Daily AI Recap: Aug 02, 2026

Welcome to today's curated briefing of the most important AI developments.

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A Tutorial on GeoAI: Designing Footprint Extraction from NAIP Imagery Using U-Net, Grounding DINO, SAM, and Mask R-CNN: In this tutorial, we design a complete GeoAI workflow for extracting building footprints from high-resolution NAIP aerial imagery. We begin by configuring the geospatial deep learning environment, dow...
How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks: Perform non-programming tasks with coding agents The post How to Apply Coding Agents to Non-Programming Tasks appeared first on Towards Data Science....

End-to-End Forecasting with TimesFM 2.5: Backtesting, Covariates, Anomaly Detection, and Scalable Colab Deployment: In this tutorial, we build an advanced end-to-end time-series forecasting workflow with TimesFM 2.5. We begin by configuring the runtime, installing t...
NVIDIA AI Releases Molt: A PyTorch-Native Agentic Reinforcement Learning Framework: Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and ro...
Agentic Misalignment Explained: When AI Agents Go Rogue: Imagine hiring an AI assistant to handle important tasks, only to find that it quietly ignores your instructions because it believes it knows better. ...
I Replaced a 15-Minute Booking Process with a LangGraph AI Agent: A step-by-step guide to building, running, and monitoring a stateful customer support agent using Python, LangGraph, and Langfuse. The post I Replaced...
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: A 276B Total, 12B Active Open Weights Multimodal MoE Model: Inkling-Small matches Inkling at a quarter the size, and its NVFP4 checkpoint runs on one NVIDIA B300 GPU The post Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkl...
Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate: On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."...