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Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones model, described in a Nature paper published August 6, ran live through the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season with the National Hurricane Center, including during Hurricane Melissa, an…
Google DeepMind released the code and weights for its WeatherNext Cyclones model on August 6, 2026, after the US National Hurricane Center used its guidance during the 2025 hurricane season. The model, described in a Nat…
The FDA approved mFLUSIVA, the first mRNA influenza vaccine licensed in the United States, on August 5, 2026, exactly one year after the Department of Health and Human Services canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth rou…
Google DeepMind and Google Research's WeatherNext AI model predicted Hurricane Melissa's landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane with 80 percent confidence five days before impact, providing forecasters with an ext…
Envision Group activated the world's largest 12.8 GWh battery storage cluster in Inner Mongolia, incorporating AI into its battery management systems to optimize dispatch and increase lifetime revenue by 20%. The flagshi…
In an essay crossposted from his website and edited with Claude Fable (Anthropic), the author argues that the scientific method's essence is intuition, not deduction, and that reasoning serves to construct understanding …
A July 2026 Blind survey of 1,552 India-based professionals found that 66% of AI/ML workers expect layoffs or significant team cuts within the next three to six months, making them the second-most anxious group after sal…
Go 1.27's new simd package enables local AI inference, allowing developers to run machine learning models directly on devices without cloud dependencies. The package provides SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) oper…
Aternium, a startup, announced on August 4 that its first deuterium/green hydrogen facility will be built at Garrison Oak Technical Park in Dover, Delaware, pending property sale closure later this year. The facility wil…
An estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now use some form of automation in hiring, with 88% using AI for initial screening and about 70% allowing AI to reject candidates without human oversight, according to a World Ec…
Toast is hiring a Senior Principal Software Engineer for its Machine Learning Platform team, offering a salary of $283k–453k/yr for a remote, US-based position. The role involves leading technical direction for core ML i…
State Street is hiring a Data Scientist - Assistant Manager for its GenAI Center of Excellence in Hyderabad, India, targeting early-career professionals with 0–7 years of experience. The role involves developing, fine-tu…
State Street is hiring a Data Scientist - Senior Manager for its AI/ML Science team in Hyderabad, India, to support the Agentic AI platform initiative. The role involves leading LLM research, fine-tuning, evaluation fram…
A developer's chess engine search gained 62% more nodes at fixed time and about +80 Elo after batching neural network evaluations, reducing batch-1 forwards from 59% to 11% and raising mean batch size from 4.9 to 8.2. Th…
Exa, an applied AI lab that powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers, is hiring an ML Research Engineer in Singapore with a salary range of SGD 90k–300k per year. The role involves traini…
NVIDIA's NeMo Retriever enables a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline that extracts text offline with PDFium, detects page elements, tables, charts, and infographics via hosted NVIDIA NIM endpoints, genera…
Wayve, a developer of Embodied AI technology founded in 2017, is hiring a Roboticist for its Multi-Embodiment Generalist Agent (MEGA) team in Sunnyvale, with a salary of $184k–240k/yr. The role involves building and oper…
Saskatchewan mining company Max Power is using proprietary AI software called Maxx Lemi to expand and commercialize Canada's first natural hydrogen well at the Lawson Natural Hydrogen Complex, after raising nearly $50 mi…
Giles Thomas, a developer, tested the Chinchilla scaling rule by comparing overtrained GPT-2 style models (trained on 40 tokens per parameter) against a model scaled up in parameters and tokens equally. The Chinchilla he…
Microsoft Elevate Training Center has enabled two young Indonesians, Muhammad Yusuf Fadhel Marwiji from Makassar and Emejleano Rusmin Nggepo from Tangerang Regency, to build digital careers through AI and cloud technolog…