Scientists develop real-time AI monitoring for an advanced nuclear reactor component

Just as a clogged kitchen sink can bring household routines to a halt, a blockage in a nuclear reactor’s heat exchanger can slow operations and require urgent attention. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are now using artificial intelligence to spot these hidden clogs early. This approach will help molten-salt-cooled …

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xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing that xAI’s Grok 4.6 is available in Amazon Bedrock, adding a frontier model built for long-running agents, coding, and knowledge work to the Bedrock model catalog. Grok 4.6 launched on Bedrock on August 18, 2026. It offers a 500K token context window and supports configurable reasoning effort at four levels: low, …

Still wishing on a local editing model that can compete with NBP

In exactly two months, it will be 1 year since the release of Nano Banana Pro, and we still don’t have a comparable local model when it comes to editing. Google really nailed its reference capabilities. You send a good face reference to it and it can generate a totally different photo of the person …

The Black Friday-ification of the 4th of July: what a decade of email data told us about America’s 250th

The Black Friday-ification of the 4th of July: what a decade of email data told us about America’s 250th Though the final numbers aren’t in yet, America’s 250th anniversary is shaping up to have been the most commercially significant Independence Day in the nation’s history.  To understand how brands actually approached the holiday – how …