon installed a new roll-out solar array on the space station and performed some get-ahead work for their next spacewalk, which will take place on Nov. 5, 2026. The pair will install the eighth and final roll-out solar array; together, the eight arrays will increase the stationâs available power by up to 30%.
Artemis II Ionosphere: 3.7 TECU, Zero GPS Outage
Artemis II hit the ionosphere with a 3.7 TECU disturbance in 2026, yet GPS stayed online. See the real data, what it means for navigation, and why no outage followed.
Exclusive: Meta buys AI startup and joins race to own coding in show of outsized ambition
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that lets software engineers manage multiple coding agents simultaneously, sources familiar with the deal tell Axios exclusively.
Why it matters: Meta is joining OpenAI and other AI giants in a race to own the tools developers use, as coding has become a crucial pathway to AI adoption and capturing enterprise spending.
State of play: The acquisition speaks to Metaâs continued AI ambitions and will lay the groundwork for the companyâs models and ecosystem to compete for coders, the most important power users of AI.
All 5 genetic âlettersâ of DNA and RNA discovered in a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid
Scientists have discovered all five essential nucleobases used in DNA and RNA in pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu, revealing that key ingredients for life existed in space billions of years ago. The remarkable finding adds to growing evidence from other asteroids and meteorites that these molecules were widespread throughout the early Solar System.
Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon
2020, two years before ChatGPT and long before âAGI next yearâ became its own LinkedIn post genre, I spent 90 minutes with Melanie Mitchell.
She is the Davis Professor of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute. Douglas Hofstadter was her PhD supervisor. And she wasnât buying the hype.
Her line has stayed with me: intelligence is a very complex phenomenon, not the sum of a bunch of narrow intelligences but something much bigger.
Six years later, the #AI industry is betting trillions on close to the opposite assumption: scale it far enough and #AGI shows up on its own.
Maybe it will. But Melanie also told me about a fear Hofstadter had: that intelligence might turn out to be a set of âcheap tricks.â
So which would be the more unsettling outcome: that he was right, or that he was wrong?
2030: The Eye of the Needle: Autino, Adriano V., Cavallo, Alberto: 9798160568904: Amazon.com: Books
Dear SRI Friends and Supporters.
I am happy and proud to announce that my new book, â2030: The Eye of the Needleâ, is now available on Amazon.
Will a conscious supermind be super-ethical?
The book includes a profound reflection on the evolution of artificial intelligence toward a conscious supermind. Will such a supermind be super-ethical, and will it help human evolution and expansion into space? And what is our responsibility in the process?
âThe dangerous phase is now, precisely because todayâs systems have no ethical agency of their own and are therefore fully hostage to the intentions of whoever trains and deploys them.â
A share of the authorâs royalties from every copy is donated to Space Renaissance International to support its programs.
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Inhaling CO2 may rescue nervesâ ability to regrow
Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway seems to be reversible
Huge Alzheimerâs study uncovers dozens of risk factors scientists hadnât seen
Scientists have identified dozens of previously unknown genetic risk factors for Alzheimerâs disease in one of the largest studies into the condition to date. The findings offer new clues about brain cells and biological processes that could contribute to the disease.
The study, which pooled data from 30 research groups, analyzed genetic data from approximately 2.8 million people, including 183,620 with an Alzheimerâs diagnosis. Researchers identified 127 regions in human DNA associated with the risk of developing the disease, 48 of which had not yet been discovered in this context.
One of the studyâs authors, Emil Uffelmann of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, told Newsweek: We identified 48 new regions of the genome linked to Alzheimerâs disease risk, and our results point to microglia, the brainâs immune cells, as well as specific types of neurons. These findings provide clues about biological mechanisms that could become therapeutic targets.