Cua, an open-source project for Computer-Use Agents, shipped an update providing infrastructure to train and evaluate AI agents that control full desktops on macOS, Linux, and Windows without stealing focus. The project,…
A developer has released MPEdb, a serverless database designed as a drop-in replacement for SQLite3 with PostgreSQL-like concurrency support, claiming it is faster on most benchmarks and passes 100% of internal unit test…
An engineer demonstrated the 'accuracy trap' in machine learning using a simulated fraud-detection dataset of 20,000 card transactions with only 0.6% fraud. A baseline model that always predicts 'not fraud' achieves 99.4…
FunASR, an industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit, released an update in August 2026, achieving up to 340x realtime speed and 26x faster than Whisper, supporting 50+ languages, speaker diarization, emotion detection…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has brought its first LPDDR6 chip to the tail end of R&D validation, according to a Yicai report citing unnamed industry sources, less than a week after its Shanghai debut made it the …
Hong Kong lawmakers are urging sporting event organizers to adopt AI monitoring and GPS tracking after triathlete Ma Chi-po, 59, died during the Summer Triathlon Challenge in Tai Po on Sunday. Lawmaker Vincent Cheng Wing…
Retell AI, a Y Combinator-backed voice AI company valued at over $1.5B with $80M in annual recurring revenue, is hiring an Applied AI Engineer (Customer Facing) for its Redwood City headquarters, offering a salary of $20…
FlowCraft, an open-source Go SDK for building AI agents with long-term memory, knowledge retrieval, and voice, shipped an update in August 2026. The project, available on GitHub with 484 stars, can be run as a library, d…
A team successfully migrated COBOL programs to Java using an AI LLM, preserving legacy bugs as intentional behavior because existing behavior is the specification. The team treated old COBOL as ground truth, built a gold…
A New York Times investigation into Oracle Corp. founder Larry Ellison's artificial intelligence strategy reveals that his $100 billion AI infrastructure bet, including a massive data center in Texas, is driven by a desi…
NVIDIA released SkillSpector, an open-source security scanner that analyzes AI agent skills and returns a risk score, findings, and recommendations before installation. The tool accepts a directory, zip file, SKILL.md, o…
Resilience's 2026 Midyear Cyber Risk Report found that 85.3% of incurred losses in its insurance portfolio during H1 2026 traced to social engineering, up from 17.7% in H1 2024, while recording no incurred losses from AI…
MonkeyCode, an open-source enterprise-grade AI development platform written primarily in TypeScript, shipped an update in August 2026. The platform, which has 4.1k stars on GitHub, is designed for professional engineerin…
The Model Context Protocol's 2026-07-28 spec revision went final, moving to stateless requests. The open-source tool mcpscore, built by the mcp-box team, provides a one-command audit for MCP servers, scoring them 0–100 b…
Alibaba Group Holding released its latest flagship AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, with performance claims rivaling Anthropic's Fable, and plans to release its weights for public download in the week starting Aug 10. The model, b…
GitHub has introduced a public preview of enterprise teams model policy targeting for Copilot, allowing admins to assign specific AI models to specific teams rather than all-or-nothing org-wide access. The feature, avail…
Anthropic's February 23, 2026 announcement that Claude Code could automate COBOL modernization analysis triggered a 13.2% drop in IBM shares, the biggest one-day decline since October 18, 2000, according to Reuters. IBM'…
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model, which immediately became the highest-ranking Chinese text model on the Arena.AI leaderboard, trailing only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and three Opus varian…
Shanghai's cyberspace authority registered 11 new generative AI services on Sunday, bringing the city's cumulative total to 211, according to an announcement that did not name the services. The registrations, required un…
DeepSeek V4 Flash has exited preview at $0.14/$0.28 per million tokens, outperforming its larger Pro model on agentic benchmarks with an 82.7% score on Terminal-Bench. Meanwhile, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 introductory …