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The U.S. economy grew at a 1.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2026, unchanged from the earlier estimate and down from 2.1% in the first quarter, according to the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. …

OpenAI researchers developed scalable long-horizon reinforcement learning environments for browser use from real user traffic, filtering several hundred million task submissions down to about ten million distinct tasks a…

A developer spent months building the Limn Engine, a game engine that runs at 60 FPS on low-end hardware, but discovered a subtle bug where click events failed when the camera moved. The bug was caused by a mismatch betw…

Google and Microsoft have jointly proposed WebMCP, a draft web standard in the W3C Web Machine Learning Community Group, that lets websites declare structured tools for AI agents to call directly, replacing fragile scree…

The Integration Guard subsystem, implemented in the Vibe Kanban Alternative project, coordinates parallel AI agents working in separate Git worktrees and safely integrates their changes into a shared target branch. It us…

Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, its first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series, running entirely on domestically produced Chinese AI accelerators. The 320-billion-parameter model ac…

The Rust Project and Rust Foundation announced the inaugural cohort of the Rust Maintainers in Residence program, funded by $350,000 raised from Google, Amazon Web Services, OpenAI, and the Rust Project Leadership Counci…

GGML, a small math library created by Georgi Gerganov, underpins llama.cpp and is designed for CPU inference on constrained hardware, using a computation-graph-first approach that pre-allocates memory to avoid repeated a…

Cisco has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions, Q3 2026, with its Cisco Secure Workload receiving the highest possible scores in policy administration, on-premises network-based enforce…

Cisco Systems Inc. announced the general availability of Cisco IQ Air-gapped Virtual Appliance, an on-premises deployment of its AI-powered lifecycle intelligence platform, enabling organizations with strict data soverei…

NCC Group's July 2026 threat advisory report shows ransomware victim claims hit a year-to-date high of 894 in July, a 22% increase from June, with the industrial sector targeted in nearly a third of attacks. The report a…

Bill Gates warned in a 6,000-word essay on his personal website that artificial intelligence could cause mass unemployment, enable bioterrorism, and slip beyond human control, calling AI 'the most dangerous tool ever inv…

Micron Technology, Broadcom, and CoreWeave are positioned as the next big AI stock winners, with Micron up 219.19% year to date and targeting $1,200 per share, Broadcom targeting $450 with AI revenue expected to exceed $…

Apple Inc. launched the Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra and the Mac mini with the M6, marking the company's first 2 nm desktop chip and a quad-die design supporting up to 512GB of unified memory for local AI workloads. The …

China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction' and replace real-wo…

Perceptron Inc., a startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model designed to help robots perceive, reason, and act in industrial setti…

Anthropic is reportedly telling investors its potential revenue could reach $30 trillion, roughly the size of U.S. GDP, according to The Wall Street Journal. The figure is a total addressable market estimate that assumes…

Z AI released GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, 2026, scoring 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the median of 18 for comparable reasoning models. Priced at $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M …

Bill Gates published an essay on AI's future that echoes Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's views, potentially worsening AI perception problems, according to Spyglass. Apple rebranded the Mac mini as its AI PC, marking a shift…

An engineer argues that current pay-to-crawl proposals for AI data access are flawed, as they fail to distinguish bots from humans and may not be legally enforceable. The engineer suggests that a micropayment system for …