No biggie. Just Gemini 3.7 flash casually beating Fable 5, Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 on @ArtificialAnlys Analyst Agent benchmark.
BIG TECH
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NVIDIA Reportedly Plans $6 Billion Push for Open-Weight AI Model
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Nvidia is reportedly spending $6 billion to build one of the world’s most powerful open-weight AI models. According to the WSJ, Nvidia will license Poolside’s technology and bring more than 100 of its employees into the Nemotron project. Nvidia is also investing another $1
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Microsoft HealthAgentBench Tests Agents in Realistic Healthcare Environments
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HealthAgentBench: Microsoft's Unified Benchmark Suite for Realistic Agentic Health Environment! #BigData #Analytics #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #JavaScript #HealthTech #ReactJS #CloudComputing #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux
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Microsoft Thinkingbox Tests Agent Reliability Across 507 Policy-Conditioned Workflows
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Banger paper from Microsoft. It's on agent reliability in real business workflows. (bookmark it) Thinkingbox is a sandbox with isolated MCP-compatible tool sessions, plus a benchmark of 507 policy-conditioned workflows across retail, hospitality, auto insurance, neobank IT,
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Gemini Students Tab Adds Study Notebooks and Tailored Lessons
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ICYMI : Google added a new Students tab on Gemini web. > Learning tailored to you – Set up a study notebook to get custom lessons and track your progress.
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Google Antigravity Adds Remote Control for Ongoing Agent Sessions
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Google Antigravity now supports Remote Control!
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 22 août 2026
> Try Remote Control – Kick off work on your computer and continue working with your agents from your phone or another device. Turn on Remote Control in app settings.
Interestingly, there is no Antigravity mobile app in place and… https://t.co/6p15VtCP4k pic.twitter.com/ijGizKYaXzGoogle Antigravity now supports Remote Control! > Try Remote Control – Kick off work on your computer and continue working with your agents from your phone or another device. Turn on Remote Control in app settings. Interestingly, there is no Antigravity mobile app in place and
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Instant Backend Team Joins OpenAI to Support AI App Development
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Instant OpenAI Instant team is joining OpenAI! > Instant is a full backend solution with database, auth, permissions, and storage services built to power AI driven applications.
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Reported Spirit Data Sale for AI Training Raises Employee Consent Questions
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Google Buys Spirit Airlines’ Data for $10 Million to Train #AI. This raises a very uncomfortable question. If employees wrote emails and messages for work, did they ever consent to those conversations becoming AI training data years later? Bankruptcy may allow assets to be
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NotebookLM Update Adds Search Integration and Improves Math Rendering
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🚨 Google NotebookLM just got a major upgrade:
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 22 août 2026
👉 New Notebook experience is LIVE for all users
👉 Access your notebooks directly in AI Mode on Google Search
👉 Math equations now copy/paste and render properly in Chat
👉 RTL language support fixed — no more backwards numbers… pic.twitter.com/kkDZTaKlXbGoogle NotebookLM just got a major upgrade: New Notebook experience is LIVE for all users Access your notebooks directly in AI Mode on Google Search Math equations now copy/paste and render properly in Chat RTL language support fixed — no more backwards numbers
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin Ramps Into Full Production
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NVIDIA Vera Rubin is ramping into full production. Congrats to the teams at @Microsoft who made this exciting milestone happen.
