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Apodex Launches TRACES, a Benchmark for Scientific Discovery

Apodex Launches TRACES, a Benchmark for Scientific Discovery

20/08/2026 14:52 - AIwire

TRACES moves beyond static datasets and answer keys, testing whether AI can navigate real-world scientific environments, adapt to feedback and produce verifiable discoveries REDWOOD CITY,…

ESA’s Sophie Adenot is the first French woman to spacewalk

ESA’s Sophie Adenot is the first French woman to spacewalk

20/08/2026 14:52 - Silicon Republic

Adenot is the second European woman to complete a spacewalk, following the footsteps of Italy’s Samantha Cristoforetti in 2022. Read more: ESA’s Sophie Adenot is…

I Ran Qwen 3.8–27B on a MacBook While Traveling — and It Blew My Mind

I Ran Qwen 3.8–27B on a MacBook While Traveling — and It Blew My Mind

20/08/2026 14:46 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

I was traveling without my GPUs when Alibaba dropped the open weights of Qwen3.8–27B.Continue reading on Medium »

Is Selling Digital Products Worth Your Time? A Realistic Look at the Opportunity

Is Selling Digital Products Worth Your Time? A Realistic Look at the Opportunity

20/08/2026 14:46 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

Digital products can be a great side business, but only if you treat them like a business instead of a shortcut to passive income.Continue reading…

Report: Only sectors aiding AI adoption sure to grow from it

Report: Only sectors aiding AI adoption sure to grow from it

20/08/2026 14:28 - Silicon Republic

‘Only markets in three categories – infrastructure; data and AI; and identity, access and network security – are broadly positioned for clear growth,’ finds Forrester.…

AI "nudify" apps that can digitally undress any photo pose back-to-school risk - CBS News

AI "nudify" apps that can digitally undress any photo pose back-to-school risk - CBS News

20/08/2026 14:15 - Technology

AI "nudify" apps that can digitally undress any photo pose back-to-school risk  CBS News

AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections - CNBC

AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections - CNBC

20/08/2026 14:03 - Technology

AI data center outrage is showing up everywhere from ads to elections  CNBC

A new force is increasing inequality in America - The Washington Post

A new force is increasing inequality in America - The Washington Post

20/08/2026 13:31 - Technology

A new force is increasing inequality in America  The Washington Post

This obscure FTC proposal exposes the widening fight over what AI can say

This obscure FTC proposal exposes the widening fight over what AI can say

20/08/2026 13:30 - Fast Company

Public comments on the policy reveal how China is becoming both a warning against censorship and a case for greater oversight.

How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide

How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide

20/08/2026 13:30 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

A hands-on guide to fine-tuning LLMs for the real world The post How to Fine-Tune an LLM: An End-to-End Guide appeared first on Towards Data…

Bring the Fire: Play Games on GeForce NOW With New Firefox Browser Support

Bring the Fire: Play Games on GeForce NOW With New Firefox Browser Support

20/08/2026 13:00 - NVIDIA Blog

It’s a new way into the cloud.  GeForce NOW welcomes Firefox support to the cloud, opening up another way to jump into high-performance PC gaming…

For this IT programme manager, tech is more than just computers and coding

For this IT programme manager, tech is more than just computers and coding

20/08/2026 12:12 - Silicon Republic

Meera Harichan discusses the true potential of technology to bring together communities with a shared vision and how diversity should never be a box-ticking exercise.…

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

20/08/2026 12:11 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.

Making the Knowledge Layer a Graph You Actually Traverse

Making the Knowledge Layer a Graph You Actually Traverse

20/08/2026 12:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

Why retrieval quality should be a property of the system, not of the question's wording? Rebuilding knowledge layer with graph traversal on every query, bitemporal…

The case for ChatGPT for seniors

The case for ChatGPT for seniors

20/08/2026 10:00 - Fast Company

Teens aren’t the only ones who might benefit from a few extra guardrails as ChatGPT becomes the new search bar.

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

20/08/2026 09:47 - Artificial intelligence

Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-point routes, with passengers requiring multiple…

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

20/08/2026 09:30 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist

Frustrated GP patients hang up as Yorkshire accent baffles AI receptionist

20/08/2026 09:25 - AI (artificial intelligence)

‘Emma’ the Rotherham chatbot has 17 languages says AI firm – but health watchdog says system struggling with local ‘twangs’Patients in a South Yorkshire town…

Why Upwork’s CEO insists the AI jobs apocalypse isn’t happening

Why Upwork’s CEO insists the AI jobs apocalypse isn’t happening

20/08/2026 09:11 - Fast Company

Hayden Brown has a front-row seat to how AI is reshaping work. Her data shows booming demand for AI skills, but also companies discovering that…

It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well

It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well

20/08/2026 04:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

For most of modern history, technology sought to imitate humans. Humans increasingly seek to imitate technologyTwo faces that appeared on my Instagram feed in recent…

Evaluating Structured Information Extraction with Open Models in a High Risk Public Sector Application

Evaluating Structured Information Extraction with Open Models in a High Risk Public Sector Application

