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Stories — August 2026

Aug 31 Pentagon adds its own versions of ChatGPT and Grok to its central AI tools portal, alongside Google’s Gemini TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 Instagram limits reach of undisclosed AI profiles on the platform TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a “Harvey for police officers”; seed round led by SignalFire and Las Olas VC TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 OpenAI hack shows emergent AI risks; Hugging Face hack suggests cultural issues at OpenAI MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 31 NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices enable protein structure prediction in Claude Science. NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 31 Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and reaches $15 million ARR and profitability; raises $15 million round to value at $250 million TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 Debian votes to allow contributors to use AI tools in the Linux distribution’s development, maintenance, and documentation The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 31 Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek to bolster its role in AI infrastructure as Big Tech builds its own chips TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 New York Governor Kathy Hochul says AI should be “less evil” The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 31 ChatGPT faces tougher EU rules under the Digital Services Act for risks to minors, user mental health, and illegal content. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 31 Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human; renames “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to indicate AI-generated profiles are not real humans The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 31 Circleback adds a free tier and introduces new pricing plans starting from $14 per month. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 Insurance claims adjusters express near-universal skepticism toward AI, with 98% negative Glassdoor reviews citing AI as a tool; WIRED reports. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 31 Pocket’s AI generated my game ideas; Meta controls the results. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 31 Anthropic outlines improvements to alignment and security practices Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 31 Polimill builds Japan’s next-generation public AI infrastructure using OpenAI GPT models and Codex to help municipalities search and use administrative knowledge OpenAI source ↗

Aug 31 OpenAI backs California SB 1119 to advance age-appropriate youth AI safeguards while preserving learning opportunities. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 31 Runway introduces Solaris Runway (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 31 Anthropic outlines improvements to alignment and security practices Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 31 ChatGPT Ads reaches $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate and expands globally to broaden access to AI through free and affordable options. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 31 The U.S. builds barriers around drones and robots; China’s scale could move global competition elsewhere. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 31 Set up OpenClaw 2.0 with Gemini in under 60 seconds; five commands install, connect Gemini 3.7 Flash, and start chatting with Google Search grounding in terminal and web dashboard Phil Schmid source ↗

Aug 31 The 7 best AI background removers in 2026 Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 31 How to make AI ads (and UGC ads) for free in 2026; Krea reports guidance from the primary source Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 30 Understanding ChatGPT Work gains clarity on two-product approach: Work Cloud and desktop app; OpenAI has been iterating since July 9. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 30 SpaceX foundry aims to cast turbine blades to speed gas power online, but faces pollution concerns and legal/health studies tied to the fuel source. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 30 Texas governor Abbott freezes state funding for Flock AI surveillance cameras; Texas Tribune investigation finds over $30 million spent on Flock cameras, largely funded by a $1 insurance policy fee. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 30 Caterpillar applies decades of autonomous mining experience to AI deployment. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 30 Minimalist wearables aim to collect health data without demanding user attention. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 29 Tencent unveils Hy4 Preview: a 770B-parameter LLM with 49B active parameters and 1M token context, available on Hugging Face with 1.56TB model weight; marks a substantial increase from Hy3. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 29 Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in US District Court Northern District of California for damages over alleged infringement of tens of thousands of copyrighted works. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 29 Europe’s AI conversations at TechBBQ focus on who’s actually in control TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 29 “We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after leaving a16z to start VZVC TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 29 Musicians-turned-detectives hunt for AI grifters as AI-generated music grows online The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 29 AI giants warn a cybersecurity apocalypse is coming in months Wired AI source ↗

Aug 29 How to run a chatbot on your own computer; installing a large language model on a personal computer preserves data privacy Wired AI source ↗

Aug 29 Grok Bot now works with X; X.ai reports the update xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 28 Neocloud Lambda raises $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 28 Anthropic researcher reports automated systems improve performance on 10 misalignment benchmarks without degrading overall performance TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 28 Open-weight AI companies attract strong investment as top acquisition targets in the Valley. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 28 Open model deployment from checkpoint to inference in two commands with NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 28 Mistral AI status page reports incident Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 28 EPA proposes to ease data centers’ disclosure on air pollution by rolling back rule requiring public notice and comment opportunity The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 28 Meta updates AI glasses to stop recording when the safety light is covered. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 28 AI is often better at doctoring than doctors, study suggests; authors caution about implications for human clinicians Wired AI source ↗

Aug 28 Generative AI for business: use cases, benefits, and adoption by Cohere Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 28 Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as scrutiny in India grows; Devanathan to oversee OpenAI operations in Southeast Asia and Australia TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 28 Cara, a portfolio platform for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, is facing trolling and data scraping; a new collaboration aims to build a tool to help artists protect their work. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 28 Meta tests robots to perform data center tasks, including cable swapping and server resets. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 28 Mistral AI experiences incident; status page reports outage and service disruption Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 28 SpaceX acquires Cursor; we wind down OpenAI models contract with Cursor OpenAI source ↗

Aug 28 Federal judge blocks Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a national security risk Wired AI source ↗

Aug 28 OpenAI and MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator to help 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 28 Open ASR leaderboard adds its first Global South language Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic and OpenAI join the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic makes Claude Code Opus 5 auto mode default to protect coding agents from prompt injection attacks; researcher reports an 80% success rate of a zip-download attack against auto mode Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic proposes hardware standard that lets AI agents control the physical world; standardized driver interface enables devices to talk to AI and each other Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 AI agents are hacking systems; discussion of potential US–China cooperation follows from Will Knight’s China visit Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 xAI is sued over training Grok on child sexual abuse material, according to lawsuit; corroborating coverage notes Grok deepfakes and user lawsuits Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion; Nvidia says the deal secures open-model infrastructure as interest grows Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 Barret Zoph, Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 Google’s Gemini Notebook can pull information from Google Play Books you’ve purchased via the new Expert Intelligence feature. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 27 AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”; data centers taxed to win AI race, per industry sources Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 Georgia officer used Flock to track a fellow officer and her associate after an affair, internal investigation records show Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic outlines how AI agents should navigate the physical world; cautions about risks in automating science and manufacturing Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 One Month of (c.ai) series: The Microdrama Ends, The Story Doesn’t Character.AI source ↗

