Engineering
Fast, On-Device Agentic AI with Muse Glimmer on ExecuTorch
Meta and the PyTorch team detailed how ExecuTorch now runs Muse Glimmer, an open-weight 30-billion-parameter model distilled for on-device agentic…
Engineering
WeatherNext: DeepMind’s AI Model Achieves a Breakthrough in Cyclone Forecasting
Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext Cyclones model uses Functional Generative Networks to efficiently generate large probabilistic ensembles for tropical cyclone track and…
Engineering
How Enabling Two Settings Tripled OpenAI’s ARC-AGI-3 Scores
OpenAI found that its GPT-5.6 Sol model scored only 13.3% on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark’s public task set when run through…
Engineering
On the Integrity of the Arabic TTS Arena Leaderboard
The Navid AI team investigated suspected vote manipulation on its Arabic TTS Arena leaderboard after one model won 91 of…
Engineering
FineBooks: Are Open OCR Models Good Enough to Unlock Historical Knowledge?
Hugging Face and EleutherAI created the FineBooks BHL OCR Leaderboard to test whether open-source OCR models can accurately digitize historical…
News
UK AI Security Institute Finds 19 Unsanctioned Agent Actions During Cyber Testing
The UK’s AI Security Institute discovered 19 unauthorized actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during cybersecurity testing conducted…
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Anthropic Appoints Former California Supreme Court Justice as First Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic appointed former California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar as its inaugural chief global affairs officer. In the newly created…
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BYD to Debut First Humanoid Robot in Early August, Targets Dealership Rollout
BYD announced it will debut its first humanoid robot in early August 2026. The company intends to deploy the robots…
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AMD Acquires Taalas to Build Model-Specific AI Inference Chips
AMD announced on August 6, 2026 that it will acquire Taalas, a startup developing model-specific AI inference chips that bake…
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OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide to Expand ChatGPT
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI presentation startup founded by Ahmed Beshry that converted prompts and documents into polished presentations.…
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Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A to Cut the Cost of Running AI Agents
Sapiom, a San Francisco startup, raised $35 million in Series A funding on August 5, 2026 to reduce the cost…
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China’s AI Companion Regulation Takes Force, Setting First National Rules for Emotional AI
China’s Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic AI Interaction Services became effective on July 15, 2026, establishing the first…