20/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2608.18289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The extraction of structured information from unstructured documents represents a critical component of digital transformations in all sectors. While proprietary…

A Framework for Measuring Appropriate Reliance on Set-Valued AI Advice

A Framework for Measuring Appropriate Reliance on Set-Valued AI Advice

20/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2606.06081v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Appropriate reliance on AI advice has become a central research theme in human-AI collaboration. Existing frameworks have focused exclusively on…

The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge for Large-Scale Recommendation Explanations

The Lifecycle of LLM-as-a-Judge for Large-Scale Recommendation Explanations

20/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2608.18300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-as-a-Judge, which leverages a large language model to evaluate natural language generated by another AI application or model, has become…

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills

UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students’ math skills

20/08/2026 00:35 - AI (artificial intelligence)

Zvezdelina Stankova says she used AI to ‘help edit’ an article about some of her students being ‘five to eight years’ behindA math professor at…

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

19/08/2026 23:32 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's…

The AI Summit New York Returns to Javits Center in December

The AI Summit New York Returns to Javits Center in December

19/08/2026 22:31 - AIwire

NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2026 — The AI Summit New York today announced its return to the Javits Center December 9 – 10 for its 11th…

Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore

Domain and publish date filters for Web Search on AgentCore

19/08/2026 22:13 - Artificial Intelligence

When an AI agent uses Web Search to ground its answers on behalf of a customer, the organization behind that agent needs domain and date…

Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator

Automate Document Processing with Quick Automate and the IDP Accelerator

19/08/2026 22:09 - Artificial Intelligence

Mortgage lending runs on documents. Every loan starts with a familiar set: earnings statements, W-2s, bank statements, driver’s licenses, voided checks, and insurance applications. Every…

Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines

Asynchronous patterns for calling Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines

19/08/2026 22:06 - Artificial Intelligence

Asynchronous invocation patterns for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents in serverless pipelines remove idle compute costs while your AI agent processes requests. A common example is…

What Trump’s tech strategy means for the military, deterring China, and the future of AI

What Trump’s tech strategy means for the military, deterring China, and the future of AI

19/08/2026 21:52 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The newest White House tech strategy pushes faster development of emerging technologies for the military, gives defense innovators more room to experiment, and will broaden…

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

19/08/2026 21:49 - NYT > Technology

The milestone by the private company, LandSpace, could put China closer to challenging SpaceX’s rule in lower-cost spaceflight.

AI is already on the job, and Census is keeping count

AI is already on the job, and Census is keeping count

19/08/2026 21:19 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Most people probably associate the U.S. Census Bureau with the massive effort to count everyone in the country once every 10 years. But Census researchers…

NLC Tracker Follows Local Data Center Policies, Projects

NLC Tracker Follows Local Data Center Policies, Projects

19/08/2026 21:16 - Artificial Intelligence

The National League of Cities has launched an interactive resource to boost transparency around how local governments are responding to data center development. It will…

Schools Overwhelmed by AI As U.S. Ed-Tech Market Passes $48B

Schools Overwhelmed by AI As U.S. Ed-Tech Market Passes $48B

19/08/2026 20:53 - Artificial Intelligence

School districts know artificial intelligence tools are becoming essential, but many are spoiled for choice and still need guidance to select, vet and monitor them.

The watchdog gets watched: GAO’s hiring process length faces scrutiny

The watchdog gets watched: GAO’s hiring process length faces scrutiny

19/08/2026 20:24 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office is an independent legislative branch agency that reviews the effectiveness and efficiency of federal programs. For example, in recent weeks, GAO…

Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers

Voters Aren’t Waiting for November to Try Ousting Officials Over Data Centers

19/08/2026 20:05 - NYT > Technology

As a backlash grows over data centers, more local officials are facing recall elections for their support of the computing sites.

Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

19/08/2026 20:04 - AI

Last Friday, Google won an auction to acquire a huge amount of Spirit Airlines data. The data doesn’t include personal information or customer data, but…

Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion

Stripe Buys A.I. Start-Up OpenRouter for $7.5 Billion

19/08/2026 20:02 - NYT > Technology

The deal is significant for the artificial intelligence industry, uniting Stripe’s payments business with OpenRouter’s helping businesses direct their spending on A.I. models.

The Enterprise AI Cost Reckoning: Why Falling Per-Token Prices Aren’t Saving You

The Enterprise AI Cost Reckoning: Why Falling Per-Token Prices Aren’t Saving You

19/08/2026 19:49 - AIwire

Uber’s CTO  Praveen Neppalli Naga admitted in May the budget earmarked for Claude Code was “blown away already.” Box CEO Aaron Levie warned in March…

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

19/08/2026 19:30 - Feed

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub

19/08/2026 19:00 - AI

As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research…

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models

19/08/2026 19:00 - OpenAI News

OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.

