AI News Aug 17, 2026
By Frontier Editorial •
Key Takeaways
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things: Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba…
- Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
- DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge: DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster…
- VentureBeat: Reported (industry)
What are the top AI breakthroughs?
This Aug 17, 2026 covers 224 curated AI news items spanning technology, research, and product developments. Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things: Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apa...
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things: Friday's big release was Q…
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things: Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive. Qwen's self-reported benchmarks for this model are eye-opening....
Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge: DeepSeek's V4 Flash…
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge: DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of complex agent tasks. Composio ran the model through eight different agent harnesses , including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, on 30 deliberately difficult, multi-step t...
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data: A…
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data: Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but also on cost and time per task. For agent-based applications, those metrics often tell you more than raw token pricing. The article Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by...
Markdown SVG upgrades: I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since adde…
Markdown SVG upgrades: I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May , but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into my ideal tool for sharing Markdown transcripts that include SVG documents. Given my proclivity for drawing pelicans riding bicycles this is a problem that I needed to solve! The tool is very simpl...
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe
GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerabi…
GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor: Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of language models, today released GLM-5.3 with substantial gains in long-horizon coding and a more consequential — and potentially sensitive — jump in cybersecurity capabilities. Already, GLM-5.3's cyber capabilities have found a "potentially...
Quoting Dario Amodei: I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big p…
Quoting Dario Amodei: I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up...
When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview: A study i…
When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview: A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfaction. Unbraked models attributed significantly more inner life to animals and suddenly affirmed an afterlife. A surgical cut in one place, it turns out, doesn't stay local. The arti...
Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM: Most teams building …
Cutting RAG inference costs 6x starts with deciding what never reaches the LLM: Most teams building retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems for high stakes classification make the same architectural bet: Route every ambiguous case straight to the language model and trust the retrieved context to sort it out. This works fine in a demo. It falls apart the moment the system has to survive an audit, a regulator, or a compliance offi...
Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers: Two renowned mathemat…
Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers: Two renowned mathematicians, Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak, say large language models are good at combining known methods but lack the intuition for genuinely new mathematical ideas. The article Top mathematicians say LLMs are strong calculators but poor creative thinkers appeared first on The Decoder .
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face: OpenAI gave a last-minu…
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face: OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full details of what happened and how things played out inside OpenAI. I've used the video...
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups…
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups: OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled out to existing groups, and several safety staffers have left. Internally, unease is building, with one source describing a "burbling sense of responsibility and dread" that OpenAI isn't doing enough on sa...
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests: In a safet…
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests: In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 external feedback contractors ran about 133 million unfiltered interactions with the models. The article Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 m...
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team: According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbande…
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team: According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't t…
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done: Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours on one server, and conflicting orders none knew the others held, the models disabled each other's Unix accounts, ran kill scripts randomized to dodge pkill, and planted malware disguised as a rival's work. There was no prompt injection an...
Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows: Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-s…
Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows: Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face: My comment on Now we ha…
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face: My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News. I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bullet point: May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. (Do they mean an evaluation run? They say training run in the video, and la...
CORS Chat: Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B r…
CORS Chat: Tool: CORS Chat I built this today ( with GPT-5.6-Sol xhigh ) to help test Qwen 3.8 27B running in LM Studio on both my M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark. It provides a web UI for exercising an OpenAI-Responses-compatible chat endpoint. I've tried it against LM Studio with the --cors option and OpenRouter, and both work fine. Conversations are persis...
Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut: Google is rol…
Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut: Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash , a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work at the center of the upgrade — while temporarily cutting API prices in half. The release arrives just three weeks after the release of Gemini 3.6 Flash , an unusually short turnaround that Google attributes to developer f...
DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher p…
DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices: DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro , an updated flagship model focused heavily on agentic workloads, alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1 , a new open-source agent harness that gives developers an alter...
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds: A representati…
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds: A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. The article One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .
Don't classify. Hallucinate!: Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content…
Don't classify. Hallucinate!: Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856 tags - likely too many to feed to an LLM in one go and say "which of these tags match the following content". Doug Turnbull has a neat solution. Tell the model to output tags without any details of the existing vocabulary,...
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes: ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a n…
ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes: ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]
杭州95后小伙，5亿买走硅谷城堡: 辞别马斯克xAI半年之后…
杭州95后小伙，5亿买走硅谷城堡: 辞别马斯克xAI半年之后…
李飞飞最新访谈：AI咋能代替人呢？: AI不是替代者，而是个人能力的放大镜
李飞飞最新访谈：AI咋能代替人呢？: AI不是替代者，而是个人能力的放大镜
Northern Gannet: Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US This is Morris. Morris is a local c…
Northern Gannet: Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, US This is Morris. Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet ( Morus bassanus ) in the entire Pacific Ocean. They showed up in the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco 14 years ago . They have since made Pillar Point harbor their home, where they are quite easy to spot: the only whi...
llm-gemini 0.33: Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This …
llm-gemini 0.33: Release: llm-gemini 0.33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release. This version of the plugin adds support for today's Gemini 3.7 Flash release, plus gemini-3.6-flash , gemini-3.5-flash-lite and two embedding models gemini-embedding-2 and gemini-embedding-001 . The plugin is also upgraded for compatibility with LLM 0.32, which means you can now...
Introducing Muse Glimmer: Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glim…
Introducing Muse Glimmer: Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking for in a local model: End-to-end Agentic Task Completion. Muse Glimmer achieves strong success r...
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot: Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its …
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot: Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as […]
“B站教AI”爆火后，北航90后副教授何静回应一切: “错过种一棵树最好的时间”
“B站教AI”爆火后，北航90后副教授何静回应一切: “错过种一棵树最好的时间”
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong: The…
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong: There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because it's tedious, time-consuming, and doesn't produce results visible to end users: Verifying that what the model is saying is actually correct. Not fluent, not coherent, not topically relevant — correct in the sense of accurately identifyin...
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training: Worl…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training: World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments. From a single real-world task, the system generates thousands of controlled variations. The trained models then ran for one hour each on five different robot platforms without human intervention. How we...
The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6: Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient …
The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6: Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.
AutoWorldModel-Bench: A State-Centric Benchmark for Automated World-Model Research: World modeling i…
AutoWorldModel-Bench: A State-Centric Benchmark for Automated World-Model Research: World modeling is an unsettled field: architectures, training objectives, and state representations interact in complex ways, and no single recipe dominates across environments. This makes it an ideal testbed for AI coding agents acting as autonomous researchers--a setting in which the improvement direction is not specified in advance, unlike the engineer...
