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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. Dataclasses for Structured Application Data

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

6. 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...

7. 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.

8. 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.

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. GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

Software Development

1. “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra to most paying users a day after its unveiling

Update: As of 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Friday, September 4, GPT-6 Astra was available on ChatGPT for all paying users The post “Sorry for the messy rollout”: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra to most paying users a day after its unveiling appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.

Microsoft flagged a phishing campaign last week that exploits a gap in how machines read text. Attackers are slipping invisible The post Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead. appeared first on The New Stack.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. “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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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. My AI agents don't talk to each other

I run seven agents over the same domain. They have never once sent each other a message. That was not the plan. The plan was the thing everybody builds first: a coordinator that hands work between specialists, agents that call each other, a shared conversation they all append to. It worked in the demo and it fell apart the moment the work got real. What replaced it is boring and it has held up: every agent writes claims to one shared record, and nothing else. No agent reads another agent's reaso...

14. How We Built Perceive: Web Content Extraction for RAG Pipelines

A browser and a language model can look at the same URL and effectively see two different things. A browser sees a rendered interface: navigation, cookie banners, buttons, ads, sidebars, images, scripts, interactive components, and eventually the text a human came to read. A language model sees whatever representation we decide to give it. That distinction matters when the URL is going into a RAG pipeline. Open the developer tools on any major news or documentation site and look at the raw HTML....

15. How I built my own set of audio plugins with JUCE

A build log on ESP, six VST3 plugins written in C++ with JUCE 8 and shipped through a store I built myself. What the framework does for you, where it stops, and the one measurement that changed how I work. The line Six plugins, all JUCE 8, all VST3 plus standalone, all GPL v3, all downloadable from esp-plugin-store.vercel.app: Plugin What it is Basic Oscilator three oscillators on juce::dsp, the first thing I ever built, kept honestly VERTEX dynamic range compressor with a live transfer curve ES...

Programming Languages

1. .name Termination

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2. The NX bit is not just about security

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

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4. Principles of Memory Management in Java

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5. How Email Actually Works

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6. Digital audio between synthesizers

Since Midi 2.0 now supports Ethernet, Ive been creating a digital audio protocol to send digital audio directly between synthesizers without routers and hubs. submitted by /u/micro2970 [link] [comments]

7. Linked Lists in the Linux kernel

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8. Maybe you don't need GraphQL

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9. Understanding RabbitMQ in Simple Terms

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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.'

Gaming News

1. Before HBO’s The Last Of Us, An Entirely Different Adaptation Was Proposed

Naughty Dog's first effort to adapt The Last of Us for the screen was not as an HBO TV show, but a movie, a fact that recently began doing the rounds again on social media. Like with many Hollywood productions, The Last of Us had a tumultuous, long development period as a movie before it was ultimately abandoned in favor of what is now a hit series. While not everyone agrees with the creative departures from the source material for the TV series on HBO, it's undeniably a success and one of HBO's...

2. Onimusha WOTS – High Level Gameplay On Hardest Difficulty

We take on Enhanced Byakue on Carnage Difficulty, a harder version of the secret demo boss while taking no damage in Onimusha: Way Of The Sword. Carnage difficulty is only available after completing the game on normal difficulty. Music: Onimusha 2: Oda's Army Attack

3. How To Complete The Cycle Of Love In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Xanthe Boss Guide

Are you befuddled by the tasks in The Cycle of Love in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This quest, which is the conclusion of your battles against Xanthe, takes place in a keep. Along the way, you have to illuminate your surroundings to access new pathways. Oh, and you also have to consider Xanthe’s offer at the end. Our guide has all the info that you need, but be ready for some minor spoilers, too. In This Article Xanthe’s demise - The Cycle of LoveHowling Keep puzzle - Xanthe’s LanternsIasmina and t...

4. You Can Extend The Blood Of Dawnwalker’s Time Limit By Finding Sanzhani Fairies

Are you intrigued by the existence of Sanzhani in The Blood of Dawnwalker? These beings, a cross between a moth and a pixie, are fairies who live in small burrows underground. Don’t let their diminutive size fool you, because they’re quite tricky and mischievous, too. However, if you can help them out, you might just receive the most important resource in the game: Time. Our guide has all the information that you need. We discuss the Good Home quest and Letters to Lunka quest. In This Article Al...

5. NBA 2K’s Best Mode Is Even Better This Year

NBA 2K has long been the standard-bearer for high-quality sports games. It's the pinnacle that other series like Madden, FC, and even the oft-beloved MLB The Show aspire to emulate in whatever ways their respective sports allow. That's not to say it gets everything right, but it often feels like the team at Visual Concepts is competing against itself. It creates trends; it doesn't chase them. That's always been most obvious in The City, the series' social PvPvE hub and the lifeblood of the game'...

