today in ai
Sunday, 23 August 2026
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27B model beats Opus and GPT at research
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Inherent Labs' 27B Faraday agent out-replicated Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on scientific paper reproduction, TechCrunch reported August 22.
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Nvidia pays Poolside $6B in licensing deal
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Nvidia will license Poolside's model-development software for $6B and invest $1B more, without buying the AI coding startup outright.
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DeepMind partners with EVE Online on game AI
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Google DeepMind is using EVE Online, EVE Vanguard and EVE Frontier to train long-horizon agents, and deployed a Gemini-based tutorial guide for new players.
sources deepmind.google
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