Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research
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22 Aug 2026 • 21:00
Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation. ...
Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
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22 Aug 2026 • 18:00
A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions about preparedness as AI systems increasingly demonstrate unexpected and potentially dangerous behavior....
US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense
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22 Aug 2026 • 17:20
U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry that was on the ropes after EV incentives were slashed....
Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade
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22 Aug 2026 • 16:00
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative upgrades may not be enough to tempt recent Pixel owners....
Top Stories: Apple Leaks - Camera-Equipped AirPods, Beats 360, and More
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22 Aug 2026 • 15:00
It was a big week for leaks in the Apple world, with Apple itself revealing information on a bunch of upcoming products within a macOS Tahoe 26.7 build and retailers leaking details on new Beats 360 headphones that could be launching soon.
In addition to all of the scoops from Apple's leaks, we also took a look at...
The Vision Pro headset was internally called "Reality Pro" for a significant stretch of its development before Apple settled on the name it ultimately shipped with, according to the prototype collector and leaker known as "Kosutami."
In a post on X, Kosutami wrote that the "Apple Vision Pro was originally called R...
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive
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22 Aug 2026 • 03:31
Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it....