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The U.S. Army ran Phase II of Operation Dragon Covenant in North Carolina, where engineers, chaplains, medical teams and fatality management specialists practiced digging and filling temporary burial trenches using mock remains. The drill aimed to validate procedures for preserving remains for later identification and repatriation, a scale of battlefield interment not exercised since the Korean War.
The US battery storage market installed a record 20.2 gigawatt-hours in the second quarter of 2026, bringing first-half installations to 30.8 GWh, up 23% from a year earlier, according to a SEIA and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence report. Utility-scale projects drove most of the growth, led by Arizona's record 6.2 GWh quarter, with Texas and California also adding significant capacity.
Cerebras published a technical explanation of how it deploys very large AI models, such as the open-source ~3 trillion-parameter Kimi K3, across multiple WSE-3T wafer-scale chips. The company says it splits models to fit entirely in on-chip memory, since a single WSE-3T wafer holds only 44 GB while frontier models need terabytes for weights alone, enabling inference speeds of 1000-2000+ tokens per second.
Google has released a Rust style guide covering formatting, API design and implementation practices for use across google3, Android, ChromeOS, Fuchsia and Chrome. The guide states it has been developed in consultation with teams at Android and Chromium, which intend to begin adopting it, though each codebase may apply it with differing strictness.
Wyze has released the Ultra BodyScan Plus, an update to its smart scale that relocates the 4.3-inch color screen from the base to a retractable handle so readings sit closer to eye level. The $149 scale now tracks over 50 body composition metrics using bioelectrical impedance analysis, up from 13 on last year's $119.98 Ultra BodyScan, and syncs data via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi to Apple Health, Google Health, and Health Connect without a subscription.
Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song spent roughly 100 days using Twin Health, an app that builds an AI-powered 'digital twin' from continuous glucose monitor readings, smart scale data, blood pressure and logged meals. The app color-codes foods red, orange or green based on predicted glucose response, and its accuracy improves over time as more data is logged.
Nature has issued an Author Correction to a previously published paper describing wafer-scale epitaxial growth of high-mobility p-type boron carbon nitride. The notice provided no substantive details on the content of the correction beyond acknowledging it was necessary.
In an interview on the Founders podcast, Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes long, precise responses to his questions with unusual speed, something he first found puzzling before joining Meta last year. Wang, previously CEO of Scale AI, said the two have communicated via WhatsApp since being introduced around 2021-2022 by Meta executive Alex Schultz.
Meta's Muse app, launched September 8 and capable of performing multi-step tasks in the background, surpassed 5 million U.S. downloads within 22 days, according to Mashable. The app is led by Alexandr Wang, the 29-year-old Scale AI co-founder whom Mark Zuckerberg hired as Meta's first Gen Z senior executive after Meta's $14 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, the Wall Street Journal reports. Meta's stock has risen nearly 20% since the app's debut.
WIRED tested the Withings BodyScan 2, a $600 body-composition scale with handlebars and a built-in color LCD screen, over several months. The device offers two scan modes, with a 30-second daily scan measuring weight, segmented muscle and fat percentages, basal metabolic rate, vascular age, and pulse wave velocity.
A soil researcher writing on worm phenomics describes plans to develop a 'worm detector' capable of tracking the in-situ movements of individual and community earthworm populations across farmland. The author notes that while abundance and diversity of worms in agricultural ecosystems are well documented, almost nothing is known about how they move underground, and no existing method can capture such data. The post cites a 1988 Danish study by Mather and Christensen on Lumbricus terrestris as the closest prior attempt at tracking earthworm movement.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that as franchise businesses grow, operational complexity—more approvals, spreadsheets and meetings—can accumulate faster than organizations can manage it, even as revenue rises. The piece distinguishes 'growth,' which adds more to a business, from 'scale,' the capability to handle that increase without being overwhelmed.