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#BlessingSeries Issue 56 — What If Your App Rearranged Itself Just Like My Kitchen Did This…

#BlessingSeries Issue 56 — What If Your App Rearranged Itself Just Like My Kitchen Did This…

19/08/2026 20:58 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

The next evolution of UX may not be designing one interface for everyone. It may be designing interfaces that adapt to each person.Continue reading on…

The AI Bubble is a Political Construct, Not an Economic One

The AI Bubble is a Political Construct, Not an Economic One

19/08/2026 20:57 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

Why Washington Refuses to Relinquish the MarketContinue reading on Medium »

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.

How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system

How Fanatics Betting and Gaming built a multi-agent customer support system

19/08/2026 20:40 - Artificial Intelligence

Fanatics Betting and Gaming (FBG) built a multi-agent customer support system on AWS to solve a challenge unique to sports betting. Customers expect instant, accurate…

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

Chinese Start-Up Lands Reusable Rocket for the First Time

19/08/2026 20:40 - NYT > Technology

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

KnowledgeForge: mining gold from the ITSM ticket graveyard

KnowledgeForge: mining gold from the ITSM ticket graveyard

19/08/2026 20:36 - Artificial Intelligence

KnowledgeForge is about mining gold from the IT Service Management (ITSM) ticket graveyard: the resolved incident tickets whose knowledge never reaches a knowledge base article.…

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…

The AI Boom Is About to Make Cars Even More Expensive - The Atlantic

The AI Boom Is About to Make Cars Even More Expensive - The Atlantic

19/08/2026 20:22 - Technology

The AI Boom Is About to Make Cars Even More Expensive  The Atlantic

Stripe to buy OpenRouter as fintech expands deeper into AI - CNBC

Stripe to buy OpenRouter as fintech expands deeper into AI - CNBC

19/08/2026 20:10 - Technology

Stripe to buy OpenRouter as fintech expands deeper into AI  CNBC

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…

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models - OpenAI

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models - OpenAI

19/08/2026 19:38 - Technology

Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models  OpenAI

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.

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

19/08/2026 19:11 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily…

Are underwater data centers sustainable for AI infrastructure?

Are underwater data centers sustainable for AI infrastructure?

19/08/2026 19:06 - Fast Company

The real test is whether the ocean can become AI’s next computing frontier without becoming its next environmental problem.

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

19/08/2026 19:00 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as…

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.

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

19/08/2026 18:46 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies,…

TrueFoundry Debuts TrueForge for Building and Managing AI Agents

TrueFoundry Debuts TrueForge for Building and Managing AI Agents

19/08/2026 18:43 - AIwire

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2026 — TrueFoundry, an enterprise AI infrastructure platform, today launched TrueForge, an open-source agent harness that gives enterprise teams a way to…

There’s never been a better time to be a marketer

There’s never been a better time to be a marketer

19/08/2026 18:30 - Fast Company

Marketing work will change, roles will shift, and career paths will deviate but the mission will stay the same.

Report calls for deterrence mechanisms, government participation in AI-biology security

Report calls for deterrence mechanisms, government participation in AI-biology security

19/08/2026 18:15 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Safely managing the use of artificial intelligence technologies in biological research demands advanced threat actor detection. One federal official says there is a need for earlier,…

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…

Arise Launches Halo, an AI DataOps Capability for Enterprise AI

Arise Launches Halo, an AI DataOps Capability for Enterprise AI

19/08/2026 17:45 - AIwire

New capability connects credentialed professionals to expert human feedback and domain expertise supporting AI evaluation, RLHF, AI safety, and human-in-the-loop workflows. MIAMI, Aug. 19, 2026…

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.

Kimi K3’s 1M Token Context Window vs. RAG: Cost, Latency and Answer Quality

Kimi K3’s 1M Token Context Window vs. RAG: Cost, Latency and Answer Quality

19/08/2026 16:30 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

A controlled comparison of a top-5 RAG pipeline and a full 127,000 token prompt on the same 12 questions, same system prompt and same model.…

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…

DOJ charges 17 Iranians in cybertheft campaign

DOJ charges 17 Iranians in cybertheft campaign

19/08/2026 16:13 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Federal prosecutors have charged 17 Iranians affiliated with the Tehran-based Mabna Institute over an alleged hacking-for-hire operation that stole research and intellectual property from hundreds…

