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Sep 2, 2026Models

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Google’s RT-2 Made Language Models Robot Controllers, Defining a VLA Template

The 2023 system joined web-trained visual knowledge to physical commands, a design that has shaped modern robot research. Its reliance on teleoperation data and remote computing shows how far the path to capable machines still runs.

3 min

Sep 1, 2026Products

Research Products

Databricks Sets a Six-Layer Path for Genie Ontology, Starting With One Domain

The new guide shifts the hard part of enterprise AI from connecting a model to data toward maintaining the definitions, permissions and evaluations that keep answers dependable.

3 min

Sep 1, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

Emerson Analysis Says AI Data Centers Need Batteries for 100-MW Load Swings

The immediate infrastructure challenge is increasingly response speed, not simply total megawatts: batteries can cushion abrupt computing demand, but only if they are sized and controlled alongside generation assets.

3 min

Last week

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Aug 27, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

US Data Centers Could Use 1.125 Trillion Liters of Water by 2030, Straining Dry Regions

The key question is not a universal water cost per AI query. It is whether new computing capacity is added where heat, drought and fossil-powered electricity make each unit of demand more consequential.

2 min

Aug 26, 2026Policy

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Anthropic Opens 750,000 Claude Conversations to Outside Study Without Showing the Chats

The pilot gives outside labs a larger window into real AI use than public chat datasets offer, but Anthropic still runs the analysis, screens the outputs and limits what researchers can inspect.

4 min

Aug 26, 2026Models

Research Models

MIT’s CrysVCD Steers AI Material Design Toward Stability Before Costly Screening

The framework shifts chemical validation to the front of the workflow, aiming to leave smaller labs with more viable crystal candidates instead of a large downstream filtering bill.

2 min

Aug 25, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

Oracle Puts Access Filters Before Agent Search—and Reranking Adds 2.2 Seconds

The proposed database-centered pipeline separates a correctness requirement from a relevance choice: access scope must constrain candidates first, while vector, lexical, fusion, and reranking stages still have to prove their value on each workload.

3 min

Aug 24, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

UC San Diego Will Test $8.48M System to Make 2 MW of AI Compute Grid-Responsive

The planned project couples a direct-to-DC power path with software that can defer some computing work. Its practical value rests on whether both systems perform together under live research workloads.

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August 2026

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Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

UBS Sees $4.1 Trillion AI Infrastructure Buildout Through 2028

The forecast suggests the AI race is becoming a long-duration infrastructure commitment, not a short server cycle. The financial test is whether demand, utilization and cash flow can catch up with the capacity now being planned.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Models

Research Models

Grok Reversed a China-Influence Finding After an Audit of Its Sources

The recorded exchange is not a benchmark of model reliability. It is a concrete warning for research agents: a large source count can conceal a weak chain of independent evidence on a politically charged question.

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