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Google bets Gemini can turn casual players into game developers with new Playground feature
Google has launched Playground, a browser-based platform allowing adults in the US to build games using only text prompts without any coding…
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Researchers stretch LeCun’s JEPA AI into a universal world model that works from physics to biology
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20 Aug 2026
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A study from Pew Research released on Thursday states that 35% of web pages…
20 Aug 2026
GEN-1.5: Generalist AI teaches robots new tasks from a single demo
Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a system that allows robots to learn new actions…
20 Aug 2026
Lifeforms Can Survive on ‘Significant’ Regions of the Moon, Study Finds
Microbes from Earth can survive on parts of the Moon for at least seven…
19 Aug 2026
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19 Aug 2026
GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed
Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 model has secured the top position on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index…
19 Aug 2026
New benchmark ranks search APIs for AI agents on quality, cost, and speed
Artificial Analysis has released the Search Index, a new benchmark that evaluates search API…
18 Aug 2026