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datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The best I'v

DOOMQL Peter Gostev built this using GPT-5.6 Sol. This is a lot of fun: DOOMQL started with a deliberately unreasonable question: what if SQLite were the game engine, not merely the place where a game

ATL Saathi is an initiative aimed at boosting scientific innovation and learning in India through AI-powered tools and programs. Launched in February 2026, the program focuses on accelerating research

Guided diffusion‑based climate emulators (e.g., NVIDIA cBottle) steer generative models toward low‑probability weather states and use an odds‑ratio diagnostic—requiring second‑order derivatives—to rew

Microsoft published a 109-page technical report on MAI-Thinking-1. Here’s the abbreviated version of how a modern lab actually trains a frontier reasoning model — from scraping the web to reinforcemen

Building multi-tenant agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Apply fine-grained access control with Bedrock AgentCore Gateway interceptors establish the conceptual foundation for on-behalf-of (OBO)

In 2026, the public sector is no longer defending a traditional perimeter. Instead, they are defending a complex web of interconnected trust relationships against adversaries that now operate at machi

In this post, we introduce the UI for optimized generative AI inference recommendations in Amazon SageMaker AI Studio, a low-code no-code (LCNC) experience. The API already gives you programmatic acce

NVIDIA’s Ising Decoder demonstrates a 347.7‑fold improvement in logical error rate (LER) and a 7.3‑fold faster runtime over the Chromobius decoder for the d = 31 triangular color code at a physical er

Today, GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna from OpenAI are generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Amazon Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine b

How should your security team manage shadow AI? Workloads deployed by developers without formal registration can often evade traditional security scanners, because organizations are reluctant to slow

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with

In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powered desktop and web assistant that compens

Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) I went looking for a definition of 'Directly Responsible Individuals' and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, w

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude Max plans: We're ex

Max Spero / Pangram Labs: An analysis of 1M+ social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250+ words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% — A first look

Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern

New York Times: How members of the extremist group Boko Haram are using AI chatbots to design explosives, fix or upgrade weapons, and brainstorm attack ideas — A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda

Bloomberg: SK Hynix's historic US stock market listing is a bet that the AI boom is breaking the memory chip industry's decades-long boom-and-bust cycle — South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. j

Bloomberg: Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a large stake in car insurance software maker CCC, which is exploring a potential sale and has a ~$3.5B market cap — Elliott Investment Manageme

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs — T

A local coding agent, an in-app customer assistant, and an AI SRE triaging production logs may all use the same model class—but not the same harness, eval plan, or rollout risk. Mastra CEO Sam Bhagwat

Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: A US court sentences a former ransomware negotiator to 70 months in prison for colluding with BlackCat to extort 75.3M from five of his employer's clients — Angelo Martino exp

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation — A fed

AI model co-design involves integrating model requirements into hardware planning to ensure memory hierarchies and networking stacks are purpose-built for specific systems . AI performance balances th

Just when you thought the artificial intelligence model race might slow down, it starts up again double-time. This week alone brought new models and related services from OpenAI (twice), Meta (also tw

According to this Latent Space article, OpenAI has launched GPT 5.6 with variants named Sol, Terra, and Luna, while integrating Codex capabilities into ChatGPT to create a broader superapp platform. T

Researchers have measured the frame-dragging effect predicted by Einstein's general relativity with unprecedented precision, confirming the theory once again . The measurement used data from the Laser

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: An RIAA-led coalition representing labels and artists proposes two tags for AI content: one for entirely AI-generated songs and another for “AI-assisted” tracks

Bloomberg: Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years — The largest builders of artifi

Megan Morrone / Axios: Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI — Apple is suing Ope

CNBC: Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets — Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in fed

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Sues Ope

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets — Apple filed a la

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered 'a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by

Kraken Technology Group Ltd., a British defense startup that makes autonomous ships, has raised 175 million in funding. Private equity firm DTCP led the Series B deal. It was joined by the U.K. govern

This paper was accepted at the AI4TCI (Workshop on AI for Secure and Trustworthy Critical Infrastructure Systems) Workshop at the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AR

Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber — In March, Bluesky's longtime CEO, Jay Graber, stepped down f

In this post we show how to build a semantic layer on AWS using Stardog’s Semantic AI Application over Amazon Aurora and Amazon Redshift, and how to run a Strands Agents agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentC

AI creative workflows are reshaping how teams create, moving beyond content generation to editable, collaborative experiences that boost productivity. At the same time, enterprises are demanding trust

An expedition used a remote operated vehicle to capture the first images of Quest, the sunken ship of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, at 400 metres below the Labrador Sea on July 7, 2026. The ve

Bloomberg: China drops a numerical target for urban job creation in its five-year plan, the first such omission since the 1990s, amid volatility fueled by AI displacement — China dropped a numerical t

China successfully recovered the first stage of a carrier rocket during an orbital launch test, marking a major breakthrough in reusable rocket technology. The recovery used a sea-based system with ho

Vildana Hajric / Bloomberg: Circle says it received US regulator approval to start a national digital-currency trust bank, allowing it to offer institutional custody services — Circle Internet Group I

Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: CISA says weak security controls around the use of public GitHub repos allowed a contractor to accidentally leak private cloud access keys and other credentials — The