Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language.

Visualbuild.me's Automation Skill Builder is a local-first AI automation platform. Record workflows once with AI, then run them offline without any AI cost. Supports desktop, browser, API, OCR automation and exposes skills via MCP for integration with AI assistants like Cursor, Claude, and Copilot. Pricing from free to enterprise.

At H Company, GPU clusters showed VRAM held by ghost processes after job crashes. Investigation traced the issue to FUSE mounts used for S3 storage: the userspace daemon (rclone mount) was killed by OOM, but the kernel failed to abort the FUSE connection because a file descriptor was still held by the broker process (fusermount-server). This left training threads stuck in D-state holding CUDA contexts. A hotfix forced abort of FUSE connections, but a root cause fix requires addressing the fd leak.

The Library of Congress has become a founding member of AI4LAM, an international organization promoting responsible AI use in cultural heritage. Formed in 2018, AI4LAM now has over 40 institutional members from more than 10 countries. The Library will co-host the Fantastic Futures 2026 conference this September.

A reflection on how building agent-based systems involves far more than just the agent logic; the bulk of the codebase consists of infrastructure, tools, and support systems.

Apple has raised prices on its entire MacBook and iPad lineup by 15% to 25% due to surging memory chip costs and AI-driven demand. Examples include the basic iPad rising from $349 to $449 and MacBook Air from $1,099 to $1,299. The price hikes are attributed to memory chip shortages caused by AI companies and manufacturers shifting focus to enterprise components. Apple CEO Tim Cook warned the increases are unavoidable. The iPhone was spared for now.

On the Max Agency Podcast, Zack Reneau-Wedeen discusses the future of AI agents, advocating for simple architectures, outcome-based pricing, and avoiding 'org chart shipping.' He shares insights from building customer-facing agents at Sierra.

The Geekom A9 Max mini PC is on sale for $1,349 during Amazon Prime Day, saving $350 off the regular $1,699. Featuring an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 80 TOPS of AI performance, 32GB DDR5 RAM (expandable to 128GB), and dual PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs (up to 8TB), it offers strong performance for creators, designers, and AI users. Its integrated GPU is a minor drawback, but overall it's a powerful and compact workstation.

Take a practical look at multimodal, any-to-any systems for vision-language reasoning, speech interaction, document intelligence, real-time assistants, local deployment.

A video showing a talking robot head interacting with a human wearing a tinfoil helmet, possibly demonstrating AI and robotics experiments.

The United Nations runs Google's ad-tech on its own website, without consent, while telling the rest of us to account for AI's footprint. A forensic capture reveals extensive third-party tracking, device fingerprinting, and storage operations without any consent mechanism. The author calls on the Secretary-General to remove all third-party tracking within 180 days.

Amazon Prime Day 2026 deals are going strong on day three. ZDNET's editors have curated over 90 top discounts across TVs, laptops, SSDs, and more, updated in real time. This article covers deal categories, FAQs, and shopping tips to help you cut through the noise.

Forensic-deepdive is an open-source tool that builds a persistent code knowledge graph for any codebase (supports 9 languages) and provides an MCP server interface for AI coding agents. It generates 5 human-readable Markdown documents and 10 integration files, all offline without LLM or network.

A new study maps the political leanings of six major AI language models, finding that four out of six lean left, with Grok the furthest right and Gemini the most neutral and stable. The analysis reveals gaps between models' self-claimed positions and measured stances.

Appaloft is a local-first, AI-native PaaS that allows developers to deploy applications to their own servers using a single configuration file. It supports static sites, Docker, Compose, and offers a blueprint marketplace for common apps. Integrates with CLI, GitHub Actions, and MCP for AI agent control.

Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt AI agent for customer service, with pay-per-resolution pricing. It can be set up in minutes and includes a revamped Customer Service Portal. General availability is July 2026.

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses artificial intelligence to run payroll and other back-office work with little staff involved.

This article explores how AI's rapid progress in mathematics challenges traditional research, prompting mathematicians to reassess their roles. It analyzes three potential futures: AI as a tool, a collaborator, or an autonomous oracle.

LucidLink released a public beta of a Model Context Protocol server that extends its distributed file system to AI agents, enabling shared access to files across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. The server addresses data movement and state persistence issues in multi-agent workflows, allowing agents, applications, and humans to work from the same files without copying data.

A wave of public offerings is rippling through robotics, AI and the larger tech industry.

It's a tough market for GPUs, but there are still some good deals to be had during Amazon Prime Day. Here are the five worth checking.

CALHippo is an open-source framework that uses BigBrain histological sections to perform a multiscale workflow, from high-resolution cell instance segmentation to density modeling, generating biologically plausible 3D cellular point clouds for mesoscale reconstruction of the human hippocampus. The framework has been accepted at MICCAI 2026.

Research shows that with proper scaffolding, a local LLM like Qwen3.6-35B-A3B can produce security findings comparable to frontier cloud models, but works best in a Source-local pipeline where the cloud designs and consolidates while the local model executes, keeping source code on-premises.

Follow this step-by-step path through the design, decision-making, and leadership skills that move an engineer into the architect's seat.

This article explains how to distinguish agentic workflows from autonomous agents by focusing on who owns control flow—a human writing code in advance, or a model reasoning at runtime. It covers deterministic workflows, orchestrated workflows, reactive agents (ReAct loop), and autonomous multi-agent systems with runnable code examples. The real axis is predictability versus autonomy, not whether an LLM is involved. Workflows dominate production today, and hybrid architectures are the emerging pattern.

Organisational latency is becoming the biggest barrier to fully realising AI’s benefits.

After topping JD Power's initial quality ranking, Ford acknowledged challenges from over-reliance on automation, which required rehiring experienced engineers to correct robot errors. The automaker realized AI's effectiveness depends on data quality and underestimated veteran engineers' institutional knowledge. Ford has brought back over 350 experienced engineers, shifted from 'find and fix' to prevention, and strengthened collaboration between software and hardware teams.

Kranth lets you stress-test your ideas on AI personas before showing them to real users, enabling rapid validation and iteration.

This buyer's guide covers key criteria for evaluating serverless databases for AI workloads, including compute-storage separation, open standards, scale-to-zero, connection models, and AI-native capabilities.

One of the main frontier AI models is adding embodied AI capabilities. Alibaba's Qwen-Robot Suite aims to bridge the gap between perception and action with three specialized models.