Kanishka Narayan, born in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, was appointed UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence on July 20, 2026, as part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham's cabinet reshuffle, becoming the first eth…
A randomized study of 4,867 developers found that code-assistant access increased completed tasks by 26.08%, while a Stanford payroll study found a roughly 16% relative employment decline for 22 to 25…
Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li propose using a database as the central orchestrator for AI workflows, storing both data and state to simplify architecture and improve reliability. Their DBOS project compil…
Stanford PhD student Marcel Rød released Gigatoken, a Rust BPE tokenizer that encodes text at 24.53 GB/s on a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565 dual-socket setup, outperforming HuggingFace tokenizers by 989x and…
Vals AI launched Vals-Smith on July 22nd, a tool that converts a GitHub repository's merged pull requests into a private benchmark for testing coding models and agents. The product addresses the probl…
Death Clock, an iOS app launched by Brent Franson on July 22, 2026, offers a free basic blood test paired with an AI model that predicts an individual's date of death and generates a plan to extend it…
The United States is changing how it allocates research funding, with a focus on investing in individual scientists over legacy institutions and increasing funding to AI research, according to the Dir…
Jason Zhao announced on July 22, 2026, via his personal X account the launch of WhatIfVerse, an AI-driven simulation platform where virtual citizens work, earn wages, and interact in a continuously ev…
The open-source Grabette system, developed by an unnamed team, enables recording robot-manipulation data using a handheld gripper with two cameras, eliminating the need for a robot or teleoperation ri…
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue argued that concentration of AI power in a few frontier labs is more dangerous than Chinese distillation of their models, as the US government moved to restrict GPT-4…
NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin warned that AI-assisted hacking on blockchain systems began emerging in October and called for the industry to use AI to improve formal verification of smart …
A new MIT Press book, 'Inventing ELIZA,' provides the first comprehensive critical analysis of Joseph Weizenbaum's pioneering chatbot through rediscovered original source code and previously unseen sc…
Sunday Robotics unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model powering its Memo home robot that folds laundry successfully more than 99% of the time in unfamiliar homes on garments it has never seen before. The Bay …
More than 40% of long-form posts on LinkedIn are now fully AI-generated, making it the most AI-saturated major social platform, according to a new study by detection startup Pangram. The research, bas…
GloVe, FastText, and word2vec are all word embedding methods that produce dense vector representations of words, but they differ in their underlying approaches: GloVe uses a weighted least-squares reg…
Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with $300 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation to build general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve. The startup, spun out of Toyota Resea…
Refer, an AI recruiting startup founded by Andre Hamra, has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to about $10 million. The San Francisco-based comp…
A developer has built a searchable chat interface for Stanford's CS229 machine learning course notes, allowing users to explore the material with citations back to the original source. The tool, hoste…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting the 2026-2027 academic year, part of an "AI-resilient pedagogy and assessments" strategy to foste…
Three years after ChatGPT, 35% of new websites are AI-generated, and researchers from Stanford, Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive found after 33 months of measurement that AI content i…