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CopilotKit has released the Channels SDK, an MIT-licensed open source library that runs any AG-UI agent inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, with Discord and Google Chat planned. The SDK, installable via npm packages @copil…

A developer has detailed a method to repurpose an old Android phone as a screen-off security camera that records locally without cloud services. The approach uses apps like IP Webcam or Background Camera RemoteStream to …

PicNet, an Australian software company, has outlined a practical approach for using AI to transcribe and structure meeting minutes in health settings, focusing on committees and case conferences while deliberately avoidi…

PicNet's Practical AI in Health series highlights theme-mining of patient feedback and complaints as a low-risk, high-visibility first AI project for Australian hospitals. The approach leverages existing free-text data f…

PassiveDx, a personal health anomaly detection layer, learns an individual's behavioral and physiological baseline from passive signals such as typing, motion, and sleep, and flags deviations over time. The system, desig…

Intel shares jumped 10% on August 4, 2026, to close at $99.74, lifting the broader chip sector and increasing the paper value of the U.S. government's 10% stake in the company to more than $40 billion. The rally follows …

A developer argues that AI coding agents will not replace software engineers but will shift the job's focus from typing to specifying work, preserving context, evaluating evidence, and accountable integration. The post o…

Researchers introduced Zero-Mem, a memory system for LLM agents that performs zero-token memory operations, eliminating LLM calls and token consumption during memory access while preserving original interaction traces. I…

Google has begun emailing Android users that Google Assistant will start disappearing from phones on September 4, with the transition to Gemini taking place over several weeks, after which users cannot switch back. The e…

Researchers introduced GradCuit, a test-time method that improves LLM reasoning by inserting optimizable latent vectors at an intermediate Transformer layer, using causal self-attention as a differentiable circuit to flo…

PicNet's Practical AI in Health series recommends that hospitals build AI-assisted coding suggestion engines rather than fully automated coding systems, citing the high financial stakes of coding errors under Australia's…

Microsoft introduced four context engines—Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, Work IQ, and Web IQ—that ground enterprise AI agents in unstructured documents, structured business data, Microsoft 365 work signals, and web information, …

Kaspersky ICS CERT reported roughly 40 attacks on industrial plants in its quarterly roundup, including an incident at an Israeli food producer where an intruder manually opened gas cooler and receiver valves, flooding c…

MIRI and other AI governance researchers argue that society should not wait for a 'warning shot' to address existential risks from superintelligent AI, as their analysis of potential warning shots—AI-caused pandemics, mi…

A developer building an LLM inference engine from scratch detailed the tokenization pipeline, which converts raw text into token IDs through normalization, regex pre-tokenization, byte-to-Unicode mapping, and BPE merging…

The U.S. stock market's record highs may be masking three warning signs of a potential crash, according to a market analysis. The analysis warns that a temporary ceasefire in the Middle East could be mistaken for lasting…

Hedge funds with heavy AI and tech exposure suffered severe losses in July as a concentrated sell-off in AI stocks triggered a broader market de-risking event. Whale Rock Capital Management's fund dropped 21.7%, while Po…

A developer with 50+ customer deployments reports that most AI pipelines are a 'Frankenstack' of Claude, OpenAI, and open-weight models, and recommends routing tasks by context length, output schema, and cost rather than…

Google LLC announced that Google Assistant will be discontinued on Android and Wear OS devices starting September 4, 2026, with the transition to its Gemini AI assistant. The company sent emails to users stating that Ass…

Data gravity is compounding integration debt in API-first AI stacks, making vendor lock-in a gradual process that most teams drift into rather than choose, according to a technical analysis by Glukhov. The article identi…