News
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled a preview of Qwen3.8-Max on July 19, 2026, describing it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model…
News
Sprout Social to Cut 20% of Workforce in AI-Driven Restructuring
Sprout Social’s board approved a restructuring plan on July 8, 2026 that will cut about 260 jobs, roughly 20% of…
Opinions
AI Won’t Replace Everyone. That’s Not The Good News
The column argues that AI is displacing specific workers and tasks rather than replacing jobs wholesale, citing Microsoft’s recent reduction…
Opinions
Demis Hassabis, AGI and the growing competition between human and machine intelligence
The column traces Demis Hassabis’s career path from neuroscientist to Google DeepMind chief, highlighting his work on AlphaGo and AlphaFold…
Opinions
AI Will Supercharge Surveillance Capitalism
Courtney C. Radsch argues that artificial intelligence will intensify surveillance capitalism because AI systems receive intimate personal information directly in…
Engineering
Fine-tune video and image models at scale with NVIDIA NeMo Automodel and Diffusers
NVIDIA and Hugging Face announced integration of NVIDIA’s NeMo Automodel framework with the Diffusers library, enabling distributed training of diffusion…
Engineering
Remember When It Matters: Proactive Memory Agent for Long-Horizon Agents
A July 2026 paper proposes a Proactive Memory Agent architecture in which a separate memory module runs alongside an unmodified…
Engineering
A-TMA: Decoupling State-Aware Memory Failures in Long-Term Agent Memory
A July 2026 paper introduces A-TMA, a state-aware overlay for long-term agent memory systems that targets ghost memory, a failure…
Engineering
What happens in the milliseconds after you tap pay
A Databricks engineering post walks through a sample real-time fraud-detection system that scores credit-card transactions in under 40 milliseconds using…
Engineering
From Passive Retrieval to Active Memory Navigation: Learning to Use Memory as a Structured Action Space
A July 2026 paper introduces NapMem, a framework that treats long-term user memory as a structured action space to be…
News
Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And Exits
Global venture funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing all of 2025’s investment for…
News
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Pro As Xi Jinping Opens China’s AI Summit In Shanghai On Same Day
Google released Gemini 3.5 Pro on July 18, 2026, featuring a 2-million-token context window and enhanced reasoning capabilities, the same…