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AI News
Aug 18, 2026 56

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful c...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 53

Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 159

Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser

Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat response...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 71

Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are

One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of ...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 76

Alvys launches AI agents for freight TMS workflows

Freight software provider Alvys has launched an agentic AI platform that allows carriers and brokers to automate operational tasks direct...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 51

ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens

OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof....

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 89

Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit

On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted ...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 49

We still don’t know how people are really using AI

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only ...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 77

Reading Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 results past the headline number

Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own c...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 73

Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video

We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 ...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 53

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can alread...

Research
Aug 18, 2026 127

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

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