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Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

22/08/2026 19:00 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for…

The Ontology of Profit

The Ontology of Profit

22/08/2026 18:45 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

How Long Can AI’s Scientific Promise Withstand the Pressure of Profit?Continue reading on The Intuitions Age »

Can an AI Learn From Its Own Verified Successes?

Can an AI Learn From Its Own Verified Successes?

22/08/2026 18:43 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

How a model turned rare valid attempts into better habits, and why the system eventually refused to continueContinue reading on Medium »

I Gave an AI a Fake Business and Asked It to Do the Marketing

I Gave an AI a Fake Business and Asked It to Do the Marketing

22/08/2026 18:41 - Artificial Intelligence on Medium

I wanted to see how much work it could actually handleContinue reading on Medium »

Building a Proper Backend for My LangGraph AI Agent

Building a Proper Backend for My LangGraph AI Agent

22/08/2026 17:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

Turning a demo agent into something that can keep real booking data The post Building a Proper Backend for My LangGraph AI Agent appeared first…

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

22/08/2026 16:30 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games - AP News

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games - AP News

22/08/2026 16:16 - Technology

Chinese humanoid robots smash human records in 100m sprint and high jump at Beijing robot games  AP News

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

22/08/2026 16:00 - AI News & Artificial Intelligence

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate…

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model - TechCrunch

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model - TechCrunch

22/08/2026 16:00 - Technology

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model  TechCrunch

Trump and aide Natalie Harp get the LEGO treatment in ‘incredible’ AI video from parody account - The Independent

Trump and aide Natalie Harp get the LEGO treatment in ‘incredible’ AI video from parody account - The Independent

22/08/2026 15:53 - Technology

Trump and aide Natalie Harp get the LEGO treatment in ‘incredible’ AI video from parody account  The Independent

Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon

Sick of Constant Pings, They’re Sending Texts at the Speed of Carrier Pigeon

22/08/2026 15:34 - NYT > Technology

Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life. (Just don’t use…

Multi-Document RAG: A Folder of Unrelated PDFs Is One Long Document with a Nested Outline

Multi-Document RAG: A Folder of Unrelated PDFs Is One Long Document with a Nested Outline

22/08/2026 15:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #14B] - No shared fields means no index to build. One summary line per file plus each file’s own table of…

Mark Zuckerberg Buys an Irish Castle

Mark Zuckerberg Buys an Irish Castle

22/08/2026 13:28 - NYT > Technology

The prominent landowner has added a nearly 200-year-old estate to his holdings. Archival information says it can take “a brisk walk of 4½ minutes to…

Why We Fine-Tuned SigLip (And Why That’s Not Always the Right Call)

Why We Fine-Tuned SigLip (And Why That’s Not Always the Right Call)

22/08/2026 13:00 - Latest stories published on Towards Data Science

LoRA fine-tuning solved our under-labeling problem. Whether it makes sense for you depends on three questions. The post Why We Fine-Tuned SigLip (And Why That’s…

‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

22/08/2026 06:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and productionHollywood creatives are…

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

22/08/2026 05:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimisticHere in…

Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.

Anthropic Could Aim to Raise $100 Billion in Blockbuster I.P.O.

22/08/2026 00:24 - NYT > Technology

The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

21/08/2026 23:25 - Feed

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

21/08/2026 21:25 - AI

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it.…

Compliance theater is over: What FedRAMP 20x means for every vendor selling to government

Compliance theater is over: What FedRAMP 20x means for every vendor selling to government

21/08/2026 20:38 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Pete Waterman did not mince words at Carahsoft's FedRAMP Summit last month. Speaking about vendors that claim they lack the resources to fix a known,…

Granicus Boosts AI Offerings via ‘Lab’ and New Channels

Granicus Boosts AI Offerings via ‘Lab’ and New Channels

21/08/2026 20:22 - Artificial Intelligence

The gov tech software supplier is finding that its AI chatbot is increasingly being used beyond normal working hours and for various requests in one…

Tech bills of the week: Overseeing algorithm-set rental prices; and halting federal overreach in data center construction

Tech bills of the week: Overseeing algorithm-set rental prices; and halting federal overreach in data center construction

21/08/2026 19:33 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[Monitoring algorithms used in setting rent A new bill seeks to compel any entity creating rental rates to reveal when algorithms are involved in setting prices…

Why Spirit Airlines’ internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies

Why Spirit Airlines’ internal data has become a hot commodity for AI companies

21/08/2026 19:17 - Fast Company

Google, Micro1, and Mercor have all bid millions for the carrier’s internal data, as AI companies race to buy the records of how businesses actually…

IT Teams Always Need to Modernize. AI Is Changing the Game.

IT Teams Always Need to Modernize. AI Is Changing the Game.

21/08/2026 18:52 - Artificial Intelligence

From helping in-source software development to streamlining resident-facing systems, AI is a new partner to governments overhauling legacy systems. Here's how IT organizations are using…

When everyone has the same AI, what makes your company smarter?

When everyone has the same AI, what makes your company smarter?

21/08/2026 17:56 - Fast Company

The trick is not to have the biggest model, but the best one for you.

