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On August 25, 2026, Healio highlighted research indicating that pupil dilation can shift key ocular measurements, potentially skewing IOL power calculations used for cataract surgery planning. The report cites a study in the Journal of Refractive Surgery that found dilation increased anterior chamber depth and reduced lens thickness—two inputs that modern formulas often consider. What […]
On August 24, 2026, BBC Technology reported that Twitch and parent company Amazon face legal action over claims they used livestreams to train AI systems without permission (BBC Technology). The filing, still emerging, puts a live-video twist on a familiar fight: who gets to decide when creative work becomes training data. What the Twitch AI […]
On September 10-11, 2026, the Agentic AI Foundation will host AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan at Belle Salle Shibuya Garden in Tokyo, bringing leaders from SoftBank, Hitachi, NTT, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic together to tackle production concerns for AI agents, according to the group’s announcement on PRNewswire. The two-day program centers on standards, infrastructure, security, and […]
IRS RAAS jobs just opened a clear window: a GS-14 Economist post that closes on August 14, 2026 or after 200 applications, whichever comes first (jobs.irs.gov). That cap changes how fast qualified economists and data professionals need to move. More important, it spotlights where the IRS is placing analytical muscle inside its Research, Applied Analytics […]
Sixty AI and adjacent startups announced $11 billion in disclosed funding between August 17 and August 23, 2026. According to StartupHub.ai, the week’s haul hinged on a handful of outsized checks, led by a $4.5 billion injection into Nebius Group. Read past the headline number and a clear pattern emerges: the AI funding roundup favored […]
On August 24, 2026, the Guardian reported that the UK plans to use battlefield data from Ukraine to train artificial intelligence aimed at protecting military bases and other sensitive sites. The UK Ukraine AI deal, struck with Kyiv, is intended to deter both hostile states and disruptive protests targeting critical infrastructure, according to the paper’s […]
Paperclip describes itself as “the app people use to manage AI agents for work,” and its product pitch centers on org charts, goals, tasks, budgets, and agent templates in one place. That framing — a manager’s console, not a single chatbot — is the real story. The way Paperclip work agents package planning and spend […]
On August 19, 2026, Northwestern’s Network for Collaborative Intelligence (NNCI) put open tools front and center, hosting Meta’s Madeline Hinkamp and Technion’s Yossi Keshet to show how open-source models are solving real problems. That pairing—industry and academia, code and consequence—captures why Northwestern open-source AI is starting to punch above its weight across labs and lecture […]
10,000 words in a single pass, and hundreds of files generated at once. That’s the promise behind the Kimi Docs agent, which pitches itself as an AI document specialist that builds, converts, and reviews Word and PDF assets with structure intact. Kimi Docs agent pushes AI into document operations According to Kimi Docs, the agent […]
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