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17 Aug 2026 edition

452 articles · 15 sources · 436 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · AI Labs

AI Labs AI

The Defender’s Window

AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.

Source: OpenAI News
AI Labs AI

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project, expanding community investment and supporting thousands of Southern Ohio jobs

Source: OpenAI News
AI Labs AI

New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age.

Source: OpenAI News
AI

What Flock’s defenders are missing

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Flock, the police-tech giant known for its network of some 120,000 automatic…

Source: MIT Technology Review AI James O'Donnell
AI

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and…

Source: MIT Technology Review AI Sara Harrison
AI Research AI

Evolve Vision-Language-Action Model into an Agent with On-the-fly Tool-use

arXiv:2608.14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper integrates end-to-end Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models with agentic tool-use to propose Agentic Robot with Tool-use (ART). ART is a tool-injection…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Yi Ding, Yanzhao Yu, Xili Dai, Xianbiao Qi, Peiwen Sun, Xueqian Wang, Xiangyu Yue, Jianan Wang
AI Research AI

SDO: Subspace Deconflicting Operator for Multi-Adapter Composition

arXiv:2608.13820v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Composing independently trained adapters within a shared diffusion backbone provides a modular approach to multi-character generation, but naive joint deployment often…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Zhongsheng Wang, Zhedong Lin, Qian Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Jiamou Liu

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