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Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

Co-Designing AI Models Using Speculative Decoding for Faster LLM Inference

This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while maintaining accuracy using speculative decoding and... This post is the third in a series on AI model co-design. It explores how to accelerate LLM inference while…

System helps humans predict when self-driving cars will make mistakes

Self-driving cars are often controlled by deep learning models that sometimes fail in unexpected situations. For instance, the car might inexplicably brake and block the path of an oncoming emergency vehicle. A human driver or passenger may need to react rapidly to prevent a…

Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset. Disconnected systems, site-specific tools, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds can create data silos that make it harder to spot problems early, coordinate…

STAT+: How a former ARPA-H director’s startup is tackling AI’s ‘dumb problems’

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AI Efficiency Could Cost Us the Next Generation of Experts

A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the way a modern airliner does, with operators watching over a system that rarely…

MrBeast partners with Gemini to turn impossibly big ideas into reality

Mr. Beast

ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT

ATV Big Air Tour uses ChatGPT Work to speed up marketing, merchandising, and more. It even turned merchandise photos into an inventory website in 15 minutes.

REFACTOR-VLA: Unsupervised Library Learning of Typed Motor Programs

Most current vision-language-action (VLA) models—such as OpenVLA, π0, RT-2, and RDT-1B—are “monolithic.” This means they generate raw motor commands or very short sequences of actions, without organizing behaviors into reusable, well-defined abstractions. As a result, these…

BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

NVIDIA and CrowdStrike Strengthen Agentic Cybersecurity Frontier

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce…

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

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Tech Life

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Mapping global methane emissions from space with deep learning

Climate & Sustainability

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs use AI agents to improve onboarding, account management, and developer integrations. See what enterprise leaders can apply.

Cash In on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of…

STAT+: FDA clears Stryker’s ‘surgical cockpit’ that uses Apple’s VR headset, Vision Pro

Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! Happy September! Are you ready to get busy or…

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Some of the world’s leading music publishers think that Anthropic got off too light in a historic settlement where the Claude maker paid authors $1.5 billion after admitting to pirating more than 7 million books to train AI. “$1.5 billion is obviously not a large enough…

The Hugging Face hack could indicate cultural issues at OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the…

TimesFM-3: A zero-shot foundation model for multivariate forecasting

Data Management

GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery with efficient pathology foundation models

At a glance The Flash family extends GigaPath and GigaTIME with dramatically improved efficiency, making large-scale pathology research more accessible and practical. A distilled pathology foundation model backbone reduces computational requirements without sacrificing…