Artificial Intelligence

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Anthropic upgrades Claude’s computer use to run in the background on Mac

While computer use isn’t new for Claude on the desktop, running it in the background is a nice upgrade.

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns

I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems.

Meet Switchyard: A Rust Proxy and Library That Routes and Translates LLM Traffic Across OpenAI and Anthropic APIs

NVIDIA has released Switchyard, an Apache-2.0 Rust proxy and library for LLM traffic.

Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber on September 2, 2026. Both variants run on the same foundational intelligence, split by safety mitigations rather than model size.

MrBeast will try to survive ‘the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes’ using Gemini and Fitbit Air in deal with Google

Google has struck a deal with MrBeast, the most popular YouTuber, to promote Gemini and Google Health, with one of…

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises

The Fairwind Program is a limited access program for governments and trusted partners to use our cyber defense tools.

Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out three weeks after last release

After the last model release three weeks ago, Google today is rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash. This marks the third…

Google Pixel adding ‘Battery usage summaries,’ rolling out on Pixel 10 and newer

Google is rolling out a new AI-generated feature on Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 devices called “Battery usage summaries” which…

Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

As companies scale, the technology supporting operations can become a liability just as quickly as it becomes an asset.

AI will be the defining test of Apple’s environmental commitments, says Greenpeace

Greenpeace says the adoption of AI poses the biggest threat to Apple’s environmental track record, and argues that how the…

Google Messages just made it easier to spot AI-edited photos in your group chats

That too-perfect photo your friend sent might finally have some answers.

Gemini 3.8 Flash could land any day now, and it could put the vibe back into vibe coding

It could finally close the gap with Claude’s Fable, GPT-5.6 Sol, and DeepSeek V4.

Anthropic Introduces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS): Zero-Data-Retention Privacy Plus Cross-Session Misuse Detection

Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards on September 1, 2026, an architecture that stores monitoring data in the customer’s own cloud account rather than Anthropic’s. Detection stays automated and Anthropic-run; custody, encryption keys, and flag review stay with the customer.

Meta Superintelligence Labs Releases Muse Voice Transcribe: One Real-Time Model for Streaming ASR, Diarization, and Endpointing

Most production voice stacks are three systems stitched together. One model transcribes, a second separates speakers, and a detector decides when the user stopped talking. Each hand-off adds latency and a new failure mode.

Perplexity can now split your tasks between the cloud and local AI to reduce costs

It’s like getting the best of both worlds.

Perplexity Releases Hybrid Compute on Mac: Cloud Agents Orchestrate Down to a Local Model, Gated On Device

Agentic assistants have a structural problem: the context that makes them useful — deal documents, privileged files, client records — is exactly the context users cannot send to a cloud endpoint. This week, Perplexity shipped its answer for Mac.

BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science and 75% Cheaper Cache Reads

Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, the same model behind two different safeguard layers. Fable 5.1 is generally available on the Claude API, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry; Mythos 5.1 remains restricted to vetted organizations under Project Glasswing.

Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Fable 5.1 model, details here

In June, Anthropic first released Fable 5, its Mythos-class AI model for Claude. Three months later, Anthropic is enhancing Claude…

Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe for real-time voice dictation on Mac

Meta is launching Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model. It brings multilingual, streaming transcription to Meta AI…

Google Pics is Workspace’s new ‘pro-level’ AI image creator & editor

Following the announcement at I/O 2026 in May, Google Pics is launching in general availability today.