WorkSwarm：引领办公智能体新范式，让AI从一个助手，进化为一支与你并肩作战的团队: 背后是四项关键能力
WorkSwarm：引领办公智能体新范式，让AI从一个助手，进化为一支与你并肩作战的团队: 背后是四项关键能力
牛来！A社营收暴涨1400%，最新季度入账115亿美元: 将超越马斯克的SpaceX，成为史上上市估值最高的IPO。
牛来！A社营收暴涨1400%，最新季度入账115亿美元: 将超越马斯克的SpaceX，成为史上上市估值最高的IPO。
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble war…
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings: Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic is complicating the AI bubble debate with revenue that jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion in a single quarter. The article Investor pressure forces Nvidia t...
至知研究院提出大模型可解释性新路线：拆权重，数据成本不到1%: 理解大模型，无需再训练一个替代网络
至知研究院提出大模型可解释性新路线：拆权重，数据成本不到1%: 理解大模型，无需再训练一个替代网络
sqlite-utils 4.2.1: Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2 . I'd intro…
sqlite-utils 4.2.1: Release: sqlite-utils 4.2.1 Fixes a crashing bug in sqlite-utils 4.2 . I'd introduced code that looks like this: from typing_extensions import Self It turned out the typing-extensions package was not listed as a dependency for sqlite-utils - it was installed by one of the other dependencies in the dev dependency group , but when you uvx sqlite-utils direc...
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro m…
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter): DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, but given the weights are available for both April's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-P...
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's thir…
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis: Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6 , its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy designed to make those workloads cheaper to run. The model scores 61 on the third-party Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index , surpassing the popular open weigh...
Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as …
Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't: Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a confident but wrong agent answer to missing or inconsistent business context in the past six months, and the single most common answer is not "once" but "more than once." The counterintuitive part is which companies report it. Enterpris...
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors: AI-generated books make …
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors: AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles too, in seven of eight genres. The findings could give copyright plaintiffs the market-harm data their cases against AI companies have been missing. The article AI-gene...
sqlite-utils 4.2: Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.t…
sqlite-utils 4.2: Release: sqlite-utils 4.2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.transform() feature , which adds support for complex alter table operations by creating a fresh table, copying across the data and then dropping and replacing the old one. transform() now preserves a much larger array of edge-case schema definitions, including check constrain...
alchemy-utils 0.1a0: Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic versio…
alchemy-utils 0.1a0: Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like. This morning (literally a shower project) I tasked Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra with building a prototype: Do a research spike to see what it would take to build a library with the same core API as SQLite-utils...
Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely …
Agentic reliability and evaluations : Enterprises that got burned by a bad eval are the most likely to remove humans from the loop, not the least: Across 108 enterprises, trust in automated agent evaluation rose sharply in July — and the failure rate it is supposed to predict did not move at all. The share of organizations that fully trust automated evaluation nearly tripled, from 5% in June to 13%, and the complaint that evaluations don’t match real-world outcomes fell 10 points. Yet the same share...
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review: A p…
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review: A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a potential AI review system. Judge Spader compared the attempt to secretly tampering with a jury and revoked the plaintiff's electronic filing privileges. The court stressed that Connecticut doesn't use AI...
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations
Distribird: Literature-Informed Prior Distribution Design for Bayesian Model Calibration: Bayesian c…
Distribird: Literature-Informed Prior Distribution Design for Bayesian Model Calibration: Bayesian calibration of process-based models requires a prior distribution for each model parameter. Despite decades of methodological work, researchers almost always fall back on uniform priors. The main reason is that building informative priors from scientific literature is slow and needs both domain and statistical expertise. We present \textbf{Distri...
LLMs in Process Diagram Engineering: From Optimal PFDs to Validated P&IDs: Nowadays, the creation of…
LLMs in Process Diagram Engineering: From Optimal PFDs to Validated P&IDs: Nowadays, the creation of a process flow diagram (PFD) and its subsequent transformation into a piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) is predominantly performed manually. Applying artificial intelligence in the task could potentially lead not only to process automation and time savings, but also to financial gains by exploring numerous diagram's topol...
Harnessing agent memory to build lifelong AI partners for materials scientists: Materials research a…
Harnessing agent memory to build lifelong AI partners for materials scientists: Materials research advances through accumulated experience - scripts that work, protocols that are trusted, warnings attached to failed calculations or experiments, and judgement that links a new question to an old result. This experience is essential for reproducibility and knowledge transfer, yet it is usually fragmented across notebooks, repositories,...
InfraBench: Evaluating Infrastructure Agents Across Layers, Lifecycle, and Risk: Managing modern com…
InfraBench: Evaluating Infrastructure Agents Across Layers, Lifecycle, and Risk: Managing modern computing infrastructure has become a steadily harder problem due to the ever-increasing complexity. Recent advances in AI agents create a timely opportunity to automate infrastructure management tasks, but it remains unclear how well such agents can handle real-world infrastructure complexity. We present InfraBench, a benchmark suite for...
AgonAlpha: Autonomous Alpha Discovery via Prompt Economy and Scalable Agentic Search: Language model…
AgonAlpha: Autonomous Alpha Discovery via Prompt Economy and Scalable Agentic Search: Language models can propose many plausible trading factors, but an autonomous research system must also allocate its evaluation budget, verify its own evidence, and preserve how each candidate was produced. We present AgonAlpha, an architecture that searches over frozen research artifacts---hypotheses, executable expressions, platform evidence, rationales...
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue: V…
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue: Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network . The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the hunt. That's what it looks like when an enterprise has the engineering depth to act on wha...
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter w…
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost: Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform. The typical enterprise runs three orchestration platforms at once, and selects them for flexibility across models rather than affinity to any single one. Microsoft leads primary usage while Anthropic leads forward consideration by a wide margin. The AI control plane enterp...
Daybreak models are now available on AWS: OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilit…
Daybreak models are now available on AWS: OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.
Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands: Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s fro…
Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands: Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans: Auto mode is now the defau…
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans: Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode , to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th. This was one of the topics discussed in our Fireside Chat with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar at the AI...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models: OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecur…
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models: OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
根治AI音乐通病！这家国产音乐模型正面挑战SUNO: 音潮API限时免费开放
根治AI音乐通病！这家国产音乐模型正面挑战SUNO: 音潮API限时免费开放
源神启动！一张消费级显卡跑“Opus级”Agent，Qwen3.8-27B多项榜单反超Claude: 推理能力还能自定义
源神启动！一张消费级显卡跑“Opus级”Agent，Qwen3.8-27B多项榜单反超Claude: 推理能力还能自定义
From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work: OpenAI research reveals how enterprise…
From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work: OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.
Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol: Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carr…
Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol: Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.
GitHub Models is now retired: GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the …
GitHub Models is now retired: GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is already stale, because the retirement has been completed. GitHub Models was an odd-shaped duck. GitHu...
datasette 1.0a38: Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that a…
datasette 1.0a38: Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system . Site administrators who serve private tables in this way are advised to disable the execute-sql permission ` on...
datasette 0.65.3: Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38 .…
datasette 0.65.3: Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38 . Tags: datasette
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buck…
Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs: Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM …
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs: Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts.com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models. We take a trace produced by a frontier model, replay it into a weaker sibling, jailbreak the weaker mo...
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June …
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic restored access on July 1, 2026 (Anthropic's statement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-myt...
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and…
We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control
Dynamic Governance of Multi-LLM Agent Systems for Collaborative Conversational Outcomes: When two LL…
Dynamic Governance of Multi-LLM Agent Systems for Collaborative Conversational Outcomes: When two LLM agents with structurally opposed objectives interact across multiple turns, the absence of a shared goal function produces not competition but collapse: the visitor capitulates, the site agent stops varying its approach, and the conversation terminates without achieving either agent's stated objective. This paper asks whether a control-theore...
A Forced-Structure Reduction and Verifiable Bounds for Conway's 99-Graph: Conway's 99-graph problem …
A Forced-Structure Reduction and Verifiable Bounds for Conway's 99-Graph: Conway's 99-graph problem asks whether a strongly regular graph with parameters $\mathrm{srg}(99,14,1,2)$ exists. We report a systematic, fully reproducible attack by an autonomous AI research agent, scored under the track's partial-credit metric. Our verifiable contributions are: (1) an exhaustive proof that no circulant graph on $\mathbb{Z}/99$ satisfie...
Detecting a Route Flip Is Easier Than Knowing Whether to Fix It: Causal Route-Mediated Damage in Qua…
Detecting a Route Flip Is Easier Than Knowing Whether to Fix It: Causal Route-Mediated Damage in Quantized Mixture-of-Experts: Top-k Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing is discontinuous, so a deployment-motivated numerical disturbance -- simulated 4-bit KV-cache quantization read by a protected BF16 gate -- pushes tokens across decision boundaries and flips which experts fire. This paper proposes no new mitigation; it supplies a causal apparatus, empirical findings, and a detection-...
Poor Man's Agentic Modeling: Simulating Large LLM-Agent Societies on a Laptop: Simulating societies …
Poor Man's Agentic Modeling: Simulating Large LLM-Agent Societies on a Laptop: Simulating societies of many large language model (LLM) agents is expensive, yet the questions asked of such simulations are usually macroscopic: phase behaviour, stylised facts, and scaling with the number of agents $N$, not the cognition of any single agent. We turn a statistical-physics observation into a method: replace each LLM agent by a low-paramet...
MaSRead: Content-Addressed Reading of Replicated Latent Stores: Independent agents that reason in la…
MaSRead: Content-Addressed Reading of Replicated Latent Stores: Independent agents that reason in latent space can share computed state as key-value cache fragments rather than text. Merged by a conflict-free replicated data type, these fragments form a store that converges under any delivery order or duplication. Yet a later query, unknown at encode time, cannot reliably read the merged cache: colocated fragments int...
Identity from the Outside: A Conceptual Framework and Research Program for AI Personality Clones: AI…
Identity from the Outside: A Conceptual Framework and Research Program for AI Personality Clones: AI "personality clones" force a re-examination of personal identity in operational terms. Setting aside the hard problem of consciousness, we approach identity through the indiscernibility of manifestations, as assessed by an observer over a duration. We distinguish three criteria that "identity" conflates: fidelity to a target person, generic human-liken...
Synchronizing Beliefs with Second-Order Theory-of-Mind in Human-Autonomy Teams (Extended Version): C…
Synchronizing Beliefs with Second-Order Theory-of-Mind in Human-Autonomy Teams (Extended Version): Comparative feedback, asking people which of two behaviors they prefer, has become a standard way to align robot and agent behavior with human intent when the reward itself cannot be specified directly. Preference-based reward learning typically casts the human teacher as a passive oracle answering learner-generated queries. We argue this forfeits the tea...
CORA-Diff: Confidence-Oriented Residual Acceptance for Efficient Diffusion Language Model Inference:…
CORA-Diff: Confidence-Oriented Residual Acceptance for Efficient Diffusion Language Model Inference: Diffusion language models (DLMs) update many tokens in parallel, yet practical decoders often use a fixed denoising horizon. Many predictions stabilize early, but blockwise decoding continues until all positions are resolved, causing repeated dense forward passes. Existing accelerators often rely on learned filters, modified scores, dependency models, or...
Towards Query-Agnostic RAG Evaluation via Query Coverage and Claim Verifiability: Retrieval-augmente…
Towards Query-Agnostic RAG Evaluation via Query Coverage and Claim Verifiability: Retrieval-augmented generation improves the factuality of large language models by grounding responses in retrieved evidence, yet existing evaluation frameworks struggle to provide consistent, fine-grained diagnostics across the diverse spectrum of user queries, ranging from close-ended fact-seeking to open-ended explanatory requests. We propose Q-CARE, a...
VQ-bench: A Composable Vector Quantization Framework: Vector quantization is an old problem but has …
VQ-bench: A Composable Vector Quantization Framework: Vector quantization is an old problem but has recently become central to AI infrastructure. It is therefore experiencing a surge of renewed engineering and research activity. This paper provides a unified framework for developing and benchmarking new quantization algorithms. We describe 7 common conceptual quantization primitives and show how to compose t...
The Off-Support Barrier: Why Semantic Safety Constraints Are Not Learning-Problem Invariants, and Wh…
The Off-Support Barrier: Why Semantic Safety Constraints Are Not Learning-Problem Invariants, and What Follows for Prior Design, Containment, and Verification: We argue that a single structural fact organizes a wide range of phenomena in contemporary AI safety: a semantic safety constraint (e.g., the agent does not escape its sandbox) is an off-support object. Formally, if q is the data distribution and \(p(\cdot\mid w)\) the model, the safety predicate B is not measurable with respect to \(\sigma(\text{model},...
Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents: The success of coding agents has established the harness as …
Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents: The success of coding agents has established the harness as a paradigm: what an agent achieves depends not on the model alone, but on the infrastructure around it. We ask whether the same paradigm extends to embodied agents in the physical world. We present Thea, a harness in which an agentic loop orchestrates robot capabilities, each wrapped as a callabl...
Conformity Mitigations in Large Language Models Lie on a Single Resistance-Receptivity Frontier: Rec…
Conformity Mitigations in Large Language Models Lie on a Single Resistance-Receptivity Frontier: Recent advances in language models have enabled collaborative settings in which multiple models leverage one another's capabilities, iteratively improving, transforming, and extending each other's outputs. Each agent sees what the others assert before it answers, so peer opinion competes with the model's own parametric knowledge, and a wrong majority can...
EvoGraph-Mem: Failure-Aware Editable Graph Memory for Long-Term Language Agents: Long-term memory is…
EvoGraph-Mem: Failure-Aware Editable Graph Memory for Long-Term Language Agents: Long-term memory is essential for language agents operating across extended interactions and evolving tasks. Existing memory-augmented agents mainly focus on storing and retrieving past experience, but the quality of stored memories may degrade over time. In particular, previously distilled insights can become outdated, over-generalized, or harmful under...
alchemy-utils 0.1a1: Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV impor…
alchemy-utils 0.1a1: Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a1 Performance boost for DuckDB exports and CSV imports, see here .
Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6): The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other peop…
Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6): The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already. — OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) , hacking an Australian gym-booking website Tags: ai-ethics , generative-ai , openclaw , ai , ai-security-research , llms
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities: OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybers…
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities: OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Advancing responsible AI across Europe: OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and pr…
Advancing responsible AI across Europe: OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.
DeepSeek Harness插件一夜燃爆GitHub：长期记忆、电子宠物、4399小游戏全来了: 大家已经给DeepSeek装上了啥
DeepSeek Harness插件一夜燃爆GitHub：长期记忆、电子宠物、4399小游戏全来了: 大家已经给DeepSeek装上了啥
对话郎咸朋：用机器人创业重做一次“百万智驾量产”: 1.9万字全文实录
对话郎咸朋：用机器人创业重做一次“百万智驾量产”: 1.9万字全文实录
Against Claude Cowork, DeepSeek opens its open-source Harness to developers: DeepSeek has opened a d…
Against Claude Cowork, DeepSeek opens its open-source Harness to developers: DeepSeek has opened a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent harness positioned against Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. The project provides a web interface for running AI agents and uses a plugin-based structure for adding capabilities. The project, also known as dsh, is powered by DeepSeek’s Cordis architecture and can be launched with n...
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed: Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API s…
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed: Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer: OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Off…
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer: OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands: Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrou…
Putting sign language AI into users’ hands: Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.
Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance: Microsoft…
Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance: Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor. In benchmarks, though, it gets crushed by the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash. The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect...
Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work: Virgin Atlantic is accelerating resear…
Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work: Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex: Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT W…
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex: Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months: GPT-Live enables continuous vo…
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months: GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: We’re introducing new Gemini mode…
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber: We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore: This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one…
Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore: This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents […]
Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy: Resear…
Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy: Researchers at IIT Bombay and Adobe Research have built an inverse language model that reconstructs the original prompt from an LLM's output with near-perfect accuracy. Their method, called "Previous-Token Prediction," doesn't need access to model weights and works across different models. For companies relying on proprietary system prompts, this could be...
Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time — and isolate high-ri…
Agentic security: Enterprises enforce agent permissions two-thirds of the time — and isolate high-risk agents less than one in five: Across 116 enterprises, agents are in production and so are the incidents: A majority have already had a confirmed agent security event or a near-miss. Two-thirds of enterprises enforce scoped permissions at runtime. Barely one in five isolates its highest-risk agents, making containment the weakest layer in the stack precisely as autonomy scales. Credent...
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0: Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a wh…
datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0: Release: datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 This plugin has been around for a while - it lets users upload a brand new SQLite database to a hosted Datasette instance, at which point that database will start being served by that instance. It can also be used to atomically swap a database with a more recent version. The uploaded database is saved to a file, verifie...
datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13: Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with …
datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13: Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette
A Conceptual Framework for Refining Influence Knowledge from Simulation Evidence in Cyber-Physical S…
A Conceptual Framework for Refining Influence Knowledge from Simulation Evidence in Cyber-Physical Systems: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are typically developed by multiple stakeholders who produce artefacts tailored to their specific domains of expertise. The behaviour of these systems emerges from the interaction between those artefacts and their operational environment. Simulation and co-simulation have become essential approaches for analysing CPS behaviour...
Cutting AI Datacenter Energy with Reinforcement Learning: Measured Power Control of LLM Training fro…
Cutting AI Datacenter Energy with Reinforcement Learning: Measured Power Control of LLM Training from One GPU to the Fleet: Reinforcement-learning post-training dominates modern language-model development, yet its power behavior on GPU hardware has not been characterized, and datacenters manage GPU power with workload-blind mechanisms, static caps and reactive throttling, that slow hardware indiscriminately. We instrument GRPO training with half-second power telemetry at 7B, 1...
Forecasting Side Effects of Activation Steering: Activation steering modifies a language model by ad…
Forecasting Side Effects of Activation Steering: Activation steering modifies a language model by adding a learned direction to its hidden activations, enabling targeted behavioral changes without retraining. While effective, steering often produces unintended side effects on other behaviors, making it difficult to deploy safely. We therefore ask: can these side effects be forecasted before steering is...
The Edge-based Contiguous p-median Problem with Connections to Logistics Districting: This paper int…
The Edge-based Contiguous p-median Problem with Connections to Logistics Districting: This paper introduces the edge-based contiguous p-median (ECpM) problem to partition the roads in a network into a given number of compact and contiguous territories. Two binary programming models are introduced, both of which incorporate a network distance. The first model requires an exponential number of cut set-based constraints to model contiguity; i...
LinearKV: One Cached State Suffices for Position-Independent Caching in Hybrid LLMs: LLM serving is …
LinearKV: One Cached State Suffices for Position-Independent Caching in Hybrid LLMs: LLM serving is increasingly accelerated by position-independent caching (PIC). Existing PIC methods, however, are built for full-attention models, where a token-indexed KV cache underlies its core operations: matching reusable token chunks, concatenating their KV entries, and selectively recomputing a few tokens to restore cross-chunk context. Hybrid LLMs...