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP): Data engineering into hours

21/08/2026 17:06 - Artificial Intelligence

Data engineering teams routinely spend weeks standing up a single new data source: writing ETL, hand-writing quality checks, updating semantic models, and validating compliance. The…

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Govern AI agent tool access with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

21/08/2026 17:02 - Artificial Intelligence

In our conversations with customers over the past months, one pattern keeps recurring. Whether they work with coding agents, autonomous agents, or human-interactive ones, and…

Counties and cities sue over counterterrorism grant rule changes

Counties and cities sue over counterterrorism grant rule changes

21/08/2026 17:00 - Nextgov/FCW

<![CDATA[A group of four cities and counties announced a lawsuit this week challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to tie counterterrorism grants to election rule changes.…

Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression

Reduce RAG costs on Amazon Bedrock with query-aware compression

21/08/2026 16:59 - Artificial Intelligence

Input tokens sent to the foundation model (FM) on every call are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)…

The bots already won the front door

The bots already won the front door

21/08/2026 16:55 - Fast Company

Publishers will never stop all the scrapers. The fight worth having is over what AI does with the content once it has it.

PNNL: Improving the Prediction Ability of Spiking Neural Networks

PNNL: Improving the Prediction Ability of Spiking Neural Networks

21/08/2026 16:41 - AIwire

Initial proof-of-concept approach may lead to broader applications of a class of neural networks Aug. 21, 2026 — Inspired by the human brain, researchers use neural…

New York State Senator Hits Road for Data Center Tour

New York State Senator Hits Road for Data Center Tour

21/08/2026 16:36 - Artificial Intelligence

State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez — who represents areas in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan — is taking part in an eight-day, 13-stop tour to hear concerns…

Cloverleaf Partners with NVIDIA to Accelerate Data Center Infrastructure Development

Cloverleaf Partners with NVIDIA to Accelerate Data Center Infrastructure Development

21/08/2026 16:32 - AIwire

HOUSTON and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 21, 2026 — Cloverleaf Infrastructure LLC today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to advance…

Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI

Stop Hunting, Start Solving: Accelerating Root Cause Analysis with Agentic AI

21/08/2026 14:32 - IEEE Spectrum

About this WebinarTurn Yield Excursions into Faster, More Confident Root Cause AnalysisWhen a yield issue emerges, the answer rarely lives in a single system. Critical…

In AI’s wake, what challenges need to be addressed by finance professionals?

In AI’s wake, what challenges need to be addressed by finance professionals?

21/08/2026 14:29 - Silicon Republic

Patrice Bouexel explores how AI and automation are impacting employee expectations and behaviours in the wider financial ecosystem. Read more: In AI’s wake, what challenges…

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

21/08/2026 13:37 - AI

A still from Sam Kolder’s video “AI is replacing me.” | Screenshot: The Verge, YouTube Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking…

Ode with Anthropic Acquires Casper Studios to Help Businesses Get the Most Value Out of AI

Ode with Anthropic Acquires Casper Studios to Help Businesses Get the Most Value Out of AI

21/08/2026 13:23 - AIwire

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 2026 — Ode with Anthropic, an enterprise AI transformation company, has announced it has acquired Casper Studios (Casper). Casper is an AI…

Nvidia and Korea’s Rebellions reportedly hold partnership talks

Nvidia and Korea’s Rebellions reportedly hold partnership talks

21/08/2026 12:32 - Silicon Republic

Nvidia has poured more than $63bn in investments into other companies. Read more: Nvidia and Korea’s Rebellions reportedly hold partnership talks

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games

21/08/2026 11:59 - Google DeepMind News

Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.

6 exciting, must-attend Irish finance events to check out this year

6 exciting, must-attend Irish finance events to check out this year

21/08/2026 11:34 - Silicon Republic

Professionals working in Ireland's growing finance sphere should consider attending one of the exciting events set to happen between now and the end of the…

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

21/08/2026 11:00 - AI

Can you tell when someone nearby is wearing Meta AI glasses? As millions of people buy into the smart glasses fad each year, the odds…

Historian Jill Lepore on the datacentre backlash | Politics Weekly America

Historian Jill Lepore on the datacentre backlash | Politics Weekly America

21/08/2026 11:00 - AI (artificial intelligence)

Less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war and… datacentres.This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to…

The Single English County Saying No to Palantir

The Single English County Saying No to Palantir

21/08/2026 06:00 - Feed

The UK government is facing calls to cancel a sprawling health care contract with Palantir. The region of Greater Manchester insists it can do a…

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed

20/08/2026 21:50 - AI

Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google…

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

20/08/2026 18:49 - Feed

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT 

Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT 

20/08/2026 16:00 - Microsoft Research

At a glance Skala 1.1 demonstrates the continuously improving nature of Microsoft Research’s deep-learning DFT approach: trained on 2.5× more data than its predecessor, it…

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

20/08/2026 15:42 - Artificial intelligence

“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at…

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

20/08/2026 13:00 - AI

Earlier this week, researchers outlined an attack that used a secret input provided by Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprise to cause the AI assistant to…

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…

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…

Introducing AI Futures

Introducing AI Futures

20/08/2026 07:00 - OpenAI News

Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.

Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work

Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work

20/08/2026 00:00 - OpenAI News

With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Annotator reliability and probabilistic consensus for semantic segmentation in digital pathology

Annotator reliability and probabilistic consensus for semantic segmentation in digital pathology

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Publication date: October 2026Source: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 180Author(s): Laura Gálvez Jiménez, Christine Decaestecker

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

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Editorial Board

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

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