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An interview with CoreWeave Physical AI SVP Richard Ahlfeld on AI models failing real-world checks, the roles of synthetic data and physical tests, and more (Superintelligence)
https://read.getsuperintel.com/p/the-most-com…

"The most common failure isn't a bad model": CoreWeave's Richard Ahlfeld on physical AI
In a written interview with Superintelligence, Dr. Richard Ahlfeld, SVP of Physical AI at CoreWeave and founder of Monolith, explains why robots fail on the data they never saw and where synthetic data stops being credible. Interview by Kim Isenberg.

Report: Seahawks opt against signing RB Joe Mixon following physical https://www.nfl.com/news/report-seahawks-opt-against-signing-rb-joe-mixon-following-physical

Zur Situation der Menschheit: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books to their shadow library before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

I only got 25% of an idea what to do with the amount of abrupt physical artistic freedom I'm about to have. If there's something u think I might wear, or something u think I might have in my room, show it to me

RE: #ShapePacking...

Source: Seahawks decide not to sign RB Mixon after physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50118173/source-seahawks-decide-not-sign-rb-joe-mixon-physical

Time and Self are inextricably linked
In Search of Now, by Jo Marchant
P.188-9
What, when, where, why, and how is “Now” a thing?
I’ve thought and read a lot about how our minds work, what they are, why they’re necessary, are they necessary? And still Marchant manages to explode my understanding of it all. #recommended

Talk to my Keurig...
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot. No response.
Sigh, how quaint. I have to press the physical on button.

Physical Film Files
From the film itself, to the artwork, the packaging, and the special features—this is about celebrating movies the physical way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/physical-film-files/

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 2640 nodes and 4268 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwei…

Radiometric Thermal Imaging Dataset of Laboratory Rats with Anatomical Segmentation Masks
Dima Bykhovsky, Evyatar Chaimoff, Pe'er Eden, Tom Simkin, Oshrit Hoffer, Shahar Cohen, Bar Eilat Yogev, Gal Levi, Noa Efroni, Doron Todder, Hagit Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03481 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03481
arXiv:2608.03481v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Infrared thermography provides a contact-free, restraint-free method to record surface temperatures. It serves as a valuable marker for thermoregulatory responses in laboratory animal stress and pharmacology research. However, the analysis of these images is currently bottlenecked by the manual delineation of anatomical regions. To date, no public dataset has provided paired radiometric thermal frames of rats with pixel-level body-part labels. We present a dataset of 1,655 quality-controlled radiometric thermal frames from 25 laboratory rats. Each frame is paired with a dense four-class anatomical segmentation mask (background, head, body, and tail) and the raw $480 \times 640$ temperature matrix (rows $\times$ columns) in degrees Celsius. This ensures every label is registered directly to the physical temperature it describes rather than a color-mapped rendering. The frames originate from two pharmacological cohorts where interventions alter thermoregulation in opposite directions: ethanol, which induces peripheral vasodilation, and ketamine, which affects central thermoregulation. This provides a wide and physiologically diverse range of surface temperature regimes. Aggregated across the dataset, the per-class temperatures follow a head~$>$~body~$>$~tail ordering in physical units. To demonstrate that the data support pixel-level segmentation directly from the radiometric channel, we present an exploratory U-Net segmentation pipeline that attains a subject-level cross-validated mean intersection-over-union of $0.895 \pm 0.006$. The dataset provides a reuse-ready benchmark for thermal semantic segmentation and for downstream physiological and stress-phenotyping analyses.
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"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

Decided to read Lord of the Rings again which I also have as physical book ... oh heck I wish I could increase the font size!

Seahawks won't sign RB Joe Mixon after all, following physical: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7664136/2026/10/06/joe-mixon-seahawks-running-back-injuries/

Been a rough time, of late, dealing with parental health decline... physical and mental. I've been withdrawn as a coping mechanism, BUT one joy I have had is channeling some time into some self-hosting projects. Been a bit therapeutic, really.
Yesterday I pulled down all my audiobooks from Audible, converted them to m4b files and propped up an instance of audiobookshelf.

