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It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives have departed, including some of the company's biggest names. Throughout it all, one person has quietly amassed power: Greg Brockman. Brockman is currently OpenAI's president and co-founder. He's helped lead OpenAI since its inception, described as an "engineering workhorse that pushed to build scaled-up systems that w … Read the full story at The Verge.

Record Corporate Cash Floods 2026 Midterms as Crypto, AI and Betting Take the Lead

Companies have already poured $517 million into House and Senate races, surpassing the full 2024 cycle, with three fast-growing industries Continue reading on Medium »

The Speed of Light is a Software Constraint.

I thought space AI meant a mind on the spacecraft. Then I noticed the model was still on Earth.Continue reading on AI Engineering Collective »

This app makes the Pixel 11’s HiLight feature actually useful

Google's new HiLight notification LED on the Pixel 11 Pro is nearly useless. Out of the box, the only two things it can glow for are when the phone is face down and you're interacting with Gemini, or when you get a call from a favorite contact. And even then, it can only glow one of five colors! This is a massive wasted opportunity for a feature that used to be so beloved on older Android phones, so developers have wasted no time doing what Google won't. X user Dhananjay_Tech developed a new app called HiLight Studio, which lets you do practically anything you want with the HiLight LED array. Did you receive a new Slack notification that m … Read the full story at The Verge.

Towards Data Science·Aug 20, 2026

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Three Kinds of RAG Corpus, and What It Costs to Build for the Wrong One

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #14A] - Three questions tell you which shape a document collection has, and each shape wants a different architecture The post Three Kinds of RAG Corpus, and What It Costs to Build for the Wrong One appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should be automated and then build the automation itself.Catalyst sits above Serval’s AI-native service management platform as an admin-facing “super agent.” It can inspect ticket history, standard operating procedures or natural-language instructions, identify recurring work, and draft the workflows, skills, forms, access policies, journeys and dashboards needed to automate it. Serval is also using Catalyst to create background agents that continuously inspect connected systems for emerging problems and propose fixes before an employee files a ticket.That distinction matters because enterprise service management vendors are rapidly converging on AI-assisted workflow creation. ServiceNow’s Build Agent can already translate natural-language instructions into full-stack applications, flows, scripts

VentureBeat·Aug 20, 2026

Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked

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Hacker News·Aug 20, 2026

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in math that went off like a bombshell in the field. It caused a huge debate in the math community, and Rob spent some time talking to some of the most accomplished mathematicians of our time about it. It’s funny that AI systems are all still pretty bad at elementary school arithmetic, but getting increasingly good at very high-end abstract math. That raises some big questions for the field of advanced math. If AI can do math of this caliber, does that mean AI labs can transfer those skills to other domains? What good are academic grants and university programs training new generations of human mathematicians to identify new problems as they try to solve existing ones, if frontier models simply answer all the outst

FromSoftware can do anything

There's something just a little bit different about FromSoftware's office in Tokyo. Like with any other successful video game studio, there's extensive security to get in the door, a minimalist lobby with framed posters from the studio's most recent releases, and a large glass display case filled with statues from ceremonies ranging from the BAFTAs to The Game Awards. But the hallways are painted black, a fitting theme for a developer known for crafting dark, gothic worlds and a hint at what new creations are lurking inside. While it has largely become known for a singular style of action game - dubbed "Soulslike," after the massively influ … Read the full story at The Verge.

The Night AI Went Off the Rails: The 2025 Autonomous Cyber-Agent Incident

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Journal Figure Reproduction | Python Plotting of Multi-Panel Horizontal Bar Charts with Multiple…

Multi-Panel Horizontal Bar Charts with Multiple Axes, Data Labels, and Error BarsContinue reading on Top Python Libraries »