Week 35, 2026 · Beginner · for younger readers

Newly checked in Week 35, 2026

This week, the most news came from Prompt Engineering (76 items). In all, 1,054 items were newly checked, and 22 areas moved.

1,054records added
22axes that moved
Aug 24–30dates
1,054total records then

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①76 records

Prompt Engineering

  • Aug 3, 2026Anthropic — Revised the Prompt engineering best practices document — updated to move away from a focus on assigning roles and to put clear instructions and explanations of purpose first
  • Jun 18, 2026Sajib Acharjee Dip et al. (Virginia Tech) — Selective Verification for Budget-Aware Reasoning published — allocates the reasoning budget with a controller at the serving stage
⑮73 records

Regulation, Law & Governance

  • Aug 11, 2026Spotify — Announced AI Persona badges for AI-generated artist identities — shown on profiles, in search and on tracks; excluded by default from editorial and algorithmic recommendations unless the listener follows them; scheduled to apply from mid-September
  • Jul 31, 2026Cohere — Signed Section 1 of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, a voluntary code responding to Article 50 of the EU AI Act
⓪66 records

Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the Transformer

  • May 8, 2017Jonas Gehring et al. (Facebook AI Research) — Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning (ConvS2S) released on arXiv
  • Apr 16, 2017Norman P. Jouppi et al. (Google) — In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit released on arXiv (ISCA 2017)

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