Strategic Evaluation of Planning Strategies for LLM Agents in Cyber-Physical Systems
J. de Curt\`o, I. de Zarz\`a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04265 https://…

Physical AI chip startup SiMa.ai raised a $150M Series C led by Fidelity and Amplify at a $1.45B valuation, aiming to compete with Nvidia's CUDA-based hardware (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/28/physi…

Physical AI custom chip startup SiMa.ai raises $150M at $1.45B valuation - SiliconANGLE
Physical AI custom chip startup SiMa.ai raises $150M at $1.45B valuation - SiliconANGLE

Cowboys reportedly outbid Lions for Steelers' disgruntled physical corner in late-night trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-reportedly-outbid…

Ashton Jeanty: 'We're going to be the most conditioned team, most physical team https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-we-re-going-to-be-the-most-conditioned-team-most-physical-team-and-we-re-g…

#EroticMusings 71. Have you ever created characters with desire that persisted beyond death?
Not under this pen name. While beings can actively choose to linger around as ghosts, doing so for sexual reasons is pointless. They don't have a physical response to stuff anymore.
Vampires are mentioned, but aren't allowed to appear due to the agreement with my text-rpg partne…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 18222 nodes and 170899 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Un…

Is Dark Matter Really Matter?
Jun-Qian Jiang, Arman Shafieloo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04763 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04763 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04763
arXiv:2608.04763v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the standard model of cosmology, it is assumed that dark matter is pressureless with equation of state $w=0$ and dark energy has $w=-1$. We test these assumptions jointly using DESI DR2 distance measurements, including the recent Lyman-$\alpha$ full-shape Alcock-Paczynski (AP) information, DES supernovae, and two complementary CMB treatment. When constant $w_{dm}$ and $w_{de}$ are varied together, we find $w_{dm}=0.000968^{ 0.000501}_{-0.000496}$ and $w_{de}=-0.9380^{ 0.0259}_{-0.0262}$ (68%). With an alternative CMB treatment that marginalizes over the lensing spectrum, the corresponding constraints are $w_{dm}=0.000870^{ 0.000408}_{-0.000410}$ and $w_{de}=-0.9353^{ 0.0258}_{-0.0254}$. Both standard $\Lambda$CDM values are disfavored at approximately $2\sigma$ in the joint extension. Neither parameter departs significantly from its standard value when only that parameter is varied. This behavior arises because late-time distances favor $w_{de}>-1$, while maintaining the early-Universe physical matter density requires a compensating positive $w_{dm}$, which changes the mapping to the matter density today. Allowing dynamical dark energy clarify further on complexity of the situation: phantom crossing for dark energy makes $w_{dm}=0$ consistent with the data, whereas a positive $w_{dm}$ preference persists when crossing is forbidden. Interestingly, the Pad'e-$w$ parameterization that provides a flexible description of a class of quintessence models (with no phantom crossing), along with $w_{dm}$ free, is even mildly favored over the phantom-crossing $w_0w_a$ model according to both the best-fit $\chi^2$ and the DIC under both CMB treatments. One can conclude that the apparent preference for phantom crossing may instead reflect deviations in the dark-matter sector rather than dark-energy dynamics alone. [abridged]
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Decided to read Lord of the Rings again which I also have as physical book ... oh heck I wish I could increase the font size!

RIAA: US recorded music revenue rose 6.9% YoY to $6B in H1 2026; physical grew 25.9% to $731.5M, driven by a 58.6% jump in CDs, and streaming rose 4.7% to $4.9B (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telec…

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117383576730251041
While Driscoll and his team went to work streamlining administrative overhead and modernizing the force to be more lethal,
Hegseth's platform focused on physical-readiness standards, traditional discipline, and …

Peptides adopt stable omega-loop structures in concentrated sulfuric acid: #Venus.

RE: https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205
Back in 1999 or so, I was on the team that helped Minnesota Public Radio choose a long-term storage format for their (extensive and valuable!!) audio archives, which they were about to digitize.
The conclusion we came to was that there was •no• storage medium that met their long-term preservation goals — true then, and almost certainly still true today. The best approach is perpetual and redundant forward copying of the data, from one physical storage device to another.
An archive isn’t a physical thing; it's a process.

"This is the logic of carbon offsetting and it fundamentally doesn’t make real, physical sense: no matter how much more renewable energy you fund, emissions are emissions and they still cause climate change. We solve this problem when we stop emitting" -- @…

In a rare interview, Huawei chip scientist Liao Heng warns Western chip companies will eventually face physical chip limits and talks Huawei's Tau Scaling Law (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-0…

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 216 nodes and 259 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Entire Cowboys roster passes physical, ready for camp today https://insidethestar.com/entire-cowboys-roster-passes-physical-ready-for-camp-today

‘The physical toll is visceral’: How Indonesia’s fire haze affects millions - visual guide https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/21/indonesia-borneo-sumatra-fires-smoke-toxic-air

FYI, from now until midnight (CST) Sunday, all physical items in the Elevator Bath catalog are 25% off with code AUGUST. If you want recommendations, lemme know. https://elevatorbath.bandcamp.com/music

Elevator Bath
Elegant abstract music. Since 1998. Distributed by Clandestine → https://clandestinedistribution.com/ Not currently accepting demos.

a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to "open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI" (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/a16z-creates-a-1-1b-machine-…

a16z creates a $1.1B 'Machine Age' fund to 'accelerate the physical buildout of AI' | TechCrunch
The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

For a physical website, I'd wish they would not write "creates energy" but rather "releases" *sigh*. https://phys.org/news/2026-09-nepal-devastating-wont-region-mountains.html

Nepal's devastating floods won't be the last as the region's mountains heat up
On the morning of Aug. 26, a section of mountain near Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal suddenly collapsed.

>Remote for TV box (from ISP, not TV itself) misses physical buttons.
>Need to go to AI trashbot for "assistance"
>AI trashbot: "Have you tried turning the receiver off and on?"
>"The physical buttons are gone..."
>AI trashbot: "That can be caused by an empty battery, please replace them and let me know!"

i can confirm from first-hand experience that someone in kel’s full outfit (probably including him) would get very sweaty while in poorly cooled buildings or doing intense physical activities, especially if it’s not cold when he’s doing them. make of this info what you will
#VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

i can confirm from first-hand experience that someone in kel’s full outfit (probably including him) would get very sweaty while in poorly cooled buildings or doing intense physical activities, especially if it’s not cold when he’s doing them. make of this info what you will
#VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

from my link log —
Are aerospike engines better than traditional rocket engines?
https://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/
saved 2019-10-19 https://

Are Aerospike Engines Better Than Traditional Rocket Engines?
Today we’re going to look at the history of aerospike engines, go over how nozzles work including things like overexpansion, underexpansion and even expansion ratios, we’ll look at the pros and cons of the aerospike, the physical limitations and problems, then we’ll compare the aerospike to some other traditional rocket engines. But that’s not all, I obtained never seen before photos and videos of some aerospikes, we’ll get opinions from some people who have actually worked with aeros…

"Until now, the end of Russian natural gas supply and the closing of Strait of Hormuz have mainly led to price increases, not to physical shortages, thanks to the increasing share of LNG", says Dutch government in its recent letter to parliament on Strategic gas policy.
1/4

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

Shared Memory for R Objects
Share R objects across processes on the same machine via a single copy in POSIX shared memory (Linux, macOS) or a Win32 file mapping (Windows). Every process reads from the same physical pages through the R Alternative Representation (ALTREP) framework, giving lazy, zero-copy access. Shared objects serialize compactly as their shared memory name rather than their full contents.

