AI updates: Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Atomistic simulation requires three things: knowledge of the science, compute-efficient implementation of simulations, and accessible interfaces to the...

Power BI Projects (PBIP) make reports and semantic models file-based, enabling source control, automation, and other developer workflows. You can edit those files directly in a code editor or through external tools. Until now, changes made outside of Power BI Desktop wouldn't appear until you restarted the application. With this update, Power BI Desktop detects those changes automatically, so ther

Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) is a dimensionality reduction technique widely used for visualization and feature extraction. Applications...

Starting August 24, 2026, YouTube will count a public view from the moment a video begins playing, starting with the first frame. This could increase the public view counts creators see, but it won’t affect earnings or YouTube Partner Program eligibility. Creators can use engaged views in YouTube Studio to compare performance consistently before and after the change.

Warp Factories provide flexible, open infrastructure to accelerate companies building internal cloud software factories.

Most hiring delays come from scheduling and coordination, not interviews. See where the days actually go — and how AI-assisted interviewing compresses time-to-hire from weeks to days. The post From requisition to offer in days, not weeks appeared first on Eightfold .

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, with about $12K in model and infrastructure costs.

NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally.

Employees average a 60.2% burnout rate, with highest contributing issues including lack of focused task time and poor work-life balance. See 200+ stats in the 2022 Burnout Trends Report by Reclaim.ai.

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