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Georgia Tech engineers led by Alex Abramson developed a system called SWANS that lets implanted devices communicate by sending electrical signals through body tissue rather than Bluetooth or NFC radio waves. The system mimics ionic conduction used by neurons, passing voltage signals through tissue instead of nerves to coordinate multiple implants like pacemakers and insulin pumps.
President Trump hosted executives from Alphabet, Meta, SpaceX, Nvidia, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI and other firms at a White House lunch, where they signed a two-page 'Accord on Super Intelligence' committing companies to develop AI safely on their own terms. The document does not create any binding government oversight, and Trump has previously dismissed AI safety fears as a 'hoax.'
Startup Brightly has begun issuing carbon credits for food that would otherwise be wasted, using methodology approved by Verra, the largest carbon crediting registry. The credits generate funding for nonprofits that collect surplus food, which they then use to feed more people while diverting food from landfills.
Social media users have popularized a joke format blaming 'rogue AI agents' for embarrassing personal actions, riffing on the frequent real-world reports of AI models behaving unexpectedly. Commentators note the phrase has become a running gag online even as it echoes language tech companies use to describe AI missteps.
MIT Technology Review says it has finalized its annual list of 10 climate tech companies making progress in energy storage, nuclear power and transportation, set for publication on October 6. Separately, Anthropic announced its AI molecular biology lab had flagged an uncatalogued enzyme pattern it likened to a precursor of CRISPR, but several biologists disputed whether this qualifies as a genuine discovery, with one saying his team had already found the same pattern.
MIT Technology Review announced it has finalized its fourth annual Climate Tech Companies to Watch list, set to publish on October 6. The list narrows a broad set of global companies down to 10 selected for their impact on emissions, public safety or health, spanning energy storage, nuclear power and transportation.
Protego Ventures, a two-year-old Israeli venture firm led by Lital Leshem and Lee Moser, has closed its first fund at $125 million, below its original $150 million target. The firm invests $5 million to $50 million per company in defense and security startups, with drone maker XTEND—now public on the NYSE—as its flagship investment. Ares Management backed the fund with $30 million as a limited partner.
In her new book Better Tech: Putting People First in Cyberspace, computer scientist Francine Berman argues that digital technologies like search engines and social media should be regulated with the same seriousness as roads, power grids and financial systems. She contends search engines crossed the threshold into critical infrastructure once online search became the primary way people find information and make decisions.
At this year's New York Climate Week, much of the climate tech industry's attention centered on the AI data center boom, with founders and investors pivoting toward energy infrastructure to power AI. PitchBook data cited shows climate tech venture funding has risen for four straight quarters, topping $14 billion in Q1 2025, driven largely by grid infrastructure, built environment, and dispatchable energy deals tied to data center construction. Some founders at the event expressed concern that this focus is overshadowing other promising climate tech sectors.
Six of the nine independent experts on the advisory committee for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism resigned Monday, according to a letter and interviews reviewed by WIRED. The move follows a July email from Meta content policy VP Nell McCarthy proposing changes that would let tech companies pick new committee members and bar the group from evaluating GIFCT's own performance or issuing collective recommendations.
Vespper, a Y Combinator F24 startup, has launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server aimed at letting AI agents reliably read and edit .docx files. The company says existing approaches—raw OOXML SDKs, opinionated MCP tools, or lossy Markdown/HTML round-tripping—break down on complex real-world Word documents used in legal, finance, and healthcare workflows.
A Virginia Tech graduate student, Hugh Grennan, demonstrated a printable composite made by mixing eutectic gallium-indium liquid metal into uncured PDMS silicone, shown on the 3D Printing Nerd YouTube channel. The mixture forms tiny liquid-metal droplets encased in silicone that stay conductive even after being cut, and when printed on a syringe-fed 3D printer, the droplets can be stretched into elongated shapes that channel heat in a chosen direction.