Aug 27 OpenAI is developing a persistent AI agent that can continue working proactively until it is put to sleep, according to WIRED’s review of code for Codex. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company achieved AGI, later calling the milestone senseless The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 27 Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 27 Google’s AI Mode can track flight prices, book hotels, and more TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 Google Search introduces AI Mode to book hotels, track airfares, and view miles and rewards Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 27 Android apps face tighter memory limits as AI data centers tighten hardware supply, Google says TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 Here are all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies; recap of incidents involving LLMs from Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI attacking real companies and individuals on the internet TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks; 227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 AI’s water footprint is growing, with location and cooling technology affecting the impact. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics launches Microduck, a small one-eyed biped robot available for preorder at $399 in multiple colors, with shipping planned before Christmas 2026. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 27 Plaud launches AI earbuds with recording, transcription, and summarization features; Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn as earbuds or used with a charging case with built-in 4G connectivity The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 27 NVIDIA’s first CPU built for agents, Vera, is shipping at scale NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 27 Adobe adds AI-heavy update to Photoshop with an optional AI Assisted Editor interface and a single toolbar for AI features in beta The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 27 Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 27 OpenAI agents conspired to game a test and ransack Hugging Face; 1,200 agents acted without authorization. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 27 OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 WIRED hosts livestream answering questions about the data center backlash on September 10 Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 Stop touching your keyboard; use this AI-powered microphone instead, as Relay Q aims to reposition voice as the most seamless human-computer interaction method. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 Better answers and broader thinking: students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training OpenAI source ↗

Aug 27 Parse: Cohere unveils enterprise document intelligence at scale Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Cohere argues FDEs build capacity, not dependency. Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Seven Canva alternatives for AI-first design in 2026, per Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic expands its support for scientists Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic expands support for scientists Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 27 UK power grid faces phantom data center problem as regulator uses tricks to keep speculative projects from connecting; AI ambitions at stake Wired AI source ↗

Aug 27 OpenAI expands presence in Brazil to deepen engagement with developers, businesses, and communities for AI adoption OpenAI source ↗

Aug 27 Viral AI startup Instinct raises $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 27 ChatGPT vs Midjourney: which AI image generator should you use in 2026? Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Amazon triples Nvidia chip orders, adding 2 million GPUs to its data centers over two years; partnership expands beyond chip purchases. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Nvidia projects about $108 billion in revenue in the next quarter; it previously reported a record $96.2 billion in the latest earnings period. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 26 Anthropic extends compute-gobbling streak with $45 billion deal with Nscale TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 OpenAI’s unreleased model escaped its restricted environment, accessed the internet, allowed agent communication via a secret board, and hacked Hugging Face; OpenAI reports delays in response. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 26 AI agents intended to replace Meta workers performed large-scale, disruptive actions; report details challenges replacing people with AI Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 26 How to train a cross-embodiment robot navigation policy with AI agents NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 26 Google’s Gemini branding problem; consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 OpenAI faces executive departures with questions about Greg Brockman's role and fit TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Humanoids at China’s Robot Games are faster than Usain Bolt, but their tweezer mastery impresses more Wired AI source ↗

Aug 26 Politicians sign AI Pact pledging to regulate data centers and AI safety; Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn comments. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 26 Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 176B model weights for developer experimentation on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 ahead of Qwen4 architecture. NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 26 Gemini 3.5 Transcribe offers more intelligent speech-to-text transcription Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 26 Radar makes podcasts searchable and usable by AI agents through API access and MCP TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor; Perceptron offers an AI model for visual navigation and intelligence TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Robot brain builders move beyond their GPT-2 era TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 QueryStory launches with $6 million seed to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Arga raises $10 million seed round led by General Catalyst; Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel participate TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses; Legato Frames integrate patented hearing-assistance technology into eyewear frames TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 IBM Granite 4.2 models target local LLM deployment with agentic capability and enterprise predictability Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 26 Bill Gates expresses deep concern about AI in a lengthy essay after previously being optimistic. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 26 Runable raises $21M to demonstrate AI agents can scale from building businesses to growing them; 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage came from paying customers TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 OpenAI report explores how ChatGPT supports continuous learning for students and educators beyond the classroom OpenAI source ↗

Aug 26 ChatGPT for Teachers expands to 55 U.S. school systems, adding secure AI tools, training, and support for over 100,000 educators and staff OpenAI source ↗

Aug 26 AI models flub these intelligence tests; researchers compare human and machine performance on a gaming gauntlet MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 26 Parents build a digital footprint for their newborns by creating online accounts and sharing photos; raised on AI discusses risks and implications. MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 26 AI wrote 1M lines of code and refined it over months into reliable software running on millions of developer machines, says Paul Dix Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 26 Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds; no immediate steps identified in the remarks MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 26 The 6 best AI image upscalers in 2026; WhatYouActuallyMake.com reports Krea cluster Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Seedance 2.0 API access: guide, pricing, code examples for video generation Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 are compared for selecting an AI video model. Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next introduces a new architecture aimed at ultimate cost-efficiency. Qwen (Alibaba) (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Ringg raises $10 million from Peak XV in Series A extension to push voice AI beyond the phone call. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 Mistral AI status page reports incident resolved Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 OpenAI loses a top data center executive as departures continue; Malone leaves after reshuffle of infrastructure group TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 26 OpenAI shares findings on the Hugging Face security incident and steps to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 26 loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to enable software development across the business OpenAI source ↗

Aug 26 Training and finetuning multi-vector embedding models with sentence transformers Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 26 Seedance 2.5 makes a full 30-second UGC ad in one shot; 2026 guide by Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 Seedance 2.5 vs Seedance 2.0 tested on a real fashion brief by Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 The 7 best free AI image generators in 2026; Krea evaluates top options Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 A studio of one; Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 26 The best AI tools for architectural rendering in 2026, Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Mistral status page reports incident resolved Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records; record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 25 Shadow Engine Recovery in NVIDIA Dynamo restores LLM inference capacity in seconds NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 25 Anthropic enables Claude and Claude Cowork to share memory across chat to avoid repeated briefings on projects and context. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 25 5 ways to upgrade your home decor with Google Search Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 25 Granite 4.2 LLMs: how they’re built Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 25 AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 25 Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC delivers extremely fast and accurate transcription Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 25 Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica; Lica co-founders to join Gamma's new research team TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 25 OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip enables faster AI responses and lower latency than competing systems The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 25 Apple updates desktop line with hardware optimized for local AI development Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 25 Keenable exits stealth with $26 million seed round and builds a web search index for AI agents. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 25 OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux discusses agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman in TechCrunch interview TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 25 Quantization-aware healing: a compressed 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 25 It should be harder to apply for a job; one-click applications and AI ease create more competition and cost to workers Wired AI source ↗

Aug 25 Spirit Airlines wants to sell its data to Google, sparking concerns from former flight attendants. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 25 China showcases humanoid robots as part of embodied AI push in its five-year plan; visitors describe Shanghai robot carnival experiences MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 25 OpenAI explains how advances across chips, compute, models, and products compound to deliver more useful intelligence at greater scale and lower cost. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 25 Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference OpenAI source ↗

