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NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches
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By scanning the universe 1,000 times faster than the Hubble Space Telescope, this mission helps scientists search for life and understand the invisible forces shaping the cosmos.
How the GNIS Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
blog.google
Depending on their location, Google Maps users will see different names for the same body of water, which may affect how they search for or identify the lake.
This support provides critical survival resources like food and shelter to thousands of displaced people in a high-casualty disaster zone.
Floods and landslides followed a glacier collapse along the Nepal border on August 26, claiming more than 500 lives with nearly 2,000 people still missing and many displaced.
Amazon made cash donations to the International Organization of Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme, and is assessing donations of tents, thermal blankets, and solar lights.
Amazon is working with local partner DonateKart in India to prepare relief supplies and response plans in case debris-blocked rivers trigger secondary flooding downstream, including in northern India.
Amazon can draw on three Disaster Relief hubs in India and its worldwide Disaster Relief hub network, and has donated more than 30 million essential supplies across more than 200 disasters since 2017.
NASA Awards First Prize in Phase 2 of Agency’s LunaRecycle Challenge
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Recycling waste in deep space reduces the need to transport new materials from Earth, making long-term lunar or deep space missions more sustainable. These innovations may also have practical applications for waste management on Earth.
This architecture ensures that sensitive legal data remains private and isolated from public training data, meeting the strict security and compliance needs of law firms.
Catching wildfires earlier: AI gives firefighters a head start
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Faster detection enables firefighters to stop small blazes before they become uncontrollable, reducing property loss and casualties. This provides critical time for evacuations and more efficient emergency responses.
Users can work more consistently throughout the day because limits now refresh every five hours instead of daily. It also allows users to manage heavy tasks by deferring resource-intensive outputs for later.
The overall usage limit factors in prompt complexity, chat length, number of sources, and the features used, rather than a flat quota.
Limits refresh every five hours instead of daily, allowing continued use throughout the day.
The notebook tracks usage and suggests alternative outputs if a chosen output would surpass the limit.
Users who reach their limit can defer compute-heavy outputs like Video Overviews or Slide Decks; these generate automatically later, with optional notifications when ready.
The updates begin rolling out to consumer accounts on web and mobile starting September 2.
The success of the Artemis II mission proves the capability to send humans far beyond Earth, providing the necessary foundation for returning to the lunar surface and eventually reaching Mars.
Ceremony held Aug. 28, 2026 at NASA's Johnson Space Center, honoring the first medal recipients since 2023.
Artemis II launched April 1 and splashed down April 10, traveling 252,756 miles from Earth and 695,081 miles total.
There are now 34 recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor since the space program began.
This initiative creates a pipeline of skilled personnel needed to build a Moon Base and sustain an orbital economy. It ensures the U.S. workforce can support long-term national security and scientific goals in space.
Executive Order titled 'Establishing the United States Space Academy Executive Order' signed Aug. 28, 2026.
Creates a Presidential Commission on the United States Space Academy chaired by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson named executive director of the commission.
Vice chairs are Michael Kratsios and Kevin Hassett.
Commission must report to the President within 120 days with recommendations on governance framework, service obligations for graduates, physical location, and legislative requirements.
Signing took place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Trump also presented the Artemis II crew with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
This allows Netflix to show users more relevant images and videos immediately after a title launches, improving discovery without waiting for large amounts of user interaction data to accumulate.
V3, a single unified model using CLIP image embeddings across five artwork canvases, replaced five separate per-canvas models and was the only variant to win a statistically significant online lift.
Netflix shipped V3 ahead of its largest TV home-screen redesign in a decade, which made the previously sparse short-panel canvas dominant overnight; a month-long holdback A/B test showed V3 absorbed the shift with gains on discovery and streaming hours.
MediaFM, Netflix's in-house multimodal foundation model combining visual, audio, and text signals, was evaluated against SeqCLIP and an ID-only baseline and has since shipped as the default video preview embedding across all platforms.
A cheap linear-probe proxy task is now used to screen and prune new candidate embeddings before committing to full offline evaluation and online A/B testing.
All embeddings are hosted in the Netflix Embedding Store, a shared component of Netflix's AI Platform that serves the same vectors at training and inference time to every downstream ranking model.
Grant recipients must follow these guidelines to maintain funding and must immediately stop all DEIA activities to avoid violating current NASA guidance.
Consumers can save money on high-quality refurbished goods while reducing the environmental impact of product waste.
Second Chance Deal Days runs in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain from September 1 to 10, and in Mexico and Brazil from August 31 through September 6.
Savings reach up to 50% off the RRP of equivalent new products across categories including personal tech, kitchen, gaming, and home improvement, on brands such as Apple, Sony, Samsung, Beats, and LEGO.
For the first time, UK and Germany customers can shop pre-loved bags and accessories from Amazon Luxury seller Luxclusif, with a further 15% off already-discounted prices.
In the U.S., Second Chance Savings runs August 28 to September 7 as part of Amazon's Labor Day Deals event, offering up to 30% off returned and refurbished items from brands like Ninja, Shark, Breville, Garmin, and ASUS as well as Amazon Pre-Owned Devices.
In Brazil, Semana da Segunda Chance offers discounts starting at 10% off pre-loved items; in Mexico, Semana de Segunda Vida offers up to 30% off selected pre-loved products.
BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents
blog.cloudflare.com
This transparency allows bot operators to maintain accurate records, helping website owners make informed decisions about which automated traffic to allow.
How Amazon is preparing for the energy needs of the future
aboutamazon.com
By providing long-term financial certainty to energy developers, Amazon helps increase the total amount of carbon-free electricity available on public grids for everyone.
The Forested Floodplains of Congaree National Park
science.nasa.gov
Understanding these floodplains highlights how natural river processes and environmental challenges, such as flooding, can preserve rare old-growth forests from human development and logging.
Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups
openai.com
This initiative enables the development of reliable AI tools for critical local needs, such as healthcare for an ageing population and digital education for students.
The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language
huggingface.co
This allows developers to identify and fix biases in speech recognition, ensuring technology works reliably for people regardless of their age, gender, or regional accent.
Closed-Loop Cooling Explained: The Plumbing Behind Meta’s AI
about.fb.com
This approach allows Meta to increase computing power within existing data center space while significantly reducing water consumption. It ensures AI infrastructure can scale sustainably as hardware becomes more heat-intensive.
By reducing financial barriers to advanced AI tools, this initiative enables academic and nonprofit researchers to accelerate scientific discovery across a wider range of fields.
Google Flow brings new creative control features to enhance video editing.
blog.google
Video creators can now produce high-resolution, production-ready videos more efficiently by drafting at low resolutions before committing to 4K exports.
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard \ Anthropic
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By reducing hardware integration time from weeks to minutes, MHS enables researchers to run autonomous, round-the-clock experiments. This accelerates discovery and experimentation in fields like drug discovery and quantum computing.
Microsoft and DepEd partner to bring AI tools to 1 million teachers across the Philippines
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One million public school teachers will gain AI tools to save time on paperwork, allowing them to spend more time on direct student instruction. This aims to better prepare Filipino students for a workforce where AI skills are essential.
Celebrating 250 years of America, from its history to its future
blog.google
These initiatives allow users to discover historical landmarks and archives digitally or plan real-world trips using AI-enhanced search and mapping tools.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
deepmind.google
These tools allow developers and creators to produce high-resolution video content with more precise control over visual consistency, timing, and production costs.
Applied Materials Appoints Akash Palkhiwala to Board of Directors
ir.appliedmaterials.com
Adding a high-level executive from Qualcomm brings deeper financial and operational semiconductor industry experience to the governance of Applied Materials.
AUTODESK, INC. ANNOUNCES FISCAL 2027 SECOND QUARTER RESULTS
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The integration of AI and project intelligence into design and construction tools may help professionals manage resource scarcity and capacity constraints in the physical world, improving efficiency for builders and engineers.
Reimagining work: How Pythian’s internal AI playbook delivers customer ROI
cloud.google.com
Businesses can avoid failed AI initiatives by focusing on high-impact workflow transformations and production management rather than just purchasing tool licenses.
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
github.blog
The flood of AI-generated code makes it harder for maintainers to distinguish valuable work from security threats. This shifts how open source software is verified, potentially impacting the reliability of tools users run on their devices.
These tools enable developers to build professional video software with more precision and lower costs, reducing the time needed to iterate on creative projects.
Partnering with Khan Academy on building AI tools for classrooms
blog.google
Students gain more interactive, visual ways to learn math and science, while teachers retain full control over AI-generated assignments to ensure quality and appropriate difficulty levels.
Introducing Anthropic's AI for Science Program \ Anthropic
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This program could lead to faster drug discovery for global diseases and increased agricultural productivity. By lowering the cost of AI tools, researchers can more quickly address pressing global challenges.
Students and educators can access AI and authoritative research directly within their existing learning tools, improving research efficiency and AI literacy.
By automating data analysis and regulatory paperwork, these tools can accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and bring new medicines to patients more quickly.
Anthropic and Iceland announce one of the world’s first national AI education pilots \ Anthropic
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By automating administrative tasks and lesson planning, teachers can spend more time on direct instruction and personalized student support. It also allows the integration of AI while safeguarding the Icelandic language.
Advancing Claude in healthcare and the life sciences \ Anthropic
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These tools can reduce administrative burdens for clinicians and speed up prior authorization and regulatory processes, potentially getting patients access to care and new drugs faster. Additionally, individuals can use these features to better understand their personal health records.
How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery \ Anthropic
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Automating tedious data analysis can reduce research timelines from months to minutes, potentially accelerating the discovery of biological insights and treatments for diseases.
Anthropic and Teach For All launch global AI training initiative for educators \ Anthropic
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This allows educators in under-resourced schools to create customized learning tools for their students and directly influence AI design. It helps bridge the digital divide by ensuring AI is developed with input from diverse global classrooms.
Anthropic partners with Rwandan Government and ALX to bring AI education to hundreds of thousands of learners across Africa \ Anthropic
anthropic.com
This initiative provides African students and professionals with AI tools to acquire high-demand technical skills and helps teachers improve classroom productivity.
Anthropic partners with CodePath to bring Claude to the US’s largest collegiate computer science program \ Anthropic
anthropic.com
This gives students at historically overlooked institutions access to advanced AI tools. It helps bridge the inequality gap by preparing low-income students for modern entry-level engineering roles.
NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim Departs Agency to Continue Military Service
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Kim's scientific research and operational experience on the International Space Station provide data that will inform NASA's future space exploration missions.