Signals, in order.

In the 2nd quarter of 2026, the number of employed persons in Switzerland increased by 0.8% year‑on‑year. The ILO‑defined unemployment rate rose from 4.6% to 4.9%, while the EU rate remained at 5.9%. These results come from the Swiss Labour Force Survey conducted by the Federal Statistical Office.

Source: Swiss Federal Government

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen used tensor tomography at the Swiss Light Source to reveal that the narwhal tusk contains two counter‑rotating helices of collagen and mineral crystals, giving the tooth exceptional stability. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows how nanoscale building blocks determine the macroscopic spiral shape. The work was conducted in collaboration with synchrotron facilities in Sweden and France.

Source: Swiss Federal Government

Bruker Corporation entered into an expanded strategic collaboration with Atinary Technologies Inc. , the pioneer of Self-Driving Labs technologies and AI-driven R&D with applications in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, and materials.

Source: Startupticker

Published intelligence from the original source record.

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Published intelligence from the original source record.

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Published intelligence from the original source record.

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Published intelligence from the original source record.

Source: Startupticker

mimic is a Zurich-based startup that builds physical AI systems enabling robots to perform tasks with human-like dexterity. The company trains imitation‑learning models on data captured from human operators, allowing its humanoid robotic hands to replicate and adapt to real‑world variations. A recent $16 million seed round led by Elaia and Speedinvest will fund scaling of production, engineering, and pilot deployments across Europe.

Source: ETH AI Center

ETH Zurich, EPFL and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus 1.5, a fully open large language model trained on the Alps supercomputer. The model adds multimodal understanding, improved reasoning, and tool use support, and is available under an Apache 2.0 license for research and commercial use. The release includes a mini suite of 16 compact models and a CSCS inference service for Swiss users.

Source: ETH AI Center

EPFL researchers built a bilayer graphene antidot that acts as a sensitive charge meter, detecting quasiparticles with charges of one‑third, two‑thirds, and other fractions of an electron in various quantum Hall states. The device revealed one‑third and two‑thirds charges at state 8/3 and confirmed predictions for states 4/3, 5/3, 7/3, 2/3, and 3/5. This simple, tunable setup offers a practical method to study topological quantum matter.

Source: EPFL News