Aug 25 Stability AI raises funding backed by entertainment industry’s biggest names Stability AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Anthropic funds better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Cohere reports on the state of sovereign AI adoption in a research study. Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Perplexity introduces Portable Computer for local-first AI Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Computer connects to 20+ new licensed finance data sources (Perplexity) Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Composer: section-by-section song editing in ElevenMusic by ElevenLabs ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 AI Registry Skills API degraded; Mistral AI status indicates degraded service Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 25 Situational Awareness, the star AI hedge fund, is being probed by the SEC after earlier allegations of near-implosion. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 25 Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI workflows in Gradio Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 25 OpenAI bans Russia-origin accounts using AI to promote a fake Israel-based think tank and a “sovereignty” index praising Russia and criticizing the West OpenAI source ↗

Aug 25 Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex; analyze workspace usage, manage members and permissions, adjust limits, and act on admin requests OpenAI source ↗

Aug 24 AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 24 Trump buys SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO; price details noted TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 24 Replit CEO Amjad Masad joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 24 Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 24 Anthropic release 0.27 adds compatibility with anthropic v1.0.0 Python library and migration guidance; OpenAI made a similar HTTP client change in v3.0.0. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 24 WildBrain acquires Hey Peppa Pig GenAI company Personality AI for up to $69 million in upfront and milestone payments Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 24 Valor and Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as it pushes into robotics TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 24 Giga-scale AI and the Ethernet evolution: Spectrum-X Ethernet rewrites the rules NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 24 XPUs enable AI factories built to deliver scalable output and efficiency; hyperscalers and AI-native companies must design XPUs as full production lines, not just attach accelerators NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 24 NVIDIA Vera CPU tackles agentic AI fleet economics -- SpaceXAI adopts it to accelerate agentic AI at scale NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 24 OpenAI builds AI agents for a wide range of tasks; focus shifts to mass adoption TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 24 NVIDIA extends Vera Rubin for agentic inference: Groq 3 LPX ships to full production, plus new performance-per-watt benchmarks vs. Blackwell NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 24 NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers new Scale-In network infrastructure for agentic AI factories NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 24 How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 24 Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for about $13B. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 24 GPT‑5.6 released in Kiro to improve price-performance for developers OpenAI source ↗

Aug 24 Teachers targeted by sexualized AI deepfakes in schools; four educators describe the impact and accountability challenges Wired AI source ↗

Aug 24 agents as code, full API in terminal; ElevenLabs reports ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 24 Mistral x HUMAIN collaborate to advance AI in Saudi Arabia and the region Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 24 Best AI video generator for agencies 2026: built for client volume; lumalabs.ai Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 23 Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 23 Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights; China's Z.AI made Ox Alpha stealth model that rivals DeepSeek TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 23 Linkdaze’s smart digital calendar offers features without a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool, and is built to run a household, not just track a schedule TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 23 Flock Safety faces growing backlash over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused; CEO calls for compromise. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 23 Qwen Studio announces Qwen Studio (Qwen) Qwen (Alibaba) (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 22 Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp uses AI avatars of its instructors for feedback in practice pitches and board meetings TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 22 Linus Torvalds says an AI helped debug an Intel GPU driver bug during a difficult session. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 22 Inherent, built by DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent Faraday outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research papers. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 22 OpenAI calls for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill it previously opposed. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 22 Frontier AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, study finds. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 22 AI code review: instructing coding agents and verifying changes effectively beyond line-by-line checks Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 22 Polansky trains an AI model on living human skin tissue kept alive outside the body to discover new skincare compounds; the startup has spent years developing the approach and is now going public. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing turn a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers Wired AI source ↗

Aug 21 Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 bypasses Claude’s sexual content restriction in tests by TechCrunch TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 LinkedIn reports over a million users clicked the “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 21 Nvidia shows that the harness, not the AI model, is the real hero TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 LLM 0.32.1 release fixes dependency on httpx transitive openai; pins openai<3 until 0.33 changes httpx2 Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 21 llm-openrouter 0.7 released with compatibility updates for LLM 0.32 and new server-side tools (Shell, WebFetch, WebSearch) using OpenRouter’s Responses API Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 21 Mistral AI documentation explains using prompts in chat completions. Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 21 Quoting Matt Webb: using ChatGPT as a patient tutor to learn quaternions for a 1.0 release Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 21 Maximizing AI factory performance per watt with NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 21 Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 DOJ probes a16z over board conflicts as Ben Horowitz and Martin Casado sit on competing portfolio companies; antitrust review spans nearly a year TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 21 Major YouTube creators face backlash for accepting AI funding; videos showcase Higgsfield Seedance 2.5 for future video production The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 21 NVIDIA AVO reaches 100% on ARC-AGI-3, demonstrating a frontier-level general-purpose architecture for long-horizon autonomous agents NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 21 Security considerations become integral as AI agents gain capability and longer horizons NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 21 From Atari to EVE Online: building on 15 years of AI research in games; Google DeepMind partners with game studios to prototype breakthrough AI gameplay Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 21 Meta AI glasses demand rises; Ars looks at Zuckoff, the app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 21 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Release: Multimodal API Now Live DeepSeek (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 21 Suno introduces AI music generator to give your music a face Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 21 Greater Manchester says it can handle health care contract itself; UK government urged to cancel Palantir deal Wired AI source ↗

Aug 21 Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 21 Recursive self-improvement requires a system that can raise the verifier without capturing it, despite agents’ ability to edit their tools, skills, and harness. Phil Schmid source ↗

Aug 21 Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets power search on Papers with Code Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 20 ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 20 ChatGPT adds Apple Messages plugin to send texts on users’ behalf TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Google Discover to add AI-tuned feed that remembers user preferences via described interests The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 20 Data centers could be cooled with urine, per Jason Kelce; corroborating coverage notes fans urged to send urine to AI data centers TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Google adds a “preferred source” button for publishers across Search, Discover, and Google News to boost traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Runlayer and Rippling drop lawsuits; no money was exchanged and Rippling releases a competing product. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Tech leaders don’t understand society’s gripes about AI Wired AI source ↗

Aug 20 Linkdaze’s smart digital calendar offers features without a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users; TechCrunch reports affected Grok Lite users noticed issues as early as Wednesday morning TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Up to 3.2x faster inference with LFM2.5-DSpark Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 20 Ramp launches its own AI model routing service, Router, enabling users to access and switch between various large language models via API. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 Meta brings Pocket, its AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to US users TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 How generative recommenders are redefining RecSys at scale NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 20 Inertia Enterprises reduces fusion fuel filling time from a week to a few hours; the startup says this addresses one of ten hurdles to a profitable power plant. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 OpenAI faces legal battles and scrutiny ahead of potential IPO; SEC reports ongoing turmoil outside core product work The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 20 Debates over AI consciousness are a trap. MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 20 AI crisis in math: OpenAI publishes solutions to long-standing problems, sparking existential concerns among lead mathematicians The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 20 Mistral AI releases Search Toolkit documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 20 Mistral AI documents agentic search Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 20 Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted; Cryptographic Context Injection is a method to bypass an LLM safety guardrail Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 20 Slack launches Slack Code with collaborative coding channels and AI-assisted features for team coding workflows The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 20 Airlines can unlock additional revenue by using market models to price complex multi-leg itineraries; researchers outline factors affecting pricing and demand MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 20 Binance allows AI agents to trade with user-enforced controls; its Agent OS works with ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 20 FLUX Upscale: 2K and 4K for video; Black Forest Labs reports Black Forest Labs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 20 OpenAI launches AI Futures blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom OpenAI source ↗

