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2026-08-28
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An archive of 20 AI news briefs collected on 2026-08-28. Check the original sources for details and updates.

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06News

Trust Issues in AI Benchmarks: Google DeepMind Fixes Them with Cryptography

Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questions and keep evaluators from seeing the model weights. The pilot project with the Singapore AI Safety Institute uses a Gemini Flash Lite and could set a new standard for tamper-proof AI benchmarks.

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10News

A US court ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic is unlawful

A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliation for its public criticism of government AI policy. The designation formally remains in place because a parallel case in Washington is still pending. The ruling still sends an important signal ahead of Anthropic's planned IPO this fall.

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13News

I revived an AI app in the bathhouse

@Wu Ruirui AI applications have been ice-cold for six months. The soaking pool at Shui Guo: 43 degrees. This Monday, I put out an open-book exam on AI applications. By noon today, it had been opened 5,000 times. 1,082 people actually took it.

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15News

Asus establishes Physical AI business group, humanoid robot plan hits the road in September

Asus officially announced the establishment of the Physical AI (PAS BG) business group, fully embracing the robotics industry. The group consists of three divisions: AI solutions, autonomous platforms, and humanoid robots, and will officially launch on September 1. This move marks a key step in Asus's transformation from 'device connectivity' to 'AI embodiment'.

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17News

AI Engineer Notebook: Free Access to RAG/Agent/Evaluation Tools on Colab Without Frameworks

Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks for the AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) skill set — model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents (loop from scratch, tool design, guardrails, MCP, Skills), fine-tuning vs LoRA, prompt-injection/security, LLMOps, and customer craft. Runs on the free Groq API. - calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks

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