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AI & Machine Learning

1. M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […] The post M&T Bank expands enterprise AI after years of technology overhaul appeared first on AI News.

2. 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating

Just over half of American adults, 50.5%, say a partner’s romantic or sexual relationship with an AI can count as cheating. The figure comes from an AI romance survey of 2,150 U.S. adults, run by AI Girlfriend Coach through SurveyMonkey Audience on 26 and 27 August 2026 and analysed on the 1,709 responses that remained […] The post 50.5% of Americans Say AI Romance Can Count as Cheating appeared first on AI News.

3. OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation

OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered. Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel carriers, and other delivery modes, then selects the lowest-cost option that meets the required service level, according to OneRail. The […] The post OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation appeared first...

4. NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expand AI access for enterprise developers, software engineers, and research institutions globally. Built over the past decade by Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf, and their […] The post NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B appeared first on AI News.

5. Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions

Motional and MIT researchers have built a system that lets self-driving cars explain their decisions in real-time, tackling the black-box problem in autonomous vehicle AI. The work, published in Nature, comes from a team at Motional that includes CEO Laura Major, working alongside researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Their proposed method, […] The post Motional and MIT AI explains self-driving car decisions appeared first on AI News.

6. Dataclasses for Structured Application Data

Scalar defaults work the way you'd expect, and batch_size: int = 500 is all you need.

7. Single-Agent vs. Multi-Agent Systems: When the Complexity Is Worth It

In this article, you will learn the key differences between single-agent and multi-agent AI systems, and how to decide which architecture fits your problem. Topics...

8. Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

9. Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

10. Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra

Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

11. Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

Software Development

1. “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, but many developers hoping to give it a test drive are still waiting for The post “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, but developers are locked out appeared first on The New Stack.

2. OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3

Investor Matt Turck, whose fantastic podcast has hosted the people who built ARC-AGI, summed up Astra’s blockbuster benchmarks with three The post OpenAI will sell you Astra, but not the system that scored 98.6% on ARC-AGI-3 appeared first on The New Stack.

3. AI agent evaluations are part of the product

A team builds an agent, gives it a few representative questions in a test chat, and watches it produce useful The post AI agent evaluations are part of the product appeared first on The New Stack.

4. “1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things

Coder announced its Coder Agent Relay service this week, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. The service lets software engineering The post “1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things appeared first on The New Stack.

5. OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking

In a livestreamed keynote on Thursday, OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to The post OpenAI spends $1 billion to expand Daybreak to defend power, water, and banking appeared first on The New Stack.

6. How to find failures without drowning in tracing data

A metrics dashboard can tell you a system’s health with ease. A log can help you understand a discrete failure. The post How to find failures without drowning in tracing data appeared first on The New Stack.

7. GPT-6 Astra’s score of 98.6% looked like AGI. Then researchers read the fine print.

There was no mistaking the divide in March with the release of ARC-AGI-3. While frontier AI models could do little The post GPT-6 Astra’s score of 98.6% looked like AGI. Then researchers read the fine print. appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Cut GPU inference cold start from 8 minutes to less than a minute

We instrumented the full path from pod creation to first inference response on a GPU node running a 70B-class model. The post Cut GPU inference cold start from 8 minutes to less than a minute appeared first on The New Stack.

9. The systems guide to production token optimization

When enterprise AI applications scale, they inevitably hit a wall. For many engineering teams, this wall is initially diagnosed as The post The systems guide to production token optimization appeared first on The New Stack.

10. OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the “AGI era”

OpenAI on Thursday launched GPT-6 Astra, its newest flagship model. The company describes it as “the world’s most intelligent and The post OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and says welcome to the “AGI era” appeared first on The New Stack.

11. How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent

Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.

12. Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6

In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade knowledge.

13. The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)

Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and infrastructure side of agentic development. ICYMI, part one covered judgment, code review, and data activation.

14. GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude Code

These three get lumped together as "AI coding tools," but they're solving genuinely different problems in your workflow, inline completion, full-editor AI integration, and autonomous multi-file agentic work. Here's how they actually differ, and which combination makes sense depending on what you're building. GitHub Copilot: the widest net Copilot's real advantage isn't raw capability, it's reach. Native support across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Visual Studio, and Xcode makes it the easiest entr...

15. I Built an Image to 3D Model App using LangGraph

Meta Description: How I built a full-stack image-to-3D pipeline using Gemini, Hunyuan3D-2, LangGraph, FastAPI, Trimesh, and WebGL. I wanted to experiment with a problem that sounds simple: Can a single 2D image be turned into a usable 3D model? A single image gives us information about the visible surface, but says very little about the hidden geometry. The challenge isn't just generating a mesh; it is handling the entire pipeline around it. So I built Core3D, a system that takes a single image,...

Programming Languages

1. Avoid adding new library to project: 10-year retrospective

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2. How Email Actually Works

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3. Linked Lists in the Linux kernel

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4. Digital audio between synthesizers

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5. .name Termination

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6. Maybe you don't need GraphQL

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7. Understanding RabbitMQ in Simple Terms

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8. Branch‑Avoidant Programming

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9. Virtual Memory: Page Tables, TLBs, and Linux Internals

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10. Forking Cal.com to closed source (Changelog Interviews #685)

This week I'm joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don't know it yet? That's the theory Peer brings to the table this week. We dig into how AI has flattened the knowledge graph to the point that a 16-year-old can vibe hack a power station just as easily as their mom can vibe code an iOS app, why the reporting culture that has kept open source safe all these years is collapsing under AI generated nois...

Game Development

1. Strategically making Star Wars Zero Company, ft. Greg Foertsch

Bit Reactor CEO and Star Wars Zero Company creative director Greg Foertsch discusses the development of the latest adventure from the world of Star Wars.

2. Xbox to cap Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers

Game Pass subscribers will no longer have unlimited access to Xbox's Cloud Gaming service.

3. Supercell's acquisition of Metacore expected to close this month

Once the deal is closed, Merge Mansion will officially become part of Supercell's live games portfolio.

4. Gamecity Hamburg launches second round of prototype funding

The organization is offering up to €80,000 to developers based or operating in the region.

5. CD Projekt Red won't be abandoning physical releases

'What you can definitely expect from us is to put out a box that's going to make it worth your while.'

6. Nexus Mods is acquiring database and analytics site SteamDB

Nexus Mods wants to grant SteamDB resources and the 'long-term stability it deserves.'

7. How Project Ember is transforming burn care training through mixed reality

Discover how Project Ember uses mixed reality to make burn care training more realistic, inclusive, scalable, and accessible for surgeons worldwide.

Gaming News

1. Let’s Stop Saying “Metroidvania”

The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of the popular genre. This is Metroidvania Week. When we talk about something, we should talk about it in ways people can understand. You have to be deep in the "gamer" weeds to have any idea what "Metroidvania" means, though. You have to be familiar with not one but two different decades-old game series...

2. Some Of The Best Metroidvanias Have Gone Criminally Overlooked

The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the “metroidvania,” we’re taking this occasion to take a comprehensive view of the popular genre. This is Metroidvania Week. Metroidvanias are very popular among indie developers, and small studios have produced some of the genre's finest examples. Just one look at Steam presents a dizzying array of search-action games, many of which you probably didn't know existed. Among all o...

3. StarCraft’s Return: A Timeline Of The Rumors And Clues So Far

BlizzCon 2026 is right around the corner, and for Blizzard fans, there's an air of excitement as signs point to a dormant franchise possibly being revived. StarCraft has been largely dormant since the release of StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void in 2015--and a huge update in June--but could the sci-fi series be making a comeback? If recent rumors and other weird stuff are to be believed, we could be in for some sort of an announcement during the BlizzCon opening ceremony--and to paraphrase one gri...