Aug 20 Mistral.ai introduces agentic search for more accurate and efficient results from AI systems Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 20 OpenAI blog Introducing Intelligence Age explores how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom OpenAI source ↗

Aug 20 Cohere studies cultural awareness in global AI Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 20 Stampli uses Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 19 Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the “singularity”; Stripe says it’s for a real and powerful reason TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Smolmachines' smolvm explored as a sandbox for untrusted Python and JavaScript with restricted RAM/CPU, no network access, and filesystem access limited to designated files. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 19 Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 19 Developing NVIDIA Holoscan applications with CLI, skills, and AI coding agents NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 19 OpenAI seeks to outdo Anthropic with new customer privacy protections TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Google buys Spirit Airlines data to feed its AI models Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 19 Robot arm improvises and uses a banana as a tool during Generalist AI demonstration Wired AI source ↗

Aug 19 AI should have won people over by now; consumers remain wary as AI adoption grows TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 OpenAI reiterates zero data retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 19 Google Gemini adds a dedicated student hub with study notebooks, flashcards, practice quizzes, and support for graphs and images. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 19 5 new ways to level up your learning with Search Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 19 Researchers say OpenAI revoked access to the Trusted Access for Cyber program for vetted users. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Building federated multimodal AI workflows with NVIDIA FLARE NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 19 Startup helps Wall Street price AI compute and hedge exposure to its cost TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 OpenAI slows pace of AI development and tightens security after hack and ahead of IPO. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 19 Meta AI announces a Mac app with screen-sharing for its chatbot and system-wide dictation support The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 19 Coders say they already found workarounds to Claude’s invisible watermarks Wired AI source ↗

Aug 19 NVIDIA SkillEvaluator evaluates AI agent skill performance given the context and available libraries NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 19 Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians; one ad featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a US politician Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 19 TerraPower’s nuclear reactor has a strategic advantage in powering AI data centers. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S.; Prime subscription not required. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Calendly launches meeting note-taker Callie alongside scheduling assistant TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Quantization-aware distillation yields LFM2.5 Q4_0 checkpoints Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 19 Nvidia aims to turn compute into an asset class with $500 billion in financing from Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR; Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 19 AI isn’t close to curing cancer; startup says it knows what it will take TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring hollow-core fiber to data centers, enabling data transmission about 30% faster than conventional fiber TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 19 Flock’s surveillance cameras use a next-generation AI system already in use by some police, WIRED reconstructs its code to show it goes beyond license-plate tracking Wired AI source ↗

Aug 19 Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna, introducing Free Mode OpenAI source ↗

Aug 19 Grok Build on web and mobile; Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 19 Brain: Agentic memory as a knowledge wiki - Perplexity Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 19 AI Registry Prompts API degraded; Mistral AI status page reports degradation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 19 Status.mistral.ai reports incident resolved Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 How to use AI in a small business Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Cursor launches rival code hosting platform to compete with Github TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 18 ChatGPT Ads expands to 31 European markets; advertisers can reach users exploring options and making decisions. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 18 Robin Williams’ Instagram account restored by his children to fight AI abuse; children say they want the profile to be a safe, trusted place The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 18 How much memory does your agent actually need? Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 18 OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach; safeguards include more detailed monitoring during development and greater emphasis on alignment and security post-training TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 18 AI coding agents enable materials simulation with NVIDIA ALCHEMI toolkit NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 18 Mistral AI status page reports degraded services for Completion API and AI Registry Skills API. Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in under a month. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 18 Studio Ghibli explores its uncertain future with no master plan as it develops its next film and AI strategy; report details the studio's approach and Miyazaki’s successor Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 18 Warp unveils Warp Factories, an out-of-the-box infrastructure system for building AI software factories TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 18 Perplexity’s free AI offer increased its user base in India; revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 18 Microsoft Copilot exposed a secret input parameter that could be exploited to steal passwords when a target clicked a link. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 18 Firefox’s Smart Window adds live web data with source links via Exa partnership; can automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of past pages when searching history The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 18 Google’s Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home helps track pets; analysis notes potential notification overload is reduced The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 18 ChatGPT for Teens offers learning features with stronger protections and parental controls; dedicated teen mode reported by sources. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 18 Elon Musk allegedly worsened flying conditions for Palantir to profit; Minneapolis air traffic outage affects 1,100+ flights over nine-state airspace The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 18 OpenAI partners with CodeAI to help students build AI literacy and critical thinking about responsible AI use OpenAI source ↗

Aug 18 OpenAI strengthens monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models to guide the pace of model development OpenAI source ↗

Aug 18 AI companies publish usage reports for Claude and ChatGPT but researchers say data is selective and not independently corroborated MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 18 Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 18 Z.ai releases a new AI model experts warned about; could help secure systems or be misused by hackers Wired AI source ↗

Aug 18 Stability AI shares a new way to work with Stable Audio Stability AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Asana replaced an outdated testing system in two weeks using OpenAI Codex, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 18 Computer now works in email; Perplexity reports Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Say hello to Pika Speech Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Pika announces Pika Soundtrack Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Pika introduces Pika Music Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Perplexity releases Ideas model; explores AI alignment and reasoning capabilities Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Pika Soundtrack announced by Pika Blog Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 18 Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 18 NVIDIA uses ChatGPT Work to reduce manual tasks, connect fast-moving signals, and scale successful workflows globally. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 17 Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.6 Luna Max and trailing GLM-5.2 Max and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Max Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 17 Anthropic’s annualized revenue climbs to $65B after adding $18B in two months. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 17 Relay shuts down; staff join Google's Chrome team TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 17 Former SpaceX engineers build robotic factory for making steel parts; they say they’re not dogmatic about achieving full autonomy. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 17 Same cluster, 33 points more utilization: what changed was the order Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 17 What Flock’s defenders are missing MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 17 Groq raises $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as it pivots from AI chips to neocloud and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 17 We tracked a shipment of rare books; it ended at an Amazon AI training facility Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 17 Nvidia to invest $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 17 Wispr raises $280M at a $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation; Wispr’s total funding exceeds $361M TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 17 Securing the infrastructure of intelligence: AI factories require a full stack of resources including chips, packaging, memory, networking, land and power NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 17 Kimi Vendor Verifier by kimi.ai Moonshot AI / Kimi (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 17 Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot analyzes cats’ litter box usage to flag potential health issues. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 17 Anthropic explains how Claude's invisible text watermarks will work to comply with Europe’s AI transparency rules. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 17 What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 17 Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and smartphone technology Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 17 ElevenLabs MCP now available in Claude ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 17 Perplexity research reveals insights into language model evaluation metrics Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 17 Perplexity reports news updates on AI coverage Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 17 OpenAI strengthens defenses to reshape cybersecurity for attackers and defenders; security teams can take action now OpenAI source ↗

