Tootfinder

Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-physical-ai-s…

Exclusive: Physical AI Startup Tractian Becomes a Unicorn
Tractian, a 7-year-old physical AI startup based in Atlanta, Georgia, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion in a Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Tractian provides sensors to assess the condition of machines, predicting how long it will take for them to fail and recommending maintenance plans. Many machines are “completely naked in terms of hardware

Eka Robotics, which is developing a "vision-force-action" architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/20/eka-

Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving | TechCrunch
Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

I think one of the most annoying things about our modern world is that even after you subscribe to a service, or even purchase a physical thing, you still get hit with shitty messages about "upgrading" and "subscribing" and like... fuck...
I've paid for a thing or subscribed to your service, but still you want more from me. More of my money, more of my time wasted, more annoyance.
I hate it. Hate it!

Britain's leading climate scientist, Kevin Anderson:
"The Government has presented its decision as pragmatic. But pragmatism is a political framing, not a physical property of the climate system. More fossil fuels, when burned, mean more CO₂ in the atmosphere, higher global temperatures, greater climate impacts and increased risks of crossing dangerous tipping points."
Jackdaw: a decision for the last century - Climate Uncensored

from my link log —
Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
https://ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09-21-concurrency-textbook/
saved 2026-09-21

Textbook review: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
Here are my thoughts on the free online textbook Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? by Paul E. McKenney, author of the Linux kernel’s RCU synchronization mechanism. I read a lot of this textbook, got my fill, and probably won’t read more of it in the near future so wanted to write this review while it is all still fresh. Set & Setting Here I’ll talk about the mindset/life phase and physical setting I was in when I started reading this textbook. This might …

💡 The core trick: it invents a physical mechanism whose behavior IS the concept. A cache key that skips unchanged work becomes a pin-tumbler lock that only turns when every pin matches. One GPU context serving many canvases becomes a gantry plotter whose single print head visits 16 wells.

When physical media of a show or movie you want to have are only sold on Amazon, which is the more ethical option?
#poll #amazon #piracy

What's with Broncos' Sean Payton's crouching? It's not about anything on the field https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7617823/2026/09/21/broncos-sean-payton-back-issue/

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

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…

Dak Prescott: 'It is time' for Cowboys to break through https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-it-is-time-for-cowboys-to-break-through

the 18 is definitely an “S” rev of the 17 Pro, everything is slightly nicer. migrating to a new phone is still a huge pain though. I haven’t been able to get all my cards back into Apple Pay yet — need to call Fubon TW, and while Venture X is a great card, it’s always annoying to add to Apple Pay when I’m outside the US. the NFC card verification in the Cap One app also seems broken, though maybe my new physical card just isn’t working.

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.

I would be more okay with the loss of physical game media if it came with promises of working with archivists or some group that could help perseve the games without needing to depend on pirates.
There really is no attempt to give any back while taking things away.
#videogames

We expected rain (but no ⚡⛈️).
So we got our jackets, did our errands with our little bike trailer - and were lucky because it didn't even rain 💪
✅ Saved fuel again
✅ Physical activity
✅ Faster way to detach from work
✅ Saw a couple of cats
Totally recommended!
#cycling #BikeTooter

My kingdom for a physical power switch
#Electronics

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

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

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 461 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

Recently got my hands on a 3D-printer, that I got from a friend (Bambulab P1S with AMS).
It is kinda addicting to print out physical things that actually works

Dak Prescott: 'It is time' for Cowboys to break through https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-it-is-time-for-cowboys-to-break-through

Ultra-processed foods linked to hidden muscle fat that may threaten your knees #nutrition

Ultra-processed foods linked to hidden muscle fat that may threaten your knees
Eating more ultra-processed foods was linked to greater fat buildup inside thigh muscles, according to MRI scans of 615 adults at risk for knee osteoarthritis. Surprisingly, the association remained even after researchers accounted for calorie intake, physical activity, and other factors. Fatty changes in these muscles may weaken support around the knee and potentially increase osteoarthritis risk.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Effect of Physical Barriers on High-Harmonic Generation in Liquid-Phase
Beatriz Darna, Marie Labeye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26045 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