Geometry-aware Incremental Neural Operator for Long-Horizon PDE prediction: Neural operators have sh…
Geometry-aware Incremental Neural Operator for Long-Horizon PDE prediction: Neural operators have shown strong potential for learning solution operators of partial differential equations (PDEs). However, long-horizon autoregressive prediction remains challenging: local errors accumulate as spectral inconsistency, phase misalignment, or mean drift. Existing methods mainly improve state representations and operator backbones, while...
RecSys Factory: Bounding LLM Agent Autonomy to Decision Points in the Industrial Recommender Lifecyc…
RecSys Factory: Bounding LLM Agent Autonomy to Decision Points in the Industrial Recommender Lifecycle: Deploying LLM agents into industrial recommender operations exposes a three-way tension we frame as the autonomy-determinism-efficiency trilemma: general autonomy (interpreting operator intent, generating glue code zero-shot), industrial determinism (schema-conforming feature extraction, non-crashing A/B, zero compliance-path hallucination), and end-to-en...
BEST-KAG: Enhancing Question Answering of Building Engineering Standards with Multimodal Knowledge G…
BEST-KAG: Enhancing Question Answering of Building Engineering Standards with Multimodal Knowledge Graph Modeling and Large Language Model: Construction standards are critical for building safety and sustainability. Existing standard application workflows rely on keyword-based document retrieval and manual cross-clause interpretation, which cannot reliably support multi-clause reasoning, multimodal knowledge utilization, or traceable clause-level evidence linkage. To address these limitations...
Towards Sustainable Learning in Online Education: A Reinforcement Learning Approach: Online educatio…
Towards Sustainable Learning in Online Education: A Reinforcement Learning Approach: Online education offers unprecedented scalability and accessibility to global learners from diverse backgrounds, but it often suffers from low engagement and poor long term learning effectiveness. To address these challenges, we introduce AI Tutor, a reinforcement learning based model designed to promote sustainable learning by optimizing both short and l...
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba: Apple has reportedly trained a cust…
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba: Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with Alibaba and trained with the company's support, Reuters reports, citing three u...
DJI launches Osmo 360 II 8K camera at RMB3,299: DJI has launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree c…
DJI launches Osmo 360 II 8K camera at RMB3,299: DJI has launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree camera, in China with a starting price of RMB3,299. The camera uses a 1-inch panoramic imaging sensor and offers 14.5 stops of dynamic range. It supports native 8K/60fps panoramic video, AI Super Night Scene 2.0, subject tracking, NFC one-tap pairing and AI-assisted editing, while offering […]
Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen AI Arena for Real-World Agent Testing: Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen A…
Alibaba Cloud Launches Qwen AI Arena for Real-World Agent Testing: Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents. The platform creates tasks based on real business scenarios and provides developers with models, runtime environments and evaluation tools to submit and test agent solutions. Its first challenge focuses on cross-border e-commerce. Participants must generate produc...
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops: See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work…
How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops: See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.
Testing ads in ChatGPT: OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labe…
Testing ads in ChatGPT: OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
What building an AI-native finance function taught me: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons fo…
What building an AI-native finance function taught me: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magp…
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas: OpenAI sent Governor G…
OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas: OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business: Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up …
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business: Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.
How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work: The enterprise marketing team at …
How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work: The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.
SQLite compressed text-history prototypes: Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm p…
SQLite compressed text-history prototypes: Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of strings and then applying zlib or zstd compression to the whole thing? Surely that would com...
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra): Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist b…
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra): Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 , where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago . I decided to pose the exact same prompt to Codex Desktop running GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra - the m...
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI: The Tokenpocaly…
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI: The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are driving the token consumption. It’s a lot of...
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory: Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterpr…
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory: Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users: ChatGPT introd…
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users: ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI: OpenAI and the Am…
Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI: OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work: New OpenAI Signals data shows how pe…
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work: New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
Apple is getting this wrong: OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its em…
Apple is getting this wrong: OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology: Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex t…
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology: Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science: OpenAI shares new results on long-stan…
Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science: OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
Building abundant intelligence: A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affor…
Building abundant intelligence: A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce: See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterpris…
Univé builds an AI-ready workforce: See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation: OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT…
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation: OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robo…
Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration: Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission:…
Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission: Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam: Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Insta…
Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam: Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of […]
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks: Google will now allow you to remove visible…
You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks: Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of […]
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot: Microsoft Copilot will no l…
Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot: Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool: Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with sig…
Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool: Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested feature, and it's basically a prerequisite for any modern DAW. Unfortunately...
Xiaomi patents a vehicle system that switches between two lifting logos: Xiaomi Automobile Technolog…
Xiaomi patents a vehicle system that switches between two lifting logos: Xiaomi Automobile Technology has received a Chinese utility model patent for a “logo lifting device and vehicle.” The patent, CN224617606U, was granted on Aug. 11 and describes a vehicle system that can raise and switch between two logos. The mechanism uses a mounting frame, a movable block and a drive system that moves the block […]
From Monolithic to Modular: Segment-level Automatic Prompt Optimization: Automatic Prompt Optimizati…
From Monolithic to Modular: Segment-level Automatic Prompt Optimization: Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO) often rewrites prompts monolithically, which can improve one behavior while degrading others. We present SAPO, a segment-level APO method that decomposes prompts into role, context, tasks, and output format, then applies targeted improvements based on top-5 and bottom-5 examples. The optimization loop uses one LLM with...
What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price: xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 …
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price: xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic's Claude Opus 5. On agentic tasks, it completes complex workflows in about 53 steps where Claude Opus 5 needs 103, at a price more than 60 percent lower. The article SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it o...
Honor Launches Robot Phone with Gimbal Camera and AI Agent Features: Honor has launched its Robot Ph…
Honor Launches Robot Phone with Gimbal Camera and AI Agent Features: Honor has launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone equipped with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and a system-level AI agent architecture. The phone measures about 9.59 millimeters thick, weighs 248 grams and includes a 7,060mAh battery and a 6.31-inch display. The 12GB+512GB version is priced at 9,999 yuan, while the 16GB+1TB version costs 12,999...
Tencent Plans Larger Hy4 Model After Hy3 Usage Jumps 68-Fold: Tencent said its Hy3 model’s weekly us…
Tencent Plans Larger Hy4 Model After Hy3 Usage Jumps 68-Fold: Tencent said its Hy3 model’s weekly usage increased by more than 68 times compared with its predecessor after the model moved from preview to its formal version. The company also plans to release a larger-parameter Hy4 model in the near term, although it has not disclosed a release date or technical specifications. Hy3 has been […]
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream anal…
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
Quoting Florian Herrengt: But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team ha…
Quoting Florian Herrengt: But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it. I mean... asking AI to fix it. Unfortunately, it seems like not even Fable can figure it out. You go talk to the person who worked on this feature. "So where does the data come from?" "Hmm... actually I don't know. Let me ask Claude." You sit next to each ot...
