Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard.
Robots can start working outside physical cages and without safety barriers.
Naoki Egami has become a standout in political methodology, helping refine tools that give scholars durable results.
Algorithms & Theory
On a sweltering August evening in Silicon Valley, as the sun dropped and air conditioning loads spiked, Silicon Valley Power sent a signal to an AI factory to adjust its power consumption.
Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech.
Explore this collection to see how experts and local leaders are using AI breakthroughs to ensure everyone can share the opportunity of AI.
The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …
We’re moving beyond traditional text translation to build models that understand the world’s rich, living languages exactly as they are expressed.
We're introducing Meta One, a new subscription service on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI that offers more AI usage, enhanced expression features, and tools for creators and businesses.
OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would store usage logs from its flagship model Fable for 30 days, Palantir, Nvidia, and Booz Allen Hamilton pulled back from using it for sensitive work.
Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling leaders, Adrian Macneil (Foxglove), John Mackey (MBRYONICS), and Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics). Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.
The Gates Foundation is investing at least a billion dollars over two years to make AI tools more widely available in health, education, and agriculture. Bill Gates warns that more than 90 percent of the training data behind early language models came from English sources, and that speech recognition fails 60 percent…
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.
Apple is shipping its rebuilt "Siri AI" after years of delay, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on the device, partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with personal context.
PLUS: A brain implant that decodes your body language
plus what’s new in AI this week
422 points · 290 comments on Hacker News
Free daily newsletter
Join readers who get Training Data Daily before their first meeting.
One email a day. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Subscriptions open soon. Check back shortly.