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Arthur Hayes, co-founder of Maelstrom, said at the Gamma Prime Investing Conference in Singapore that trillions of dollars being poured into AI data centers will result in massive overcapacity. He argues this will lead to a crash followed by a government bailout, similar to past financial crises, which he believes will ultimately push bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies higher.
A peer-reviewed study in Environmental Research Letters, conducted by Stanford, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and PSE Healthy Energy researchers with chef Christopher Galarza, measured air temperature and pollutants like methane, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and benzene in 27 restaurant kitchens across California, New York and Pennsylvania. It found that kitchens using gas or propane appliances exposed workers to pollutant and heat levels exceeding health guidelines, compared with all-electric kitchens.
Skytech Gaming is selling its Harpy prebuilt desktop for $1799, a 22% discount, as part of a Prime Day sales event. The system pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU with an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM, a 1TB SSD, a 360mm liquid cooler, and an 850W 80 Plus Gold power supply.
A developer describes multiple attempts to post a link to their open-source GitHub project on Reddit, with each new account being banned for reasons ranging from posting links too early, to writing comments too quickly, to having posts flagged as AI-generated. Even creating a dedicated community for the project resulted in deletion and a ban. The writer says moderators and other users eventually advised accumulating around 1,000 karma points before attempting to post any links.
Amazon has discounted several recent Apple Mac models as part of its fall Prime Day sale, including up to $149 off the new M6 Mac mini and $199 off the 2026 Mac Studio with 36GB RAM, both described as all-time lows. The retailer is also offering roughly $200 off most M5 MacBook Air configurations, $500 off a 14-inch M5 Pro MacBook Pro with 2TB storage, and rare discounts on Apple's Magic Mouse and its new all-glyph Magic Keyboard.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2026 has been awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for their research into how asymmetric catalysis can amplify molecular handedness. Kagan's 1980s work showed catalysts could amplify a small imbalance between mirror-image molecules, while Soai's 1990s experiments demonstrated a molecule could catalyse its own further asymmetric production, a phenomenon now known as the Soai reaction.
On September 29, President Donald Trump issued an executive order stating that humanity has entered a new era of 'Super Intelligence,' urging federal agencies to replace 'artificial intelligence' with the term 'Super Intelligence' and its abbreviation 'SI.' The order claims current systems surpass simple automation and imitation, though the term 'superintelligence' has long been used in academic circles to describe highly advanced, cognitive systems exceeding human capabilities in most domains. Researchers note that the precise definition of superintelligence remains unsettled, especially regarding what constitutes human-level intelligence.
NASA has made publicly available a comprehensive collection of lunar images and data gathered during the Artemis II crewed flight. The information was collected by the four astronauts aboard the spacecraft and is expected to aid future lunar surface missions.
The Nobel Prizes for 2026 have been announced, recognizing breakthroughs in brain-computer interface technology, the detection of a mysterious 'ghost' particle, and advances in understanding the chemical processes of life. The awards highlight significant progress across neuroscience, particle physics, and biochemistry.
On October 6, OpenAI published more than 700 preprints covering various mathematical topics on GitHub, all generated by AI. The move has sparked mixed reactions within the mathematics community, with some celebrating progress and others expressing concern over being pre-empted in their research efforts.
Researchers used zebrafish larvae, including alox5a and hcar1-4 mutant lines, to study how a lipid signaling molecule called 5-oxoETE helps cells detect epithelial injury and recover from it. They examined wound healing in fin amputation assays and chemical colitis induced by DSS in the larval intestine, tracking leukocyte recruitment and apoptosis across genetic backgrounds. The work was conducted under institutional animal care oversight at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Physicists used an acoustic metamaterial platform to experimentally demonstrate a 'critical topological phase transition,' a phenomenon where topological invariants remain well-defined even at the gapless critical point of a phase transition. They observed topological edge states along critical phase boundaries and confirmed criticality through logarithmic scaling of entanglement entropy, including an additive scaling pattern at a special multicritical point where distinct critical boundaries intersect.