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Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation

Backpropagation relies on weight transport, which biological circuits likely cannot implement. Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion sidesteps that constraint, training dual-stream excitatory/inhibitory networks that obey Dale’s principle. This piece breaks down how modulo error routing scales the rule from MNIST to CIFAR-10 and reinforcement learning, and what its task-dependent ablations reveal.

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How to Build Plasmid Engineering Workbench with Circular Mapping, Restriction Analysis, Virtual Gels, and Primer Design

In this tutorial, we build a Google Colab-native plasmid workbench that recreates the core ideas of SpliceCraft inside an interactive notebook environment. Instead of relying on a terminal-based TUI, we use Biopython, NumPy, and Matplotlib to load plasmid records, normalize annotated genomic features, render circular and linear plasmid maps, compute sequence statistics, analyze restriction enzyme […]

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Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Google Cloud’s generative-ai repository ships the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process. Built on Google ADK and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, it uses no vector database and no embeddings. Instead, an orchestrator routes to Ingest, Consolidate, and Query sub-agents that read, connect, and write structured memory into SQLite 24/7.

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Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

“Context bombing” tricks malicious AI agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

TikTok is testing an AI likeness detection tool

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with “some” US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]

Apple’s lawsuit couldn’t come at a worse time for OpenAI

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market

India’s smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.

Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’

If every meeting, watercooler conversation, and date gets transcribed and summarized, who’s actually reading any of it?

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

From AI workflows to battery life and security, here’s what it’s really like to live with Vertu’s luxury foldable every day.

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

iPhone maker steps up aggressive tactics in trade secrets dispute with AI lab

Chinese AI models narrow cyber gap with US rivals

UK agency warns cheaper open models could leave companies less time to patch critical vulnerabilities

Meta and Anthropic in talks for up to $10bn data centre deal

Social media giant is considering launching a cloud business as it spends $145bn on infrastructure

Apple briefly leapfrogs Nvidia as world’s most valuable company

Shares in iPhone maker have escaped AI sell-off that has hit chipmaker

US chip stocks notch up worst week in more than a year

High-flying semiconductor shares fall as ‘momentum trades’ backfire

Where Argentina And Spain Are Scoring Startup Goals

We put together a snapshot of recent startup funding tallies and trends for World Cup finalists Spain and Argentina. While neither accounts for a particularly large share of global or even regional investment, both have an intriguing pipeline of recently funded companies. Here’s what we found.

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI

It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.

3 span-of-control questions HR leaders need to ask

HR leaders can help the business make better span-of-control decisions by asking a different set of questions around management layers and more.

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Why HR needs a bigger role in M&A success

In M&A, deal value is realized through execution, and execution is fundamentally a people challenge. HR needs to be involved sooner.

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Layoffs and AI hiring tools are driving class action risk, corporate counsel say

Corporate counsel ranks workforce changes as a top-class action trigger, with employment and AI hiring risk rising fastest at the state level.

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Google DeepMind exec: U.S. needs ‘urgent action’ on AI governance

Thought leader and Google DeepMind exec Demis Hassabis says the United States should convene a standards body to advance best practices.

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Atlassian’s new HR hire will decide how work splits between humans and agents

Atlassian VP Alicia Lenart talks about the new HR role for planning human and AI agent capacity, and why the company rejects AI mandates.

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HR State of the Union: Understanding AI’s Impact on Your Business

Date & Time: Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET

In this webinar, Allie K. Miller explores what human-centered AI looks like in practice, sharing real-world examples and practical strategies for implementing AI in ways that are scalable, measurable, and focused on delivering meaningful business results.

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The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in many industries, with real money, livelihoods, and even actual lives at stake. Farmers use…

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. However, a funding total doesn’t answer the key question any hospital executive wants to know about healthcare AI: does […]

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A scorecard for the AI age

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War

The CEO of Foundation Future Industries, which counts the president’s son as its chief strategy adviser, tells WIRED it’s exploring some “kinetic things.”

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without permission. The move marks a shift away from relying on websites using robots.txt alone to actively block unauthorized AI training.

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