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/

The Cowboys' offense looks totally original again. Meet the man helping design it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7524874/2026/08/20/cowboys-offensive-coordinator-klayton-adams-preseason/

Ahahhaha just because I verified that the pixel 10 comes with a physical sim card slot doesn't mean that it actually comes with a physical sim card slot*. I fucking despise Pixel hardware from the very core of my being.
* turns out it comes with a sim card slot everywhere else except the US

Need to learn more about #TheFlyingScotsman Graeme #Obree who broke #bicycle world records with selfmade, innovative bicycles and enormous physical and psychological strength.

“I remember the first time I read Alan Moore writing about magic and the nature of spells. He said that spells were literally spelling. Words can change you. This didn’t mean a physical transformation into a toad or a worm, it meant that your reputation would be such that people though of you as toady or wormy.”
Robin Ince on being gaslit

v v excited for weak signal's return to union pool. #nyc

Weak Signal • Masaaki Tickets | 30 Sept | Union Pool, New York | DICE
The return... ***Weak Signal • Masaaki*** This is a 21+ event (Physical ID required. Photos of ID + NYC City ID are not accepted)

Terahertz liquid networks: a mesoscopic passive architecture for circumventing physical deadlocks in brain-computer interfaces https://pubs.rsc.org/na/article/doi/10.1039/d6na00618c/1368417/Terahertz-liquid-networks-a-mesoscopic-passive…

RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/117482632536321266
Imagine, for a moment, that someone built a community playground out of salvaged wood. It would be pretty cool. Kids come and play, but then kids start getting hurt. The people who built it don't understand safety. Boards rot and aren't replaced.
More people come in, they help, and it's slightly better. But the whole thing was built on an old garbage heap. The sandbox is full of rusty nails and broken glass. Kids get cut when they dig.
People criticize it, and other people get mad because it's a community project. They put in a lot of effort. No one else did it. It was filling a need, a real need, and people were just criticizing it.
Other playgrounds are built, by other communities. They're actually safe. People are careful. They move more slowly. But everyone knows where the big playground is. It's easy to get to. Everything wants to just fix the playground. It's where everyone meets already. There are so many friends. It's not just the physical space, it's the social space.
I understand the drive to defend open source, any open source, as such. There's so much invested. There are so many relationships. There are so many good memories. So many people learned PHP as their first language and have never learned anything else. It felt empowering to just jump in and build something. Feelings will always be more powerful than logic, regardless of what anyone says.
The sunk cost fallacy is real, and so much more real when the investment has been so great. But not all projects are equal. The amount of effort it takes to keep a project going is not equal to quality of the output. Some projects just take more effort to keep going than others. Some projects take more effort than they're worth.
At some point, I think the effort of keeping up with the bugs will be greater than we can sustain. We will simply have to abandon PHP as a language (like so many already have) and move on. It will be hard. Some people won't move on. They will keep going until they break and give up on the entire dream of open source, of building a better world together. That will be a huge loss for us all.
I wonder what we can do to ease that transition, to support those who are experiencing such great grief and loss. What would a death doula look like for a programming language? For a community built around a programming language? How do you help someone let something go when it has become part of a person's identity?
I think we need to answer these questions, sooner or later.

copenhagen: Copenhagen Networks Study
A network of social interactions among university students within the Copenhagen Networks Study, over a period of four weeks, sampled every 5 minutes. Interactions include physical proximity (undirected), phone calls (directed, weighted), text messages (directed), and information about Facebook friendships (undirected). Nodes include some metadata, including gender.
This network has 568 nodes and 24333 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unwe…

The Cowboys' offense looks totally original again. Meet the man helping design it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7524874/2026/08/20/cowboys-offensive-coordinator-klayton-adams-preseason/

