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Date: 2026-08-28
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Google further buries search results under AI mode

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable . The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with a “Show more” button you can click,…

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Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’

According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” — phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device — will actually be a “family” of devices.” “We’ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, and we’ll share more soon,” Sharma…

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NSA wants access to ‘all’ AI models, top official says

The National Security Agency wants access to artificial intelligence models across the commercial market and is holding extensive discussions with leading developers as it moves to carry out new White House directives on the technology, the agency’s deputy director said Thursday. “We want access to all the models, and we’re going to take advantage of…

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Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses, has raised $1 billion in private, short-dated debt to buy Nvidia’s AI chips that it will lease to Microsoft, Bloomberg reports . The terms of the deal, which Bloomberg says was arranged by JP Morgan Chase, signal that Lambda is betting it will be able to quickly deploy…

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The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

Voice Arena and Hugging Face partner to launch open ASR evaluation for Hindi and Indian English Benchmarks decide what gets built. A model that scores well on the Open ASR Leaderboard gets adopted and iterated on, while capabilities the leaderboard does not measure tend not to improve.

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An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now, a researcher in Anthropic’s fellows program has given us an early look at what it might look like in practice. On Friday, Anthropic published a new paper titled “ Automated Researchers Can Reliably Mitigate Alignment Failures ,” detailing how AI systems could…

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Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets

Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks. Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI agents, Hugging Face is at the center of the ecosystem of developers building and deploying LLMs…

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Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate

Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount from the usual price. We spotted scaling discounts on larger sizes as well, although Amazon already listed low stock on the 65-inch version.

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DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything

Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim , Cyberpunk 2077 , GTA V , and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27 . Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural Rendering” file and apply it to Control…

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Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to make it harder for people to weigh in on any pollution those centers create. The EPA plans to toss out a federal rule requiring public notice and an opportunity to comment when certain industrial sites apply for an air permit.

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The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

You know the person blocking your view of the concert because their phone is swaying in the air, recording the entire thing? Get ready for the unfolded version of it.

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Hot Chips 2026: Cerebras lays out the future of wafer-scale AI - Nexus system architecture triples rack-scale performance, CS-6 wafer to incorporate stacked DRAM | Tom's Hardware

Cerebras' SRAM-packed wafer-scale engines (WSEs) have carved out a niche in the AI model serving space for extremely low-latency, high-throughput inference, enabling services like OpenAI's ChatGPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast tier. At Hot Chips 2026 , the company revealed the next two generations of its wafer-scale accelerator roadmap.

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Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply-chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement , the Australian Federal Police said the two men were…

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[AINews] OpenAI to reach AGI bar by end-2026

Normally we eschew AGI timeline talk on Latent Space, because it is so ill defined and unaccountable, but, well, missing it would probably be the worse sin at this point. We last checked in on OpenAI AGI timelines 9 months ago , and, right on target, Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is now saying the unreleased Astra model is the “ Automated AI Research…

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