I find myself thinking about accessibility a lot, and it was hard to not be very annoyed by the truly awful yellow-on-white text here:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/blooms-taxonomy.html
I genuinely can't read that. And it's on a psychology web site -- psych …

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning | Domain Levels Explained
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a widely recognized hierarchical framework used by educators to classify and structure educational objectives according to their complexity and specificity. This taxonomy encompasses three primary domains: cognitive (intellectual processes), affective (emotional responses and attitudes), and psychomotor (physical skills and abilities).

I like my physical PC release of GTA V, btw 😁🥰

Serial sexual abuser Donald Trump stopped short of calling on Rep Max Miller to resign Monday,
saying he would “let the families figure that out”.
Asked whether the Ohio Republican should step down following allegations of domestic abuse from his ex-wife, Emily Moreno,
Trump said he has always known Miller as “a good person” and called the situation “a very sad thing.”
The abuse allegations, which include physical abuse of Moreno and their two-year-old daughter,

Trump declines to call for Max Miller’s resignation amid abuse allegations – live
President says he will ‘let the families figure that out’ and calls situation ‘a very sad thing’ when asked if Ohio Republican should step down

(YouTube) Bloomberg Tech: AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion #AI spatial and physical intelligence

I had to walk home from work yesterday, an impromptu necessity and always a slog after a full day in a physical job - 40 minutes all slightly uphill 😐
As I walked through the industrial estate I spotted some gorgeous looking blackberries so I tried one and oh man they were good. So I scarfed a load of those and got a disgusted look from a passer by 😄
I'd decided I could have a choc milkshake from the local dairy's vending machine I walk past 10 mins in, and that was delic…

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-standard-ai-agents-coming-to-the-physic…

This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World
The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

I foresee a future where I will need to sign physical papers regularly, due to increasing government interactions. I discovered in signing the various forms for K’s SSI that my signature has deteriorated to the point where it is inconsistent, since I use physical pen and paper so rarely.
I need to practice it, just as I did when young but now with a somewhat arthritic hand. Surprisingly, it seems like now I will need to use a fat point (1.0mm) or else it looks like an old man’s writing.

2027 NFL Mock Draft Has Cowboys Landing Physical Georgia Linebacker https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/2027-nfl-mock-draft-dallas-cowboys-landing-physical-georgia-linebacker

From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…

Not getting enough physical activity may be harming your health: Here’s what being sedentary does to your body
From a biological perspective, being inactive is more than the opposite of being active. Being sedentary results in unique physiological changes that can lead to a variety of health risks.

Finally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.

At the end of the day, the whole VG industry conversation currently comes down to access, it's not necessarily even about "digital vs physical", it's about whether or not the things you were told your money was "buying" wasn't actually just a slightly more wordy rental. If these platform holders made it obvious from day one that this was what we were getting into, no one would be buying digital, we'd still preference having 5'15 inch bays in our PCs.…

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 5x26 "Bohemian Ecstatic (2)" #JoJosBizarreAdventure

Bohemian Ecstatic (2)
Splitting up with Weather Forecast, Anastasia tries to recover his physical body after the enemy Stand Bohemian Ecstatic separates it from his soul.

TIL: The BART expo fare now has a grace period of 30 minutes before it applies IF you are using open-loop or the newer physical media. If you're still on old media because that's the only thing that works on the Bike Share docks, you are SOL and have to call Clipper for the refund.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Training Camp Notebook 8/18: Improvements made in physical joint practice with Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-18-physical-joint-practice-with-houston-texans-2026-preseason

The Guardian's tech team share their shoe-leather experiences covering AI data centers, as field investigation becomes increasingly important in tech coverage (Gautam Malkani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/202

‘These are some of the most complex structures ever created’: how tech reporting moved into the physical world
The Guardian’s global tech reporting team are investigating the impact of the vast datacentres being built to power the AI revolution. We spoke to them about how their beat has become increasingly offline

Trump now says the Kennedy Center could be deadly.
Months ago, it was ‘great.’

The president’s assessment of the Kennedy Center’s physical condition grew increasingly dire after his name went up on the building and revenue began to plunge
https://www.