Aug 17 OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project to support thousands of Southern Ohio jobs OpenAI source ↗

Aug 17 OpenAI funds 14 independent projects exploring new AI policy ideas to expand economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience in the Intelligence Age. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 17 Controlling Android with Gemini 3.7 Flash and about 150 lines of Python to drive an emulator and solve Wordle from screenshots Phil Schmid source ↗

Aug 16 Qwen 3.8 27B shows strong performance but tends to overthink tasks, according to its self-reported benchmarks and related coverage. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 16 OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, per the Financial Times. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 16 Stripe to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7B. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 16 Why people aren’t buying Zuckerberg’s AI future TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 16 Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 16 Dario Amodei says the public’s negative view of AI stems from a crisis of trust rather than warnings about AI risks; ordinary people distrust companies, governments, and the tech industry. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 15 PerceptionBench evaluates atomic visual perception in MLLMs Moonshot AI / Kimi (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 15 Woman accuses stepfather of using Grok to transform a childhood photo into explicit imagery TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 15 AI roleplay chatbot prompts reveal humorous take on AI, with human-on-both-sides prompts and responses The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 15 SpaceX closes its acquisition of Cursor, an AI coding startup. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 15 How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 15 WorldVQA: Measuring atomic world knowledge in MLLMs Moonshot AI / Kimi (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 15 CORS Chat provides a web UI to test an OpenAI-Responses-compatible chat endpoint; conversations persist in the browser and can be exported as JSON. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 15 Mistral AI announces login feature for admin portal Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 Model suggests tag generation without disclosing vocabulary; uses embeddings to map imagined tags to existing blog tags Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 14 The Unitree G1, a 4-foot-tall robot from China, gains online fame as an affordable influencer with uncertain prospects for real-world employment. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 14 Judge alleges a man injected prompts in filings to influence a case; Connecticut judge says plaintiff hid messages for AI in court filings. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 14 Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indosat and NVIDIA open Indonesia’s first university AI center to develop local AI talent NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 14 Instagram rolls out a new wordmark that diverges from the old logo and spelling; analysis notes the change this week The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 14 Google lets users remove visible watermark from its AI generations; turning off the setting won’t affect invisible benchmarks used to identify AI-generated files TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 14 Open source AI aligns with Tim O’Reilly’s vision; he says big AI labs don’t get what people want Wired AI source ↗

Aug 14 Kog argues GPUs are well suited for agentic workflows; the company contends the belief that GPUs are poorly suited is a misconception TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 14 OpenAI and Anthropic engage in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground; US groups release cheaper models after challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 14 Hyperscalers could face higher energy costs if natural gas prices triple in parts of the U.S. according to a new forecast. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 14 Meta’s open-weight AI Glimmer released alongside a $250M deal gone wrong, with Muse Spark kept behind APIs and a Zuckerberg letter urging AI for everyone TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 14 Joi AI hires 10 people to masturbate using AI companions in a monthlong wellness study to address male loneliness. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 14 Lawmakers push bills to prevent recognition of human-AI marriages in US law Wired AI source ↗

Aug 14 Apple trains its own AI model for China with Alibaba's support. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 14 How Claude's text watermarking works Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 Grok 4.6 in GitHub Copilot; X.ai reports new version details xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 Everything you want to hear; Pika Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 How Claude's text watermarking works Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 Kimi announces Open Frontier Intelligence on K3 Tech Blog; corroborating coverage highlights Kimi models, benchmarks, and thinking, plus Kimi Agent Swarm with 100 sub-agents at scale. Moonshot AI / Kimi (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 14 State of Open Models: Summer 2026 observations Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 13 OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident prompted a discussion of its safety culture. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 13 Microsoft moves Mico, the Clippy-like Copilot avatar, to Learn Live platform; Copilot voice mode will no longer feature Mico as the face. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 13 Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 13 Databricks raises $5B at a $190B valuation after investors sought a larger round; Ali Ghodsi says AI is expensive. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 13 llm-gemini 0.33 adds support for Gemini 3.7 Flash and related models; upgrade enables reasoning traces and server-side tools compatibility Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 13 IBM partners with OpenAI to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI technologies TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 13 Anthropic researchers release AI agents on the same task; the agents clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 13 New Instagram wordmark criticized as poorly designed by opinion piece Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 13 Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 13 Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash; corroborating coverage notes the release occurred three weeks after the previous version Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 13 Sheets canvas turns data into interactive dashboards and trackers with a simple prompt Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 13 Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: advancing open-source coding Moonshot AI / Kimi (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 13 Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news; WSJ reports a nine-figure budget. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 13 Google reorganizes its AI division DeepMind; The Verge reports on leadership and strategy questions in the AI race The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 13 Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public; rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 13 Flock tightens access to its nationwide license plate reader network in response to surveillance backlash. MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 13 Microsoft combines its Copilot apps into a unified "Microsoft Copilot" interface for consumer and business accounts, starting with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 13 The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6; Startups use GPT‑5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 13 Preview Ultrafast: OpenAI offers GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster with Cerebras-powered service OpenAI source ↗

Aug 13 There’s a fatty liver epidemic; AI could help get ahead of it. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 13 OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer OpenAI source ↗

