Zhou Jiaqiang makes his ONE Championship promotional debut against reigning ONE Featherweight Muay Thai World Champion Nico Carrillo at ONE Fight Night 46 on August 14 in Bangkok. The bout marks Carrillo’s first...
Hugging Face’s Summer 2026 report tracks open AI model trends from January to August, highlighting shifts in model sizes, licensing, and geographic contributions to the ecosystem.
Grammarly Authorship is now integrated with Blackboard, enabling institutions to track student writing sources transparently within existing workflows.
Xbox releases Skatesterre, an arcade skateboarding game blending classic 1990s and early 2000s influences with modern accessibility and customization, developed by Headup and Goon Squad.
Scottish Water deployed Databricks Genie to enable project teams to query capital investment data in plain English via Microsoft Teams, reducing report searches and wait times while ensuring trusted, governed answers.
Firefly Aerospace secured a Defense Innovation Unit contract to design an Elytra spacecraft deorbit system, addressing orbital debris mitigation under a White House directive.
A total solar eclipse over Iceland, Spain, and Portugal on August 12 caused a measurable drop in Internet traffic, with regions under the deepest shadow seeing declines of up to 30% as people paused online activity to...
Planet Labs explains how satellite mosaics stitch near-daily imagery to create cloud-free, uniform maps for large-scale analysis and monitoring.
AI hallucinations—fabricated or incorrect outputs from generative models—pose growing risks across industries, from legal liability to patient safety, prompting calls for stronger safeguards and governance.
AWS has introduced rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes for Amazon Redshift RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, expanding compute options for data warehouse and data lake workloads.
HubSpot and Profound introduce tools to track and optimize brand visibility in AI-generated answers, differing in workflow integration and depth of analysis.
ONE Fight Night 46 on August 14 features a featherweight submission grappling rematch between Meyram Maquine Alves and Ruan Alvarenga at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, live on Prime Video.
West Virginia engineer Fletcher Newell transitioned from a NASA internship to a civil servant role at the Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility after years of self-taught programming and AI studies.
UC Berkeley researchers are developing a digital twin of California’s Lower Pajaro River Valley to improve flood risk understanding and management amid rising climate threats and social equity concerns.
GitHub Universe 2026 has released its session schedule, featuring workshops, demos, and panels led by industry experts from AMD, Figma, NVIDIA, and others. Early Bird registration is open until August 19, offering a...
Xbox announced the Gears of War: E-Day Multiplayer Beta, offering early access to multiplayer gameplay ahead of the game's release. The beta will take place over two weekends this summer, with Early Access available...
Apple inaugurated a 20,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, offering free training to small and medium businesses and students using the same equipment and processes used to produce Apple’s AI...
AWS GovCloud (US) now provides access to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 model via Amazon Bedrock, with zero data retention enabled by default.
Databricks introduces Smart Routing in Unity AI Gateway to automatically match coding tasks to the most cost-effective AI models based on complexity, reducing costs by over 30% while maintaining performance.
Hugging Face introduces a continuous data loop for robotics training using Strands Agents, LeRobot datasets, and Storage Buckets, enabling efficient recording, training, and deployment without repeated data transfers.
Google Cloud introduces measures in BigQuery Graph to unify governed metrics with relationship mapping for agentic workloads, enabling precise analysis of complex business dependencies without separate graph databases...
Google introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, an enhanced AI model for coding and agents, priced at half the cost of its predecessor with improved performance across multiple workflows.
Microsoft outlines how AI agents in Teams should use reactions, threads, and quotes to collaborate without disrupting group chats, offering practical guidance for developers.
Snowflake’s Observe platform now offers a redesigned MCP server and a new CLI with full parity, enabling AI agents to directly query telemetry data for debugging and automation without human intervention.
Google Sheets has introduced Sheets canvas, an AI-powered feature that converts spreadsheet data into interactive visual dashboards using natural language prompts, now available to eligible subscribers.
Kraken has introduced a new deposit feature allowing users to transfer crypto directly from another exchange to their Kraken account without manually copying wallet addresses.
YouTube outlines five design principles to reduce clutter and prioritize creator content across its platform, including simplifying Shorts creation flows and improving cross-device consistency.
OpenAI’s Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue cybersecurity models are now accessible via Amazon Bedrock for eligible customers in US East (N. Virginia), with enrollment required through OpenAI.
GitHub’s Secure Open Source Fund invested over $500,000 in 50 projects to address AI-driven security challenges, pairing maintainers with expert support and tools to strengthen software resilience.
Google introduced HiLight on Pixel 11 Pro devices, using color-coded lights to display notifications like calls or AI assistant status without requiring screen interaction.