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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.

BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

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AI can only communicate in languages that it's been trained on.

Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini

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…

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…

Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Import AI reader giveaway! Upcoming event: Fiction and the Future with Robin Sloan I’ll be…

The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

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Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations