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AI News
Aug 10, 2026 31

Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure

Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you'll...

Research
Aug 10, 2026 45

Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale

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AI News
Aug 10, 2026 32

The limits of physics AI: where Siemens says the human stays in charge

Physics AI can now explore thousands of design variations in the time it would take a traditional simulation to chew through a handful of...

AI News
Aug 10, 2026 31

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You ...

AI News
Aug 10, 2026 31

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “fa...

Research
Aug 10, 2026 44

Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

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AI News
Aug 09, 2026 82

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

AI News
Aug 09, 2026 70

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

AI News
Aug 09, 2026 45

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

AI News
Aug 09, 2026 91

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrast...

AI News
Aug 09, 2026 76

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is changing o...

AI News
Aug 08, 2026 35

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of ...