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What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 110 # Comments: 70

Lunar orbiter among upcoming NASA CLPS task orders

NASA plans to award three more lunar missions this year through a commercial services program, including an orbiter that would replace the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter The post Lunar orbiter among upc

Weekend Quick Charge: all about autonomy with Waymo and GM

On today’s self-steering episode of Quick Charge, we take a look at Waymo’s westward expansion into 18 new California counties – a move the company believes will power it to more than one MILLION paid

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

Tesla adds 2.4 kW vehicle-to-load to Model Y Premium with $80 adapter

Tesla has switched on vehicle-to-load for the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico, letting owners pull 2.4 kW out of the car’s battery at 120 volts and 20 amps. You need an $80 accessory to do i

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-026-01496-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: 140 # Comments: 74

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain

Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Points: 499 # Comments: 420

Corrupt DoT head took oil money for reality TV show during oil price spike (update)

Sean Duffy, whose transportation expertise comes from being a contestant on the reality TV show Road Rules, is going back to his roots and filming a reality TV show while on the job. But, as is fittin

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Turning millions of Teslas and Mach-Es into V2L power stations: WETOX D2 earns world’s first Next-Gen V2X certification from SGS

The ability to tap into the energy locked inside your car’s battery to power tools, lights, campground gear, and essential home appliances during an outage has quickly become one of the most desirable

Current classics: Bisimoto’s 600 hp electric Rolls-Royce SilvEV Ghost

First seen in the Toyo Tires booth in 2024, Bisi Ezerioha’s converted Roller resurfaced this week at Exotics on Broadway – and the slick, silent running SilvEV Ghost electric restomod has never looked

Speeders just got lucky: the new Dodge police Charger is NOT electric

If the Mopar faithful won’t embrace the 670 hp electric Charger because it’s powered by batteries, and won’t accept the 550 hp Sixpack Charger because it’s powered by turbos. In a last-ditch effort, D

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

Article URL: https://opensauce.it/cloudflare-ai-psychosis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310719 Points: 109 # Comments: 90

PACCAR brand DAF to add Level 4 Einride autonomy to its electric trucks

Autonomous logistics firm Einride is partnering with heavy truck brand DAF to accelerate the deployment of autonomous electric freight assets across the company’s premium truck platforms.

Why robots that can’t communicate naturally won’t be adopted

Gunnar Pétur Hauksson, the co-founder and COO at Treble Technologies, says robotics developers can't overlook the importance of hearing. The post Why robots that can’t communicate naturally won’t be a

Fine-Tuning Tool-Calling LLMs: A Complete Guide Using XYZ-Aquila-SFT and Qwen3

Implement an end-to-end fine-tuning pipeline for tool-calling language models. This tutorial covers parsing trajectories, structured tool-call extraction, Qwen-compatible ChatML rendering, and efficie

Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding

Article URL: https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309451 Points: 301 # Comments: 190

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

Article URL: https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700 Points: 122 # Comments: 56

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As EV sales, oil costs and wildfires spike, UK gov’t considers.. fewer EVs? (update)

The UK government is considering relaxing its landmark electric vehicle rules, even in the face of inflated oil prices, a recordbreaking year for temperatures and wildfires, and EV sales that are alre

U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation

The Aug. 10 launch of QZS-7 completes bilateral program to host U.S. sensors aboard Japanese navigation satellites The post U.S. Space Force adds second surveillance sensor to Japanese constellation a

How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours

Protolabs CTO Marc Kermisch explains how AI, simulation, and design for manufacturing turn CAD files into production parts faster. The post How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours a

Wallops gears up for an increase in launches

With a projected surge in launches from Wallops Island in the coming years, companies and officials say now is the time for infrastructure improvements to benefit companies and their workers. The post

Every 2027 GM EV will plug directly into Tesla Superchargers

GM is putting NACS DC fast-charging ports on its entire 2027 model-year EV lineup.

Chevy Equinox EV vs Kia EV3: Which is America’s most affordable 315+ mile range EV?