A different but related problem: in #DnD, hit dice measure both physical endurance and offensive combat ability. A large but otherwise docile foe can punch easily through armour to deliver its trivial damage repeatedly.
#ttrpg #osr

Rydberg Atomic Receiver for Wireless Physical Layer: A Survey
Minze Chen, Mingyao Cui, Zhiao Zhu, Jingyi Feng, Haodong Zhang, Qunsong Zeng, Tianqi Mao, Dezhi Zheng, Kaibin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25462

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

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

I'm fond of the modern lens I compulsively watch My Dinner With Andre thru. None of the "meat" was new when I first watched it, and that's solely cuz to me, it's a film comprised of curated highlights from long DM convos between two trans women when at least one is actively suicidal, my field of expertise.
I'm glad for this more polished presentable version, and a big part of that is the added dimension of physical acting. I wish it wasn't true, but if I …

Marine heat waves pose hidden threat to human health, researchers warn #marine

Marine heat waves pose hidden threat to human health, researchers warn
The devastating impacts of marine heat waves extend far beyond dying coral reefs and declining fisheries, with new research warning that these extreme ocean-warming events pose a growing threat to human physical and mental health.

The Quantum Mechanics of Rare Events: From Quantum Walks to Stochastic Inflation
Daniel Green, Kshitij Gupta, Akhil Premkumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06319 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06319 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06319
arXiv:2608.06319v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Rare fluctuations in physical systems depend on the detailed microphysics responsible for the fluctuations. In classical statistical systems, the large deviation principle has elucidated the role of semi-classics in describing this regime, and has simultaneously provided a the mathematical foundation of statistical mechanics. Large deviation theory for quantum system is considerably less developed. As all physical systems are fundamentally quantum mechanical, this leaves a major gap in our understanding of rare fluctuations relevant to statistical physics, cosmology, and more. In this paper, we develop the practical aspects of the theory of large deviations relevant for calculating rare events in physical systems from quantum walks to cosmology. We first analyze the case of the anharmonic oscillator coupled to a bath, showing explicitly how the system evolves from dominantly statistical (e.g. thermal) to quantum fluctuations. We then generalize these results, showing that the dominant rare fluctuations minimize the measurement-induced relative entropy. This perspective provides a thermodynamic description of a wide range of open quantum systems. We apply these results to random walks that arise in cosmology through stochastic inflation. We show that the evolution of the density matrix of long wavelength fields on a fixed de Sitter background breaks the KMS symmetry, giving rise to a stationary density matrix that does not respect detailed balance.
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>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!"

One new thing I’ve learn about living with a dog is that when he sleeps, he often wants physical contact.

RE: #ShapePacking...

Some students are directing AI agents to “take” entire online courses for them,
letting the software run in the background while they focus on better uses of their time,
--like doomscrolling on their phone or gaming.
The New York Times unpacked the trend in a recent story,
and it’s a testament to how extreme AI-enabled cheating has become,
but also of the perils of getting an education in a virtual environment instead of a physical one.
Professors can’t re…

A.I. Agents Are Taking Entire Online Courses for Cheating Students
As colleges and students embrace virtual classes, the ease of A.I. cheating is raising questions about the value of an online degree.

✅ Weekly errands done (our trailer was quite packed this time)
✅ Physical exercise after an office day
✅ Avoided afterwork traffic jams
✅ Fresh air
✅ Saved fuel / car cost
✅ Got some Interested looks from ppl around 😀
If you wonder if buying such a trailer pays off. I would say: absolutely!
Especially the exercise is priceless!
#cycling

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 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.

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

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

Getting used to a mouse clit ("trackpoint") again after swearing off thinkpads 15 years ago because of their stupid bios whitelisting of network cards.
If they're going to take away physical touchpad buttons, then I'll just stop using touchpads.

