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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia released research on Friday showing that the infrastructure surrounding an AI model matters far more than the model itself when assigning…
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Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
Meta has released Muse Glimmer: a 30B parameter local model that runs on consumer…
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AI for science needs reasoning, not just data
Albert Michelson wrote in 1903 that the facts of physical science had all been…
10 Aug 2026
AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
AI agents consume roughly 600 times more energy than a standard chat request Climate…
8 Aug 2026
xAI’s Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI’s GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks
xAI has launched Imagine Image 2.0 as a new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and…
8 Aug 2026
Anthropic loosens Fable 5’s biology restrictions but keeps the guardrails on for virology and toxicology
Anthropic has reduced false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by…
7 Aug 2026
Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses
Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute have used artificial intelligence to design…
7 Aug 2026
Stanford and Arc Institute scientists used AI to design new viruses that killed bacteria in the lab
A team from Stanford University and the Arc Institute has published a peer-reviewed paper…
7 Aug 2026
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
Bloomberg reports that OpenAI is developing a new AI smart speaker priced between $300…
7 Aug 2026
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400
Bloomberg reports that OpenAI’s forthcoming smart speaker will retail between $300 and $400. The…
6 Aug 2026