AI

OpenAI launches apps inside of ChatGPT

OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications inside of ChatGPT. Users in ChatGPT will be able to access interactive applications from companies like Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, Figma, Coursera, Zillow, and Canva. OpenAI is also launching a preview of the Apps SDK, the developer-facing toolkit to build these apps.

Meta unveils new AI video feed Vibes

Meta Platforms, opens new tab launched a new feed of AI videos, called Vibes, as the social media giant looks to fast-track work on artificial intelligence technology. Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, will be rolled out to the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website starting on 9/25/2025. Users can make videos from scratch, work with content they already have, or remix a video from the feed, along with options to add new visuals or layer in music.

Advanced Materials

Diamond Blankets Will Keep Future Chips Cool

Our experiments on thermal boundary resistance in GaN suggested a similar approach would work in silicon. And when we integrated diamond with silicon, the results were remarkable: An interlayer of silicon carbide formed, leading to diamond with an excellent thermal interface.
Our effort introduced the concept of thermal scaffolding. In that scheme, nanometers-thick layers of polycrystalline diamond would be integrated within the dielectric layers above the transistors to spread heat. These layers would then be connected by vertical heat conductors, called thermal pillars, made of copper or more diamond. These pillars would connect to another heat spreader, which in turn would link to thermal pillars on the next chip in the 3D stack, and so on until the heat reached the heat sink or other cooling device.

Automotive

I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They’re Here.

Here in the future, we call them ultralight eVTOLs (electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles). Of course, they don’t much resemble the levitating Studebakers and auto-gyrating Chevys foretold in pulp science fiction. The Pivotal BlackFly—the first series-produced ultralight eVTOL to reach the consumer market (2023)—doesn’t even have wheels. It takes off and lands on its curved keel. It’s also amphibious, behavior highly atypical in cars.

Healthcare

Medical Microinstruments completes first case in neurosurgical trial with MMI Symani system

MMI (Medical Microinstruments, Inc.), a robotics company dedicated to increasing treatment options and improving clinical outcomes for patients with complex conditions, announced the completion of a preclinical study that demonstrated the feasibility of the Symani® Surgical System in neurosurgical procedures

Quantum Computing

Cisco Quantum Labs Announces Software That Networks Quantum Computers Together and Enables New Classical Applications

We’re announcing software that makes distributed quantum computing work. We’re releasing three research prototypes to advance Cisco’s quantum networking strategy:

1. Quantum Compiler: The industry’s first network-aware, distributed quantum compiler enabling quantum algorithms to run across multiple networked processors. As part of this, we are also announcing an industry-first compiler supporting distributed quantum error correction.
2. Quantum Alert: An application demo for eavesdropper-proof security with guarantees from physics, not promises from classical software.
3. Quantum Sync: A decision coordination application demo that uses entanglement to enable correlated decision-making across distributed locations for classical use cases.

Space

Satellite startup Spacecoin sends data through space in bid to rival Starlink

Spacecoin aims to target customers in places where internet access is unreliable, censored or too expensive, its founder Tae Oh told Reuters.
But unlike SpaceX-owned Starlink, where one entity controls the network, Spacecoin plans to build a decentralised system that anyone can join, conducting payments and storing data without the need to go through other service providers.

New private ‘Arc’ spacecraft aims to deliver cargo from orbit to anywhere on Earth in less than an hour

On Wednesday (10/1/2025), the California-based company Inversion unveiled Arc, a vehicle designed to serve as an orbital storehouse and superfast delivery system for mission-critical gear, getting it anywhere on Earth in less than an hour.