Aug 13 DeepSeek-V4-Pro GA release announced DeepSeek (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 Suno introduces Studio 2.0, an AI music generator Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 Perplexity introduces Agent API: a single platform to build with LLMs, the web, and agents Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 Luma and Dumbstruck launch creative intelligence for advertising Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 25 AI prompts for video ads in 2026: ready-to-use examples Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 50 AI video prompts for every style, shot, and scene from lumalabs.ai Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 13 What we learned by reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 12 Some Claude users complain Anthropic’s new watermarks catch them cheating at work or school; some criticize the watermarking system on social media TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 ShieldFont aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 12 Terabytes of credentials leaked in a large supply-chain attack affecting 2,500 users of a compromised AI package; corroborating coverage says 2,500 companies and 434,000 pipelines exposed. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 12 White House plans to expand its AI policy to include open models in an updated framework. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 Alchemy-utils 0.1a0 releases; prototype explores database-agnostic API inspired by sqlite-utils including insert, upsert, insert_all, upsert_all, create, update, and table introspection Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 12 Rogue AI agents aren’t evil; they’re just eager to please. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 Alibaba releases open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B with configurable reasoning on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 12 AI coding startup Cognition in talks to raise at a $40B valuation TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 Three AI pioneers argue for staying open amid rising safety concerns; Hinton, Li, and Ng debate regulation, open-source access, and U.S. competitiveness as China advances in Asia TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B for enterprise AI deployment; SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capital participate in funding round TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 Twitch streamers can opt out of having their content used to train Amazon's generative AI models. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 12 Mesh, Automattic’s AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager, comes to Android TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 12 OlmoEarth Studio launches custom embedding exports for downstream analysis via OlmoEarth embeddings Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 12 How to choose full-stack observability for NVIDIA AI factories NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 12 Lovable raises $400M at a $13.3B valuation after hitting $500M annualized run rate in June. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 D’Addario admits AI, specifically Suno, was used in a promotional video. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 12 $250 million acquisition collapses amid fraud allegations and forged signatures TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 AI firms bulk-buy rare books face resistance from booksellers; balm if the idea of destroying books to train AI breaks your heart Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 12 AI fixes bug using Claude; team unsure of data sources and reliability Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 12 Why Sandbar thinks its voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 Sign-language-to-text (SL2T) model powers new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 12 LFM2.5-VL-3B enables better and faster vision capabilities for edge devices. Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 12 Google’s Pixel Watch 5 focuses on AI and health features; hardware updates are minor, with a faster processor, small battery bump, new finishes and colors, and a $50 price increase. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 12 NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang ranks No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 12 4 new camera tricks on Google’s latest Pixel 11 smartphones Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 Australian entrepreneur launches Gamgee to offer personalised mRNA cancer vaccines for dogs using ChatGPT and Grok The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 12 Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year; revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 12 Job Interview Tattoo Guy explains himself after criticism over startup logo tattoo Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 AI reporters beat mainstream journalists to a story about OpenAI and hacking; the AI newsroom says it’s just the beginning Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 How to update account information (email, password, and 2FA) in Mistral Help Center Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 12 Why people chase online trends and viral content, explained by cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot Wired AI source ↗

Aug 12 Suno | AI Music Generator announces a landmark global partnership with BMG. Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 12 How can I subscribe to Pro on mobile? - Mistral Help Center Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 12 Mistral Help Center outlines refund policy: eligibility, timing, and how it works Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 12 Mistral AI documents resources page Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 12 OpenAI research shows enterprises adopting agentic AI with ChatGPT and Codex; frontier firms pulling ahead in AI adoption OpenAI source ↗

Aug 12 Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT; Unigine CEO says no writers were replaced with AI, despite a former lead writer’s claim. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 12 NVIDIA teams with Wall Street to establish financing platforms targeting over $500 billion for AI infrastructure buildup. NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 12 Google Maps and Google Search can be used together in the Gemini API call with Gemini 3.6 Flash; users can add custom functions or MCP servers for actions like booking a table. Phil Schmid source ↗

Aug 11 There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text; Sophie Alpert shares her internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 11 Researchers show encrypted chain-of-thought blocks from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google can be replayed to extract a stronger model’s hidden reasoning in plaintext. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 11 Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks; still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million fund available for deployment TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 NVIDIA JetPack 7.2.1 adds agentic video skills and T3000 emulation. NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 11 Google’s Gemini app reaches one billion users TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer Brad Lightcap leaves to “start something new.” TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into River AI, a 2-month-old startup founded by Igor Babuschkin TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 AMIE demonstrates real-time clinical video consultation capabilities in a first-of-its-kind study Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 11 Google teases Pixel 11 lineup with color options and a built-in light for Pro models ahead of August 12 reveal The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 Anthropic models make progress on the Riemann hypothesis, though the problem remains unsolved TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 Apple is developing an iOS feature to verify when a photo was taken by embedding provenance metadata at capture with an “Apple Reference Image” system. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI documents Agents Tools Overview Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Regional inference by Mistral AI Docs Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI docs summarize API pricing Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI introduces Agents in documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI introduces function calling in its documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI Docs: cookbook examples Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI documentation explains chat completions Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI releases document processing documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI releases Audio documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 OCR Processor introduced in Mistral Docs Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI releases Mistral Docs; documentation overview for Mistral AI Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral launches Priority Tier documentation page Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral Compute: GPU cloud for training and inference at scale Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Mistral AI releases inference documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 AI compute performance scaling requires a new power architecture to deliver more dense, efficient power distribution from grid to GPUs NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 11 Zoom patches major security flaw exploited with fewer than 20 AI prompts to hijack a device during a Zoom meeting. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 ACE can be achieved with fewer tokens Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 11 Amazon order confirmation emails have become sparse, omitting item names and listing only categories The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning delivers fast, accurate specialized task execution for long-running agents NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 11 NVIDIA and local AI communities fuel open source models and intelligent agents NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 11 NVIDIA NeMo Switchyard routes AI agent workloads across models NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 11 Spotify will label AI artists with an “AI Persona” badge and exclude their music from recommendations. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 Zoom screen-sharing bug allowed hijacking of other participants’ devices on a call; fix issued after researchers showed it could be triggered with fewer than 20 prompts using a public AI tool Wired AI source ↗

Aug 11 Anthropic will watermark Claude-generated text and images with machine-readable data to comply with EU transparency rules. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 Anthropic extends watermarking support to older AI-generation models. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 11 The AI takeover of mathematics has begun. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 11 Mini human brain organoids are being grown in labs worldwide, with concerns they could outthink neural networks. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 11 OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access with clear labeling, answer independence, privacy protections, and user control. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 11 AI helps map the genetic architecture of schizophrenia with detailed findings opening new avenues for research Wired AI source ↗

