A Specialized Semismooth Newton Method for Kernel-Based Optimal Transport
Kernel-based optimal transport (OT) estimators offer an alternative, functional estimation procedure to address OT problems from samples. Recent works suggest that these estimators are more statistically efficient than plug-in (linear programming-based) OT estimators when comparing probability measu...
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan to get to work on Google Chrome next.
Developing an End-to-End Document Intelligence Pipeline with docTR for OCR, Layout Analysis, KIE, Benchmarking, and Searchable PDFs
Develop a complete document intelligence pipeline with docTR, integrating OCR, layout analysis, and KIE for production-oriented extraction and searchable PDF creation.
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Webwright: Why AI Web Agents Should Write Code, Not Click
For years, web agents have worked one click at a time—and often fallen apart on long tasks. Microsoft Research’s Webwright makes a different bet: give the model a terminal and let it write the program instead. On long-horizon tasks, the same GPT-5.4 model jumps from 33.5% to 60.1% success. And inste...
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
What’s an Orchestrator—and Why Does Software Need One?
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Everybody’s talking about the death of developers. I get it. The developer whose job was to write boilerplate or scaffold CRUD apps is done—a model can do that in seconds, and that develop...
Three Generations of Autoscaling — And Why Agentic Traffic Breaks All of Them
How autonomous agents broke two decades of capacity planning — and what to build instead
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How to Perform Effective Project Management with AI
Become a more productive software engineer with LLMs
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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek Harness in Developer Preview: An MIT-Licensed Agent Harness Where Everything is a Plugin
DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is an MIT-licensed agent harness where every capability is a Cordis plugin. Four runtime modes, append-only session logs, and provider-agnostic model routing.
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When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each other...
Scientists turn DNA into a memory device that uses 100x less power
Researchers combined synthetic DNA with a semiconductor to create an ultra-low-power memory device capable of storing and processing information in the same place. The bio-hybrid technology could eventually help make AI systems and next-generation computers far more energy efficient.
Scientists tracked kids for 8 years — the screen time result was unexpected
An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say the key may be balancing physical activity with screen activities that encourage learning, creativi...
arXiv:2608.13590v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: XGBoost is a very popular and powerful method for prediction. It iteratively fits simple decision trees to the residuals of the previous step. An efficient and scalable implementation is available. The standard loss function for XGBoost is the quadrat...
Training-Free Knowledge Transfer Across Model Scales through Activation-Guided Pruning
arXiv:2608.13596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Heterogeneous model fusion seeks to combine models that differ in tasks, initializations, architectures, or scales. We study an underexplored cross-scale setting: improving a small recipient language model with a stronger donor despite substantial arc...
OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.
Daily AI Recap: Aug 16, 2026
Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.
🗞️ Top Stories
- Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/: OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI....
- Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI futurehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/why-people-arent-buying-mark-zuckerbergs-ai-future/: On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision....
- Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/anthropic-ceo-says-ai-backlash-is-fundamentally-a-crisis-of-trust/: Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI....
- Running SQL Concurrently Across Three Remote DuckDB Servers with Quackhttps://towardsdatascience.com/running-sql-concurrently-across-three-remote-duckdb-servers-with-quack/: A small experiment in remote SQL execution
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- AI Weekly Issue 522: Zuckerberg promises superintelligence for all. Experts aren't sold.https://aiweekly.co/issues/zuckerberg-promises-superintelligence-for-all-experts-arent: The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The most-shared document among the experts we track was Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-w...
- Designing a Persistent Knowledge Layer That Refuses to Guesshttps://towardsdatascience.com/designing-a-persistent-knowledge-layer-that-refuses-to-guess/: RAG Retrieves, It Never Remembers. A vendor-neutral blueprint for applications that accumulate understanding. Includes a complete Azure-native impleme...
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