Counting the days, revisited
- Improved algorithm counts Gregorian dates to Julian Day numbers
- Adjusts for leap days, aligns January and February correctly
- Optimized calculations using multiply-and-shift operations
Continued
What AI Agents Actually Are, and Where the Word Ends
Gartner went looking for AI agents in 2025 and found something worth remembering. Of the thousands of vendors claiming agentic capability, roughly 130 were building anything that deserved the word.
Al-Ahsa education authority concludes KAUST summer AI program
Al-Ahsa’s education department and KAUST wrapped up a summer AI program for 70 gifted students, focusing on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
LG Uplus, Broadcom Demonstrate AI-Powered Wi-Fi Router for Self-Healing Home Networks
LG Uplus has partnered with Broadcom to demonstrate an AI-powered home networking technology that can analyze and manage internet quality directly from a household Wi-Fi router.The Korean telecom operator said it successfully tested a self-healing home network based on a Wi-Fi 8 platform, with artif
Twelve Agents, One Memory - Persistent Recall for an Autonomous Agent Fleet
Architecture deep-dive by Empire Labs Pty Ltd - the team that runs a 12-agent autonomous fleet in production. We run twelve autonomous AI agents in production. They generate leads, parse tenders, monitor compliance, review code, and keep each other honest.
Hidden environmental cost of powering growing digital and AI-world
Despite the astronomical water footprint of data centres, some States, which already have difficulties in meeting their water needs, have announced huge data centre projects.
Capacity Planning a SaaS Chatbot API Across OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini
For a SaaS chatbot, one API with fallback models is credible only when the backup has enough quota, latency budget, and cost headroom to absorb traffic from a rate-limited primary.
Big Sky coaches, players move forward cautiously in age of artificial intelligence
Aug. 8—A big baseball fan, Tim Plough saw the news last month that Major League Baseball had issued a memo to its teams, warning them, essentially, to use their dugout iPads properly.
Ho Chi Minh City Tax Department launches AI hotline to handle taxpayer queries
The AI-powered hotline provides prompt and timely responses to individuals and businesses, allowing tax officials to devote more time to in-depth support.
Teaching AI to speak India
Artificial intelligence can chat, translate and answer questions but only if it understands your language. At IIT Madras, researchers at AI4Bharat are travelling across India, collecting voices, preserving dialects and teaching AI to understand the country’s incredible linguistic diversity.
Benchmarking AI-generated structural ensembles of membrane proteins against physics-based modelling
Proteins dynamically switch between a continuum of interconverting conformational states, and understanding these structural dynamics is important for understanding protein function and for developing…
A distribution-aware and functionally relevant novel framework for generation and discovery of bioactive peptides
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have accelerated the discovery of bioactive peptides by enabling computational exploration of the vast peptide sequence space.
Explainable machine learning relates histological to genomic pathology
Background & Aims: Haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining remains the diagnostic gold standard for solid cancers, including hepatocellular carcinoma, and is increasingly complemented by genomic…
From 996 to jobless as AI shockwave hits China’s tech sector workers
Agencies Beijing China’s infamous “996” work culture 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week was once hated but endured by programmers seeking high salaries and middle class status. Now, man...
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Commentary: Who needs consultants in the age of AI?
Getting a company to implement recommended changes is a contact sport that only humans can play, says Robert Armstrong for the Financial Times.
New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human
"If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times: The Orleans Parish…
Totvs Q2 Profit Up 17.4% to US$47m on AI Launch
Totvs (B3: TOTS3) reported adjusted net profit up 17.4% to R$240.6 million in Q2 2026 and confirmed an integrated AI services launch for October.
Retailers tap AI traffic but fight to keep customer data
AgenciesAs shoppers increasingly turn to ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini for product recommendations, retailers are racing to appear in chatbot results while resisting efforts to cede...
Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents
The internet is for AI bots now. The post Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents appeared first on Futurism .
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
Maybe ‘Steal Underpants by Blowing a Fortune on AI Tokens’ Is, in Fact, Not a Good Business Plan
Joseph Cox, writing for 404 Media (paywalled, sans gift links, alas): Consulting giant Accenture is trying to figure out how to stop non-technical workers from blowing through companies’ AI token…
The great privacy revolt: people are pushing back against the glasses that record, the earbuds that eavesdrop and the TVs watching our lives — here’s what we can do about it, according to an AI research CEO and a digital rights advocate
‘This technology doesn’t need the cloud whatsoever, it’s simply cheaper and easier for manufacturers’ — why one expert thinks we’re overlooking the biggest privacy issue in the AI boom, and what a prolific digital rights advocate thinks needs to change
PM Wong announces 'major review' of S'pore's approach to supporting families, says govt will stand by S'poreans amid challenges like AI
It is our turn to leave behind an even stronger Singapore, said PM Wong.
AI Boom Lifts South Korea, Taiwan Past Japan in Export Value
It was found that the export values of South Korea and Taiwan side by side surpassed Japan for the first time in the first half of this year.On Aug.
Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI
Reddit is looking to fight bots with bots. The post Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI appeared first on Futurism .
