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  1. Ai2AI score4

    Ai2 Agents post-training team invites COLM 2026 attendees to connect

    AIAi2 applied scientist Shashank Gupta says he will attend COLM 2026 from Tuesday through Friday and invites people to talk with the Ai2 Agents post-training team. Topics include post-training for coding and long-horizon agents, such as agentic RL, OPD, data and infrastructure, and multi-agent training, plus opportunities at Ai2. He lists an Ai2 booth session Tuesday 1:30–3pm and an Ai2 mixer Tuesday 6–9pm.

  2. Ai2AI score4

    Pao Siangliulue to discuss human-agent collaboration at COLM 2026

    AIAi2 research scientist Pao Siangliulue says she will attend COLM 2026 in San Francisco from Tuesday to Friday. She plans to discuss human-agent collaboration, long-horizon agents, AI for science, research idea generation, and opportunities at Ai2. She will be at the Ai2 booth on Tuesday from 10 to 11:30 am and at the Ai2 Open House that evening from 6 to 9 pm.

  3. 👩‍💻 Paige BaileyAI score54

    EmbeddingGemma 2 launches as an Apache 2.0 multimodal embeddings model

    AIGoogle's EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open embeddings model for on-device use that covers code, image, video, audio, and text. It comes in modular sizes from 270M text/code to 740M full multimodal, supports Matryoshka truncation down to 128 dimensions, and reports a 14% gain on MTEB Code over v1 under an Apache 2.0 license. The author's post highlights the release and a Hugging Face demo, while the benchmark table compares it with several models.

    Video from @DynamicWebPaige's post
  4. KhazixAI score32

    Khazix builds an enterprise platform replacing Feishu's workspace in two days

    AIThe author spent two days building an internal enterprise platform on all Feishu data and a self-built MCP, replacing Feishu's native workbench to handle Vibe Coding app deployment, security, permissions, and app and skill circulation. A custom configuration interface is planned so employees can use their own Agents to modify their homepages and data pages.

    Image from @Khazix0918's post
  5. NewcomerAI score23

    Fintech Founders and Investors Debate AI Agents at Machine Earning Summit

    AIAt the Machine Earning AI Summit in San Francisco, Town co-founder Jean-Denis Greze said personal AI agent purchases will initially require human approval, with mistakes budgeted in like credit card fraud. Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses raised liability questions, asking "If a model hallucinates, whose responsibility is that?" Chime co-founder Ryan King said AI agents will make switching banks easier, though regular people are not yet ready to let AI manage their money.

  6. Joshua AchiamAI score26

    Joshua Achiam argues success lies in human inner lives, not cosmic control

    AIJoshua Achiam argues that many in Silicon Valley wrongly define success as controlling the largest share of matter and energy in the universe, a goal beyond human limits that can drive them toward successionism. He contends that success instead comes from inner lives, relationships, creativity, cooperation, and striving to overcome human limitations, which could make them less pessimistic.

  7. 👩‍💻 Paige BaileyAI score60

    Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model at $0.034 per image

    AIGoogle's Nano Banana 2.1, model gemini-nano-banana-2.1, is now available and is said to outperform the previous Pro model at about a quarter of the price, $0.034 per image versus $0.134. The quoted post lists improved instruction following, better in-image text rendering, grounding with Google Image Search, and up to 5 characters of consistency plus 14 reference images. It is available in Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Google Cloud, the Gemini app, and Flow. The author's own post is a playful reaction praising its design ability and shows a generated vegan basketball food truck poster.

    Video from @DynamicWebPaige's post
  8. Microsoft ResearchAI score36

    Jennifer Neville on learning from surprising AI failures and evaluation beyond benchmarks

    AIMicrosoft Research podcast host Chad Atalla interviews Jennifer Neville, a partner research manager at Microsoft, about her path into AI and her work on how evaluation exposes surprising failures in models tested beyond traditional benchmarks. The conversation also covers practical guidance for working with current AI systems and why examining underlying data matters when results defy expectations.

  9. ElevenLabsAI score20

    ElevenLabs' ElevenAgents Architect analyzes transcripts and implements agent improvements

    AIElevenAgents Architect is a tool that answers questions about your agents, such as why customers asked for a human agent on refund calls and how to improve resolution rates on account queries. It analyzes your transcripts, suggests improvements, implements them, and can build a test set to keep your agent on brand.

    Image from @ElevenLabs's post
  10. Philipp SchmidAI score62

    Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 image model at $0.034 per image

    AIGoogle's Nano Banana 2.1 (gemini-nano-banana-2.1) is now available and outperforms the previous Pro model at $0.034 per image, versus $0.134 before. It adds improved instruction following, better in-image text rendering, grounding with Google Image Search, and consistency for up to 5 characters with 14 reference images. It is available in Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Google Cloud, the Gemini app, and Flow by Google.

    Image from @_philschmid's post