The 2027 Chevrolet Equinox EV is now on sale, starting at $34,995. The 2027 Kia EV3 starts at $29,890. On GM’s website, it still says the electric Equinox is “America’s most affordable 315+ mile range

Podcast: Tesla Roadster is happening?, Kia EV3 in US, gas pumps replaced, and more

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss the Tesla Roadster actually happening, the Kia EV3 coming

Waymo wins California approval to expand robotaxis across 18 counties

Waymo says California regulators have signed off on the biggest expansion of its robotaxi service yet, covering 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego. The California Public Utilities Commission ap

Tesla launches V2L Outlet Adapter for Premium Model Y in the U.S.

Tesla has launched a new Vehicle-to-Load (V2L) Outlet Adapter for Premium Model Y vehicles in the United States, meaning you can now power devices like laptops or light strings with your vehicle’s bat

BYD launches the Qin Max EV for half the price of a Tesla Model 3

BYD’s new Qin Max is now on sale, another Tesla Model 3-sized electric sedan that’s about half the price.

Velotric Nomad 2 e-bike new 1,749 low, Greenworks 60V 54-inch MaximusZ mower bundle low, Anker SOLIX, Segway, more

We are closing out this week with a fully packed Green Deals edition, half of which are EV deals. To start, there’s Velotric’s newly launched End of Summer Sale, which has offers like the Nomad 2 Off-

Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026

Neros is developing its Archer AI and Bandit platform with the hardware and compute required for multi-asset control. The post Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end o

Hyundai starts building the IONIQ 3, its affordable electric hatch

Hyundai wants the IONIQ 3 to be “the best vehicle in Europe.” With sales set to begin soon, the electric hatch is now rolling off the line.

Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA Open Indonesia’s First University AI Center to Develop Local AI Talent

Indonesia is taking charge of its AI future. This week, the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi), Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat or IOH), NVIDIA and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM

Video Friday: Lift Happens

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Spire and PlanetiQ win NOAA radio-occultation contracts

SAN FRANCISCO – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to Spire Global and PlanetiQ to provide radio occultation data for terrestrial and space weather forecasts. Th

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300800 Points: 306 # Comments: 178

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

AI by Hand

Article URL: https://www.byhand.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300568 Points: 357 # Comments: 30

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its ow

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

Article URL: https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300314 Points: 486 # Comments: 282

Tesla Roadster unveiling nears, and it will fly: The Information

Tesla is nearing its long-awaited unveiling of the all-electric Tesla Roadster, a new report from The Information claims, as the company has said several times this year that the event would take plac

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

Article URL: https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299282 Points: 175 # Comments: 198

Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

How to Build a Simple AI Web Scraper with Python

Turn any webpage into a lightweight LLM-powered QA engine by cleaning HTML, converting content to Markdown, and returning focused answers while reducing token usage.

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its ow

Samsung health AI models analyse wearable biosignal data

Samsung Research America’s Digital Health Team has presented two AI foundation models designed to learn from wearable biosignals. The work centres on data captured by smartwatches, including heart act

Cheaper launch has moved the spacecraft bottleneck. Mass is out, surface area is in.

In the beginning, mass constrained spaceflight. We live at the bottom of a gravity well, and the rocket equation punishes every kilogram we try to lift out of it. Mass […] The post Cheaper launch has

Robots on Wall Street: Non-traditional paths to public markets for robotics companies

Agility’s SPAC deal shows there is no one route to a robotics public listing, with SPAC mergers, reverse mergers, and traditional IPOs offering different advantages. The post Robots on Wall Street: No

Blue Origin outlines plans for second Cape Canaveral launch pad

Blue Origin disclosed new details about its plans to not only rebuild but also expand its Florida launch site, adding a second pad for a larger version of New Glenn. The post Blue Origin outlines plan

5 Fun Agentic AI Papers to Read

If you read only five papers on AI agents, make them these.