Trump now says the Kennedy Center could be deadly. Months ago, it was ‘great.’
The president’s assessment of the Kennedy Center’s physical condition grew increasingly dire after his name went up on the building and revenue began to plunge.

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups…

VCs Pour Billions Into Physical AI As The Next Wave Of AI Investing Takes Shape
In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half of 2025 when startups in the sector raised $12 billion across 470 deals.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 806 nodes and 1701 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Training Camp Notebook 8/18: Improvements made in physical joint practice with Houston Texans https://www.raiders.com/news/training-camp-notebook-8-18-physical-joint-practice-with-houston-texans-2026-preseason

Researchers used AI-assisted code to undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines (Mariah Timms/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…

New 10x8" silver gelatin print. This one took a lot of refining, back and forth and test strips to achieve the right balance between brightness, contrast (esp. in the brighter parts of the clouds) and smooth mid-tone transitions. So even though this is a contact print from a digital negative, this was the first time in ages (i.e. decades) that I used some physical dodging to soften the horizon and emphasize the haze in the distance a tiny bit more...

Had an #acting #coaching client do a physical rehearsal technique I sometimes use, and immediately their upper spine changed and their voice shifted really nicely. Next take after the technique: the change partly remained, clarifying things as I'd hoped. Satisfying.

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 Edge, a world model designed for robots and vision AI agents to perceive and navigate physical environments in real time (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/nvidia-reveals-new-ai-model-and-expands-…

Nvidia unveils new AI model and expands Japan’s physical AI ecosystem
Nvidia announces new AI model, Cosmos 3 Edge, and expansion of its physical AI ecosystems in Japan.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Javonte Williams: “I Always Felt Like I Had Somewhere Bigger to Go” https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/javonte-williams-i-always-felt-like-i-had-somewhere-bigger-to-go-communitea

Yesterday we did our weekly errands again with our bicycle trolley. Works like a charm.
We select routes off major roads, have some chat along the way, see what's going on in town, physical exercise, fresh air, no fuel cost, no traffic jam.
And even car drivers are very friendly to us as well.

Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/f

Former Alibaba Researcher Announces New Startup on Digital and Physical AI Agents
Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin announced that he had started a new AI company, confirming The Information’s earlier reports. Lin, who left Alibaba in March, said in a post on X that his Shanghai-based startup, Pragmatik Labs, is focusing on “next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds.” Lin also said Chinese venture capital firms Gaorong Ventures and HongShan led

PSI, which aims to use AI "to industrialize the discovery of new physics" including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/can-ai-crack-interstellar-travel…

Can AI help crack interstellar travel?
AI is best known for transforming coding. Now, one startup is making the case for physics. On Tuesday, the AI-native physics research lab, Physical Superintell...

Quinnen Williams: Captain patch 'means a lot', looks to set a physical tone vs. Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-captain-patch-means-a-lot-looks-to-set-a-physical-tone-vs-giants

The U.S. military shot down three drones with a laser this week on the southern border,
saying the autonomous aircraft were linked to cartels.
The operation, which took place Tuesday to Wednesday, was the first operation where
the military used a high-energy laser
against cartel-linked drones,
according to a statement from the U.S. Northern Command.
The military detected the “hostile” drones as part of activities posing a physical threat to U.S. soldiers…

U.S. Military Uses New Laser Technology to Down ‘Cartel-Linked’ Drones
The operation was the first high-energy laser strike against cartel-linked drones, according to a statement from the U.S. Northern Command.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 367 nodes and 398 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/07/30/forget-

Forget robots on assembly lines. Foundational Industries wants AI to run the entire factory
The startup says software-native factories can leapfrog China’s highly automated manufacturing base rather than trying to replicate it.

Matt LaFleur says he fully anticipates Packers keeping Josh Jacobs while charges are pending https://www.nfl.com/news/matt-lafleur-says-he-fully-anticipates-packers-keeping-josh-jacobs-while-charges-are-pending

Quinnen Williams: Captain patch 'means a lot', looks to set a physical tone vs. Giants https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-captain-patch-means-a-lot-looks-to-set-a-physical-tone-vs-giants

An #acting #coaching client used the emotional/physical reality of their own day as a starting point for their character, and it was so interesting and fun. I'm a big fan of starting with what you have, and where you are, and letting that be some great raw material.

