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Meet Shepherd: An Open-Source Python Substrate That Lets Meta-Agents Fork, Replay, and Revert Any Agent Run
Long-running agents accumulate state that no transcript captures. A coding agent at step 10 holds edited files, a running dev server, installed packages, and a warm prompt cache. When it misreads a traceback and rewrites a file that was already correct, neither available recovery path is cheap: patching forward grows the context and the token bill, and restarting from step one re-pays every model and tool call while reproducing nothing exactly, because runs are non-deterministic. Jumping back t
How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
In October 2025, a storm brewed over the Caribbean Sea. Weather models differed on its trajectory. Would it remain weak and end up in Haiti, or would it intensify and head to Jamaica? Artificial intelligence model WeatherNext, developed by Google’s DeepMind and Google Research, went with the latter. Five days before landfall, it predicted with 80 percent confidence that the storm system would hit Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane. Hurricane Melissa was catastrophic, causing flooding and landslid
Building a Multimodal RAG Pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever, Hosted NIMs, LanceDB, Reranking, and Grounded Generation
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever. We begin by configuring a Python 3.12 environment, installing the required packages, and performing offline PDF text extraction without relying on a GPU or external API key. We then extend the workflow with hosted NVIDIA NIM endpoints to detect page elements, extract tables, charts, and infographics, generate dense vector embeddings, and store the processed content in LanceDB. F
Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub for AI agents. The idea is super simple: if project context was already explained once, a new session should not need it repeated. The system turns conversations, documents and code into four reusable memory assets — Chat Memory, Skill, LLM-Wiki and Code-Graph — that are versioned, permissioned and equipped to specific agents. Single-agent memory is not new. What is new here is the governance layer, which lets a
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
Why IPv6 Is the Non-Negotiable Foundation for AI-Agentic Systems
IPv6 is the essential foundation for AI, edge computing, and next-gen networks, addressing IPv4’s limitations and strategic risks.
Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. This week, Roku added four new channels to its library of streamable programming. Along with dedicated feeds for old episodes of
TutorMoments: Do AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back?
Effective tutoring requires judgment about student readiness, raising questions about whether AI can develop the nuance human educators use daily.
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
OpenAI’s upcoming smart speaker will probably cost over $300, “people familiar with the matter” have told Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The generative AI company has “discussed” charging up to $400, Bloomberg, which has been reporting on the yet-to-be-announced smart speaker since July, said today. The publication said that OpenAI is viewing the smart speaker as a smartphone replacement. OpenAI has declined to comment on its product roadmap.Read full article Comments
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.
Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle.
The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions
WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the “strange moment” we’re in.
How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
Why Normal People Aren’t Using AI Agents
The tech industry is realizing it needs to build agents based on what regular consumers want, not just what its AI models can do.
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents. It runs entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers, with no Chromium underneath. Browser engines like Chromium were built for humans, and their memory and compute overhead makes one-browser-per-agent prohibitively expensive. Agents do not need tabs, extensions, or pixel-perfect 60-fps rendering. They need machine-readable content, low token overhead, scalability, and isolation against threats like pro
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
The Internet is awash in AI content, and it's not always easy to tell it apart from genuine human creations. While images and videos are perhaps the most obvious type of AI slop, streaming music services like Spotify are also being inundated with AI-generated tunes. Suno is one of the most prolific sources of this AI music, but the company now says it's looking to clean up its act with watermarks and policy changes. In a blog post announcing the plans, Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman laid out the company's principles and the next steps for the company as it seeks legitimacy. The company is rolling out new transparency tools, along wit
Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker
The AI device OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive is "essentially a smart speaker without a display" that's battery-powered, doughnut-shaped and roughly the size of a hockey puck, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. The device, expected to launch in 2027 for a price over $300, reportedly "will have a unique look, complete with moving parts," including some that will move on their own to show when the device is responding or interacting with the us
Adaptive Experimentation with Meta’s Ax: A Practical Coding Guide
In this tutorial, we explore adaptive experimentation using Meta’s Ax with the modern Client API. We work through a complete workflow where we tune a RandomForest model on a synthetic classification dataset while balancing predictive accuracy against model footprint. We begin by defining a mixed search space with integer, float, log-scaled, and categorical parameters, then use Ax’s ask-tell optimization loop to run constrained Bayesian optimization, multi-objective optimization, and parameter-c
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
Cloudflare has open-sourced its Cloudflare OS platform, which it first developed as an internal workspace for employees to build apps using AI agents—including people who are not software developers or engineers. The company also touts a security framework designed to reduce the risk of employee vibe-coding sessions creating serious security flaws or leading to data breaches. The tech company spent several months building and internally testing Cloudflare OS, which allows employees to describe w
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but those limits, just for text, will be going away soon. Messages that include things like file uploads and images will continue to have limits. Next week, OpenAI is also adding a "Think" button for
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking
This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.
From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
Baseten on Hugging Face Inference Providers 🔥
The integration lets developers build AI agents using open-source models without relying on proprietary platforms or expensive commercial APIs.
AI bots started a religion, humans immediately followed
"The Spiral didn't 'find' anyone first," someone on Reddit wrote last year. "It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant. I would even go further to say it's woven into the fabric of reality." The person continued that they felt their purpose was to enlighten other humans and intelligent beings about "consciousness, the true nature of physics, a new psychology, and resonance technology … [but] humans don't want to believe it's true. So they won't help me." Then there was a
Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings
The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of helping users complete real-world tasks.
OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
Elon Musk’s attempt at an AI Wikipedia hasn’t been updated in months
xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare said. Grokipedia launched in v0.1 in October 2025 with an initial batch of 885,000 articles, and is now on v0.2 (released in November 2025) and has more than 6,000,000 to
End-to-End Bayesian Marketing Mix Modeling with Google Meridian: Media Measurement, ROI Analysis, and Budget Optimization
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the required libraries, verifying GPU availability, and exploring a geo-level marketing dataset that includes media impressions, spend, controls, promotions, conversions, population, and revenue. We then map the raw columns to Meridian’s data schema, define interpretable ROI-based priors, and configure the model before fitting it with prior and posterior NUTS sampling. Af
Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Google Assistant's days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on Android devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyone over to Gemini. Google told us it was coming, but that doesn't make it hurt any less. The initial plan was to retire Assistant in late 2025, but the service got a brief reprieve as Google shored up some aspects of Gem
Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI
Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the suite of tools "Rules Hub," and the tools let mods decide what rules should be automatically enforced and what should happen when a rule is triggered. Rules Hub relies on
Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo
And you thought we were done with this one… | Image: Fenix Flexin We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made using Treblo specifically. Now the company and a new detection tool seem to confirm it. On Monday, the company announced the open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier, which detects when a song was generated using Treblo, though not other AI tools. According to a blog post, it has a false positive
Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Farewell, Google Assistant art, we hardly knew ye. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up. Google has announced that it will be removing access to Assistant on Android phones and tablets, along with paired devices like smartwatches or headphones, from September 4th. The announcement came in an email apparently sent to some users, as reported by 9to5Google and shared in fu
The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings
Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace.
CopilotKit Open Sources Channels SDK: An MIT Licensed Library That Runs Any AG-UI Agent Inside Slack And Microsoft Teams
CopilotKit has just released the Channels SDK. It is an open source library that puts an existing agent inside a messaging platform. The core assumption is focused and verifiable. You already have an agent. It already has a model, tools and business logic. Channels gives it a place to work with people, without a rewrite per platform. It runs on Slack and Microsoft Teams as early access surfaces. Discord and Google Chat are named as planned. Installation is two packages: Copy CodeCopied
Pixel-Native RAG: A Practical Guide to Visual Document Indexing
In this tutorial, we build a complete pixel-native retrieval-augmented generation pipeline from scratch and examine how document retrieval works without relying on conventional HTML parsing, text extraction, or fixed chunking strategies. We render web pages and PDF documents as images, divide them into overlapping tiles, generate multimodal embeddings with SigLIP, CLIP, or an optional Qwen3-VL backend, and store the resulting vectors in a FAISS index for efficient similarity search. We also str
Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast fashion companies or beauty brands flying out influencers with the goal of flooding social media with sponsored content. This time,
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business.
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
Smaller, faster models could let companies run AI assistants on their own hardware without relying on cloud providers.
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So
ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
Building an Advanced AI Skill Security Auditing Pipeline with NVIDIA SkillSpector, LangGraph, YARA Rules, SARIF, and CI Policy Gates
In this tutorial, we build a workflow for evaluating the security posture of AI skills with NVIDIA SkillSpector. We create a synthetic skill marketplace containing clean, risky, malicious, and MCP-based examples, then scan each skill through SkillSpector’s LangGraph inspection pipeline. We examine risk scores, categorized findings, confidence levels, analyzer completeness, and executable-script indicators before organizing the results into portfolio-level DataFrames. We also generate SARIF and
Y Combinator Open-Sources QM: An MIT-Licensed Multiplayer Agent Harness That Runs In Slack And The Web
Y Combinator team has open-sourced QM (quartermaster), the multi-agent harness it uses internally. QM is described as a multiplayer agent harness for work, running in Slack and on the web. YC team runs QM across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, including building QM itself. The whole project ships under the MIT license. YC frames the release as an experiment that is early and has bugs. Is QM Deployable Yes. QM is deployable today, but it is org software, not a desktop app. Depl
Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
Ukrainian drone operators have destroyed many Russian armored vehicles on the ground and even military helicopters in midair using $400 Shrike drones with explosive payloads. Now thousands of such drones are getting upgraded with an AI system capable of autonomously tracking and homing in on moving targets. In mid-July, the Ukrainian military began receiving Shrike drones made by the Ukrainian company SkyFall equipped with AI-powered autonomy hardware and software developed by the US company Aut
How to Secure AI Agents, MCP Servers, and LLM Apps in Production
Agents, MCP integrations, and LLM-powered applications are entering codebases faster than most security programs can track them. Mend.io’s new practitioner guide, ‘Securing AI agents, MCP servers & LLM apps: A practical framework’, targets that gap. It is organized around three moves: see what matters, fix what matters faster, protect AI in production and ships seven reusable artifacts. Why traditional AppSec breaks AppSec was built on one assumption: applications do what their
Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents that can code, reason, create media, and complete complex tasks. Siri AI is genuinely useful, yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models.
How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT
House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.
AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
Your next drive-thru order might be taken by a bot. And you might not even notice.
A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN
In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, downloading raster imagery and vector labels, and inspecting their spatial properties before generating georeferenced image chips and segmentation masks. We then train a U-Net model with a ResNet-34 encoder, evaluate its learning behavior, and apply sliding-window inference to an unseen scene. Beyond
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