Sources: Ravens held Jurgens physical at Eagles facility ahead of trade https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/50147669/sources-ravens-held-cam-jurgens-physical-trade-eagles

Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic)
https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/veeda-ai-sanja-fidler-nvidia/

Star researcher Sanja Fidler raises over US$90M for world model startup - The Logic
Toronto-based Veeda is building control systems for physical AI, and is backed by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, The Logic has learned

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…

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

Robot Brains For 75 Cents/Hour? Former Nvidia Researchers Raise $90 Million
Want to make your dumb robot smart? $3 an hour is all it costs. Or 75 cents, if you’re okay with a slightly less capable physical AI model.

Warehouse robotics startup Ultra raised a $12M seed and a $50M Series A, and expands its deal with Physical Intelligence to supply AI software for its robots (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/10/09/ultra-r

Ultra raises $62 million for fast-growing ‘robots as a service’ business, announces tie-up with AI research firm Physical Intelligence
The raise consisted of a Series A seed round led by Framework Ventures plus an earlier seed round.

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 461 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unweigh…

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.

Rob Leonard on Kwity Paye's impactful Raiders' debut and instilling confidence in his players https://www.raiders.com/video/rob-leonard-kwity-paye-chargers-nfl-week-2-2026-season

‘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

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

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

Did our errands again with our SUV.
I had concerns that we'd never use it. I was wrong.
No gas needed, had physical exercise, fresh air...

At Least Six Fights Reportedly Break Out During Cowboys And Saints Joint Practice https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/least-six-fights-reportedly-break-out-during-cowboys-saints-joint-practice

Anthropic life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-…

“We believe physics is the third modality for AI models,
after text and pixels,”
says MIT PhD student and CSAIL researcher Minghao Guo,
a co-lead author on a paper introducing GeoPT.
“Our general-purpose model has the versatility to help build a world model for physics.
Many models, such as those that generate robotics data and videos, are already well-versed in textual and visual data,
but with physical accuracy, they’ll get more-realistic results.”

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
“GeoPT” teaches AI models the basics of physics by virtually reenacting everyday mechanical interactions in 3D. In turn, the systems can simulate how vehicles and other objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

Seahawks S Emmanwori set to come off PUP list https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49584391/seahawks-nick-emmanwori-passes-physical-set-come-pup-list

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

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

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 532 nodes and 1724 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

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!

Dallas Showed Physicality Week 1, Washington Will Test It https://insidethestar.com/dallas-showed-physicality-week-1-washington-will-test-it

Japanese manufacturer Omron says it will acquire US industrial PC firm OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, for $675M, to boost its "physical AI" efforts (Anton Bridge/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona

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

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/

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…

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.

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 596 nodes and 1739 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

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

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.

Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid robot to safely work alongside humans without physical barriers by utilizing AI collision-avoidance software and new sensors (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Spagnola: Where oh where did that defense go https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-where-oh-where-did-that-defense-go

PitchBook: robotics and physical AI companies have raised ~$48B YTD, as they gather training data from people completing tasks in factories, offices, and homes (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5fd2655-f95f-4183-9dd9-b3c1ebe67a6b
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Spagnola: Where oh where did that defense go https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-where-oh-where-did-that-defense-go

Brian Schottenheimer on Cowboys' season-opening loss: 'We got humbled' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/brian-schottenheimer-on-cowboys-season-opening-loss-we-got-humbled

Antioch, which creates high-fidelity simulations to reduce the need for hardware validation in physical AI training, raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

Here’s A $32 Million Bet That Robots Don’t Need A Billion Dollars Of Real-World Data
How much real-world data do you need to train robots? A billion dollars worth? Antioch's latest funding is an argument that you don't, in fact, need that much.

Amazon's Ring unveils the $249 Ring Smart Lock, which uses a physical dial to recharge the battery when turned, set for a Q1 2027 launch, and five new cameras (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/science

The Start-Up That Wants to Build ‘Microrobots’ With A.I.
Atomic Machines is training artificial intelligence on materials and designs — and then using it to build tiny physical devices.

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…

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…

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.…

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.