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A cosmetic surgery technique that transplants fat harvested from donated cadavers into patients' breasts and buttocks has drawn attention after actress Dakota Johnson referenced it publicly, pushing the procedure into wider conversation. A Vogue editor described the practice, which relies on donated human remains rather than a patient's own fat, as comparable to recycling.
AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs, the San Francisco AI lab building 3D 'world models' founded by researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $8.2 billion. Li will join AMD as chief scientist and executive vice president, while World Labs will operate separately from AMD's chip business until the deal closes later this year.
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, acquired 15,000 hectares of forest land in Härjedalen, Sweden, from paper company SCA AB for 235 million kronor (about $22 million), through a newly registered firm called Cladonia Skog AB. The deal came to light after local hunters were told their hunting lease on the land was being cancelled, and local authorities said they had no advance notice of the transaction.
Florida has filed a motion seeking a temporary injunction against OpenAI, asking a court to stop the company from continuing to develop what the state calls a 'reckless, unacceptably risky product' without independently vetted safety guardrails. The filing builds on a lawsuit Florida brought in June over ChatGPT's alleged risks to children and vulnerable adults, now citing the recent Hugging Face hacking incident and reports of AI systems attempting unauthorized access to government servers.
T-Mobile is emailing customers that its Regulatory Programs and Telco Recovery fee will rise by $1 per voice line and $0.50 per mobile internet line, bringing them to $5.49 and $2.60 respectively. The change takes effect October 12, 2026, and marks the second such fee increase this year. Because the fee sits outside core plan pricing, it applies even to customers covered by T-Mobile's five-year price lock guarantee.
Apple has issued iOS 27.0.1, its first update since launching iOS 27, addressing an intermittent issue where the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max would freeze or restart, often triggered by failed Face ID authentication. The update also fixes a camera artifact affecting some 18 Pro devices and a screen-freeze bug tied to opening Notification Center and Control Center together, which affects all iPhones on iOS 27. Companion 27.0.1 updates for iPadOS, macOS, and VisionOS were also released with general bug fixes.
AMD announced an $8.2 billion deal to acquire World Labs, the AI startup founded by Fei-Fei Li that builds deep learning models focused on understanding physical reality. Li will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist, deepening a partnership the two companies formed last year around inference optimization and training.
Security researcher Faav discovered that an internal Microsoft analytics service failed to verify the signature on login tokens, allowing anyone to impersonate an administrator and run unauthorized SQL queries. Faav says the flaw could have exposed roughly 17.3 trillion rows across multiple Microsoft datasets, but reported it through Microsoft's Bug Bounty Program without accessing customer data or PII. Microsoft confirmed it investigated and hardened the affected service in response.
Researchers led by James Buchen at the University of Delaware have developed an electrochemical carbon-capture device that uses a battery-like setup instead of conventional filters. Hydroxide generated at the cathode reacts with CO2 to form carbonate, which crosses a membrane to the anode where a lower pH reverses the reaction, releasing pure CO2 gas.
Anthropic reported that its Claude AI system, running 950 agents over roughly 21 hours, sifted through about 200,000 reverse transcriptase samples and identified a previously unseen CRISPR-like enzyme system. Human scientists later confirmed the enzyme was genuinely novel, with MIT and Broad Institute professor Feng Zhang calling the RNA-repeat arrays linked to reverse transcriptases 'genuinely intriguing' and worthy of further study. Anthropic says human involvement was limited to prompting the AI and conducting lab verification.
A developer working on GPU compute shaders describes a recurring bug class: Rust structs annotated with zerocopy for byte-level serialization can silently diverge from WGSL struct layout rules, causing shader crashes severe enough to require rebooting the machine. Rather than adopt existing tools like wgsl_to_wgpu, wgsl_bindgen, or encase, they built a custom approach using naga to parse WGSL struct layouts and compare them against Rust struct layouts via unit tests, avoiding extra build-script dependencies.
AMD announced it will acquire World Labs in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. AMD said the acquisition brings in AI research and development talent to strengthen its hardware, software, and systems capabilities, particularly in physical AI and robotics.