A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute
Waymo details its custom compute system for autonomous driving, featuring a 5nm ASIC and partnerships with industry leaders to process sensor data in real time with low latency and redundancy.
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A permanent chronological index of source-linked tech, world, finance and sports briefings. Every item links to its original source. Page 136 of 214: briefings 4051-4080, published Aug 19, 2026 to Aug 20, 2026.
USDGO is available for trading!
Kraken has listed USDGO, a US dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., for trading. The token is pegged 1:1 to the US dollar and designed for institutional use.
Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has expanded Web Search on Amazon Bedrock to allow direct retrieval of public web content for real-time responses, while maintaining an option to restrict searches to an internal AWS index for sensitive use cases.
Web Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia Pacific
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s Web Search tool now allows domain and published-date filtering, enabling agents to restrict sources and time windows per request, and is expanding to Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
AI SRE Done Right: Why Your Data Foundation Matters
AI Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tools often fail to improve incident response because they are layered onto incompatible data architectures. A unified, cost-efficient data foundation is essential for effective...
California has an affordability crisis. The fix may be politically uncomfortable.
A UC Berkeley study argues California’s affordability crisis stems from anti-growth policies, costly regulations, and inefficient state programs, urging voters to reconsider long-held beliefs to restore opportunity.
Amazon CloudWatch log Centralization now supports log group tag propagation
AWS CloudWatch Centralization now propagates log group tags from source to destination accounts, enabling consistent cost tracking, ownership identification, and compliance enforcement across centralized logs.
AI in education: From experimentation to institutional impact
Microsoft outlines how AI in education must transition from individual use to institutional adoption, addressing integration, governance, and workflow challenges across teaching, learning, and operations.
AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors
AMD appoints Tim Ryan to its board of directors, with KC McClure and Nora Denzel assuming new committee roles following Joseph Householder’s retirement after 11 years.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors
AWS added three new processors to CloudWatch pipelines to parse RDS logs, XML payloads, and enrich IP addresses with geographic data, improving log queryability without extra cost.
UC Berkeley computer scientist on the promise and perils of agentic AI
UC Berkeley hosted the Agentic AI Summit 2026 to explore autonomous AI systems that reason, plan, and use tools independently, addressing safety and governance challenges alongside technical progress.
British Week 2026: 10 years in Paraguay
The British Embassy in Asunción will host British Week 2026 from 15 to 23 August, marking a decade of cultural and economic exchanges in Paraguay. The event highlights British contributions across food, literature,...
NOAA boosts weather data collection capabilities with new Mesonet contract
NOAA awarded a new contract starting September 1 to expand its National Mesonet Program, enhancing weather data collection through partnerships with private industry partners.
5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Google Search introduces AI-powered tools to help students visualize concepts, take practice quizzes, and organize study materials, rolling out globally in English.
Back to School 2026
Google announced back-to-school updates for 2026, including free AI tool access for students and new learning features in Search, Gemini, and YouTube to support personalized study and classroom teaching.
Start the semester with one year of Gemini, on us
Google is offering eligible college students one year of free access to advanced AI plans, including Google AI Pro in the U.S. and Google AI Plus internationally, alongside new study tools via a dedicated student hub.
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
OpenAI introduces Private Safety Processing to strengthen safeguards across multiple user interactions while maintaining Zero Data Retention (ZDR) for eligible API customers, ensuring prompts and responses are not...
NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost Mission
NASA and Katalyst Space have adjusted plans for the LINK spacecraft mission after an attitude control issue prevented a planned satellite boost, though rendezvous operations with the Swift Observatory will still proceed...
Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, NASA Finds
NASA research indicates Earth microbes could survive in shadowed lunar South Pole regions, complicating efforts to distinguish native chemistry from human contamination during future Moon missions.
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, July 28–29, 2026
The Federal Reserve published minutes from its July 28–29, 2026 meeting, offering insights into policy deliberations based on data available at the time.
How Rozas uses Zapier to give every lead a 2-minute head start
Rozas, a Louisiana law firm handling immigration and criminal cases, automated lead intake using Zapier, AI, and Clio Grow to reduce manual data entry from over 50 minutes to two minutes per lead, improving response...
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors third-party foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, including Anthropic Claude, alerting users to unusual spending patterns automatically.
In the heart of campus, a new hub opens for undergraduate education
UC Berkeley opens the Undergraduate Academic Building this fall, adding 25 classrooms and a 400-seat auditorium to centralize undergraduate education and host 10% of campus general assignment classrooms.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its managed data ingestion service to 19 regions for processing and indexing data into Amazon OpenSearch...
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work
GitHub introduced the My work pane in its Copilot app to help users track pull requests, issues, and tasks across multiple sessions. The feature centralizes project management for developers juggling parallel work.
Technology Week: Launching into the Future with Advanced Technologies
NOAA will host Technology Week (August 17–21, 2026) to showcase advanced tools used to monitor marine ecosystems, track endangered species, and improve fisheries management.
Waymo is bringing Gemini into its custom Ojai vehicles.
Waymo has integrated Google’s Gemini AI into its custom Ojai vehicles, enabling passengers to use voice commands for cabin controls and local information via an in-car assistant.
Azure Cosmos DB in the Agentic Era: Data Tools for Developers and AI Agents
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB extension for Visual Studio Code integrates GitHub Copilot tools to let AI agents safely query databases, sample schemas, and execute commands with developer oversight.
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS opened a fourth Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region on 14 May 2025, adding new AI and ML capacity and improving fault tolerance for customers in eu-west-2.
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS has launched a fourth Availability Zone in its Europe (London) Region, expanding cloud capacity and introducing next-generation AI and ML infrastructure for customers.