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Shadow roots, explained with live examples

Simon Willison published a tool that explains CSS shadow roots using interactive live examples, noting it was built with a prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium.

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research .

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

How SWE-Serve Exposes the Gap Between Local Tests and Live Serving

NVIDIA introduced SWE-Serve, a benchmark of 53 tasks derived from 83 merged SGLang pull requests, developed with input from the SGLang team. On 19 tasks with live-serving checks, the same patches passed 45.9% with the complete verifier versus 69.4% without those checks.

Two years of OpenAI Academy

Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.

MIT welcomes David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91 as its next Innovation Fellow

Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist will collaborate with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing to advance AI and scientific discovery.

Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello

Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale

When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a light into every corner,” Fiza said. “Every time we get a system, our first thought is: how can it […]

Graphify: Unifying Codebase Context to Streamline Agentic Software Engineering

Graphify is an open-source tool designed to convert codebases and unstructured data into queryable knowledge graphs. Launched in April 2026, it addresses challenges of multi-file reasoning for AI coding assistants. Recent updates have enhanced parser features and cross-file resolutions. Community feedback indicates a promising architecture but notes integration challenges in daily workflows. By Olimpiu Pop

Beyond Kubernetes at Modal: How to Scale 1 Million Concurrent Sandboxes in Seconds

In a recent article, Colin Weld and Connor Adams, staff engineers at Modal, describe how they rebuilt their sandbox infrastructure from the ground up to support millions of concurrent sandboxes and tens of thousands of sandbox creations per second. By Sergio De Simone

🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)

Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights into biology itself.

OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.

How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra

With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.

Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.

Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI

Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.

Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.

Introducing MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.

Google Adds Cycle-Level Kernel Profiling to XProf

Google has added a Kernel Profiling suite to XProf. This is its open-source profiler for TPU workloads. Now, developers can see cycle-level details in custom Pallas kernels. Before, these kernels appeared as single opaque blocks in trace captures. By Claudio Masolo

The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…

[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%

overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI