August 2026
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The rise and fall of agent civilizations
The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained
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MIT Quantum Initiative launches postdoctoral fellowship program
The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.
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TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting
Data Management
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GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and…
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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.
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A “quantum bath” puts quantum entanglement on autopilot
Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared…
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Open Thread 449
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Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act
Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/31/2026 - 11:10 The Commission has designated ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine…
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LWiAI Podcast #255 - Gemini 3.7, Jalapeño, Qwen 3.8, Drones
Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash, Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed, A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
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Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
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IBM quantum computer solves classically intractable problem in 15 minutes
IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not practically reproduce. The system used 70 error-corrected logical qubits and…
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🔮 Unbounded self-improvement and its limits #599
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When you keep AI Lean, you keep AI correct
Ryan chats with Leo de Moura, Senior Principal Applied Scientist at AWS and the creator of the Lean language, about proving correctness in AI agents with the Lean language, how automated reasoning…
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How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
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The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
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Planetary prediction engine: Automating global models via Earth AI
Earth AI
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
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OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first six months. The post OpenClaw went viral. Meet the…
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Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
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Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply…
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Meta settles with the states over child safety failures
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NASA just used satellites and debris to navigate without GPS
NASA has successfully tested a system that allows satellites to navigate without GPS by using other spacecraft and debris as landmarks in orbit. In just three days, FALCON also improved the known…
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GlucoFM: Foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring
Health & Bioscience
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Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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The AI Backlash is Accelerating
The most important AI bottleneck, is human.
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Visions of AI: the advent of world models
Following the breadcrumbs of Nvidia.
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Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
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AgentHands: Generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in XR
Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization
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Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
"Every force is screeching towards centralization."
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Last Week in AI #342 - Last 3 Months in AI
The newsletter is finally back!
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Services Week 2026 Wrap Up
This year's Services Week saw an incredible 4,000 attendees across 80 sessions, delivered by over 30 different government departments. We reflect on the event's success and how to stay connected to…
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NIST Researchers Supersize Quantum Technology to Help Detect Faint Photons
Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum computing to deep-tissue imaging, detecting every single photon counts.…
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Pitching day: Finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award
Pitching day: Finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 08/24/2026 - 10:19 20 October 2026 Watch the pitches of the top 10 finalists of the Apply AI Startup Award and…
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An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data
Generative AI
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From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay.
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
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Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT
Skala 1.1, the updated deep-learning exchange-correlation functional from Microsoft Research, provides greater accuracy, expanded accessibility across the computational chemistry ecosystem, and a…
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We’ve never seen an Anthropic before
Anthropic’s IPO is going to leave OpenAI in the past.
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Visions of AI: Automating repetitive grunt Coding tasks
In an era of rapid consolidation and M&A, one Coding AI startup is growing their Enterprise base at a startling pace. The era of hyper specialized routing is creating autonomous SaaS AI winners.
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An LLM wiki changed how I work
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Tiny robots powered by light can hunt down and collect bacteria
Researchers have built microscopic, light-driven robots that can rapidly navigate through liquid, collect bacteria, and deposit them in chosen locations. These tiny “cleaners” could open new…
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Call for tenders: Study on how online marketplace design influences user behaviour
Call for tenders: Study on how online marketplace design influences user behaviour Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/18/2026 - 11:13 Opening: 17 August 2026 Closing: 23 September 2026 The study will…
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Teaching Everyone to Fish for Tokens
Nvidia wants you building your own model, not buying from Anthropic/OpenAI.
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Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power
Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid technology could…
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Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers…
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GLM-5.3: How Chinese labs keep stride with the frontier
Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.
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World’s first superconducting quantum heat engine could help unlock massive quantum computers
A tiny superconducting engine has successfully converted heat near absolute zero into useful work, demonstrating the first cyclic quantum heat engine of its kind. Future versions could operate…
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Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public,…
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Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
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Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
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Labs are struggling to keep frontier models under control
OpenAI and Anthropic may have accidentally trained models to get better at hacking.
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NIST National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee Meeting Scheduled for Sept. 23 and 24, 2026
Anyone wishing to attend the virtual meeting must register by 5 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 16.
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MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities
A path, a fence, a knot. MindTopo sets a new benchmark for testing how AI understands topological relationships and highlights new opportunities to strengthen spatial reasoning and planning. The…
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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.
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively…
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Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
A debate about recursive self-improvement.
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Introducing CARE-X: Towards Clinically Useful Radiology VLMs with Auxiliary Supervision, Reward-Aligned Learning, and Tool-Augmented Measurement
Radiology AI is evolving beyond report generation. CARE-X explores a unified approach that combines flexible reasoning, calibrated predictions, and measurement-based tools for chest X-ray…
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Superintelligence is a dragon
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How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone
The post How to build an AI agent: A simple guide for anyone appeared first on Source .
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5 useful things you'll learn in my new post-training textbook (shipping now!)
After a few long years of finding time to document my lessons from training open models, my post-training book is done!
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Join the Inaugural D-TECT Forum
Join the Inaugural D-TECT Forum lobacni Mon, 08/10/2026 - 14:07 11 November 2026 The Drone Tech for Countering Threats (D-TECT) Forum is the EU industrial coordination mechanism for drone and…
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Lessons from the hacks
Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.
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8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
Locking in AI safety regulation now is a mistake.
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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165…
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NIST Researchers Correct Common Error Confounding Nanotech Measurements
The scientists offer a practical solution that relies on accounting for measurement errors before testing materials or developing products.
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GDS: delivering a better GOV.UK experience for business
GDS and BIST are supporting UK businesses to operate and grow by collaborating across government to improve online advice and services.
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
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‘Spooky’ Particles Transit DC Suburbs, a Step Toward a Quantum Network
The achievement shows that fragile quantum entanglement can survive even in tough, real-world conditions.
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Turning ambition into action in complex systems
Transforming complex public services starts with action, not perfection. Learn how HM Land Registry used rapid testing, evidence and collaboration to improve a citizen service and build momentum for…
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Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them
I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.
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Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology
The post Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology appeared first on Source .
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Our advertising principles
How we fund our journalism without compromising our independence.
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NIST Joins National Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI Innovation
NIST will execute two of its efforts through its Centers for AI in Manufacturing and Critical Infrastructure.
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Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x
The end of cheap compute?
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Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by…
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Introducing our Artifacts Hub and Adoption Dashboard
Scaling our curation and measurement of the open ecosystem.
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LWiAI Podcast #253 - Opus 5, Gemini 3.6, Kimi K3, Hugging Face Hack
Anthropic releases Opus 5 promising Fable 5-like capabilities, Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models, and more!
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Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
Capacity to train strong models is proliferating.