2026-08-28 Discoveries

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Small Models Have Arrived

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

Anthropic is opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.

The turbulent AI era is here

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers.

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

The original Snowboard Kids has been fully decompiled in only 84 days! In this post I delve into what changed and what lessons might apply to future projects.

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from sc...

LesionIQ skin cancer diagnostic

LesionIQ uses machine learning to analyse images of skin lesions and identify patterns that the human eye cannot.

Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on research workflows across scientific domains

Rooftop Camper For Roofless Vehicle

The Honda Goldwing is one of the more famous motorcycles ever produced. It’s known for its reliability and comfort, but also for being one of the first motorcycles Honda rolls …

The Art of Splendor Solis, the Most Glorious Illuminated Alchemical Manuscript of Them All

When it was published in the United States in 1998, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The jokes about the American reading public’s apparent allergy to the very word philosopher write themselves, but the change was also unfortunate for…

Expert Intelligence: a new way for you to engage with trusted content

Expert Intelligence lets you add ebooks like those you’ve purchased from Google Play Books directly to a Gemini Notebook.

The Mactini: A Computer That Does Almost Nothing

Recently [Tucker Osman] brought to life what once was just a meme created by the BBC as it poked fun at Apple’s push for ever smaller devices that also dropped …

This Is What Happens When 1,000 People Bury Their Underwear for Science

Talk about getting to the bottom of things

Traccia

Finally, a vendor-neutral AI Agent Control Plane.

Isaac Asimov Explains His Three Laws of Robots: Do No Harm, Follow Orders, Survive, in…

A number of futurists, philosophers, and technophiles believe we are approaching what they call the “singularity”: a point in time when smart machines become much smarter, stronger, and faster than their creators, and then become self-conscious. Whatever the chance of this occurring, it’s…

Pattern and Bold, Saturated Color Commingle in Ben Sledsens’ Rhythmic Paintings

While bold in color, Ben Sledsens' oil-and-acrylic paintings are quiet and intimate. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Pattern and Bold, Saturated Color Commingle in Ben…

Celebrating 250 years of America, from its history to its future

Google and YouTube are celebrating America's 250th anniversary.

Fact-Checking the Biohackers Who Claim Metformin is an Anti-Aging Wonder Drug

What the science says about their DIY one-person clinical trials

The Farador Quack Medical Device

Over the centuries there have been an incredible number of purported medical devices released onto the market, with some having more outrageous claims than others. Released in the 1910s and …

‘Handmade Utopia’ Relishes the Architecture of California’s Back-to-the-Land Movement

The new book by David Jacob Kramer, with photos by Michael Schmelling, represents a counterculture that, though changed, is still alive and well. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month…

3 new ways to plan and book travel in Search

Book hotels and track airfares, plus view miles and rewards with AI Mode in Google Search.

IQ Routing

Trajectory-aware LLM routing that cuts agent cost

The Ambitrope Coin

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Dust Is Not What You Think

Dust is everywhere, but it's not what most people think. Some of it can make you sick, some of it helps rain forests survive, and a tiny fraction is older than Earth itself. #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell…

In Photos: The Sea Creatures Lurking Off the Shores of Nantucket

An aerial survey captures images of marine megafauna aplenty in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Massachusetts

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