New report explores ‘hidden stress window’ experienced by commuters

New report explores ‘hidden stress window’ experienced by commuters

19/08/2026 15:45 - Silicon Republic

Nurosym’s report highlights how Irish employees may be struggling to let the stress of the workday go, once the day is done. Read more: New…

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…

NCI to launch two bachelor’s courses in AI and cybersecurity

NCI to launch two bachelor’s courses in AI and cybersecurity

19/08/2026 15:16 - Silicon Republic

The courses are expected to launch in September 2027, subject to approval. Read more: NCI to launch two bachelor’s courses in AI and cybersecurity

Understanding Anti-AI Public Opinion

Understanding Anti-AI Public Opinion

19/08/2026 15:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

People can accept tradeoffs when they see value — but if they don’t, what happens? The post Understanding Anti-AI Public Opinion appeared first on Towards…

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

Did someone wearing Meta Glasses film you today? Are you sure?

19/08/2026 14:13 - AI (artificial intelligence)

People say they’ve been secretly filmed in their own homes, at concerts and at work. Are the wildly popular smartglasses the final nail in the…

Why connectivity and cybersecurity can’t be treated separately

Why connectivity and cybersecurity can’t be treated separately

19/08/2026 13:00 - Silicon Republic

Magnet Plus’s Patrick Masterson discusses why now is the time to engage in a combined network and security strategy to ensure business continuity and maintain…

AI’s water problems run deep

AI’s water problems run deep

19/08/2026 12:00 - Fast Company

The water footprint everyone’s tracking may only be a fraction of what AI’s growth actually costs communities and infrastructure.

Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits

Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits

19/08/2026 11:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

A rise in lawsuits over AI use in employment decisions is raising questions about how companies hire and fireFor the last four years, Erin Kistler…

Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders

Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders

19/08/2026 10:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is riggedThe media pundits have written article after article…

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.

Decided Upstream, Written Late: Locating and Pricing the Cross-Lingual Refusal Circuit of a Multilingual MoE

Decided Upstream, Written Late: Locating and Pricing the Cross-Lingual Refusal Circuit of a Multilingual MoE

19/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2608.08032v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Safety alignment in multilingual models is uneven: a model that reliably refuses a harmful request in English will often comply…

LLM-Only PDDL Domain Repair with Open-Weight Models

LLM-Only PDDL Domain Repair with Open-Weight Models

19/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2608.17341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI planning is concerned with finding a sequence of actions that achieves a specified goal. It relies on explicit models…

Comprehensive framework for evaluation of deep neural networks in detection and quantification of lymphoma from PET/CT images: clinical insights, pitfalls, and observer agreement analyses

Comprehensive framework for evaluation of deep neural networks in detection and quantification of lymphoma from PET/CT images: clinical insights, pitfalls, and observer agreement analyses

19/08/2026 04:00 - cs.AI updates on arXiv

arXiv:2311.09614v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This study addresses critical gaps in automated lymphoma segmentation from PET/CT images, focusing on issues often overlooked in existing literature.…

Colby College Summer Program Covers Building AI Tools Responsibly

Colby College Summer Program Covers Building AI Tools Responsibly

18/08/2026 22:57 - Artificial Intelligence

A new eight-week summer program at Colby College trained 31 students, representing 23 different majors and six institutions, to build AI tools with a focus…

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.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments is now generally available: Enabling agents to transact safely and autonomously at scale

18/08/2026 18:56 - Artificial Intelligence

Agents have evolved from simple chat applications to autonomous, long-running systems that dynamically discover and compose dozens of tools per task without human oversight. On…

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…

What Flock’s defenders are missing

What Flock’s defenders are missing

17/08/2026 19:16 - Artificial intelligence

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the…

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…

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

13/08/2026 13:00 - NVIDIA Blog

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out…

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.…

A critical perspective on finite sample conformal prediction theory in medical applications

A critical perspective on finite sample conformal prediction theory in medical applications

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s): Klaus-Rudolf Kladny, Bernhard Schölkopf, Lisa Koch, Christian F. Baumgartner, Michael Muehlebach

Editorial Board

Editorial Board

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s):

Preserving privacy, enabling collaboration: Decentralized learning framework for multi-class orthopedic imaging

Preserving privacy, enabling collaboration: Decentralized learning framework for multi-class orthopedic imaging

- ScienceDirect Publication

Publication date: Available online 19 August 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in MedicineAuthor(s): Haider A. Alwzwazy, Alex Gu, Mustafa Dukhan, Zehui Zhao, Laith Alzubaidi

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