Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
The article explores the underlying architecture and development of Granite 4.2 LLMs, shedding light on their construction and functionalities.
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip, designed for fast inference at scale, outperformed current state-of-the-art on tokens per user and throughput per kilowatt in SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark.
How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
An MIT Technology Review newsletter piece looks at how schools, caught off guard by chatbots, can foster smarter use of AI tools in the classroom.
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
An MIT Technology Review piece considers how human children have long been uniquely able to learn a language fluently, and how AI systems have now joined them—though the reasons behind children's edge remain unexplained.
Weekly AI Roundup: August 21, 2026
The week's 10 most important AI developments in one place, with links to our full sourced briefs.
5 new ways to level up your learning with Search
Google introduces five innovative Search tools to assist students in their studies and preparation for standardized exams.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B Mixture-of-Experts model with 3B active parameters, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for high-volume agentic workloads.
Weekly AI Roundup: August 14, 2026
The week's 10 most important AI developments in one place, with links to our full sourced briefs.
Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, an API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster, reaching up to 750 output tokens per second using Cerebras hardware.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
Some Claude users are voicing frustration on social media over Anthropic's new watermarking system, which they say could expose their use of the tool in workplaces and classrooms.
ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
Google's Gemini reached 1 billion monthly users, following ChatGPT, which passed the same mark weeks earlier according to OpenAI and external data.
Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google's Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, with the company reporting 63% of users engage via voice and more than 150 million images generated daily.