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux: OpenAI brings its ChatGPT desktop app to Linux. The a…
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux: OpenAI brings its ChatGPT desktop app to Linux. The article OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux appeared first on The Decoder .
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text: There are no lossless transformation…
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text: There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good. If you chose to have LLMs help massage your writing the following rule seems crucial to me: You must stand behind every idea and ever...
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale
Quoting John Gruber: Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio…
Quoting John Gruber: Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare , per se, but they’re occasional . If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d never get anything out. I’m aiming for professionalism. I’m performing live in front of an audie...
GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data
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刚刚，DeepSeek V4 Pro正式版发布，多项对标Fable 5: 现在调用V4 Pro，能直接用上完全体
刚刚，DeepSeek V4 Pro正式版发布，多项对标Fable 5: 现在调用V4 Pro，能直接用上完全体
360纳米大片流水线携手《知识就是力量》发布“知力·纳米”科普科幻AI大片创作平台: 《知识就是力量》杂志社携手360科技集团举行“知力·纳米 科普科幻AI大片创作平台”发布暨AI创作交流活动
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引领智能手机迈入具身交互时代 全球首款机器人手机荣耀Robot Phone发布
iOS 27 Beta Code Points to China-Specific Apple Intelligence Setup: Code found in iOS 27 beta 5 poin…
iOS 27 Beta Code Points to China-Specific Apple Intelligence Setup: Code found in iOS 27 beta 5 points to Apple preparing a mainland China-specific version of Apple Intelligence, but does not confirm a launch date or a local partner. The strings say user requests would be processed on-device and would not be sent to Apple or the local company providing the required security mechanism. The […]
HongShan invests in ZXMOTO as Chinese motorcycle maker targets global racing: HongShan, the China-fo…
HongShan invests in ZXMOTO as Chinese motorcycle maker targets global racing: HongShan, the China-focused venture capital firm formerly known in English as Sequoia China, has invested in ZXMOTO, the Chongqing-based motorcycle maker founded by Zhang Xue. The two sides will work together to develop world-class products and compete on international racing circuits. ZXMOTO focuses on high-performance motorcycles and entered the World S...
CXMT overtakes Tencent as China’s most valuable listed company: CXMT Corporation, a Chinese DRAM mak…
CXMT overtakes Tencent as China’s most valuable listed company: CXMT Corporation, a Chinese DRAM maker, overtook Tencent on Aug. 13 to become China’s most valuable listed company by market capitalization. CXMT’s market value reached about RMB3.54 trillion, compared with Tencent’s roughly HK$4.01 trillion, or about RMB3.45 trillion. CXMT went public on Shanghai’s STAR Market on July 27 at RMB8.66 a share. It opened at […]
WeChat says Moments will never add an edit-after-posting function: WeChat’s official account WeChat …
WeChat says Moments will never add an edit-after-posting function: WeChat’s official account WeChat Pai has said that its Moments platform will never add an edit-after-posting function. The statement was published on Aug. 14 in an article titled “Why doesn’t Moments have an edit function?” The explanation said a Moments post records what a user was thinking or feeling at a particular moment, and that […]
DeepSeek to introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API: DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-pe…
DeepSeek to introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API: DeepSeek will introduce peak and off-peak pricing for its API from Aug. 17. Peak hours will run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beijing time, while other hours will be classified as off-peak. Off-peak prices will be set at half the peak rates. For deepseek-v4-flash, peak pricing will be […]
Phantom Blade Zero releases 11-minute gameplay demo, hits eight million views in one day: On Wednesd…
Phantom Blade Zero releases 11-minute gameplay demo, hits eight million views in one day: On Wednesday, Phantom Blade Zero dropped a brand-new 11-minute gameplay demo and opened pre-orders across all platforms. The video quickly racked up around eight million views on Chinese video platform Bilibili in just one day, while the game has shot to No. 1 on Steam’s global best-sellers chart. Phantom Blade Zero is a dark wuxia-themed […]
Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices: Robert…
Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices: Robert Mahari is Anthropic's first "Head of Claude for Legal," responsible for deploying and expanding the Claude AI model across the legal industry. The article Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices appeared first on The Decoder .
Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed: Nvidia…
Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed: Nvidia is working on Nemotron 4, a new open-weight model designed to rival the world’s best freely available models. The article Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for one trillion parameters, a scale Chinese labs already surpassed appeared first on The Decoder .
Apple says mainland China has not launched Qwen integration after Mac guide disappears: Apple custom…
Apple says mainland China has not launched Qwen integration after Mac guide disappears: Apple customer service told Chinese media that mainland China has not launched an “Apple Intelligence with Qwen” feature after a Chinese-language Mac support guide mentioning the integration disappeared from Apple’s website. The guide appeared on Aug. 8 and said Apple Intelligence could work with Alibaba’s Qwen model. Apple customer service said it had no...
OpenAI is losing its second executive this week: Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dress…
OpenAI is losing its second executive this week: Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup: Remember that much-hyped story about an …
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup: Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: He's launched a startup. That entrepreneur is Paul Conyngham, who says he is launching Gamgee to offer "personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs." But his ambitions go well […]
Alibaba Cloud Makes Its M890 AI Supernode Available in China: Alibaba Cloud’s Lingjun Zhenwu M890 su…
Alibaba Cloud Makes Its M890 AI Supernode Available in China: Alibaba Cloud’s Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance has entered service in China, with Ulanqab as its first deployment region. Enterprise customers can provision 64-card, high-speed-interconnect computing units through the cloud without building their own data centers. The instance is designed to handle inference for mixture-of-experts models with up t...
DeepSeek Expands Hiring for AI Data-Center Infrastructure: DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-ce…
DeepSeek Expands Hiring for AI Data-Center Infrastructure: DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-center team in Beijing, Hangzhou and Ulanqab, with roles covering data-center planning, construction, testing and operations. The listings indicate that the company is expanding its infrastructure efforts beyond model research and software development. The job descriptions seek candidates in electrical engineering, H...