4. 10 Tips You Should Know Before Playing Halloween: The Game

Halloween: The Game is the latest asymmetrical horror game from IllFonic. It features the typical genre staples, including the familiar PvP-based loop--where players, acting as civilians, must escape a given location while being pursued by a player-controlled monster. Fans of the genre should know what to expect. What makes Halloween: The Game stand out, however, is in how it incorporates NPCs into the mix, as well as key elements from the popular slasher franchise. IllFonic has created a surviv...

5. Game Director Finally Addresses His Rumored Foot Fetish–Wait, Not Kojima, The Other One

A prolific Japanese game developer has finally addressed all that weird foot imagery in his video games. What? No, I'm not talking about Hideo Kojima (he's busy hanging out with The Backrooms director right now, anyway). I'm referring to Dark Souls and Elden Ring director Hidetaka Miyazaki, who has finally addressed online speculation that he is a foot guy. “It's not necessarily something I’m consistently aware of--maybe it’s something subconscious coming through,” Miyazaki told The Guardian in ...

6. Stage Tour Is More Than Just A Guitar Hero Throwback

There are some games that you hope will demonstrate how much muscle memory can survive years of neglect. Hand me a plastic guitar, put a rhythm game in front of me, and apparently my brain still thinks it knows what it's doing. Having not touched a guitar controller since around 2009, when Guitar Hero 5 was released, my hands-on time with Stage Tour at Gamescom went a little differently than I'd hoped. Getting to grips with the new rhythm game from RedOctane Games, I opted for guitar, naturally....

7. How To Complete A Bulwark Against Darkness In The Blood Of Dawnwalker

Are you hoping to complete A Bulwark Against Darkness in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This multi-stage quest becomes available several hours into the campaign, and only if you’ve been doing certain activities. If you manage to obtain specific items, you’ll be able to craft the legendary Arbiter armor set. In This Article A Bulwark Against Darkness - The legendary Arbiter armor setArmor components and the uriash blacksmithLarge Lizard Moult locationFlask of Quicksilver locationSilk Threads locationRe...

8. The Blood of Dawnwalker endings and how to get each one

Decide the fate of Vale Sangora and free Coen's family.

9. I have filled GTA 5 with realistic Los Angeles snow

Chestnuts roasting on an open car-fire.

10. A popular streamer turned down a 6-figure deal to play Arc Raiders because 'the game frustrated me so much'

Seven-figures? Now we're talking.

11. D&D is getting a Netflix series about Strahd, involving the director of The Prisoner of Azkaban, and I honestly think this could work great

I've been hankering after a Curse of Strahd adaptation for a long time.

12. Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

PC gaming sure ain't cheap.

13. Silent Hill: Townfall is the most Scottish game I've ever played and the most effective horror game I've seen in ages: 'It made sense for us to dig deep into our upbringings, into our past, and try and build a place that felt believable'

And not just because of the foul weather.

14. 'That criticism is justified': Gamescom apologizes for its callous response to developer hardware thefts

Gamescom said it is "committed to jointly reviewing and further improving security," but doesn't mention any compensation for affected exhibitors.

15. In a sea of failed live service games, I'm shocked to see someone trying to make a MOBA

Project Zeta is trying to crack a near-impenetrable market.

Robotics

1. How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security

Eric Sivertson, vice president of security business at Lattice Semiconductor, explains how FPGAs can act as deterministic guardrails for robotic systems. The post How FPGAs become the gatekeepers of physical AI security appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar

Submit now to be part of the Robotics Startup Radar, which brings together some of the most promising robotics startups. The post Calling robotics startups: Apply now to be part of the 2026 Robotics Startup Radar appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings

Lyte AI plans to use its second round of funding this year to scale production of its AI and perception capabilities. The post Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Robot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots

Robot.com says college campuses will continue to be an important part of its strategy as it scales sidewalk delivery robots. The post Robot.com partners with Sodexo to roll out more sidewalk delivery robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. Medtronic invests $700M in surgical partner Cornerstone Robotics