Intuitive Machines wins contract for three GEO satellites

Intuitive Machines announced Aug. 13 that it won a $600 million contract from an undisclosed customer for three geostationary orbit communications satellites. The post Intuitive Machines wins contract

Google AI health coach to use Abbott glucose data

Abbott and Google are linking continuous glucose monitoring data with Google’s AI-powered health coaching tools, giving the Gemini-powered service access to another source of personal health informati

Bulgaria advances project to launch new space, defense innovation hub

WARSAW, Poland — Bulgaria’s government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding with the local satellite manufacturer EnduroSat to collaborate on the development of a new space and defense inn

In-Orbit Services Market to Generate $3 Billion in Revenue Over the Next Decade

Paris, France | August 2026 – Novaspace’s latest In-Orbit Services Markets report projects that emerging in-orbit services will generate approximately $3 billion in cumulative service revenues over th

Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 Without Retraining the Base Model: Better at Complex Coding and Long-Horizon Tasks

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026. The model reuses the 743B GLM-5.2 base unchanged. Every reported gain comes from scaled post-training: more long-horizon task environments, more environment t

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Meet Needle 2: An Open 45M-Parameter Tool-Calling Model That Ships as a 14MB Binary and Runs a Full Session in 28MB of RAM

Cactus Compute released Needle 2, an open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. The full model is a single 14MB binary that runs a session in about 28MB of RAM.

Tesla finally got its Nevada Robotaxi Permit but with a few catches hard to miss

Nevada granted Tesla's robotaxi permit, but capped the fleet at just ten vehicles for now. The post Tesla finally got its Nevada Robotaxi Permit but with a few catches hard to miss appeared first on T

Create a Reasoning-Focused LLM: A Practical Guide to Streaming, Curating, and Fine-Tuning the SupraLabs Reasoning Corpus

This tutorial provides a complete workflow for building a compact, reasoning-focused language model. By streaming the SupraLabs reasoning corpus from Hugging Face, we apply quality filters and curate

CesiumAstro buys semiconductor specialist to boost constellation plans

CesiumAstro is acquiring semiconductor specialist Jariet Technologies, adding more in-house capabilities behind the phased-array antenna specialist’s plans for a future communications constellation. T

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How AI text watermarking works

Article URL: https://declaude.org/watermarking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292932 Points: 133 # Comments: 98

Space Force awards five companies $60 million for multi-vendor satellite network tests

Amazon Leo, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Rocket Lab and York Space will prototype and test connections to the SpaceX-built data network backbone The post Space Force awards five companies $60 mi

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

Article URL: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290768 Points: 125 # Comments: 110

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

Tesla launches Powerwall Lease for affordable home backup

Tesla Energy has introduced the Powerwall Lease in conjunction with Tesla Electric, making the service available in Texas. This new option delivers whole-home backup power using two Powerwall units fo

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289844 Points: 709 # Comments: 276

Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens

Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core. It handles text, images, audio, and video across a 1M-token context window w

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier lab's top sales job.

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

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Space Command expands Alabama footprint as headquarters relocation advances

More than 100 personnel have already relocated to Redstone Arsenal as construction of billion-dollar Space Command facility is set to begin The post Space Command expands Alabama footprint as headqua

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288293 Points: 127 # Comments: 62

Elon Musk teases Tesla Roadster unveiling once again

Elon Musk continues to tease the unveiling event for the Tesla Roadster, a continuing trend that has grown into a bigger game of “When” for fans who have been waiting years for the car to finally ente

Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B: A 3B Vision-Language Model That Reads Screens, Grounds Objects, and Calls Tools On-Device

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1B-parameter vision-language model built for on-device deployment. It averages 80.7 on ScreenSpot-v2 and lifts RefCOCO grounding from 57.1 to 87.9. Function callin

Tesla’s driverless Cybercab just passed a big test with State Governor

Florida's governor rode Tesla's Cybercab at a closed test track and called the experience impressive. The post Tesla’s driverless Cybercab just passed a big test with State Governor appeared first on

Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps

Microsoft is simplifying Copilot by combining its consumer and business apps, and dropping AI-generated podcasts, Group Chats, Deep Research, and its Mico character.