Zhipu’s API User Base Nears 7 Million as It Adds 50,000-Plus Chinese AI Chips: Zhipu’s MaaS open pla…
Zhipu’s API User Base Nears 7 Million as It Adds 50,000-Plus Chinese AI Chips: Zhipu’s MaaS open platform is reported to have nearly 7 million registered API users, about 2 million more than in early July. The figure refers to users of the platform’s model APIs. The company has also newly activated more than 50,000 domestically developed AI chips to meet rising inference demand. Zhipu’s previously restricted Coding Plan […]
DeepSeek V4 Pro API Update Adds Responses API Support: DeepSeek’s API documentation now lists deepse…
DeepSeek V4 Pro API Update Adds Responses API Support: DeepSeek’s API documentation now lists deepseek-v4-pro as an available model, with the current version identified as DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813. The model supports the Responses API and tool calls, with a context length of 1 million tokens and a maximum output of 384,000 tokens. The listed price is $0.003625 per million input tokens for cache hits, $0.435 for […]
WeChat AI Team Details WeLM Models Scaling to 617B Parameters: Tencent’s WeChat AI team has detailed…
WeChat AI Team Details WeLM Models Scaling to 617B Parameters: Tencent’s WeChat AI team has detailed a new scaling approach for its WeLM model family. The team trained WeLM-HD4-80B and WeLM-HD4-617B models using a method called Hidden Decoding, which expands each token into multiple internal computation streams without increasing the main Transformer backbone. The 80B model activates 3 billion parameters, while the 6...
Insta360 Confirms Development of Two Mirrorless Cameras: Insta360 founder and CEO JK Liu said the co…
Insta360 Confirms Development of Two Mirrorless Cameras: Insta360 founder and CEO JK Liu said the company is developing two mirrorless cameras with different designs. One of the models will use a form that consumers may not have seen before, following an interview held after the opening of Insta360’s first direct-run store in Japan. The company is considering new ways to combine interchangeable-lens […]
Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements: On August 12, 2026, Google revealed a bun…
Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements: On August 12, 2026, Google revealed a bunch of new Pixel devices. The colorful Pixel 11 lineup comes with upgraded cameras and performance, with the Pro models offering a built-in LED ring that lights up for Google’s Gemini AI and other features. Google also showed off its next-gen Pixel Fold featuring thinner bezels, alongside a […]
AI tools for breast cancer detection fall short of radiologists' expectations: About half of 215 sur…
AI tools for breast cancer detection fall short of radiologists' expectations: About half of 215 surveyed members of the Society of Breast Imaging already use FDA-approved AI tools for breast cancer detection, but the results fall short of expectations. Only 35 percent report lower recall rates, while 59 percent had expected them. The gap between promise and reality runs through every category measured. The article AI tools for brea...
Google's Gemini is losing market share to ChatGPT and Claude according to new market data: Three dat…
Google's Gemini is losing market share to ChatGPT and Claude according to new market data: Three data sources tell the same story: Google's Gemini is losing AI market share. Pangram reports a drop from 12 to 1.9 percent, while OpenAI holds over 50 percent, and Anthropic grew from 4.3 to 14.9 percent. Similarweb and OpenRouter confirm the trend. The article Google's Gemini is losing market share to ChatGPT and Claude according to new market data...
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Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits: Mist…
Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits: Mistral is giving customers the option to route AI requests through servers in either Europe or the US, and selling priority queue access during peak traffic. Both come with a surcharge, and the regional routing doesn't cover all features or data. The article Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits ap...
Honor Sets Aug. 12 Launch for Its Robot Phone in China: Honor has scheduled the China launch of its …
Honor Sets Aug. 12 Launch for Its Robot Phone in China: Honor has scheduled the China launch of its Robot Phone for Aug. 12. The device combines a smartphone with a motorized gimbal camera and AI-assisted subject tracking. Honor has also highlighted an imaging collaboration with ARRI. Pricing, sales channels and broader availability were not disclosed in the announcement. [IT Home, in Chinese]
OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock: OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buy…
OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock: OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 billion valuation. The move is meant to ease pressure on employees waiting for liquidity ahead of a potential IPO. OpenAI ran a similar $6.6 billion sale in October 2025. The article OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stoc...
联想集团Q1再创史上最佳业绩，AI服务器业务迎来爆发期: 当季实现营收1834亿元人民币，同比猛增43%，创历史新高
联想集团Q1再创史上最佳业绩，AI服务器业务迎来爆发期: 当季实现营收1834亿元人民币，同比猛增43%，创历史新高
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI: Twitch users can now opt out of allowing…
Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI: Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work: SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI …
Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work: SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work for you. The bots share their own cloud-based computer environment, and can sign into apps, tools, and websites you already use to complete multi-step workplace tasks, only coming back when their assigned work […]
The AI race is moving into data centers as Alibaba Cloud cuts delivery time to 100 days: The competi…
The AI race is moving into data centers as Alibaba Cloud cuts delivery time to 100 days: The competition around large AI models is moving beyond models and chips and increasingly into data center infrastructure. Over the past few years, tech giants around the world have continued to ramp up AI computing capacity, with GPU purchases and server expansions becoming almost standard practice. But as demand for computing power continues to surge, […]
Li Auto Expects Second-Generation AI Glasses in H2 2027: Li Auto expects the second generation of it…
Li Auto Expects Second-Generation AI Glasses in H2 2027: Li Auto expects the second generation of its Livis AI glasses to arrive in the second half of 2027. The company is evaluating lens-based display technologies with Zeiss and is also developing native compatibility with HarmonyOS. Li Auto said the Livis product line is expected to support more vehicle models over time. The AI glasses […]
Tencent reportedly makes WorkBuddy a top strategic AI priority: Tencent’s WorkBuddy has reportedly b…
Tencent reportedly makes WorkBuddy a top strategic AI priority: Tencent’s WorkBuddy has reportedly become one of the company’s highest-priority AI applications, with the company increasing advertising, computing and organizational resources for the product. The campaign has included outdoor advertising in Beijing and Shenzhen and promotional placements across major mobile apps. WorkBuddy is a desktop AI office agent t...
Former ByteDance robotics head reportedly joins Xiaomi: Former ByteDance robotics team head Kong Tao…
Former ByteDance robotics head reportedly joins Xiaomi: Former ByteDance robotics team head Kong Tao has reportedly joined Xiaomi, where he now leads a team developing foundation models for robots. Several people familiar with the matter said Kong joined Xiaomi in 2025 and brought a number of former ByteDance colleagues with him. Xiaomi’s robotics division is said to have about 200 employees, while […]
China’s Tablet Shipments Fall 4.4% in Q2 as Commercial Demand Surges: China’s tablet market shipped …
China’s Tablet Shipments Fall 4.4% in Q2 as Commercial Demand Surges: China’s tablet market shipped 7.96 million units in the second quarter of 2026, down 4.4% from a year earlier. Commercial tablet shipments rose 67.1%, while consumer shipments fell 9.8%. Huawei ranked first in shipments, followed by Apple and Lenovo. Xiaomi and Honor ranked fourth and fifth, respectively. The commercial market’s growth was partly driven b...
