2026

Medicine

Margaret Atwood tried Claude and summed up AI's problem as 'garbage in, garbage out'

How to Build a Browser AI Agent in Python: A Step-by-Step Guide from Machine Learning Mastery

Business

Peter Thiel-linked club secretly ranks members by wealth and fame, leak shows

Startups·Bloomberg Tech

Columbia Threadneedle: Rising AI Spending Will Keep Fueling Tech Stocks

Columbia Threadneedle portfolio manager Tiffany Wade says the AI spending boom is accelerating and will keep tech stocks rising for at least two more quarters.

Research·MIT Technology Review

Heat Disrupts the Brain: Scientists Are Starting to Understand Why

Europe's heatwave has broken records, but its effects go beyond heatstroke: scientists are documenting cognitive and mental health impacts of high temperatures.

Robotics·IEEE Spectrum AI

IEEE Launches Online Large Language Model Program for Engineers

IEEE has opened "LLM Demystified," a five-course online program for engineers who want to understand transformer architecture, RAG, and secure deployment of…

Hardware·MIT Technology Review

Europe's heat wave shuts down power plants as IBM challenges Moore's Law

Europe is enduring record heat: power grids are overloaded and several plants have had to shut down. Meanwhile, IBM unveiled a next-generation chip aimed at…

01First Street Study: 80% of Data Centers Are Vulnerable to Floods, Wildfires and HurricanesAug 29, 2026·2 min 02Record Heat Wave in Europe: How Extreme Temperatures Are Straining Power GridsAug 29, 2026·3 min 03Amazon Nova 2 Sonic: How to Build a Voice Agent for Patient SchedulingAug 29, 2026·2 min 04Europe's Heat Wave Overheats Rivers and Shuts Down Power Plants as France Breaks a 1947 RecordAug 29, 2026·2 min 05One Million Dutch Residents Get Their News Only From Social Media — and Just 12% Trust ItAug 29, 2026·2 min

Top themes

Medicine·MIT Technology Review

Citi and BlackRock: How Financial Giants Are Building Digital Asset Infrastructure

Hardware·ZDNet AI

Sony Bravia 8 II Is $600 Off: Why Last Year's OLED Flagship Is Still a Good Buy

The Sony Bravia 8 II, the company's 2024 flagship OLED TV, is $600 off during Amazon Prime Day. ZDNet's editors explain why the deal deserves a look.

Business·KDnuggets

Developer builds an AI assistant from scratch: architecture, code and what broke

A KDnuggets engineer explains why he dropped paid AI services and built his own assistant, with code, architecture and a frank account of what went wrong.

Amazon Prime Day 2026: Big Discounts on Samsung and WD SSDs — Last Chance

Amazon Prime Day 2026 brings steep discounts on SSDs and drives from Samsung, WD and other top brands. Experts call them the best deals in the sale's history.

Creative·Bloomberg Tech

Google Home Speaker with deep Gemini integration goes on sale for $100

Walmart's Counter-Sale Ends Sunday: Up to 50% Off TVs, Laptops and Apple Gear

LLM·Habr AI

Claude for Software Testers: A QA Engineer's Real-World Experience, With Prompts and Numbers

Amazon Prime Day 2026 Is Over, but 60+ Deals on Apple, LG and Garmin Are Still Live

Business·Bloomberg Tech

Principal Mineral Buys PCB Component Maker From Cerberus Portfolio

How to Build a Stable Pipeline on the Fable 5 Traces Dataset in Google Colab

Creative

Vibe coding in practice: how one developer learned to cut token costs without sacrificing code quality

Medicine

13 Google Photos settings you should change on a new Android phone or iPhone

LLM·Habr AI

RAG + Call Graph: Automatic Issue-Tracker Context for Claude Code

A developer describes how a repository RAG index and a Claude Code plugin automatically pull the right context for a tracker task, without wasting tokens.

MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ Beats Legion Go on Performance and Cooling

ZDNet tested the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ and found the handheld Windows PC outdoes the Lenovo Legion Go on cooling, ergonomics and sustained performance.

