2026-09-08
AI Briefings Daily Report.

OECD report: students who use AI less for coursework outperform those who frequently use AI ↗

The report points out that students who never or almost never use AI to draft text for writing assignments scored an average of 509 points on science tests; students who use AI daily or almost daily for such tasks averaged only 481 points. Even controlling for socioeconomic status, the two groups still differed by 28 points, roughly equivalent to one and a half years of teaching.

Similarweb: In August, ChatGPT web-end AI chat traffic share rebounded to 55.5%, year-on-year lead narrowed ↗

Data from analysis agency Similarweb shows that ChatGPT's current AI chatbot website traffic share has rebounded to 55.5%, but the decline from the same period last year is significant. Gemini and Claims both saw substantial share growth. This data only counts website traffic and does not represent overall usage scale.

Arm launches Total Design framework for Physical AI and robotics ↗

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Projected AI Power Demand Adds 25 to 30GW; South Korea Considers Massive Nuclear Reactor Expansion ↗

Kim Sung-hwan, Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, stated that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plan to expand chip production capacity, and with new AI data centers under construction, South Korea's electricity demand is expected to grow significantly in the coming years.

Security firm Calif disclosed the first AI-developed WeChat zero-click worm WeWorm; the vulnerability has been fixed ↗

The involved company Calif pointed out that such a large-scale worm virus used to require a large team several months to complete in the past, while now AI can already accomplish most of the work.

Axera launches 5nm smart driving chips M97, M95, single-chip equivalent AI compute up to 720TOPS ↗

M97 is positioned as a "flagship-level high-end intelligent driving / cabin-driving perception integrated computing platform", while M95 is the "best computing platform for one-stage end-to-end solutions".

Microsoft releases Project Opal: Copilot agent can autonomously complete tasks for several hours or days continuously ↗

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X platform yesterday (September 7) announcing the launch of new AI feature Project Opal for Microsoft 365 Copilot, positioned as an AI agent in a controlled and secure environment that lets users plan and execute complex, long-cycle tasks.

Coca-Cola uses AI to optimize retailer ordering in Malaysia ↗

Coca-Cola is using AI to recommend which products Malaysian retailers should order and in what quantities through its Coke Buddy platform. The Perfect Basket feature uses Coca-Cola’s Central Recommendation Engine to analyse previous orders, ordering frequency, seasonality, weather, and purchasing patterns among similar businesses.

Study: YouTube appears in 53% of Google AI Overview vitamin and supplement search results ↗

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash intermediate version begins internal testing, adopts new model structure and natively supports multimodality ↗

DeepSeek issued a notice in official communication group today, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash intermediate version internal testing, adopted new model structure, native multimodal support, stronger capability, faster speed, lower cost.

Six people use AI jailbreak to generate obscene items for profit and get sentenced, judge warns technical neutrality is not equal to technical innocence ↗

Zheng and others used technical means to "jailbreak" foundational models, bypassing built-in safety restrictions against pornographic content. After users recharge and pay, they can select character cards and AI bots within this model for erotic chats. These chat contents can also generate obscene static or dynamic images by consuming points.

AI Weather Forecasting Enters Energy Market, Google Targets Grid Operators with WeatherNext 3 ↗

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Rentosertib, developed by Insilico Medicine's AI, enters human clinical trial for the first time; 6 aging clocks measure decreased predicted age in patients ↗

The drug, named Rentosertib, has a molecular structure generated with AI assistance. A new study published in Nature Biotechnology on Monday local time shows that patients treated with Rentosertib saw a decrease in age-related biomarkers, based on measurements from six "aging clocks."

Donghua Software × Volcano Engine: TRAE goes deep into the R&D front line, old code refactoring cycle shortened to"Hour-level" ↗

Google integrates Gemini voice search into mobile Gmail / Google Docs / Keep ↗

Google announces integration of Gemini voice search capability (Live mode) into mobile Gmail, Google Docs and Google Keep, available after subscribing to AI Plus / Pro / Ultra membership, currently only supports English. The feature supports natural language conversational search, can automatically scan inbox or create documents and memos based on voice commands. #GoogleAI# Google is gradually deeply integrating Gemini into its core applications.

Doubao Becomes Hubei Provincial Museum's Guide"Official AI docent", supporting narration in 12 dialects ↗

Doubao has become the official AI guide for the Hubei Provincial Museum, providing personalized commentary for the "Treasures of the Kremlin" special exhibition. The commentary function has also been upgraded to support 12 dialects, allowing local tourists to interact using the Wuhan dialect.

Google AI tutorial: build an interactive AI evaluation dashboard with Data Studio ↗

Welcome to the final entry of our series about designing, analyzing and visualizing AI evals! As with... Tagged with ai, datascience, productivity, llm.

Arm CEO Pissad: AI is expected to conquer cancer in our lifetime, but computing power supply is the bottleneck ↗

Arm CEO Rene Haas stated that AI is expected to help humanity conquer cancer within our lifetimes, but current computing power supply is severely limited, becoming the primary bottleneck. He emphasized that the scale of demand for chips and memory by AI is unprecedented, building new wafer fabs is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and supply shortages will persist. Additionally, the medical community considers cancer a complex group of diseases, and evidence of AI's actual clinical effectiveness remains limited.

Lenovo LaiKu Douzhanzhe warms up AI private cloud host, equipped with 3rd Gen Intel Core Ultra processor ↗

It features up to 64GB onboard integrated LPDDR5 (X) memory and provides a range of I/O ports including dual USB-C and dual 2.5GbE RJ-45.

Mistral AI Completes 3 Billion Euro Series D Financing, Valuation Exceeds 21 Billion Euros ↗

Three years after launch, Mistral AI has closed a 3 billion euro Series D round, pushing its valuation past 21 billion euros.