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United States / Public knowledge25 Sept

NSF launches linked-data queries through the Open Knowledge Network

The NSF Open Knowledge Network gives researchers public tools for querying linked datasets, with the value of each connection still dependent on identifiers, source quality and the question being asked.

Two illustrative pairs of records from different sources. Two records named Robin, a bird, one from North America and one from Europe, describe different species, so a name match would join them wrongly. Records named Influenza and Flu have different names but one concept, joined by an explicit identifier mapping whose meaning can be inspected and challenged.
Matching names can join different things; different names can describe the same thing. Explicit identifiers make connections inspectable. These are illustrative records, not OKN query results. A join establishes neither causation nor more than its source supports.
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THE EDITION

From the city to the frontier.

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San Francisco

The life of the city

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Monday’s journey

SFMTA schedules the 37 Corbett’s regular route return with smaller buses

SFMTA’s September 25 notice scheduled the 37 Corbett’s return to its regular route for September 28, restoring access through streets the substitute buses could not navigate.

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Ten feet of vehicle length changes which streets are reachable

40-foot substitutes; 30-foot buses returning

vehicle length · feet
Substitute40
Returning30
040
Announced September 28 restoration. Bars compare length, not passenger capacity; route geometry and service frequency are not inferred.
Sunday · weekend service

Randall Museum marks 75 years at Corona Heights

Randall Museum scheduled a free September 27 celebration from 1 to 5 p.m. to mark 75 years at Corona Heights, with a new permanent exhibit about its history.

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A proportional timeline from 1937 to 2026. The museum began in 1937 and moved to Corona Heights in 1951; the 2026 anniversary marks 75 years on the hill, not 89 years since its founding. An enlarged view of September 27, 2026, from 1 to 5 p.m., shows the free, all-ages celebration, with a 1:30 p.m. programme introducing a new permanent exhibit on Josephine Randall and the museum’s history.
The anniversary marks 75 years at Corona Heights, not since the museum began. The enlarged September 27 schedule shows the free celebration and permanent exhibit introduction. Both time scales are proportional; attendance and current hours remain unverified.
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Ukraine

Continuity. Reconstruction. Life.

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Public services

Ukraine extends advance financing for complex prosthetics to four months

Ukraine extended the manufacturer advance-payment period for complex prosthetics while retaining a separate provision deadline, a distinction patients and providers need to track carefully.

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Two separate clocks. On the patient’s route, drawn without scale, the provision limit of 90 working days starts at the Fund–manufacturer contract, not at the application. In a separate lane, the manufacturer’s advance-payment period grows from three calendar months to four for complex and multiple amputations. A closing line: different units, different starts.
The 90-working-day provision limit starts at the Fund–manufacturer contract. The separate advance-payment period grows from three to four calendar months. Different starts and units prevent adding these clocks. Provision remains free; neither predicts recovery or demonstrates shorter waits.
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World

A wider perspective

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Health infrastructure

WHO opens assessment to AI-assisted TB screening and more contraceptive devices

WHO expanded medical-device prequalification to include AI-assisted tuberculosis screening and specified contraceptive devices, creating an assessment pathway rather than approving every product in those categories.

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Assessment eligibility starts October 1, 2026 for CAD-TB, male circumcision devices and products previously submitted to UNFPA; other contraceptive devices follow April 1, 2027. WHO reviews each product. Below, an illustrative screening threshold can trigger further diagnostic evaluation when exceeded. The clinical pathway determines follow-up; the score is not a diagnosis.
WHO opens assessment in two waves; eligibility does not guarantee acceptance or prequalification. Dates are proportional. The threshold below is illustrative: its setting and follow-up depend on the screening programme. A score may trigger diagnostic evaluation; it does not diagnose TB or universally rule out referral.
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Artificial intelligence

New tools, considered

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Practical tools

Perceptron Mk1.5 links media observations to proposed function calls

Perceptron Mk1.5 combines media understanding, timestamped observations and function calls in an API, giving builders a testable interface while leaving execution and reliability to their application.

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Two measured panels. Top: one 36,864-token context is shared by media including audio, conversation history, reasoning and output; the maximum output of 8,192 tokens is about a fifth of it. Bottom: published prices per million tokens, $0.15 for input and $1.50 for output, drawn on one scale, so output costs ten times as much per token. A closing line: function calls are proposals, and the application decides whether to run them.
Media, conversation, reasoning and output share one context budget. Output tokens cost ten times as much as input; this is not a video-minute price. Timestamps and regions can still be wrong. No paid inference was run; applications decide whether to execute proposed calls.
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Biotechnology × AI

At the edge of what we know

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Research tools

OpenADMET launches a blinded molecular-structure challenge

OpenADMET’s new CYP3A4 structure track supplies 20 molecular inputs and hidden experimental references, offering a prospective test of both structural accuracy and chemical plausibility.

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The challenge’s scoring rule on a near-to-far axis of distance from the hidden experimental structure. A predicted pose that passes PoseBusters chemical-plausibility checks is scored on its agreement with that structure, better when nearer. A pose that fails those checks scores zero on the primary measure, however close it lies. Below, twenty squares stand for the twenty blinded CYP3A4 compounds, whose cryo-EM reference structures are withheld.
Chemical plausibility gates the primary score: a failing pose scores zero even near the hidden reference. The gradient is qualitative; twenty compounds have withheld cryo-EM structures. Tutorial preparation is not prediction, and structural agreement establishes neither inhibition nor clinical safety.
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