2026-08-30
Major sodium-ion battery milestone passed by California startup — Unigrid aces Hyundai’s safety tests down to -20C as experts call tech a 'compelling alternative' to lithium-ion
Sodium-ion battery technology promises to improve on lithium-ion in numerous areas, though challenges remain. [...]
2026-08-29
LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research
LAION's Big Video Dataset (BVD) is one of the largest open video datasets for AI research, with 80 million videos, 10 million hours of runtime, and 55 million auto-described clips. Models trained on BVD beat the previous benchmark, InternVid, by up to 2.1 percentage points. Legally, LAION can likely point to a 2024 Hamburg court ruling that allows collecting copyrighted content for non-commer [...]
2026-08-29
Google's WikiSkill gives AI agents a persistent memory of past mistakes to sharpen future performance
Google Research has introduced WikiSkill, a framework that gives AI agents a persistent knowledge base. Instead of discarding what they learned after each run, agents document both failures and successes in a wiki-like structure and use that knowledge to get better over time. Larger models benefit more, but smaller models with WikiSkill can match the performance of larger ones without it.<br /& [...]
