Opinions
The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem
MIT Technology Review reports on new research finding that AI agents currently cannot conduct open-ended AI research — free-form investigation…
Opinions
AI detection tools are proliferating. Here’s why they won’t last.
In his ‘Superintelligent’ newsletter column, linguist Adam Aleksic argues that the growing market of AI-text detection tools is built on…
Opinions
Stop shaming the use of AI. For some with disabilities, it’s a godsend
Freelance writer Sharon Schindel, who has chronic pain and nerve damage, argues that blanket criticism of AI writing tools overlooks…
News
Perplexity’s Free Airtel Offer Left It With Millions More Users in India
Perplexity’s promotional partnership with Indian telecom operator Airtel, which offered free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscriptions, drove 56 million downloads over…
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Microsoft Patches ‘CoSnitch’ Copilot Flaws That Enabled One-Click Data Theft
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed three chained vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal, collectively dubbed CoSnitch and tracked as CVE-2026-24301, that could…
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OpenAI Launches Private Safety Processing to Undercut Anthropic on Privacy
On August 19, 2026, OpenAI announced Private Safety Processing, a system designed to monitor for misuse of its models while…
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Nvidia Denies Report It Plans China-Specific AI Chip by Year-End
Nvidia publicly denied an August 20, 2026 report by The Information claiming the company planned to ship small volumes of…
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Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen Sharing and System-Wide Dictation
On August 19, 2026, Meta released a beta version of its Meta AI assistant as a desktop app for macOS,…
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Governor Shapiro Signs Executive Order Placing Strict Guardrails on Pennsylvania AI Data Centers
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05, making the state’s Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development (GRID) requirements legally binding for…
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Guidelight’s First Control Assessment Finds Frontier AI Companies Lag on Safety Practices
On August 18, 2026, the nonprofit Guidelight AI Standards, founded by two former OpenAI safety staff, published its first assessment…
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Cerebras Unveils CS-4, the Fastest AI Inference System Yet
On August 18, 2026, Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a fourth-generation AI accelerator built on three new Wafer Scale Engine 3…
Engineering
New imatrix Dataset
GGUF quantizer bartowski released an improved calibration (‘imatrix’) dataset, version 6, used to guide which weights to preserve during LLM…