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An Alien Mind

Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.

APOD: 2026 September 5 – Chasing the Moon’s Shadow

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 5 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Chasing the Moon’s…

NASA Ames Fire Department Aircraft Firefighting Training

The fire department at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley will perform training on the Moffett Federal Airfield beginning Tuesday, Sept. 8 through Friday, Sept. 11. The training will involve the use of a propane-fueled aircraft fire simulator and be conducted from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. PDT. Because the aircraft simulator is…

Building a Memory-Driven Agent with NVIDIA NemoClaw

Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it...

NASA Hosts Virtual Artemis Webinar for Blind, Low-Vision Community

NASA will host a virtual webinar at 2 p.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 2, titled “The RS-25 Engine and the Future of Artemis Missions: An Accessible Webinar for the Blind and Low-Vision Community.” This webinar is open to the public, however it is tailored specifically for a blind and low-vision audience. The webinar will last about two hours and…

Frontier Reasoning Reaches the Edge: How to Deploy and Optimize Models on NVIDIA Jetson

Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run...

Lunar Occultation of Venus

On Wednesday, June 17, skywatchers across the United States,and parts of Canada,enjoyed a rare event: a daytime lunar occultation of Venus. A lunar occultation occurs when the Moon moves directly in front of another celestial object from our viewpoint on Earth, briefly hiding it from sight. This time, the Moon slipped in front of Venus…

OpCo Update August 2026

Below you’ll find a general update from the OpCo that covers everything we and the OAT have been working on throughout August. Going forward, we’ll be posting the monthly OpCo updates from this account, as opposed to having an OAT member publish them. Oversight and Transparency Committee (OAT) Second Term Elections The elections for the second term of the OAT were concluded with A.J. Warner and Patrick McCorry being

Rewarding Active Delegates - August 2026 Results

Executive summary August 2026 counted three governance actions, down from five in July, so the monthly participation threshold dropped back to ≥ 50% (≥ 2/3 votes). Two were on-chain constitutional votes on the Core governor; one was an off-chain Snapshot decision. All three used the 2Q2026 budget schedule with no exceptions. Unlike July, no proposal carried legacy rates. Across three proposals, 32 enrolled delegates

APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na Uhane Mahoe Huki Pu i ke Ola

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 4 – Na… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Nā ʻUhane…

A Trio of Tropical Cyclones in the Pacific

The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.

How to Carry User Identity Across Federated Kubernetes and AI Platforms

Modern AI platforms are no longer a single application behind one login screen. A user may start in a central portal, open a governed dataset, launch a notebook...

NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 12:15 p.m. EDT (9:15 p.m. Baikonur time), Wednesday, Sept. 9, on a…

NVIDIA PAIR Virtual Inference Router Expands Available Compute on Your Local Network

AI agents are learning to do more by working together. A lead agent can break a complex task into smaller jobs and assign those jobs to specialized subagents....

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4988-4994: More New Tricks for an Old Dog

Written by Michelle Minitti, MAHLI Deputy Principal Investigator Earth planning date: Friday, Aug. 21, 2026 After Curiosity’s 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise. Both of our workspaces this week contained features unlike quite anything we have seen in the past , broad, shallow pits (like the one in the image above) dotted…

Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model

Igniting Roman’s Journey

Now on a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman pairs a large…

Banning projects identified in the high-severity Watchdog Program cases

Abstract The following cases from the Watchdog Program have been deemed to constitute high-severity misuse. Accordingly, the Watchdog Committee is proposing to ban three projects identified from these high-severity cases from the ArbitrumDAO: Good Entry Limitless APX Finance (formerly ApolloX) Rationale To strengthen oversight of grant allocations by the DAO and reduce misuse, the ArbitrumDAO approved the Watchdog Pr

NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista called N44.

Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services

OpenAI introduces Daybreak for Frontline Defenders. A $1 billion commitment expands access to frontier cyber AI, training, and support for essential services.

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra

Legora used GPT-6 Astra to review 41 documents in minutes, find all four planted errors, and improve performance by nearly 40% in this financial-review workflow.

Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra

Using GPT-6 Astra, Playco built three themed game prototypes from one grey box foundation and reported 50% fewer manual fixes than with the previous model.

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

Introducing GPT-6 Astra, our most intelligent and aligned model yet, with state-of-the-art capabilities across computer use, coding, cybersecurity, and science.

New research investigates whether introducing constitutional principles earlier can improve AI safety

The new approach has been outlined in a paper led by DPhil student Desiree Cho, with Professor Nigel Shadbolt, Senior Researcher Jun Zhao, and DPhil student Hunar Batra.

Does your runway number assume you can sell the treasury at spot?

Something I keep noticing in treasury discussions across DAOs: runway gets quoted as treasury divided by monthly burn, with the native token counted at spot price. That number is almost always wrong, and wrong in the same direction. If a large share of the treasury is the DAO’s own token, selling a position that size moves the price against you the whole way down. The runway you can actually finance is the one where

[RFC] Operational Mandate: Arbitrum Stylus Developer Impact Oracle & Sybil-Resistant ROI Matrix

Lead Architect: @JulianCross (Independent Data Architect) Governance Advisor: @MconnectDAO (Independent Researcher) Sponsorship Status: [Call for Official Delegate / Domain Allocator with 1M+ ARB] Abstract As current Domain Allocator and incentive programs approach their conclusion, the Arbitrum DAO faces a critical vulnerability: we are spending millions of dollars on developer grants without a programmatic way to t

New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operations

This advance could be a big step toward developing a scalable, practical quantum computer.

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra is our most capable broadly deployed model and our first to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under our Preparedness Framework.

Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps

Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own

Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv

From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment

MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.

The Modern CUDA Toolbox in Practice: A Step-by-Step Optimization Walkthrough

NVIDIA CUDA remains the foundation of GPU-accelerated computing, powering everything from scientific simulations to large-scale AI training. But writing...

Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises