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Cognitive Digital Twin CognitiveTwin: Teaching AI to Clone How You Think, Not Just What You Know

CognitiveTwin, released by EPFL in Lausanne, is an AI system that builds a thinking-style clone by observing how users make decisions. In a six-month household trial, the system predicted user preferences with 87 percent accuracy, well above the 62 percent achieved by conventional recommender systems.

Iceland's Supercritical Geothermal Plant GlacierGrid: Drilling Into Volcanic Rock for 500-Degree Heat

The GlacierGrid supercritical geothermal plant, jointly developed by Iceland's Landsvirkjun and Italy's Enel, completed its first power generation test. The system drills 4.5 kilometers into Icelandic volcanic rock and reaches a supercritical reservoir with temperatures up to 510 degrees Celsius.

Autonomous Tunneling Robot TunnelBot: Moving Subway Construction Beyond Human Crews

TunnelBot, an autonomous tunneling robot jointly developed by Switzerland's Herrenknecht and Boston Dynamics, completed its first bore on the Thomson-East Coast Line extension in Singapore. The machine drove 347 meters continuously without human supervision in nine days.

UK Pilots QuantTax Revenue-Sharing Plan: Making Platforms Pay for AI Use of Their Content

A UK Treasury pilot program called QuantTax requires social media and content platforms to pay when AI models train on their user-generated content. In six months, the program collected and distributed 180 million pounds, with payouts going to original authors and creators.

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AI

AI

NEURAL · MULTIMODAL · REASONING

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Long-Term Memory Architecture MemoryWeave: Giving Large Language Models Continuity Across Sessions

MemoryWeave, released by Stanford's Natural Language Processing Lab, gives large language models a human-like ability to remember across sessions for the first time. By encoding memories as structured semantic graphs with importance-based decay, the system enables continuous conversation spanning months.

Symbolic Reasoning Engine ReasonFlow: Letting Large Models Prove Theorems Like a Mathematician

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TECH

HW

HARDWARE · EDGE · FAB

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Electronic Skin Patch SkinWear: Wearables That Disappear Into Your Skin

SkinWear, the electronic skin patch developed jointly by the University of Tokyo and JDI, is just 0.04 millimeters thick and can be applied to the skin to monitor heart rate, body temperature, blood oxygen, and other vital signs. After completing its monitoring task, the patch is naturally metabolized and absorbed by the skin within 14 days.

Mini Lidar Chip LidarDot Debuts on iPhone 18 Pro: Sub-Millimeter AR Measurement

Wearable Wireless Charging Fabric VoltCore: Turning an Entire Garment Into a Phone Charger

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INTERNET

NET

NETWORK · TRUST · ROUTING

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Decentralized Geographic Network GaiaMesh: Anyone With a GPS Device Can Join

GaiaMesh, an EU-funded project, has launched a pilot in Barcelona, Spain. It is a blockchain-based geographic information contribution network that lets smartphones, smart vehicles, and IoT devices anonymously contribute location observation data.

AI Content Authenticity Watermark SynthID Deployed on Weibo: 320 Million AI Items Tagged Each Month

Digital Content Notarization Chain TrustChain: Proving Who Wrote What and When

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MEDTECH

MED

CLINICAL · BIOSIGNAL · TRIAL

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Diabetic Retinopathy AI Screening System RetinaScan: Screening Available at the Optician

RetinaScan, released by US digital diagnostics company Digital Diagnostics, has been deployed at 5,800 optical stores and pharmacy chains across the US. Using fundus photography and AI analysis, the system completes diabetic retinopathy screening within 90 seconds at 94.7 percent accuracy.

AI-Assisted Pathology Slide Analysis System PathAI: Cancer Diagnosis Cut From 3 Days to 45 Minutes

Sepsis Early Warning System SepsisCatch: Alerting Clinicians 6 Hours Before Deterioration

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ENERGY

PWR

GRID · STORAGE · HYDROGEN

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Floating Offshore Wind Platform StormCatch: Extending Wind Farms 100 Kilometers Out to Sea

StormCatch, the floating offshore wind platform jointly developed by Norway's Equinor and France's TotalEnergies, allows wind farms to be deployed in waters more than 500 meters deep. The first 12 turbines of 15 MW each will be installed about 120 kilometers off the Scottish coast.

Urban Photovoltaic Coating PaintPower: Turning Building Facades Into Power Plants

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ROBOTICS

BOT

AUTOMATION · MOBILITY · ORBIT

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Autonomous Swarm Robot RoboBee: Micro Flying Robots Cooperate on Complex Environment Monitoring

RoboBee, the autonomous swarm released by Harvard's Robotics Lab, completed autonomous navigation tasks across 1,000 square meters of complex indoor space. The swarm includes 200 micro flying robots that coordinate on search, monitoring, and map-building.

AI-Assisted Surgical Robot SurgeOne Reaches 50,000 Surgeries in China: 99.4 Percent Success Rate

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SOCIETY

SOC

IMPACT · ETHICS · CULTURE

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DataStrike Movement: How the Internet Functions When Users Revoke Their Data

DataStrike, a data strike movement involving 1.2 million European users, gave internet companies their first real taste of collective user action. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok lost about 14, 18, and 21 percent of their daily active users respectively on the first day of the strike.

UnplugWeek Digital Detox Retreats Take Off in Japan: Giving Urbanites a Break From Screens