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-sta…

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI | TechCrunch
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

US senator Mitch McConnell is still not cleared to return to work, his office confirmed on Monday,
six weeks after he was hospitalized after a fall at his home.
An update released alongside a new photograph of the Republican lawmaker – one of the highest-profile figures in Congress, as a former Senate majority leader – said he was undergoing “intense physical therapy” and is “working hard” to get back to his duties.
In the statement, he said that he wouldn’t be able to make…

Mitch McConnell still not cleared to resume Senate duties, office says
Kentucky senator has been absent and not seen in public since mid-June after he was hospitalized due to a fall

Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/augmodo-rais

Augmodo raises $21M to push its spatial AI beyond just retail toward the broader physical workforce
Customer demand is pulling the Seattle startup's technology into warehouses, facility maintenance, delivery, and other parts of the physical workforce.

A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Hacker leaks GTA VI gameplay and map to protest digital-only release — claims pre-orders are a legacy of physical game releases
The hacker wants Rockstar to stop pre-selling digital games.

Even if getting up from your chair isn’t an issue for you now,
lots of older adults have difficulty rising without pushing off from the armrests, said Liu-Ambrose.
Working the sit-to-stand
— one of the top moves both Liu-Ambrose and Na recommend to older clients and a good measure of overall fitness
— into your daily routine can help preserve that functional motion.

The move strengthens your quads, hamstrings and glutes,
and it trains the mobility of mult…

5 movements physical therapists say every adult over 50 should do daily
These simple moves can help you maintain mobility and independence as you age.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 215 nodes and 405 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Google DeepMind releases Gemini Robotics 2, which combines several different AI models into a single system to control a range of robots, including humanoids (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-can-control-humanoid-robots/

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Last year, we covered how Anthropic was buying physical books,
scanning them,
and destroying them to feed their Claude chatbot.
Judge William Alsup ruled this fair use.
In particular, he said mulching the books was perfectly fine because making them digital was
“exceedingly transformative”: [Order on Fair Use, 2025, PDF]
The print original was destroyed.
One replaced the other.
And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy was shown, s…

AI vendors are destroying rare books to feed the chatbot
Every AI vendor trains their chatbots on the Common Crawl, a copy of the whole public internet. But that’s just the starting point. AI vendors are desperate for more data — in the hope of making th…

Germany's Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 and Flux-mimic, its first models for robotics, as it expands from generative AI into physical AI (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Eliyan, which aims to license tech and make physical "chiplets" to ease AI chip data transfer bottlenecks, raised a $145M Series C at a $1B valuation (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eliyan-ra

Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments.
This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery:
a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of CRISPR,”
as Anthropic describes it.
CRISPR is a natural immune system used by bacteria to fight off viruses that has become a gene-editing technology wi…

Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big | TechCrunch
But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/a…

OpenAI, Google, Meta, BlackRock, and others are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands, with some of the highest pay the industry has ever seen (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
The future of artificial intelligence depends on finding more skilled humans for some very physical jobs.

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/no

Elio, which is developing a new type of image sensor designed for AI rather than human vision, raised a $21M Series A led by Innovation Endeavors and Xora (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rkhattyhzl

Former Meta AR/VR executives raise $21 million to build sensors for the AI era
Elio's founders, Nadav Grossinger and Nitay Romano, spent seven years developing physical sensing systems at Meta. Now they are betting that artificial intelligence needs a fundamentally different way to see the world. 

Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/24/robotics-ai-generalist-200m

Scoop: Generalist raises another $200 million for AI robotics
This comes just weeks after it raised $400 million at a $2 billion valuation.

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/22/go

Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE
Google's robotics unit Intrinsic open-sources its foundational infrastructure for intelligent robots - SiliconANGLE