Medtronic and Cornerstone Robotics are building a multi-port portfolio anchored by the Hugo surgical system and expanded by Sentire. The post Medtronic invests $700M in surgical partner Cornerstone Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. JAKA hits Teradyne Robotics back over patent dispute

JAKA is now taking legal action against Teradyne Robotics to end public dissemination of statements it considers "false, misleading and damaging." The post JAKA hits Teradyne Robotics back over patent dispute appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open

NVIDIA is already a major model contributor to Hugging Face, which recently surpassed 1 million datasets. The post NVIDIA plans to acquire Hugging Face and keep AI development platform open appeared first on The Robot Report.

8. PlusAI to take autonomous trucking public via a SPAC deal

The SPAC transaction values PlusAI, whose self-driving trucking software is already generating revenue, at about $800 million. The post PlusAI to take autonomous trucking public via a SPAC deal appeared first on The Robot Report.

9. NexCOBOT discusses physical AI market hurdles and acceleration

NexCOBOT, which provides functional safety and motion controllers, discusses how physical AI benefits from 'Big Tech' and where it will grow. The post NexCOBOT discusses physical AI market hurdles and acceleration appeared first on The Robot Report.

10. Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness

Rajat Bhageria, the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, will explore what makes food such a demanding benchmark for physical AI. The post Learn why food is physical AI’s hardest problem at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

11. Protecting Dynamic Industrial Robot Cable Carriers

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber optics, and pneumatic hoses supplying them endure severe mechanical stress. Torsional twist, rapid acceleration, and repeated contact with machine structures often lead to premature conductor fatigue, insulation breakdo...

12. The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball

On a good day, the rock quarry in central Texas is about 370,000 kilometers (230,000 miles) from the moon. But last February, when Rishi Jangale watched his 1.8-meter-wide, 150-kilogram inflatable robot roll effortlessly over rocks, gravel, and wet clay, his imagination turned the quarry into the lunar surface instead.Jangale is an upbeat mechanical engineer nearing the end of his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. He and his labmates have been working on this big tan “Rob...

Tech General

1. Judge blocks X rival from using Twitter name, but allows ‘Tweet’ for now

A federal judge temporarily barred an X rival from using the Twitter name, but found that X was likely to have abandoned the “Tweet” trademark and bird logo. The startup has since relaunched as Tweet.app.

2. What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?

It’s officially the Ternus era at Apple. Tim Cook stepped down as CEO this week, handing the company to former hardware chief John Ternus, whose first memo promised a “huge launch next week” — timing that puts Apple’s next iPhone event on his desk before he’s even settled in. Cook isn’t going far, though: he’s staying on as Executive Chairman, focused on the kind of policy […]

3. No little kids allowed, and other new info about Tesla’s Cybercab

The company says no children under 13 can ride -- even with a parent. That's more restrictive than the Model Y SUVs it's using as robotaxis.

4. Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

5. CD sales are making an unexpected comeback amid a retro tech boom

U.S. CD revenue jumped 58.6% in the first half of 2026, reversing last year’s decline as interest in retro tech and physical media continues to grow.

6. Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming

Krafton's planned investment in India is set to surpass $500 million with its latest commitment.

7. Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

8. Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at midnight PT.

9. US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks

A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.

10. Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment

The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.

11. GoPro says it’s still committed ‘to your collective stoke’

GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a letter to customers that making cameras is still his company's "core DNA," after a proposed $285 million acquisition by Starman was announced earlier this week. He claims the merger puts GoPro in a better position to continue developing its content creation tech, after saying in the deal announcement […]

12. Roland is getting into generative AI music with Melody Flip

It's not quite the "push button; get song" of Suno, but Roland's new Melody Flip tool marks the company's foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 "Palettes," which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from […]

13. AGI is whatever you want it to be

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that "the AGI era" is here now. Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week. First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition […]

14. Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot

Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit's discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]

15. The best tech and gadgets announced at IFA so far

The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show officially opened to the public today following a week of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - including a smartphone […]

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