July 2026
34 items. Back to the archive.
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Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August
Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/31/2026 - 09:00 From 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office,…
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EU support for the news media sector
EU support for the news media sector anserge Fri, 07/31/2026 - 09:00 The European Commission works to address structural challenges in media sectors and to promote a free, diverse and pluralistic…
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Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents
Computer-use AI agents struggle with multi-step workflows like email and customer support. Echoverse trains agents in realistic environments rather than simply providing more training tasks, helping…
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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the…
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EvoLib: Turning experience into evolving knowledge
LLMs do not get smarter just by remembering more. EvoLib turns experience into evolving knowledge, taking reusable skills and insights that help models learn and adapt across tasks long after…
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Transformation needs deliberately designed teams: here's how we're building them differently
How talent shapes transformation.
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Why compute might get 10x+ more expensive in coming years
If a human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That’s 15x today’s spot price.
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Fantasy Premier League Companion gives managers a new tool for success
The post Fantasy Premier League Companion gives managers a new tool for success appeared first on Source .
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
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A new approach to AI data puts communities in charge
The post A new approach to AI data puts communities in charge appeared first on Source .
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An OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark
Organizations across the Internet need to move quickly to patch vulnerabilities.
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NIST Announces Funding Opportunity for 14 MEP Centers to Advance Small and Medium-Sized U.S. Manufacturers
NIST MEP will host an informational webinar on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at 1 p.m. ET to provide general information about this opportunity and guidance on preparing applications.
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MIT’s new lidar chip could give self-driving cars a wider view
MIT engineers have found a way to give chip-based lidar a wider, clearer view without relying on moving parts. Their design uses differently shaped antennas that can sit close together without…
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LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes…
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LWiAI Podcast #252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040
GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, regulatory developments in AI and data centers, interpretability research from Anthropic, and the future of AI policy with AI 2040
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Last Week in AI #251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat
Trump lifts restrictions on Anthropic, Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5, Google's NotebookLM updates, chips stories from Etched and Baidu, and more!
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Last Week in AI #250 - Mythos Mess, GPT 5.6-Sol, GLM 5.2
Anthropic's AI treaty discussions, US government's influence on AI model releases, OpenAI's processor development, memory market impacts, and more!
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LWiAI Podcast #249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty
Exploring the Fable 5 ban, SpaceX’s strategic acquisition, and a burst of open source advancements
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LWiAI Podcast #248 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
Exploring Claude Fable 5’s impact, Siri AI’s latest enhancements, and the competitive IPO landscape shaping AI’s future
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LWiAI Podcast #247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3
New Models, IPO Announcements, and the Rise of Open Source Competitors
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Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD
The post Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD appeared first on Source .
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Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software…
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NIST Receives New Patent for Microbe-Killing Water Heater
Warm water in household pipes can be a breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
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What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCrypt, from standards to code
Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets…
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An OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition
But human programmers aren’t obsolete — at least not yet.
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Adam Brown – A deep but accessible introduction to general relativity
And why black holes are the ultimate power plants.
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Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
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Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and…
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Ways to think about token pricing
AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their…
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New Fabric Test Material Could Help Strengthen Domestic Supply Chain for Textiles and Clothing
Researchers estimate that 56% of textiles can be recycled or recovered, but most don’t make it back into the domestic supply chain.
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Flint: A visualization language for the AI era
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive…
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Evolving the Service Standard for the future of public services
We’re evolving the Service Standard from a one-off test into a living standard for modern, end-to-end public services. Here’s how – and how to be involved.
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New AI-powered library lets people meet Theodore Roosevelt in a whole new way
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