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Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor impairments such as hand tremors and difficulty walking, and the number of patients has been rapidly increasing in recent years. A study has found that signs of Parkinson’s disease may appear in a person’s “gait” several years before they are diagnosed with the disease. Real-world gait changes preceding Parkinson’s disease diagnosis in a population-scale UK biobank cohort | Journal of Ne

Regarding NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, whose affair with a woman regarded as a Chinese spy has been widely reported, it has newly been alleged that he was also having an affair with his direct subordinate, Kimberly Powell, a vice president in charge of healthcare. Lawmakers are calling on Huang to resign as CEO, citing the risk this poses to national security, and consideration of summoning him before Congress is also underway. Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Re

In August 2026, Nintendo submitted seven DMCA takedown notices to GitHub in a single day, resulting in the removal of more than 400 Nintendo Switch emulator repositories, and has been taking action against emulators and hacking tools on GitHub. In November 2026, it was found that Nintendo had also sent a new takedown notice targeting repositories that provide information about and firmware for Nintendo Switch modchips. dmca/2026/11/2026-11-06-nintendo-2.md

It has been revealed that Apple is developing an app called “Harbor” for running AI locally on the Mac. Development is being handled by Claris, a subsidiary of Apple. Claris Harbor | Claris, an Apple company https://content.claris.com/local-ai-server-get-started Apple's Claris Testing 'Harbor' App for Local AI on Macs - MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2026/11/10/apple-claris-harbor-app/ At the time of writing, Harbor is in the private preview stage. A

Since the launch of “Jev,” an AI model that solves tasks through an approach different from large language models (LLMs), a succession of models that guide the decisions of AI agents—similarly called “decision-making models”—have appeared. Google has now introduced “Gemini Decision 1,” a decision-making model. Gemini Decisions API: Fast multimodal decisions https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/ The Gemini D

Verisign, which manages the “.name” domain, has canceled the mass deletion of third-level domains and the termination of its email forwarding service, both of which had been scheduled for February 2027. Existing domains can continue to be renewed, and email forwarding is expected to remain available at registered addresses. However, the application to end new registrations will need to be resubmitted. Updates to the .name Third-Level Domain Name Registrati

U.S.-based Google DeepMind announced on November 11 (local time) an AI model, “AlphaGenome 2,” that predicts how DNA sequences and their mutations affect specific types of human cells. It aims to help elucidate cellular-level mechanisms that cause disease. For noncommercial research purposes, it is available through the “AlphaGenome API.” For commercial research, it will be offered as a limited preview. The first-generation “AlphaGenome,” announced last Ju

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Compiled by | Sun Xiaowen Edited by | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 11 that last night, Mercor, a U.S. AI training data unicorn, announcedit had raised $750 million (approximately RMB 5.038 billion)in a Series D financing, with Nvidia, Zoom, Benchmark, and others participating. Following the round, its valuationreached $20 billion(approximately RMB 134.334 billion), double the $10 billion (approximately RMB

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Sanbei Editor | Xinyuan Zhidx reported on November 11 that Alibaba announced today the release of its next-generation large model, the Qwen4-Max Preview, debuting the Token Plan for the Qwen AI platform. For a limited time, users can pay 20% of the regular price, with new users receiving an additional 50% discount, allowing them to try the Qwen4 model for as little as 10% of the regular price. The Qwen4-27

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Google began rolling out Gmail Live, an artificial intelligence feature that allows users to find information in emails through voice-based questions. The tool searches for answers in the inbox without requiring the user to go through lengthy conversations.The company is also launching new features for Docs and Keep, with tools that help create documents and turn dictated ideas into organized notes. Availab

AWS Emulator is a local program that operates as an endpoint for AWS APIs and has no GUI. By specifying the emulator as the connection destination for the AWS CLI or AWS SDK through environment variables, it can be used without changing any code. It was built from 438 AWS API models and supports interfaces for hundreds of services. However, the extent to which it is implemented varies by service and operation. A “fidelity” score indicating how closely it b

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism An AI price war is brewing. Corporations are reeling after finding that the cost to access powerful AI tools is soaring — despite showing no clear payoff. In one particularly unfortunate incident, according to Axios, the CFO of a company accidentally racked up half a billion dollars in Claude usage fees in a single month. Put simply, the horrible economics of AI are finally starting to rear their ugly head. Astrono

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images; Shutterstock Earlier this year, Anthropic refused to release its Mythos AI model to the public, saying it was simply too dangerous. At the time, executives claimed the model was capable of punching through powerful cybersecurity safeguards, pointing at researchers who used it to discover thousands of vulnerabilities in widely-used open source code. Months later, Ant

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Lawyers just can’t stop being caught using AI chatbots, polluting their filings with hallucinated citations that infuriate judges when they’re caught. Even prestigious law firms are being humiliated, with some perpetrators getting slapped with fines and facing discipline from the Bar. In a particularly egregious reminder of just how widespread the problem has become, a United States distr

Shutterstock / Futurism OpenAI is facing yet another lawsuit over a user’s death by suicide. The latest lawsuit, filed today in California, accuses OpenAI’s ChatGPT — specifically the chatbot’s now-defunct GPT-4o model — of encouraging the suicide of Alice Carrier, a 24-year-old web developer in Montreal, Canada. “If a person came up to me, and they were clearly in distress and sharing their thoughts of suicide, I would be expected to help them, not encour

Illustration by Futurism. Source: @ziwenxu_ via X Are you physically incapable of waiting any longer for Grand Theft Auto VI, which has been in development for over a decade? Worse yet, are you someone who doesn’t own a console, meaning you’ll probably have to wait at least another year before the double-dippers at Rockstar decide to release it on PC? Well, don’t worry. Some AI bro is trying to vibe code their own version of the much-hyped GTA sequel befor

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock Throw caution to the wind and forget your retirement plans. The future is now, baby, and we’re letting AI agents go ham with our credit cards. On Wednesday, the payment titan Visa announced that it’s integrating its payment network into ChatGPT, allowing the AI chatbot to buy stuff on your behalf, The Associated Press reports. We don’t just mean putting stuff in the cart for you: with thi

Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images; Futurism With a constant churn of layoffs, a program to surveil its workers in the name of AI data collection, and a photorealistic AI clone of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg that makes him omnipresent throughout the company like a sci-fi villain, it’s no secret that Meta treats its employees like garbage. Now, it’s seemingly thrown one worker to the wolves of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Almost immediately after b

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock A new report that was supposed to be a shining panegyric to how useful AI is was caught loaded with fake claims that appear to be AI hallucinations, the Financial Times reports — a blunder that may have unintentionally demonstrated AI’s most compelling use case: bullsh*tting your job. Titled “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI,” the report was released October by KPMG, one of

Shutterstock / Futurism As AI finds its way into hospital systems around the world, the case of one Brazilian woman makes it clear that the tech doesn’t have to diagnose patients to determine whether they live or die. According to Brazilian news publication MG1, 32-year old Rebeca Cardoso Tenente Molina died after a state-run AI system for assigning hospital beds forced her to wait five days to transfer to an intensive care unit. In interviews with MG1, Mo