Business·Habr AI

"AI-Scramble for a Cyborg": Why Intuition Is Becoming the Key Asset in the Age of AI

The Habr column "AI-Scramble for a Cyborg" explores how AI and human intuition work in tandem, and why "cyborg mode" is already a working strategy today.

Autonomous·LangChain Blog

LangChain: A Practical Guide to AI Agent Memory — Short-Term, Long-Term, and LangSmith

LangChain has published a structured guide to memory architecture for AI agents: short-term and long-term memory, plus tracing with LangSmith.

01Casey Harrell, who has ALS, becomes the first "power user" of a speech neuroimplantAug 29, 2026·2 min 02ZDNet editor puts the new Siri with Apple Intelligence through 10 tasks on a MacAug 29, 2026·2 min 03Habr Shows How to Build a Home AI Server for Under 400,000 RublesAug 29, 2026·2 min 04ICRA 2026 in Vienna: AIRI and MIPT Researchers Report from the World's Largest Robotics ForumAug 29, 2026·2 min 05Paris studio Rocapine raises $13M for digital wellbeing appsAug 29, 2026·2 min

Top themes

Creative·KDnuggets

The 7 best free image generators on Hugging Face in 2026

Business·AWS Machine Learning Blog

AWS: Mathematical optimization solves problems intuition can't

Ethics·TNW

Shareholders sue Microsoft over stock plunge after Azure slowdown

LLM·MarkTechPost

6 No-Code Tools for AI Developers: From RAG to Multi-Agent Systems

Autonomous·LangChain Blog

LangChain Publishes Guide to Building a Custom Harness for AI Agents

LangChain explains how to use create_agent and middleware to build a custom harness, a control wrapper that makes an AI agent predictable for a specific task.

Business·Guardian

London's Royal Opera House Launches RBO/SHIFT: Artists in Dialogue with AI, Not Apocalypse

The RBO/SHIFT festival at London's Royal Opera House brings artists and technologists together to examine AI's role in the arts honestly, without fear and without…

Ethics·CNews AI

84% of Russian Mobile Apps Contain Critical Vulnerabilities — and the Number Keeps Growing

84% of Russian mobile apps contain critical vulnerabilities: tens of thousands of unpatched holes, with AI coding adding new ones every year.

Hardware·MIT Technology Review

Data Centers Connect to the Grid Faster Through Flexible Power Consumption Agreements

LLM·Machine Learning Mastery

Transformers.js and Embeddings: Semantic Search Without Server Infrastructure

Creative·KDnuggets

Feature Store from Scratch: Five Components for a Minimal Working Implementation

Autonomous·ZDNet AI

AI Agents Are Becoming Coworkers: How to Get the Best Results From Them

Robotics·TNW

XPeng's Robotics Unit Raises More Than $900M Ahead of Mass Production of Its IRON Humanoid

Ethics

OpenAI Warns of a New Era of 'Constant' AI-Driven Cyberattacks

China's Gray Market Sells Claude Tokens at 10% of the Price — Through a Network of "Transfer Stations"

AI Is Now AI's Biggest Customer: Agent Token Usage on OpenRouter Grew 14x

Hardware·NVIDIA Developer Blog

NVIDIA Scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3, and the Hero Is the Harness, Not the Model

NVIDIA's AVO architecture posted a perfect score on the interactive ARC-AGI-3 benchmark. The key takeaway: the model isn't what solves it. The harness is, the…

Robotics·TNW

A Humanoid Ran 100 Meters Faster Than Usain Bolt's Record — and Roboticists Aren't Impressed

At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, an X-Humanoid machine ran the 100 m in 9.39 seconds, beating Bolt's record. Roboticists explain why folding laundry is…

Startups·TNW

Anthropic Prepares the Largest IPO in History: About $100B Raised at a Valuation of $2T or More

Anthropic could raise about $100B in a listing as early as October, topping SpaceX's record and dwarfing the largest European offering in decades tenfold.

Creative·TNW

Alibaba releases Wan3.0 video model days after raising $10 billion for AI

Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, a new version of its video model that generates clips up to 30 seconds long. It arrived days after a record $10.2 billion share sale earmarked entirely for AI.