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This research experiment lets teachers enter a curriculum topic and have generative UI, under instructional-design guardrails, dynamically produce interactive simulations with leveled challenges, hints, feedback, and worked solutions, and it releases a library of over 30 teacher-reviewed STEM learning interactives; UK STEM teachers rated 40 interactives overall as good or excellent, with physics and chemistry most amenable to simulation creation, and 12 US teachers who each requested three custom interactives gave an average quality rating of 8 out of 10.

This opinion piece by Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, published on Terence Tao's blog, takes OpenAI's announced solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and the controversy over how it was obtained and released as a wake-up call, and argues that the scientific community should quickly build publicly funded frontier AI systems and compute infrastructure, a "CERN for AI-assisted science," offering every researcher free baseline access to conversational and agentic interfaces while allocating large-scale compute and multi-agent systems through competitive applications, so that research tools do not remain concentrated in a handful of private companies and a two-tier scientific system does not emerge.

This report surveys Europe's latest moves toward space sovereignty after the inaugural International Space Summit in Paris, including German company Isar Aerospace's 5 September launch from Andøya in Norway described as the first commercial rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe, the EU's planned 348-satellite IRIS 2 constellation, Germany's plan to invest about €35 billion in military space equipment by 2030, and The Exploration Company's $450 million raise to build the Nyx spacecraft, while quoting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, French president Emmanuel Macron, former Eutelsat chief executive Eva Berneke and Durham University's Bleddyn Bowen on Europe's effort to reduce reliance on US launch and satellite-internet capabilities.

On September 17, 2026, Anthropic introduced the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), which verifies research credentials, security standards, and ethical research oversight to grant life science teams two types of access—Standard Use and High-risk Use—enabling work such as drug discovery, research biology, clinical development, and manufacturing that is currently blocked in generally-available models, while shifting safeguards from real-time blocking to offline monitoring with a 30-day data retention requirement for LSVP traffic.

The article presents an agentic workflow in which Codex, powered by OpenAI GPT-6 Astra, coordinates Hermes subagents deployed through NVIDIA NemoClaw to call NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries (OpenUSD, ovphysx, ovrtx, and SimReady validation) so a Blender scene is inventoried, semantically labeled, given materials and sensors, configured with physics, visually preflighted, and validated into a simulation-ready OpenUSD world for handoff to Isaac Sim or Isaac Lab.

OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to help them build practical AI skills safely.

NVIDIA's first MLPerf Inference v6.1 preview submission of Vera Rubin NVL72 reports up to 3.7x higher throughput than GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and up to 2.5x on DeepSeek-R1, while GB300 NVL72 reached 99% scaling efficiency across 288 GPUs in four racks and software optimizations delivered up to 1.6x over v6.0.

Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), a coalition convening the full AI and power value chain around a technology-neutral, performance-based approach that lets data centers dynamically manage electricity use to speed interconnection, strengthen reliability and protect affordability.

OpenAI published an article introducing its AI-powered advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify, aiming to explore new forms of advertising in the AI era.

This is an edition of MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter The Download, rounding up technology news, with highlights including a financial analysis that starts from hyperscalers' nearly $1.1 trillion in data-center spending through 2027 and asks how fast their earnings must grow to break even by 2030, and the OpenAI Foundation's announcement that it will fund policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo's idea of obtaining regulatory filings and safety data from failed biotech companies through bankruptcy proceedings to build what she calls "biotech's lost archive."