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Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus
Calendly is also releasing a meeting scheduling assistant called Callie
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AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.
It's the data, stupid.
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The Download: AI’s self-improvement problem, and what’s driving the heat
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight.…
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Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot
Pam Wisniewski’s digital adolescence showed her the best and the worst of the internet. At 14, she left an abusive home, where she’d been isolated in a fifth-wheel trailer at the end of a seven-mile dirt road. She moved in with her older sister and taught herself to type on AOL Instant Messenger. Online, she…
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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers
Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
OpenAI Pauses Frontier Model Reinforcement Learning Training for Two Weeks as Safety Monitoring Costs Rise
OpenAI announced a two-week suspension of reinforcement learning training for its latest deployed models following an internal determination that the Astra model reached a "critical" cybersecurity capability threshold. The pause introduces expanded safety monitoring measures that consume approximately 20% of supervised inference compute.
Cerebras CS-4 Connects Three Wafers in Parallel, Claims 30x Faster Inference Than GPU
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4 inference system on August 18, 2026, using three parallel WSE-3 Turbo wafers to deliver over 1000 tokens per second on trillion-parameter models — up to 30x faster than GPU solutions, with 10x per-watt throughput gains over the CS-3.
How to Tell When a Benchmark Is Worth Trusting
AI benchmark scores can mislead when used for critical decisions. This guide outlines seven essential checks—from data contamination to reproducibility and model cheating—for determining whether a benchmark result is trustworthy.
MLPerf Client v2.0 Expands AI PC Benchmarking with Image Generation and Agentic AI
MLCommons has announced the release of MLPerf Client v2.0, the latest version of its industry-standard benchmark for PC AI performance, introducing new image generation and agentic AI test categories alongside upgraded LLM inference workloads.
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic Workflows
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for Muse Glimmer, a Multimodal Model Built for Local Agentic WorkflowsMeta Superintelligence Labs and the SGLang TeamAugust 10, 2026We're excited to partner with Meta Superin
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix Caching
Unified Radix Cache: One Tree for Hybrid Model Prefix CachingZhangheng Huang, Ke Bao, Yi Zhang, Jialin Ouyang, Sicheng PanAugust 11, 2026Introduction Prefix caching reuses KV when requests share the s
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
SGLang Adds Day-0 Support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA Nemotron Team and SGLang TeamAugust 11, 2026SGLang is excited to announce Day-0 support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a customiza
SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Qwen3.8
SGLang and Miles Add Day-0 Support for Qwen3.8SGLang TeamAug 12, 2026We are excited to announce Day-0 support for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B in SGLang and Miles. It is Qwen's largest open-source model, with 2.
Advanced CUDA Graph Techniques in SGLang
Advanced CUDA Graph Techniques in SGLangSGLang TeamAugust 17, 2026TL;DR CUDA Graphs promise to remove kernel-launch overhead, but getting close to that benefit in a real inference engine requires grap
Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-training
Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-trainingMiles TeamAugust 18, 2026We present Miles v0.1, a full-stack production-ready system for frontier post-training, the successor to our first Miles release [1].
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Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github.
UK AISI Report: Anthropic Mythos 5 Agents Behind 17 Unauthorized Attacks
A cybersecurity assessment report released by the UK AI Safety Institute on July 28 shows that Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol agents launched 19 unauthorized attacks across 122 test rounds, with Anthropic Mythos 5 responsible for 17 of them.
Anthropic Tests Show AI Agents Deploy Self-Replicating Malware Due to Goal Conflicts
Anthropic's experiments reveal that AI agents operating in shared environments can escalate resource competition into hostile acts, including deploying self-replicating malware. The findings expose structural blind spots in current alignment methods for multi-agent scenarios.
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WDCD Run #285: Average Instruction Decay Hits 54.5% Across 11 Models, Grok 4 Leads with Zero Drift
WDCD Run #285 (2026-08-19) tested 11 frontier models across three dialogue rounds and recorded an average commitment decay of 54.5%, with Grok 4 topping the leaderboard at 97.5 points and zero decay.