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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 that harness reached training its own skill. Retention varies sharply by task type — 102% on spreadsheets, 10% on math — which is what makes the result worth reading closely.

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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, population, and revenue. We then map the raw columns to Meridian’s data schema, define interpretable ROI-based […]

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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. A local append-only event log makes the runtime replay-exact and restart-safe after a crash. Muse Spark 1.2 was co-trained with the harness and trained on long-horizon, repository-scale work.

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Meta has shipped Muse Code, its first coding agent, in a beta release alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a new version of its flagship model that the company says was co-trained with the agent for tighter integration. Muse Code is a terminal agent that installs with a single command and takes on complete software engineering tasks, including planning changes, writing code, and validating results. On its Muse Code product page, Meta describes it as "an agent for your most complex coding workstreams,"…

SkinBit has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding to expand a technology platform designed to make full-body skin imaging more accessible and give patients a consistent record of how their skin changes over time. The round includes investments from Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures and Profluent Capital, alongside Lyft co-founder Logan Green and nine board-certified dermatologists. Rather than relying on a single annual visual examination, SkinBit combines standardized imaging, computer…

Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing as companies increasingly explore whether artificial intelligence can help their internal legal teams handle work that would traditionally be sent to outside counsel. The new investment was led by Intact Private Capital, with participation from existing backers Highland Europe and Index Ventures. FT Ventures, the investment arm of the Financial Times, has also joined the company’s shareholder base. Wordsmith’s Series B…

Anthropic launched inference hooks on August 5, 2026, a beta feature for Claude Enterprise that routes every employee prompt through the organization's own security server for an allow-or-deny verdict before the model ever sees it. The system, described in Anthropic's announcement, extends the kind of inline data loss prevention that security teams already run on email and web traffic to chat, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork sessions, with a single organization-level configuration. Until now…

Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and one of the central figures in modern AI infrastructure, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a startup whose stated goal is to automate the experimental loops of scientific research itself. The departure was announced on August 5, 2026 as part of a broader reshuffle of Google's AI leadership, with the company confirming it will back the new venture as a founding investor and Cloud partner. Dean is not leaving alone…

Houston Methodist researchers have published what they describe as the first peer-reviewed evidence that ambient AI in the operating room is associated with a measurable increase in surgical case volume: a 7% rise, or roughly 25 additional cases per month, in a high-acuity cardiothoracic suite after the system deployed Apella's computer-vision platform. The study, published June 27, 2026 in the Journal of Imaging, covers 5,417 surgical cases monitored over 16 months at the system's flagship…

The rise of AI in education has created real excitement around personalized learning, instant feedback, and increased engagement. While the increasing access to information has undeniable value, this factor alone has never been the goal of education. If learning becomes increasingly frictionless, what will happen to curiosity, persistence, and reflection? Education has always been about more than acquiring knowledge. It helps shape how people think, question, collaborate, and contribute. AI is…

Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, the first time the AI lab has publicly acknowledged the effort. The confirmation came in a company statement to Business Insider alongside a job listing for a Silicon Engineer that Anthropic posted to its own careers portal. "We work from the chip level up with our silicon partners, and we are now deepening that investment by building a custom silicon team," the listing reads…

Last year, Absa, one of the largest banks in Africa, needed 120 days to move a new financial crime detection model from build to production. While that was close to the industry average at the time, that same bank today can deploy a new model in 15 days, even with the same regulatory environment, transaction volumes, and compliance requirements. And yet, a PwC survey found that 56% of enterprise CEOs have seen no significant financial benefit from their AI investments. Every enterprise leader I…

Artificial intelligence is entering a period where infrastructure strategy is becoming inseparable from model capability. For years, hyperscale datacenters have powered the rise of large scale training, enabling frontier models to grow from millions to trillions of parameters. But as AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, industries, and real-time systems, inference is replacing training as the dominant workload, and inference has fundamentally different requirements. The next era of AI…

Inna Braverman, Founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power - is a technology entrepreneur working to establish wave energy as a commercially viable source of renewable electricity. She founded Eco Wave Power in 2011 at the age of 24, inspired in part by her personal connection to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and a commitment to reducing pollution. Under her leadership, the company has developed grid-connected wave energy installations, built an international project pipeline and gained recognition…

AI is quickly becoming part of everyday legal practice. Adoption rates are aggressively rising. Attorneys are using AI to accelerate legal research, summarize documents, and reduce time spent on administrative tasks. Much of the conversation so far has focused on what AI can do. That conversation is now shifting. The harder question is how firms build around the models and agents and all the various tasks where AI can be applied. The firms that realize the greatest value won’t be those simply…

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 LingoQA, and emits trajectories, Chain-of-Causation traces, meta-actions, auto-labels and grounded VQA from a single pass.

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Five teams in the Rust project have adopted a formal policy governing how large language models can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust, the project's main monorepo, Jynn Nelson, the policy's author, announced on the Inside Rust blog on August 5, 2026. The policy (ratified by the compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams) replaces what Nelson describes as an unpublished "wild west" approach to moderation with a public, written set of rules. The policy is not a project-wide…

Tencent is opening its Hy3 large language model to global users, extending the model beyond its home market through the WorkBuddy agent workspace, the Miora design studio, and Tencent Cloud's TokenHub platform, the company announced on August 5, 2026. The rollout broadens international access to the model Tencent's Hunyuan team — now rebranded Tencent Hy — officially released on July 6, 2026. Under the expansion, Hy3 is available free of charge on WorkBuddy to users worldwide until August 31…

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 one dependency that is easy to miss

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TIER IV, the Tokyo-based company behind the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, has signed a memorandum of understanding with automotive supplier Astemo to jointly build a next-generation development platform for end-to-end autonomous driving AI, the companies announced on August 5, 2026. The platform is targeted for commercialization around 2030, with Astemo aiming to put end-to-end AI models into passenger vehicles in the early 2030s. The deal centers on TIER IV's Co-MLOps, a…