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Duke-led AITC-AIGE, one of five centers selected by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, will receive nearly $25 million over five years. The center aims to advance trustworthy AI research for aging and dementia care.
EnergyX announced a binding agreement for Trafigura to buy 100,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium products over 10 years from planned projects in Chile and the United States. Production and deliveries remain prospective.
The Supreme Court of British Columbia declared the agreement unenforceable on October 9; CANEX said Helix has no interest or rights in Gold Basin.
Cornell researchers propose a credit market for data-center power cuts. Cornell’s proposed Curtailment Credit Market would let data centers facing required cuts pay more flexible energy users to take on part of their reduction obligations.
The company reported 4,344 metres across 10 holes and 45 days of geological mapping in British Columbia; certified assays remain pending.
MIT’s IRIS model uses AI to reconstruct cells’ signaling histories. Researchers at MIT and the Whitehead Institute reported IRIS, a neural-network model that infers active cell-signaling pathways from gene-activity patterns.
Argonne reported on October 12 that 75 people participated in ATPESC 2026. The program ran July 26–August 7 in Illinois, with researchers carrying out hands-on work on the Aurora, Polaris and Frontier supercomputers.
Brookhaven National Laboratory described its X-AutoMap automation tool on October 14. The lab said roughly 500 particles from an urban air-pollution sample were analyzed in about 10 hours, compared with about 44 hours normally required for manual data collection.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the public release of Genesis Agent Skills for the Genesis Mission on October 15. The package provides reusable instructions and workflows that AI coding tools can use in scientific work.
Google Cloud announced a preview integration between Gemini and its Borderless Lakehouse. Lakehouse catalog federation can expose sources such as Databricks Unity Catalog and Snowflake Horizon inside Gemini, letting users query records in natural language while agents use the same data context without moving the underlying data.
Meta engineers built Forum, a separate app for Facebook Groups, by placing an AI agent inside the planning, implementation, testing and verification loop. The company defined success as production-ready changes that build, pass tests and survive review, rather than the amount of code generated.
The Lemhi County acquisition closed for 20 million units; the two remaining 10% interests are carried until a positive pre-feasibility study.
