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avatarin deployed GPT-Realtime for Yamada Denki retail support; 30K users in 2 weeks with 92% positive feedback.

Overview of AI applications in healthcare covering use cases, benefits, and implementation challenges.

Cohere overview of AI applications in manufacturing: use cases and implementation considerations for industrial operators.

Latent Space observes AI adoption accelerating in financial services as the next major vertical after software engineering.

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.

Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experiences together, including code, in one super app… This is a major step forward, and I look forward to sharing more soon." Nadella's confirmation comes months after a report from Fortune revealed that Mic...

Separating the chaff from the wheat in Anthropic results is hard. We take a stab anyway.

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do to make them viable for users - and how it will convince less technical people to give them a shot: Soon we will have agents that can work 24/7 on your behalf to help you achieve your goals and improve your life, your health, your relationships, your finances, whatever you want. The first domain t...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

D. Richard Hipp (SQLite creator) draws historical parallel between SQL's labor displacement and current AI impact on programming roles.

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors. In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within...

Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

Håkon Måløy demonstrates prompt injection vulnerability in Microsoft Word Copilot enabling self-replicating worm attacks via hidden instructions in source documents.

Matthew Green argues AI cryptanalysis during post-quantum algorithm transition could accelerate security validation of NIST standards like HAWK.

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn't confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI's rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier rumors that the device might be a wearable like the Humane AI pin. He didn't give a release date, either, only saying that "you can expect them soon." When asked about whether Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI could impact the devices it's working on with former Apple desig...

Study questions whether Q-function pretraining improves online RL fine-tuning, finding randomly-initialized Q-functions can match pretrained performance.

Mental World Modeling framework extends world models to track agent beliefs, intentions, and mental state for improved action prediction.

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

Fruitfly-inspired classification approach for regression using local pattern libraries instead of global surrogate models.

Study evaluates AI agents on open-ended research tasks graded by original paper authors, providing evidence for AI R&D automation feasibility.

APEX-Accounting benchmark from Mercor and Ramp tests frontier models on real accounting tasks; Claude-Fable-5 Max achieves 56.4% accuracy.

Benchmarks for recovering latent risk-neutral densities from option prices; two-component lognormal mixture and DeepONet variants tested.

Pangram 4 AI-text classifier achieves 0.9916 AUROC with improved out-of-distribution generalization and mixed-authorship detection.

Controlled experiment shows AI teammate reshapes human-human communication dynamics in team decision-making, reducing collaboration depth.

DenseOn and LateOn: open-source 149M-parameter retrieval models trained on 1.88M supervised pairs; competitive on multilingual and code search.