AI Briefing — Sunday, August 23, 2026

Implementation of GPT-2 in pure CMake

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated

Most published authors have, without their knowledge or consent, contributed to the development of the same AI tools that threaten to undermine their livelihoods. That seems illegal, right?

AI Chip Architectures

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific papers could be a stepping stone for innovation.

Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition

Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order

Information on trajectories: martingales and random times

Accounting for information flow on the path space of trajectories of a nonnegative martingale yields exact variational identities for it, even at arbitrary random times. This recovers the widely used classical concentra…