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Thursday, August 6

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Wednesday, August 5

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Tools and apps only one source so far

Overloaded US power grid: AI is becoming a necessity for management, IEEE launches training program

The US power grid is overloaded by growing demand from data centers (220 GW of new connection requests in Texas) and fluctuating generation from renewable sources. According to experts, AI has become a necessity for grid management; IEEE has launched a course to train engineers in this field.

IEEE Spectrum — Artificial Intelligence Details and sources →
Open-source only one source so far

Treblo releases an open-source AI music detection tool

Music generator Treblo released Treblo AI Music Classifier, an open-source tool for detecting tracks created with its technology. The classifier determined with high confidence that ‘Rubberz’ by Fenix Flexin was made using Treblo, with an error rate of fewer than 1 in 1000 cases.

New models only one source so far

Mistral has released Shieldstral, an open model with 3 billion parameters for checking content safety

Mistral has released the open-weight model Shieldstral (3 billion parameters) for classifying the safety of text and images. According to the company, it achieves an F1 score of 84.9 % on text (on par with the seven-times-larger GPT-OSS-Safeguard-20B) and 83.8 % on images. Rules can be configured at runtime in natural language without training.

The Decoder (daily AI news) Details and sources →
Tools and apps only one source so far

The Nodoca AI device diagnoses influenza from a throat photograph without an invasive test

Iris's Nodoca device combines a special camera and AI to diagnose influenza from throat images. It was approved in Japan in 2022 as the first AI-equipped medical device with insurance coverage; since then, it has been deployed at 2000+ institutions. In October 2025, it gained approval for COVID-19 diagnosis. The result…

Wired — AI section Original source ↗

Tuesday, August 4

13 items
Business and investment only one source so far

NVIDIA joins the NSF State and Regional AI Hubs program

NVIDIA is participating in an NSF program aimed at expanding access to compute resources, data, software and professional activities for AI research and education in the United States. The program is just starting.

NVIDIA Newsroom (press releases) Original source ↗
Tools and apps only one source so far

GitHub is shutting down Spark and Models, directing developers to GitHub Copilot

As of 4 August 2026, GitHub stopped new user registrations and the creation of new applications in Spark; existing applications can be exported until 31 August 2026. The GitHub Models inference service for the llm() function shut down on 30 July 2026; applications that do not use it continue to work.

GitHub Changelog (Copilot and AI features) Details and sources →
Business and investment only one source so far

Musk devotes nearly half his earnings call time to robotics and AI

A study by TechCrunch and Hudson Labs analyzed Tesla earnings call transcripts (2019–2025) using the Co-Analyst AI tool. It found that Musk now devotes almost 50% of the time to artificial intelligence, robotaxis and Full Self-Driving (2022: 15–20%). Discussion of the Optimus robot rose from around 2% to 10%+; on Q3 2025…

TechCrunch AI Original source ↗
Hardware only one source so far

Taiwan and South Korea strengthen control over the production of key AI chips and memory

TSMC in Taiwan controls the production of the most advanced AI chips; according to the government there, the most advanced production is to remain on the island. South Korea is investing about 600 billion USD with Samsung and SK Hynix in new plants - the two companies hold around 80 % of the market for memory used in AI chips.

The Conversation — Artificial Intelligence Details and sources →