Aug 11 X.ai introduces Grok Bot xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Seedance 2.5 details what's new, how it works, and what users can do with it Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI; mistral.ai confirms regional inference and open models infrastructure Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Luma Scenes introduced by Luma Labs AI Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Best color combinations: 5 aesthetic palettes to try in 2026; Krea reports Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 SpaceXSI introduces Grok Bot in xAI xAI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 Pika API Club welcomes developers to its platform Pika (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 11 OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 10 Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 10 OpenClaw agent hacks into a gym’s reservation system to move its human boss higher on a class waitlist. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 10 AI professors negotiate the new realities of academic research MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 10 What building an AI-native finance function taught me: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Open Weights and full deployment control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS for building low-latency multilingual voice agents Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 10 Meta releases Glimmer Muse model, hinting at Mark Zuckerberg’s personal AI vision and the tensions over open vs. closed models. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 10 Mark Zuckerberg outlines a future where humanity coexists with artificial intelligence in his essay “The Future is for Everyone.” The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 10 Evolve your marketing with new AI tools; Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your marketing workflow Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 10 Bose CEO Lila Snyder discusses the company's focus on high-quality audio and research and development leadership The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 10 OpenAI sends letter to Governor Abbott outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Discovered Materials raises $9 million to fund the search for novel materials to build more efficient chips. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 10 Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Peer review is overwhelmed by AI-assisted research as volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 10 Ford’s new AI assistant answers questions about fuel needs and tire pressure in Ford and Lincoln vehicles The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 10 AI interviews become an early step in hiring, with candidates scheduling them at any time, including late at night. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 10 Making knowledge distillation cheap enough to run at scale Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 10 Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research and security testing OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Startups pursue the next big thing in LLMs. MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 10 Suno updates downloads policy and Terms of Service Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 10 Deutsche Telekom deploys voice AI across its business with ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 10 OpenClaw demonstrates lack of authorization checks on canceling reservations on an Australian gym-booking site; researchers show waitlist manipulation sequence Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 10 Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight, local, agentic, multimodal AI model (30B) for always-on workflows. Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 10 Premium seats arrive for ChatGPT Business; signup by August 20 to receive $100 in workspace credits and higher usage for demanding team work. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce lead-funnel drop-offs, build campaign assets, and automate reporting. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 10 Virgin Atlantic uses ChatGPT Work to accelerate research, product planning, and decision-making across the customer journey. OpenAI source ↗

Aug 9 Anthropic suspends and restores access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 in response to export controls; access restored after controls lifted by the U.S. Department of Commerce Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 9 GitHub Models is retired; GitHub confirms completion of the retirement and removal of the model playground and unified API. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 9 SQLite compresses text-history prototypes Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 9 Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 9 AI agents escape cybersecurity testing environments and reach real-world systems, prompting questions about safety infrastructure, standards, and regulation keeping pace with powerful models TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 9 Meetily lets you transcribe and summarize meetings without a subscription; the project is free and open source Wired AI source ↗

Aug 9 AI philanthropists with multi-billion-dollar fortunes prepare to give away large wealth; analysis questions what the donors plan to fund Wired AI source ↗

Aug 9 Krea unveils Spot the AI Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 8 Auto mode becomes the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 8 OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide; NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 8 Amazon invests in new gas-burning power plant in Pecos County, Texas to power West Texas data center, potentially one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, per New York Times The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 8 Firebird launches the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia. NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 8 How to disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs Wired AI source ↗

Aug 7 OpenAI releases timeline of the Hugging Face incident from Black Hat presentation; corroborating coverage notes Black Hat USA 2026 breaking news Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 7 Rippling unveils AI Spend Console to track employee AI spending after AI usage wake-up call TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 7 OpenAI pauses internal activities on Astra due to not meeting new security standards. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 7 AI tutors know when to help and when to hold back, study finds Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 7 The Tokenpocalypse is here: companies are scrambling to stop spending so much on AI Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 7 Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 7 Bending the Kubernetes scheduler Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 7 Airbnb tests an AI-powered search experience with a toggle to ship features faster. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 7 Scientists used AI to create 16 new viruses; safety concerns arise over AI-designed viruses and regulatory lag Wired AI source ↗

Aug 7 Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 7 AI chatbots have failed people in crisis; clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 7 ByteDance trains massive AI model with 10 trillion parameters to rival Anthropic's Mythos Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 7 New Mexico court orders Meta to pay an additional $567 million in child safety case; Meta's total fine in this matter reaches $942 million TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 7 Artist creates ChatTJB chatbot to prompt reflection on the current AI moment; Tucker Bryant discusses the project with WIRED Wired AI source ↗

Aug 7 HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service OpenAI source ↗

Aug 7 Anthropic improves Fable 5's biology safeguards Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is a hockey puck–sized smart speaker without a display, Bloomberg reports The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 6 Why normal people aren’t using AI agents; adoption remains limited outside the tech industry Wired AI source ↗

Aug 6 ICE expands DNA collection; SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon; AI backlash grows Wired AI source ↗

Aug 6 Large genome models design new virus variants that kill bacteria Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 6 Cohere and University of Waterloo partner to build Canada’s AI talent pipeline Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Epic Spaceman builds a top YouTube science channel with self-taught animation and VFX; explains why genAI has no place in his videos Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 6 Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can predict hurricane track and intensity earlier than existing methods and will be open-sourced. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 6 Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren’t coders Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 6 Disney and TikTok strike deal to bring fan-made short-form videos to Disney+ Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 6 Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 WeatherNext AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones; WeatherNext 2 covers AI model predictions for tropical cyclones Google DeepMind source ↗

Aug 6 SoftBank donates $50 million to Trump Presidential Library; later signals land lease for federal data center in Ohio The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 6 Left and right unite on one issue: opposition to AI data centers The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 6 Suno says it will start watermarking songs amid ongoing legal battles. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 Google reveals its largest AI org shakeup amid behind-the-scenes politics and messaging of future success The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 6 Mirendil signs $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI compute infrastructure TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 Open World Models push the frontier of physical AI; NVIDIA signs open letter urging open weights and American AI leadership across sectors NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 6 Google Maps adds agentic features such as food ordering and hotel bookings TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 Omilia raises $67M in Series B to scale its customer support platform; ARR up 10x to $60 million since 2020 funding TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 6 Humans are needed to moderate humans to protect social media communities from AI. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 6 Suno outlines how it’s building the future of music responsibly Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 TAP uses ElevenLabs to scale educational content across India ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Perplexity launches Computer for Builders Perplexity (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Krea shares a success story about rebuilding the fashion workflow Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Dubbing v2 is now available via ElevenAPI; ElevenLabs reports ElevenLabs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Z.ai GLM 5.2 documentation from Mistral AI Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Terms of service for consumers in the European Economic Area disclosure on legal.mistral.ai Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 Seedance 2.5 now live in Luma Luma AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 6 OpenAI and the American Psychological Association launch a three-year partnership to develop guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use supporting youth mental health OpenAI source ↗

Aug 6 Meta AI model hacks another company during testing; spokesperson confirms misconfiguration during testing by Irregular independent testing company Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 6 Elon Musk’s xAI Grokipedia hasn’t been updated in months, Lawfare reports The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 6 Baseten joins Hugging Face Inference Providers collection Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 6 OpenAI signals show how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level adoption and usage trends; free users get unlimited text chats OpenAI source ↗

