Most coverage of Microsoft's SkillOpt centers on its 52/52 result. The more consequential finding is in Section 4.3: the exported best_skill.md keeps working in environments it was never trained on. A Codex-trained SpreadsheetBench skill lifted Claude Code from 22.1 to 81.8, slightly above the 80.4
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the required libraries, verifying GPU availability, and exploring a geo-level marketing dataset that includes media impressions, spend, controls, promotions, conversions, popu
Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Code, a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Muse Code plans changes, writes code, and validates results across large repositories. Async background agents stay active for the whole session instead of spawning per task.
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discovery.
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2), which also includes Edward Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04, and Abe Kunin ’03. This column includes solutions to the May/June
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from K
WindBorne Systems has raised a $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B vision-language-action model for autonomous driving, under OpenMDW-1.1 — a permissive license covering fine-tuning, derivatives and commercial redistribution. It pairs a 32B Cosmos 3 Super Reasoner backbone with a 2.3B diffusion action decoder, scores 79.2 on
At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its goal is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that drives the expansion of
CopilotKit has published the Channels SDK, an MIT licensed library that runs an existing AG-UI agent inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. Version 0.5.0 ships five platform adapters and a documented runtime contract. This breakdown covers the verified deployment paths, the baseline requirements, and the
Move beyond traditional text-based parsing with PixelRAG, an end-to-end system that treats web pages and PDFs as images. This tutorial explores the complete pipeline—from rendering and tiling to multimodal embedding and hybrid search—enabling developers to build high-performance, visual document ret
The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.