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287153 Points: 144 # Comments: 189

Mobile manipulators and humanoids: The future of robotics

A free download looks at the state of humanoids, including a rundown of current robotics developers and interviews with industry experts. The post Mobile manipulators and humanoids: The future of robo

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Tesla wins three-year standoff against Sweden’s IF Metall union

Sweden’s IF Metall union has announced that it is ending all protests against Tesla, effective immediately. The union said in a statement this morning: “There seems to be no limits to the length Tesla

An optical link ‘internet’ to connect networks in space

In this episode, David Ariosto speaks with John Mackey, CEO, co-founder and director of Mbryonics. They discuss building optical links for satellites and other space infrastructure, and what it would

Maritime Satellite Service Revenues to Reach $3.79 Billion by 2035 as NGSO Reshapes Maritime Connectivity

Paris, France | July 2026 — The maritime satellite communications market is entering a new phase of growth as next-generation satellite networks transform connectivity at sea. According to Novaspace’s

Building a Streaming Local AI Agent

Streaming gets used in two different ways when people talk about AI agents. Straighten out your understanding here.

Class Is in Session: GeForce NOW Levels Up Linux, Chromebooks and More

GeForce NOW is giving cloud gaming an extra-credit upgrade just in time for back-to-school season. The native Linux app for GeForce NOW is officially out of beta. GeForce NOW is also delivering new cl

ARM Institute calls for defense manufacturing technology projects

The ARM Institute and the U.S. Department of War are seeking technology project submissions to help rapid U.S. production. The post ARM Institute calls for defense manufacturing technology projects ap

Experts to discuss the state of humanoid robots at RoboBusiness

The RoboBusiness panel will include insights on humanoid robots from Agility, Apptronik, Persona AI, and PSYONIC experts. The post Experts to discuss the state of humanoid robots at RoboBusiness appea

BioflexBot robot hand aims to replicate key human hand motions

Researchers created the BioflexBot, a novel robot that mimics and even exceeds core motions of the hand with a simple design. The post BioflexBot robot hand aims to replicate key human hand motions ap

Constraining Output Space for SLM Narrow Automation Optimization

This article will kick off a series on narrow automation optimization for SLMs, and as the first entry will cover one of the more most useful techniques for doing so: constraining the output space ins

The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

Paragon lays off staff after Gateway cancellation

A subcontractor for a module that was being developed for NASA’s lunar Gateway has laid off 70 people after NASA halted work on the program. The post Paragon lays off staff after Gateway cancellation

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

Okta targets AI agent token costs with MCP scoping

Okta says identity-scoped Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool lists can reduce AI agent token costs. Each model call made by an AI agent can include schemas, names, descriptions and parameters for every

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1 Million Hours of Human Video

Dyna Robotics has released Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on more than one million hours of egocentric human video. The technical report establishes three results: a scaling law on human dat

SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.6: A 500K-Context Frontier Model Tuned for Long-Running Agents, Coding, and Knowledge Work

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026 — a post-training upgrade over Grok 4.5, not a larger base model. It ties GPT-5.6 Sol Max at 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ships 500K

What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

AllenAI Open Instruct Tulu 3 Post-Training with SFT, DPO, RLVR, GRPO, and Verifier-Based Evaluation

Build a custom LLM post-training pipeline using AllenAI’s Open Instruct framework. This comprehensive guide walks through Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and Reinfo

SEW-EURODRIVE adds economy series to its planetary servo gear unit portfolio

SEW-EURODRIVE's new P1.G, P2.G and P3.G gear units extend its existing PxG family below the P5.G, P6.G, and P7.G precision range. The post SEW-EURODRIVE adds economy series to its planetary servo gear

Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says flying cars are coming

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that flying cars will be coming to the market, something that his own company has hinted at previously. Musk said on X, in response to a post that read, “We were promised flyi

Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations

Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient actors and received clinical evaluator ratings on par with primary care physician

Q2 2026 robotics demand increased across industries, reports A3

A3 said that Q2 2026 robotics orders in food, electronics, and healthcare helped offset soft demand from automotive manufacturing. The post Q2 2026 robotics demand increased across industries, reports

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge

Building an End-to-End Data Science Portfolio Project

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NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the b

Strengthening U.S. Army sustainment: TALUS to deliver autonomous distribution

A Stratom-led team won a U.S. Army contract to develop TALUS, an autonomous logistics system for contested environments. The post Strengthening U.S. Army sustainment: TALUS to deliver autonomous distr

5 Easy Ways to Install Python on Windows

Learn how to install Python on Windows using the Python Install Manager, WinGet, uv, Miniconda, or the official Python installer, and choose the best setup for beginners and Python development.