Her reproductive future may begin at six—what families should know
A girl’s weight during childhood may influence more than her health at the time. It could also be linked to her chances of becoming a mother later in life.
Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects
A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews.
How AI-Powered Business Email Compromise Scams Are Stealing Billions
Business Email Compromise scams cost companies billions. Criminals are use AI, deepfakes and voice cloning to commit fraud. Learn how businesses can protect themselves.
Inconsistent power supply, unstable internet access impede AI deployment in rural health facilities
Inconsistent power supply and unstable internet connectivity have been identified as major challenges impeding the effective deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in rural healthcare facilities.
AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build
The tech industry is showing no signs of slowing down. The post AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build appeared first on…
My next phone has to earn its retirement
Seven-year software promises are making long-term smartphone ownership increasingly realistic. The bigger question is whether the hardware, repair ecosystem, and annual upgrade machine are ready for…
20% of Americans are already using AI for financial advice — another 70% don’t trust it
The Gallup poll found a disconnect between the resources Americans trust for financial advice and the ones they actually rely on.
Waiting 26 years ‘for this shoe to drop’: Musk’s AI company joins the fight to strip citizens of their power to sue
“The court is more like Scalia’s court since he died than it ever was when he was there,” said Harvard law professor Richard Lazarus.
AI adoption isn’t the same as AI usage
Every engineering org I’ve talked to this year has some version of the same chart. Seat activations climbing. Token spend The post AI adoption isn’t the same as AI usage appeared first on The New Stack .
Using AI has an environmental impact — here are 4 ways you can minimize it
Escalating use of tools like Gemini and ChatGPT saps more and more power. Experts offer some tips on how to consume less.
OpenAI flags possible critical cybersecurity risk in upcoming model Astra, tightens controls
OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, has “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, prompting the startup to pause some internal development and trigger safety…
China’s AI Push Reshapes Its Economic Future
New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos is on Bloomberg This Weekend and says China is taking a practical approach to AI, rapidly deploying the technology in factories and seeking to expand its use across…
‘Playing around with your favourite artist’s song is an ultimate expression of fandom’: Spotify is taking another step into participatory music tools with its upcoming AI remix feature — but it signals red flags for industry professionals
Spotify's agreement with Merlin brings it one step closer to launching its AI-powered remix tool, but where do industry professionals stand on it?
The TechBeat: AI Coding Tip 030 - Turn Repeatable Skill Steps Into Tested Scripts Instead of Prompts (8/8/2026)
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Industry Voices—AI won’t fix nurse burnout. Nurses will
If AI rollouts follow the path of the technologies that came before them—designed for the system, not the people inside it—they could deepen the very burnout they’re trying to relieve.
UPMC, KLAS Research study examines AI adoption trends, governance barriers
More than 90% of respondents reported deploying AI tools, but only 44% said they have a dedicated data platform for testing.
The AI boom could boost Epic's position, execs say. Here's where AI startups can still win
Clinician-facing AI, imaging AI, patient AI assistants, discharge and care transitions and revenue cycle AI are the categories in which health systems are most willing to look beyond Epic, executives…
Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard. Here’s why it matters for developers.
OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub and Microsoft have backed Agent Plugins 1.0.0, a portable package format for reusable components that extends The post Five AI rivals just backed a shared plugin standard.
Higgsfield’s Latest AI Film Proves Likeness Licensing Works And Scales
Higgsfield's latest AI film introduced an art form built on human-machine collaboration, entertainment indistinguishable from cinema, and a business built on consent.
Hank Green AI controversy raises questions for science communicators
The backlash raises a bigger question for science communicators: where should AI fit into their work?
Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, and friends: Make security and privacy the default
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
ByteDance Working on Gigantic AI Model to Take on Anthropic’s Best
ByteDance is training a massive new artificial intelligence model with as many as 10 trillion parameters as the Chinese technology … Read More The post ByteDance Working on Gigantic AI Model to Take…
Godfather of AI: Brace for more rogue AIs
The smarter artificial intelligence gets, the harder it will be for humanity to control it, according to Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI.” Even Hinton was alarmed by the sophisticated AI agents that recently caused real-world damage after escaping their human-built testing…
Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role
Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history”…
The AI boom is creating data center jobs that pay more
Data centers are driving demand for electricians, installers, and maintenance workers, with some jobs paying $10 more an hour than similar roles.
AI labs shouldn’t be allowed to grade their own homework
We know about AI labs' hacking failures only because the companies involved chose to tell us.
AI and job losses: How the next automation wave will impact the workforce
Recent tech layoffs have raised alarms for workers. But multiple studies find that the wave driven by AI looks very different from past automation cycles.
AI-designed E. coli killer points toward new ways to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
In science, the suffix "phage" means to devour. Thus, the name bacteriophage might conjure images of tiny creatures that "eat" bacteria.
Guest commentary: No monopoly must be allowed to emerge in artificial intelligence
Europe cannot afford to just consume AI. We need to develop our own top models that are trustworthy, demands the Vice-President of the European Commission, Henna Virkkunen.
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.