Opinions
Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs
OpenAI published research on July 21, 2026 introducing Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning, a method for measuring whether AI models change…
Opinions
Open-Model AI Is Good Competition for Anthropic and OpenAI
In a July 20, 2026 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Bill Gurley, president of the P3 Institute and a…
Engineering
NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge, a World Model for Edge Robotics
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3 Edge on July 20, 2026, a 4-billion-parameter world model built for robots and vision AI agents…
Engineering
Aether-7B-5Attn: A Fully Open Sovereign Foundation Model
Korean startup VIDRAFT released Aether-7B-5Attn on July 19, 2026, a 6.59-billion-parameter language model published with full training data recipes, code,…
Engineering
Evolving the Harness, Not the Model: Toward Self-Improving AI Agents
A July 21, 2026 piece examines how AI agent systems can improve autonomously by evolving the harness code around a…
Engineering
PyTorch Foundation Shares Q2 2026 Progress Across Six Hosted Projects
The PyTorch Foundation published a July 22, 2026 update on Q2 progress across its six hosted projects. Highlights include PyTorch…
News
EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search Data to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission issued two binding orders to Google on July 16, 2026 under the Digital Markets Act, requiring it…
News
Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model
Alibaba’s Qwen team unveiled a preview of Qwen3.8-Max on July 19, 2026, describing it as a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model…
News
Sprout Social to Cut 20% of Workforce in AI-Driven Restructuring
Sprout Social’s board approved a restructuring plan on July 8, 2026 that will cut about 260 jobs, roughly 20% of…
Opinions
AI Won’t Replace Everyone. That’s Not The Good News
The column argues that AI is displacing specific workers and tasks rather than replacing jobs wholesale, citing Microsoft’s recent reduction…
Opinions
Demis Hassabis, AGI and the growing competition between human and machine intelligence
The column traces Demis Hassabis’s career path from neuroscientist to Google DeepMind chief, highlighting his work on AlphaGo and AlphaFold…
Opinions
AI Will Supercharge Surveillance Capitalism
Courtney C. Radsch argues that artificial intelligence will intensify surveillance capitalism because AI systems receive intimate personal information directly in…