Celona launches Orion agentic wireless platform built for physical AI and robotics

Celona launched Celona Orion, a unified agentic platform merging private 5G, Wi-Fi, cellular, and satellite into one network for physical AI. The post Celona launches Orion agentic wireless platform b

DAF Trucks to integrate Einride Driver to scale autonomous electric freight

Einride is integrating its self-driving software with PACCAR unit DAF Trucks and research at TNO to advance safe autonomous trucking. The post DAF Trucks to integrate Einride Driver to scale autonomou

Empty shelves or lost keys? Recall is the bottleneck for parametric factuality

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router

NVIDIA's open 30B MoE targets the agent execution layer, with Switchyard routing each step to the cheapest capable model. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Act

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SpaceX’s next trillion dollar bet has nothing to do with rockets, Musk tells staff

Elon Musk told SpaceX staff AI revenue will soon dwarf rockets and Starlink combined entirely. The post SpaceX’s next trillion dollar bet has nothing to do with rockets, Musk tells staff appeared firs

From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capit

How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops

See how RingCentral uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to accelerate AI product development and centralize operational intelligence across engineering and operations.

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Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises $300M

The round comes just months after the Cambridge Aerospace's $200 million Series B funding in April. The post Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises $300M appeared first on The Robot Report

Tesla has one big financial question to answer for investors: Morgan Stanley

In a new note to investors on Tuesday, Morgan Stanley analyst Andrew Percoco said that Tesla has one big financial question to answer for investors regarding its Robotaxi rollout, Full Self-Driving so

PlusAI reaches key milestones ahead of launching its autonomous trucks

Since the start of the year, PlusAI said it has improved the safety validation, operational maturity, and efficiency of SuperDrive. The post PlusAI reaches key milestones ahead of launching its autono

Advancing AMIE towards expert-level audio-visual clinical consultations

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AMIE, our research medical AI system, demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AIME_SIZZLE_THUMBNAIL.Aug10.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google introduces AMIE for real-time clinical video consultations in

Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power Architecture

Every new generation of accelerated computing demands more from the infrastructure underneath it — more compute performance, higher rack density and more efficient, scalable power distribution. The bo

The Ultimate Guide to Contributing to Open Source Projects

This guide walks through what contributing to open source projects actually covers, how to pick a project that will actually respond to you, the exact git mechanics, and more.

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NVIDIA and Local AI Community Fuel Open Source Models and Intelligent Agents

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally.  Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3

3 Visual Proofs of the Central Limit Theorem to Build Your Intuition

To build your intuition, this article shows three visual proofs that the classic bell curve appears in myriad situations.

Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Daybreak models are now available on AWS

OpenAI and AWS are making Daybreak cybersecurity capabilities available through Amazon Bedrock to support enterprise security workflows.

Novo Nordisk and AWS bring agentic AI into drug discovery

Novo Nordisk is expanding its use of AWS artificial intelligence tools across drug discovery, including AI agents for target identification, therapy design, and research workflows. Under the agreement

How AI is changing the vulnerability response timeline

Artificial intelligence is giving security researchers new ways to examine code, trace unusual behaviour and identify flaws that conventional tools may overlook. The pressure is particularly visible a

With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios

“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind and water more efficiently and accurately.

Robot Recycler Salvages Parts From Broken Machines

Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous. If you’ve used a car, household appliance, or smartphone today, you’ve used an object constructed at least in part by robots. The more products that manuf

What building an AI-native finance function taught me

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS

New Free eBook: Understanding Agentic AI, an Executive Briefing

Written for CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, and technology executives, our new free ebook "Understanding Agentic AI: An Executive Briefing" walks through the components every real agentic system is built from.

Evolve your marketing with new AI tools

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Advisor_Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics c

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.