Gaining Leadership Backing for Your Innovations

Gaining Leadership Backing for Your Innovations

19/08/2026 18:00 - IEEE Spectrum

This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.Imagine this: You have a strong…

How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness

How to Scale an Integration Pipeline Without Breaking Correctness

19/08/2026 18:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

A production account of scaling an enterprise integration pipeline from 500 to 8,000 events per second, and the two correctness guarantees the throughput work was…

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

19/08/2026 17:10 - AI

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast.…

Meta AI is getting a Mac app

Meta AI is getting a Mac app

19/08/2026 17:00 - AI

Meta AI can create content and make suggestions based on what it “sees” on your screen. | Image: Meta Meta is launching a new Mac…

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

19/08/2026 16:44 - Feed

Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.

Opinion: Ohio Needs Guardrails for Data Center Owners, Utilities

Opinion: Ohio Needs Guardrails for Data Center Owners, Utilities

19/08/2026 16:14 - Artificial Intelligence

Why the state urgently needs a new law drawing clear legal guardrails between data center investors on the one hand and regulated Ohio electric utilities…

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

19/08/2026 15:45 - AI

Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s…

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

19/08/2026 09:00 - Feed

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further…

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna

19/08/2026 07:00 - OpenAI News

Replit introduces Free Mode, powered by GPT-5.6 Luna, so anyone can turn ideas into working software without worrying about token costs.

Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria

Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria

18/08/2026 22:21 - Artificial Intelligence News

Researchers have built microscopic, light-driven robots that can rapidly navigate through liquid, collect bacteria, and deposit them in chosen locations. These tiny “cleaners” could open…

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

ChatGPT Ads expands across Europe

18/08/2026 22:00 - OpenAI News

ChatGPT Ads is expanding to 31 European markets. Learn how advertisers can reach people as they explore, compare options, and make decisions.

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

18/08/2026 13:00 - AI

It’s not every day that attackers can force a frontier AI model to cough up user passwords and other sensitive data without user confirmation. That’s…

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

18/08/2026 10:06 - Artificial intelligence

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data…

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

18/08/2026 09:00 - Artificial intelligence

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can already write…

IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators

IEEE Presidents’ Scholarship Honors Teen Innovators

17/08/2026 18:00 - IEEE Spectrum

About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization. Many of the…

From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms

From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms

17/08/2026 14:00 - IEEE Spectrum

The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just…

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

Securing the Infrastructure of Intelligence

17/08/2026 12:34 - NVIDIA Blog

AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and…

Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power

Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power

17/08/2026 08:06 - Artificial Intelligence News

Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid…

Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected

Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected

17/08/2026 06:41 - Artificial Intelligence News

An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about…

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

14/08/2026 17:13 - NVIDIA Blog

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA…

MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities

MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities

12/08/2026 16:00 - Microsoft Research

At a glance MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as connectivity, enclosure,…

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

12/08/2026 14:01 - Google DeepMind News

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

How We’re Building Scam Alert on WhatsApp With End-to-End Encryption and Verifiability Guarantees

12/08/2026 13:00 - Engineering at Meta

WhatsApp is committed to helping people stay safe while protecting the privacy of their messages. As scam tactics evolve — from impersonation to social engineering…

Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement

11/08/2026 16:00 - Microsoft Research

Research Note: CARE-X is a research model and not a Microsoft product offering or medical device. It has not been cleared or approved by any…

From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking

From User Sequences to Scaling Laws: A Multi-Stage Architecture for Meta’s Ads Ranking

05/08/2026 19:20 - Engineering at Meta

Every day, Meta’s recommendation platforms handle billions of user interactions, generating rich temporal signals that capture individual preferences and intent across products, ads, and content.…

GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model

GEM Training: How Meta Doubled the Efficiency of Its LLM-Scale Ads Foundation Model

03/08/2026 18:00 - Engineering at Meta

Meta’s Generative Ads Recommendation Model (GEM), the foundation model behind ads recommendations across Instagram and Facebook, now trains at LLM scale on several thousand of…

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI

03/08/2026 16:00 - Microsoft Research

At a glance Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service for training…

From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

29/07/2026 09:00 - The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch…

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

26/07/2026 09:00 - The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

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Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

Intelligence is Free, Now What? <br> Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

07/07/2026 09:00 - The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly.…

Causally-informed deep learning towards explainable and generalizable outcome prediction in critical care

Causally-informed deep learning towards explainable and generalizable outcome prediction in critical care

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s): Yuxiao Cheng, Xinxin Song, Ziqian Wang, Qin Zhong, Kunlun He, Jinli Suo

Anatomy consistent segmentation network for joint PET/CT tumor segmentation

Anatomy consistent segmentation network for joint PET/CT tumor segmentation

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s): Minghao Mao, Yuxuan Qi, Jingya Zhang, Bin Zhang, Jiajun Wang

Self-tuned healthy homogeneous core: Addressing heterogeneities in biomedical datasets

Self-tuned healthy homogeneous core: Addressing heterogeneities in biomedical datasets

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s): Abhidnya Patharkar, Yutong Wen, Jiajing Huang, Firas Al-Hindawi, Teresa Wu, Todd J. Schwedt, Catherine D.…

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