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Arm Open-Sources Metis, an AI Security Framework Outperforming Traditional SAST Tools

Arm has open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework designed to autonomously uncover complex software vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional pattern-based tools, Metis applies semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides clear,…

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Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software?

I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.

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How Meta Rebuilt Data Ingestion for Petabyte-Scale Reliability

The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques like reverse…

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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.

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Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

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Take our I/O 2026 quiz, vibe coded in Google AI Studio.

We used Google AI Studio to vibe code a quiz about our top I/O 2026 announcements.

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11 demos of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 in action

Watch 11 videos showing the capabilities of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5, announced at Google I/O 2026.

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We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well

A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.

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The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.

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Check out real-life AI prototypes from the Futures Lab.

University of Waterloo students develop AI prototypes like sign language tutors to reshape the future of education and work.

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Presentation: Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice

Mallika Rao discusses the hidden risk of evaluation debt in production AI systems, drawing on her experience at Twitter, Walmart, and Netflix. She explains why traditional metrics fail modern architectures, breaks down a five-layer evaluation stack spanning…

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AI-Assisted Migration Tool Helps Teams Move from ingress-nginx to Higress in Minutes

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has highlighted a new AI-assisted migration approach that enabled engineers to migrate 60 ingress-nginx resources to Higress in roughly 30 minutes, demonstrating how artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to…

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How Braintrust turns customer requests into code with Codex

How Braintrust engineers use Codex with GPT-5.5 to run experiments and code faster.

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Boston Children’s uses AI to unlock new diagnoses

Boston Children’s Hospital uses OpenAI technology to improve patient care, reduce operational burden, and help diagnose more than 40 rare disease cases.

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How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity”) is a clarion call to all people to…

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GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning

GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running daily “auditor” and “optimizer” agents. A token-usage.jsonl artefact and an Effective Tokens metric help track…

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Strengthening societal resilience with Rosalind Biodefense

OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense, expanding trusted access to GPT-Rosalind for vetted developers and U.S. government partners advancing biodefense, public health, and pandemic preparedness through frontier AI.

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Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

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A shared playbook for trustworthy third party evaluations

OpenAI shares guidance on third-party AI evaluations, covering how to assess model capabilities, safeguards, and validity for frontier systems.

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LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

Fine-tuning tests show "bias ... toward confidently representing the claims as true."

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Media Advisory: MIT to establish regional quantum hub

With $25 million investment from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, MIT to build a new shared-use facility to serve as a statewide quantum toolbox.

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Catch up on 12 major I/O 2026 moments

Here are 12 of the biggest Google I/O 2026 keynote moments, including news about Gemini Omni, Gemini 3.5 Flash and more.

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A New Era of Innovation: Google Research at I/O 2026

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Physics Is All You Need? A Case Study in Physicist-Supervised AI Development of Scientific Software

Are AI agents tools, co-authors, or researchers? We present a quantified case study ($N=1$): a physicist supervising an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Sonnet and Opus models) over 12 work days and 57 sessions to build CLAX-PT, a differentiable one-loop perturbation theory module in JAX. We documented and classified 15 supervision events by intervention level.…

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