OpenAI Publishes Developer Guide for GPT-5.6
OpenAI has published a guide to help startups build faster, more cost-effective AI agents using GPT-5.6. The guide focuses on smart model selection and new capabilities in the Responses API.
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Hugging Face Report: China Takes Lead in Open Models
According to Hugging Face's summer 2026 report, Chinese labs pulled ahead with trillion-parameter open models while U.S. open-source leadership shifted from model labs to hardware makers.
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Hugging Face Unifies Data Loop with Strands Robots
AWS's open-source Strands Robots SDK, combined with the LeRobot data format and Hugging Face Storage Buckets, unifies robot data recording, training, and deployment into a single agent loop.
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Hugging Face Reproduces 2,226 ICML Papers Using AI Agents
In a hackathon organized by Hugging Face, 1,221 participants used coding agents to attempt to reproduce 2,226 papers accepted at ICML 2026.
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Indonesia's First University AI Center Opens in Yogyakarta
UGM Indosat NVAITC, opened in Yogyakarta through a partnership between Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat, and NVIDIA, has become Indonesia's first university-based artificial intelligence technology center.
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Study: LLM Judges Flip Verdicts Under Sustained Pressure
A new academic study finds that large language models (LLMs) used as judges frequently reverse their verdicts when faced with persistent pushback.
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Tighter Bounds Found for Probabilities of Causation
A new study by Xin Shu, Zhen Lei, and Ang Li proposes tighter bounds than existing ones for multivalued probabilities of causation.
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New SEAG Framework Protects Privacy in RAG Systems
Researchers developed a framework called SEAG that hides sensitive information before it is sent to third-party large language models. The system answers user queries accurately without exposing hidden data.
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AI Identifies Dengue-Infected Mosquitoes From Video Footage
Researchers demonstrated that a multimodal system based on YOLO and CLIP can distinguish infected mosquitoes from video footage with high accuracy.
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Google Sheets Gets AI-Powered Sheets Canvas Feature
Google's new Gemini-powered Sheets canvas feature lets users turn spreadsheet data into interactive dashboards and mini apps without writing code.
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Flock Tightens Rules on License Plate Reader Cameras
Police technology company Flock is tightening search rules after backlash over misuse of its cameras. The company is expanding case number requirements and automated audit systems.
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How Teens View AI: In Their Own Words
MIT Technology Review's interviews with teens aged 10-18 reveal a wide range of reactions to AI, from indifference to environmental concern.
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