Specification Engineering: The New Skill After Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering taught us how to ask better questions. Specification engineering teaches us how to define better work.

Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.

Meta Muse Glimmer brings local AI agents to consumer GPUs

Meta is releasing Muse Glimmer under an Apache 2.0 licence for local AI agents that can run on a consumer GPU. The company’s  Superintelligence Labs has released the 30-billion-parameter model’s weigh

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Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale

Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.

The limits of physics AI: where Siemens says the human stays in charge

Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of them. Precisely up to 1,000 times faster, according to Siemens

Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business

Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.

Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work

Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.

How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work

The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.

Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

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Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub po

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Video Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong

How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch

Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every ‘Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’

SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels

The fab is intended to build chips for data centers that will be run by SpaceX and its xAI subsidiary.

Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI

Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The arrangement

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Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise

MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-

Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.

WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones

GeForce NOW Shakes Up August With 26 New Games

August is here, bringing 26 new games for GeForce NOW members.  Command the seas in World of Warships: Legends and discover what’s next in the GeForce NOW library, starting with the eight newly added

Into the Omniverse: How Open World Models Push the Frontier of Physical AI

In July, NVIDIA joined more than 200 companies and organizations in signing “Open Weights and American AI Leadership,” an open letter arguing that AI leadership will be measured not by any single fron

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Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥

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NVIDIA and Partners Build in America, for America

NVIDIA and its partners are investing in American manufacturing, supply chains, energy grids and skilled workforces so the U.S. can produce the infrastructure needed for better healthcare, breakthroug

Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call.

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US

NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanc

NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling the

As AI Increases Demands on Memory, Storage Steps Up

Surging AI demands are driving the need for massive datasets and context windows that burst past the confines of system memory.  But rising needs aren’t met by simply adding more storage capacity. Wha

AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency

Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/July_AI_Recap_still.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026

What Robotics Companies Think About the U.S. Foreign Robot Ban

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) “Covered List,” originally published in 2021, identifies communications equipment and services that it says pose a threat to national security. On 28 J

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

Walden Robotics Partners With Toyota on Practical Humanoids

For a while there, it seemed as though robotics as a whole was stuck in a mad rush towards building humanoid robots mostly because it was very possible (and very lucrative) to do so, even without near

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Vibe_coding_course_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o

Video Friday: Meet Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics 2

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

AI labs want to pump the brakes, but Amazon and SpaceX are still blasting off

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out o

Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger

Tesla had already reportedly prepped for the idea in the event that Beijing invades Taiwan.

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Daniela Rus receives Bavarian Minister-President's High-Tech Prize

Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.

Science One Framework: A verifiable autonomous research framework via Chain-of-Evidence

General Science

Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill

MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s annual Congressional Visit Days.

GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic app

We’re launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existe

Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/unnamed_2_vNnOv20.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so

Robot Finger Feels in Color

Imagine running your fingertip over the surface of a U.S. penny. You would feel the ridges of the raised letters and numbers, Abe Lincoln’s bearded side profile, and, if it’s tails, the fluted columns

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

5 ways AI Mode in Search helps you enjoy the real world

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_Mode_real_world.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you

5 ways to host the ultimate dinner party with Google Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Dinner_parties.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">These AI features can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle othe

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.

NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to

SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure

The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.

Video Friday: An Italian Humanoid Comes to Life

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Working to automate nuclear plant operations

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

MIT projects selected for funding under US Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

Bringing Nunchaku 4-bit Diffusion Inference to Diffusers

SymptomAI: Towards a conversational AI agent for everyday symptom assessment

General Science

Towards a quantum computer that learns from its errors

Machine Intelligence

Professor Emeritus Dimitri Bertsekas, influential computer scientist and prolific author, dies at 83

Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.

Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission

Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Unpacked_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldab

Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

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This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills

Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League t

Following the questions where they lead

Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

Video Friday: Your Robot Surgeon Will See You Now

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition

The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before paring losses.

How to Make an Invisible Drone

There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to

Connect more of your apps to Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ConnectedAppshero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly

Create, edit and star in videos with two Google Vids updates

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/omni-blog-header_OarEe2t.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation eas

Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

3 Questions: Neural transparency and the future of AI design

Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.

