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Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.

Computer Use at the Edge of the Statistical Precipice — Pierluca D'Oro, Programma Labs

AI Engineer · Aug 14, 2026

Standard computer use benchmarks are gameable by blind replay scripts, invalidating frontier model comparisons

“if you try to evaluate this kind of agent on standard benchmarks such as OSWorld or MobileWorld, you will see that the success rate of this agent compared to the frontier model from which the agent was extracted is actually the same or even better”
Claude AI Failed 650 Times…Then Beat The Human Record

Two Minute Papers · Aug 14, 2026

Unreleased Claude beat human record on Riemann hypothesis-related bound after 650 failed attempts

“Throughout this process, Jared's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement. Mostly variants of keep going and believe in yourself.”
sqlite-utils 4.2.1

Simon Willison · Aug 13, 2026

sqlite-utils 4.2.1 patches a crash from missing typing-extensions dependency

What is Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Aug 13, 2026

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash as its top coding and agent workhorse model

“our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents”
sqlite-utils 4.2

Simon Willison · Aug 13, 2026

sqlite-utils 4.2 improves table.transform() with better schema preservation

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Google Developers (Google I/O) · Aug 13, 2026

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, its most capable coding and agent workhorse model

“a model that just feels better to build with, landing where you want to go in fewer shots, less back and forth, and with higher fidelity”
llm-gemini 0.33

Simon Willison · Aug 13, 2026

llm-gemini 0.33 adds Gemini 3.7 Flash support with reasoning traces and server-side tools

What are AI Hallucinations?

Databricks Blog · Aug 13, 2026

AI hallucinations produce confident, coherent outputs that are factually wrong or fabricated

Accelerating M&A due diligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 13, 2026

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore reduces M&A due diligence from weeks to hours via multi-agent orchestration.

“work that previously required weeks of analyst time was completed in hours because the agent handles the repetitive search-and-summarize loop without human intervention”
Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Aug 13, 2026

Amazon Quick brings AWS-connected agentic AI directly into Microsoft 365 apps at general availability.

“The value isn't in the underlying agentic model itself. It's in the breadth of connected data that the agent brings to your interactions.”