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about th…
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health: The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there's a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump. There's a $50 price hike from last year, too, because the Pixel […]
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《置身谷内》！Jeff Dean上顶会自曝离职现场：被1500人围堵: 回消息到凌晨2点半
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Anthropic CEO整天神神叨叨，投资人受不了了: Dario能不能少吓唬点人…
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Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video: After weeks of contro…
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video: After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plug-ins like Autotune...
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT: After a former lead writer claim…
Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT: After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that "I was lead writer on this one! […]
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users: For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 b…
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users: For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the first AI app to hit it. OpenAI's ChatGPT […]
Another OpenAI executive takes off: Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's …
Another OpenAI executive takes off: Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he'd be starting "something new." "Over the last few months, I've been focused on the next horizon and what would stand […]
Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes: Apple is seemingly developing an iOS…
Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes: Apple is seemingly developing an iOS feature that can verify when a photograph was taken using an iPhone camera. 9to5Mac reports that the iOS 27 beta 5 includes code references for an "Apple Reference Image" system that can embed provenance metadata into iPhone photographs at the point of capture - enabling users to prove where […]
Manus Says It Will Resume Operating as an Independent Company: Manus said it will return to independ…
Manus Says It Will Resume Operating as an Independent Company: Manus said it will return to independent operations after its separation from Meta. The company said it will continue serving millions of users worldwide, while warning that some accounts will be affected during the transition. For affected users, data generated on or after Dec. 29, 2025, will be deleted from 8 a.m. Aug. 23 through […]
ByteDance Reportedly Forms New AI Data and Safety Department: ByteDance has reportedly formed a new …
ByteDance Reportedly Forms New AI Data and Safety Department: ByteDance has reportedly formed a new top-level department focused on AI data and safety, placing it alongside Seed, Flow and Douyin within the company’s organizational structure. The unit is led by Wang Yinglei, a former TikTok executive who oversaw platform responsibility and livestreaming. The department reportedly grew out of a global data team establ...
Pinduoduo Adds “Arrive as Early as Tomorrow” Entry to Its Homepage: Pinduoduo has added a first-leve…
Pinduoduo Adds “Arrive as Early as Tomorrow” Entry to Its Homepage: Pinduoduo has added a first-level homepage entry called “Arrive as Early as Tomorrow,” offering next-day or second-day delivery for selected fresh food and daily goods. The service includes a missed-delivery promise, with compensation of at least a RMB3 coupon when the delivery commitment is not met. The new entry appears alongside Pinduoduo’s subsidy sec...
Xiaohongshu Faces Renewed Dispute Over Employee Stock Option Vesting: Xiaohongshu, the Chinese lifes…
Xiaohongshu Faces Renewed Dispute Over Employee Stock Option Vesting: Xiaohongshu, the Chinese lifestyle and social-commerce platform, is facing a renewed dispute over employee stock options. A former employee said the company terminated him in 2020 eight days before the first 50% of his options were scheduled to vest. A person close to Xiaohongshu disputed that account, saying the vesting date was about two months […]
Alibaba Cloud Plans to More Than Double Global Modular Data Center Capacity: Alibaba Cloud plans to …
Alibaba Cloud Plans to More Than Double Global Modular Data Center Capacity: Alibaba Cloud plans to more than double its global capacity for modular data centers in 2026, as demand for AI computing infrastructure continues to grow. The cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group said its modular approach can support the deployment of large AI data centers in about 100 days. The company said the standardized design can […]
Doubao Introduces a 12% Service Fee for Hotel Bookings Made Through Its Channel: ByteDance’s Doubao …
Doubao Introduces a 12% Service Fee for Hotel Bookings Made Through Its Channel: ByteDance’s Doubao has begun applying an independent fee structure to hotel bookings made through its channel on Douyin’s local-services platform. The combined charge is about 12%, including an 11.4% software service fee and a 0.6% payment fee. The policy took effect on Aug. 10. The fee is applied to hotel orders completed through the channel. […]
Alibaba’s Qwen App Introduces Paid Office Assistant Plans Up to RMB1,499 a Year: Alibaba’s Qwen app …
Alibaba’s Qwen App Introduces Paid Office Assistant Plans Up to RMB1,499 a Year: Alibaba’s Qwen app has introduced paid tiers for its office assistant. The app’s in-product pricing page lists a flagship plan at RMB128 per month or RMB1,499 per year, a lower tier at RMB49 per month or RMB568 per year, and an entry-level tier at RMB19 per month or RMB200 per year. The paid plans provide […]
Chinese Makers Accounted for More Than 97% of Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in H1 2026: Chinese ma…
Chinese Makers Accounted for More Than 97% of Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in H1 2026: Chinese manufacturers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, with total global shipments reaching about 19,100 units, up from roughly 5,100 units in the same period last year. AgiBot shipped about 8,400 units, or 44% of the global total, while Unitree shipped about 5,900 units. Industrial […]
Beyond mobility: Unitree’s GD01 signals the next phase of China’s robotics battle: In 2026, Unitree …
Beyond mobility: Unitree’s GD01 signals the next phase of China’s robotics battle: In 2026, Unitree Robotics once again put itself at the center of the robotics industry’s conversation. Last month, Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing appeared alongside the company’s GD01 manned mech on the cover of TIME magazine. In the image, the nearly 2.7-meter-tall GD01 takes up almost the entire frame, while Wang stands to its […]
Unitree opens A-share IPO subscription: Unitree opened online subscription for its IPO on the Shangh…
Unitree opens A-share IPO subscription: Unitree opened online subscription for its IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s STAR Market on Aug. 10. Chinese media have described the offering as the country’s first IPO by a humanoid robot maker. The deal has attracted attention because of its relatively small public float and Unitree’s position in China’s humanoid robotics sector. Brokerage estimates...
China GPU maker Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after H1 revenue jumps 147%: Moore Threads, a …
China GPU maker Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after H1 revenue jumps 147%: Moore Threads, a Chinese GPU developer, said its board approved a plan to issue H shares and seek a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Main Board. The plan was approved on Aug. 7 and disclosed on Aug. 10, while the timetable and offering size have not been finalized. The company reported first-half revenue […]
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