Towards demystifying the creativity of diffusion models

Algorithms & Theory

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

Can AI build a jet engine? JARVIS Challenge tests role of AI copilots in tough-tech engineering

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems.

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Images_25th_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones

Empowering India’s next generation of innovators with ATL Saathi

Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.

Building a Foundation Stack for General-Purpose Robots

This article is brought to you by X Square Robot.Large language models gave artificial intelligence a working recipe. Pretrain a large model on broad data, and general capability follows. Robotics has

Video Friday: A World Cup for Robots

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few month

Ground Robots Inherit the Kill Zone

Borys Drozhak has a vision: a front line almost free of humans, patrolled by flying drones and ground robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor networks. And it’s not a pipe dream. Uk

SensorFM: Towards a general intelligence and interface for wearable health data

Generative AI

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

Algorithms & Theory

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Managed_agents_feature_bundle_l.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini AP

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/260701_ICYMI-June-AI_Thumb.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.

New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Summit_Photo_1.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for

Expanding our Heat Resilience data to 50+ global cities

Climate & Sustainability

Start building with Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash

Introducing TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data

Data Management

Accelerating Gemini Nano models on Pixel with frozen Multi-Token Prediction

Machine Intelligence

Optimizing cloud economics with linear elastic caching

Algorithms & Theory

Thinking to recall: How reasoning unlocks parametric knowledge in LLMs

Generative AI

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

From pixels to planning: Earth AI for nature restoration

Climate & Sustainability

Research into how AI can help users understand skin conditions

Health & Bioscience

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On T

BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables

The startup specializes in "non-invasive" "mind-reading" tech — a kind of neural data collection that, its CEO hopes, will have all sorts of consumer applications.

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch

This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Science Corp. raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market

A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.

China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B fundi

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powe

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team bui

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several la

After Neuralink, Max Hodak is building something even wilder

"You could really, in a very fundamental sense, talk about redrawing the border around a brain," Hodak says, "possibly to include four hemispheres, or a device, or a whole group of people."

OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Neuralink has been making serious progress. Soon Sam Altman and OpenAI could be backing a challenger.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises $600M at $9B valuation

Neuralink last year received "breakthrough device" clearance from the U.S. FDA. Three people have so far received implants made by Neuralink.

Neuroscientists are racing to turn brain waves into speech

Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean it has cured blindness

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean the outfit has developed a cure for blindness,

Ars chats with Precision, the brain-chip maker taking the road less invasive

Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain

Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

Elon Musk claims Neuralink has implanted a brain chip in its first human

How soon can I get a computer-brain implant?

Welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news -- and you might be glad to know today was not all about OpenAI.

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing

Musk’s Neuralink seeks volunteers for brain implants—who’s in?

Neuralink says it has the FDA’s OK to start clinical trials

Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype and Siri sucking (still)

For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic in its fundraising. Now entering its fifth year, the firm just closed a $200 mil

Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already

Neuralink’s ambition to provide a brain-computer interface orders of magnitude better than what’s out there now has hit headwinds with the FDA, Reuters reports. The agency reportedly rejected the comp

Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says

Neuralink transported brain implants covered in pathogens, group alleges

Precision Neuroscience is making brain implants safer, smarter and reversible

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. Precision Neuroscience is building a modern alternati

Neuralink faces federal probe over alleged animal abuse, “hack job” surgeries

Over a year later, Musk’s Neuralink still 6 months from human trials

It sounds like Elon Musk is still trying to get out of his own Twitter deal

According to a new report from The Washington Post that relies heavily on anonymous sources, the world’s richest man is still looking for a way out of a $44 billion deal of his own making. The Post re

Things get messy for Elon Musk with report about new twins he shares with Neuralink exec

Last month, Insider published an explosive report about a former SpaceX flight attendant who accused SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk of propositioning her for sex in 2016 and to whom the company paid

High-bandwidth wireless BCI demonstrated in humans for first time

The big advance in Elon Musk’s Pong-playing monkey is what you can’t see