Saturday · September 5, 2026 Vol. I · No. 247
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Building Custom Batched Ensemble Weather Forecasting with NVIDIA Earth2Studio

In this tutorial, we build an ensemble weather forecasting workflow with NVIDIA Earth2Studio. We install the required Earth2Studio components while preserving Colab’s existing CUD…

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Google AI Releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: 40-Second Scene Extension, First/Last Frame Control, and 4K Upscaling

We look at Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, Google's production update to its native multimodal video generation and editing model. We break down what changed: scene extension now reads up …

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AI-generated videos are already displacing actors and livestreamers across China's entertainment industry

In China, 95 percent of the 128,000 short dramas released in Q1 2026 were AI-generated. Some actors are being forced to hand over their voice and likeness to AI tools before getti…

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Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance

Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document bot…

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Hopeful signs on AI regulation and social media - The Age

Hopeful signs on AI regulation and social media  The Age

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LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research

LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips…

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Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software

Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped f…

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OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts

OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplay…

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Hugging Face Unveils Microduck: A $399 Open-Source 25 cm Biped You Train with Reinforcement Learning

Pollen Robotics, the Bordeaux robotics team at Hugging Face, opened pre-orders for Microduck — a 25 cm bipedal robot where every movement is a neural policy trained in MuJoCo and …

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OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs to speak at tech-focused G20 meeting - ET CIO

OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs to speak at tech-focused G20 meeting  ET CIO

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OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs to speak at tech-focused G20 meeting - ET Manufacturing

OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs to speak at tech-focused G20 meeting  ET Manufacturing

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FLCA symposium updates Apopka on data centers, AI policy - The Apopka Chief Newspaper

FLCA symposium updates Apopka on data centers, AI policy  The Apopka Chief Newspaper

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GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture

Z.ai and Qwen independently shipped near-identical architectures: 3:1 linear hybrids, compressed indexers, gated residuals, and Muon training. The post GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Fl…

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Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers

Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …

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Google DeepMind's "Co-Scientist" Evolves from a Hypothesis Generator to a Research Partner

Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to …

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Vercel AI Open-Sources vgpu: A TypeScript WebGPU Library for AI Agent Shaders

Vercel has open-sourced vgpu, the WebGPU library it built to ship the shaders on vercel.com. It treats .wgsl files as importable TypeScript modules, runs the same shader in the br…

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AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it

Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from se…

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The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants

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. A startup claims it’s found a drug to mak…

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U.S. court rules Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful

A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliati…

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Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace

Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ m…

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Webinar | Consumer Protection in Europe: Enforcement Trends, AI Regulation & Cross-Border Compliance - ICLG

Webinar | Consumer Protection in Europe: Enforcement Trends, AI Regulation & Cross-Border Compliance  ICLG

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AI policy watch: need-to-know updates from August 2026 - World Trademark Review (WTR)

AI policy watch: need-to-know updates from August 2026  World Trademark Review (WTR)

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How to sign up for a virtual power plant—and decide whether you should

MIT Technology Review’s How To series helps you get things done.  Your thermostat may not look like a power plant. Neither does your electric vehicle, home battery, or HVAC system…

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Gates Reverses on AI Regulation: Industry Crossed Safety Lines, Stays Mum - Tech Times

Gates Reverses on AI Regulation: Industry Crossed Safety Lines, Stays Mum  Tech Times