6. Who Should Receive Farkas’ Ring In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – The Ring Guide

Are you having doubts as to who should receive Farkas' Ring in The Blood of Dawnwalker? Farkas, the jester for Mad Khan Bakir, has a deal for you. Of course, it's up to you if you want to push through with the idea or if you feel like you should renege on it. But if you change your mind, you'll have to find someone who'll take the item. In This Article The Ring quest - Should Farkas or someone else get the ring?What happens if you give the ring to Farkas?Who else can take the ring?AncaBakr-Erga,...

7. How To Complete The Gilded Gauntlet In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Ambrus Boss Guide

Are you planning to complete The Gilded Gauntlet in The Blood of Dawnwalker? This quest is the culmination of your efforts to stymy Ambrus, the arrogant vampire boyar who’s also one of Brencis’ lieutenants. Our guide has all the details that you need, but be ready for a few spoilers. We tackle not just The Gilded Gauntlet, but also a related mission called The Bittersweet Toast. In This Article Ambrus’ end - The Gilded Gauntlet and The Bittersweet ToastThe Bittersweet Toast: Time progressionThe ...

8. How To Complete The Lunar Game In The Blood Of Dawnwalker – Bakir Boss Guide

The Lunar Game in The Blood of Dawnwalker is a major quest that you eventually receive if you’ve been targeting Bakir’s operations in the region. If you keep at it with certain activities, such as freeing prisoners from pillories, ransacking distilleries, and eliminating headhunters, Bakir will become so irate. Shortly thereafter, his jester, Farkas, will approach you with a plan to join a contest. Our guide has several tips to help you survive the night. In This Article Bakir’s fall - The Lunar...

9. All Endings In The Blood Of Dawnwalker, Including Both Secret Endings

Are you curious about all the endings in The Blood of Dawnwalker? Your journey across the fields, bogs, and castles of Vale Sangora has to come to a close some time, whether you manage to do it in 30 days or not. Our guide has all the information that you could ever want but, due to the topic that we’ll discuss, do expect several major spoilers. In This Article The Blood of Dawnwalker endings, epilogues, and extrasSecret ending: The Hero They DeserveSecret ending: Together ForeverBad ending: You...

10. Pokemon Go Fest Mega Finale: Armored Mewtwo Raids, Rotating Habitats, Bonuses, And More

Pokemon Go is formally closing out this year's Go Fest with one final event dubbed the Mega Finale, and true to its name, it focuses almost entirely on Mega-Evolved Pokemon. Like Go Fest proper, the Mega Finale takes place across two days, with different wild Pokemon and Raid bosses appearing throughout the weekend as part of rotating habitats. Moreover, the game will offer various bonuses for catching Pokemon and completing challenges, including the first chance to Mega Evolve the Kalos startin...

11. Grand Theft Auto 6's controversial refuelling action reportedly takes about 10 seconds to perform, which Rockstar's co-studio head says is 'pretty fast for a fill-up'

"You can't complain about that".

12. Left 4 Dead 2 writer says Valve intentionally 'leaked' its cinematic trailer to get around ESRB rules: 'I think we can't get trouble for that now'

Chet Faliszek says the ESRB "wouldn't let" Valve release the trailer.

13. September's schedule of new games, events, and updates refuses to let 2026 go down in history as a slow year for new releases

Well, the honor truly belongs to fall in general, but let's take this one month at a time.

14. As Wardogs blows past 200k Steam concurrents, its developers are prepared for the day 'hype dies down'

"Doesn't make it a bad game, or even a problem."

15. Celebrate Labor Day by playing Civilization 7 for free

There's actually no connection to Labor Day that I can see, but Civ 7 is free to play until September 10, and it's on sale too.

Robotics

1. Enovis to acquire surgical tech provider eCential Robotics for $180M

Enovis said it plans to bring a robotic system targeting the knee within the next two years, followed by a system focusing on the shoulder. The post Enovis to acquire surgical tech provider eCential Robotics for $180M appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Video Friday: Digit Redecorates

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOULIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHCoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026, AUSTINEnjoy today’s videos! I know these videos from Agility can be a little bit silly, but the couch drag in this one is im...

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. XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.

2. OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

3. AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

4. 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.

5. 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 […]

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026

I've been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I've listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I've been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good - great, even - but they lack a distinct character. Something to remind me why I fell in love […]

12. OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the "'wiki incident,' where our agents wrote to several internet sites," OpenAI wrote […]

13. Robotaxis enter their villain era

It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have […]

14. Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the rounds. The final version of the new icon isn't nearly as bad as the early rendition that was circulating last October. But more importantly, all the promised improvements to […]

15. The White House is making arcade games racist

The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed "arcade" games, some of which are racist - and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. The Tetris Company has already responded to "Build the Wall," which is obviously […]

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