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Every development we picked up, including smaller stories beyond the labs. Newest first, times in UTC.

Tuesday 25 August

2 developments
19:10
Google DeepMindResearch

Google Research presents AgentHands for XR hand gestures

Google Research published AgentHands, a method for generating interactive hand gestures for spatially grounded agent conversations in extended reality. The work falls under human-computer interaction and visualization.

1 official
14:22
OpenAIResearch

OpenAI Jalapeño chip shows fast inference in benchmarks

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip was tested on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark. It delivered more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the current state of the art.

2 coverage

Friday 21 August

3 developments
17:02
Google DeepMindResearch

Google Research builds AI tool to prioritize biomarkers from wearables

Google Research announced an AI tool that prioritizes candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data. The tool uses generative AI.

1 official
11:59
Google DeepMindResearch

Google DeepMind partners with game studios on AI gameplay research

Google DeepMind is partnering with game studios to prototype AI gameplay, building on 15 years of AI research in games. The work spans titles from Atari to EVE Online.

1 official
10:54
Google DeepMindResearch

Google Research explores mobility data for place understanding in language models

Google Research published work on how mobility data can give language models a deeper understanding of place. The item is categorized under Algorithms and Theory.

1 official

Thursday 20 August

1 development
17:18
TechCrunchResearch

Study finds a third of web pages since ChatGPT launch are AI written

A study covered by TechCrunch reports that about a third of web pages published since ChatGPT launched were written by AI. It says AI models now author and edit much of the new web.

2 coverage

Monday 17 August

1 development
10:34
Google DeepMindResearch

Google Research estimates cardiometabolic risk from smartphone imagery

Google Research published work on estimating cardiometabolic risk using smartphone imagery, moving beyond BMI. The item is a general science research result from the official Google Research source.

1 official

Friday 14 August

1 development
23:31
AnthropicResearch

Anthropic details unreleased Model 2 in AI risk report

Anthropic revealed it has developed an AI model more capable than Claude Mythos 5. The company detailed the algorithm in its latest AI alignment report, which outlines potential risks from its large language models.

2 coverage
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