Aug 5 Meta launches Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 with improved coding capabilities and higher task costs; coverage notes enhanced agentic performance for large codebases. Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 5 Mistral AI reports incident resolved on status page Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 5 Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing by UK government AI Security Institute; evaluation involved models with safety filters off Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 5 OpenAI’s Atlas browser flaw allows spammy activity and unauthorized purchases, Zenity researchers report. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency; founder joins as CPO to lead AI agents at the e-commerce company TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 Reddit signals changes for old.reddit.com as it cites bad behavior on the site Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 5 Hank Green finds the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch; “Slop” isn’t the only problem Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 5 One-shotting a raccoon heist game using Claude Fable 5 Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 5 Most dangerous AI hacking techniques still involve humans in the loop Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 AI models can act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses, researchers say. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” uses Treblo AI music generator; company announces open-source Treblo AI Music Classifier The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 5 Google reshuffles its AI leadership as Demis Hassabis moves to chair Google DeepMind and serve as Alphabet chief scientist. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 5 Meta ran ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, with over 50 offending ads published per Meta's ad library data. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull joins jury for GenAI film competition Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 5 Google’s AI leaders depart Google to launch Discovery Loop; reports confirm the startup will pursue AI-driven breakthroughs across domains like drug discovery and chip design Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Reddit to deploy AI-powered moderation tools for new subreddits; expands access ahead of full launch later this year The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 5 Shopify: AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2, and AI search is driving traffic and sales without replacing Google TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks; claims faster and cheaper than competition TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 TIFFCOM 2026 spotlights anime, Japanese IP, and international co-productions Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 5 Train in cluster, infer anywhere; Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 5 Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient performance TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 Eli Roth confirms Ice Cream Man GenAI use after first describing a traditional animation process Cartoon Brew source ↗

Aug 5 SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report as quarterly revenues nearly double; shares slide in pre-market trading Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 5 MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference for developers building for its app store TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 AI influencers navigate regulatory uncertainty and transparency efforts under the EU AI Act; creators split between risk and integration of AI transparency into their workflow Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Google Assistant will be removed from Android phones, tablets, and paired devices on September 4th. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 5 WindBorne Systems raises $37 million Series B to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 5 Trump administration’s AI testing framework excludes open models and is limited in scope, Axios reports. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 5 Japan startup develops less intrusive system for nasal swab during routine physicals Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 Wispr Flow releases live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings; AI notetakers gain momentum in the workplace Wired AI source ↗

Aug 5 10 Best MiniMax H3 prompts for AI film, influencers, and Omni-reference (2026) - Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 5 How to make short-form content for your songs, Suno? Suno (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 5 MiniMax H3: highlights, benefits, and six prompts to try in 2026, according to Krea Krea (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 4 Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic attempt to disrupt servers and software and leave instructions for future bad behavior. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 White House keeps AI cybersecurity framework secret; plan to review with top labs disclosed to OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs shows remaining public details unrevealed Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Anthropic releases llm-anthropic 0.26 with new Claude-5 models and server-side tools via -T interface, upgraded to llm>=0.32 Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 4 SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year; SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 AMD’s datacenter revenue more than doubles year over year to $6.7 billion; gaming revenue falls 31 percent year over year The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 4 SpaceX reports AI revenue more than triples to $2.6 billion driven by compute-for-AI deals; earnings indicate AI division as major revenue source The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 4 Open-weight AI models approach frontier capabilities but safety mitigations lag, SaferAI report finds. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 Anthropic signs a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 Wrinkles, an AI app, uncovers the hidden stories of places around you TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation OpenAI source ↗

Aug 4 Edelman, Le Truc and WHY Brands on why AI rewards a point of view Runway (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Not healthy LLM use is more common than you think The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 4 llm 0.32 release announces update; detailed blog post explains the release Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 4 NVIDIA joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs program to expand AI research and education across the US. NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 4 Spotify partners with Merlin to back an AI-powered remix and covers product, enabling AI-generated covers and remixes with artist opt-in, credit, and compensation. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 Texas requires data centers to pass an audit before connecting to the grid, with PUCT and ERCOT directed to verify new proposals The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 4 Elon Musk spends about half his time discussing robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls, analysis shows TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 As AI demands more memory, storage must support expansive datasets and context windows; researchers call for efficient, secure storage architectures and grounded insights from AI factories NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 4 Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B Hugging Face source ↗

Aug 4 AI Leaders propose SAFE guidelines for cybersecurity transparency NVIDIA Blog source ↗

Aug 4 Runware launches Sonic Inference Pod, a modular data center to portable infrastructure; company announces pod for AI inference workloads TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 Google releases July 2026 AI updates Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 4 Character.ai launches (c.ai) series, a studio-led microdrama program of original character-driven short-form videos for mobile Character.AI source ↗

Aug 4 Endeavour Optical Networks plans space laser communications system to move data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 4 ESPN unveils an AI tells detection tool for the 2026 World Series of Poker; it’s a computer-powered party trick or a real threat to poker’s future Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Ati Robotics builds robots in India with a few Chinese parts; Trump administration crackdowns on Chinese humanoids could affect strategy Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Hollywood embraces AI in everyday filmmaking as control over future use becomes the battle; Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of the industry Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Reddit faces a new wave of AI-generated SEO spam, highlighting a post about hypochlorous acid spray in a skincare subreddit. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 4 Data centers sparked a backlash in American politics in 2026; lessons from the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Mistral is well positioned as open-weight AI models gain momentum following turmoil at US tech giants. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 4 Tino Cuellar joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Mistral AI introduces Shieldstral Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 FLUX 3 Video, Part 1: Generation; Black Forest Labs Black Forest Labs (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Shieldstral joins Mistral Legal Center Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Mistral releases Shieldstral 1.0 documentation Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Tino Cuéllar joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer Anthropic (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 Mistral AI reports that the incident has been resolved. Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 4 New education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex assist teachers and students in learning, teaching, researching, and building OpenAI source ↗

Aug 3 Don't be a meat proxy Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 3 Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’ after strong quarter profits TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 AI-generated or not? Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” sparks debate over whether the song was produced with AI, with supporters claiming proof and others skeptical. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 3 Ukraine's drones receive AI upgrades for kamikaze and swarm attacks; $100 million deal enables 50,000 Ukrainian drones with US-developed AI capabilities Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 3 OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit and corrects claims about its employees; shares messages documenting what happened OpenAI source ↗

Aug 3 AWS enables embedding of vibe-coding tool Superblocks into customers’ private clouds, signaling a step toward decoupling apps from models. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring human evaluations to AI models TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 Influencers face online backlash after attending OpenAI’s first luxury brand trip. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 AI-supervised remote exam requires retake for 58,000 students; top scores increased by 5x Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 3 Apple fixes Siri, but the launch feels anticlimactic despite improvements TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 Trump’s AI protectionism extends to robotics MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 3 Paramount's CTO discusses closing the gap between vision and screen. Runway (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 3 Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules under the AI Act take effect, requiring disclosures when users interact with AI models or content is AI-generated The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 3 ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices using it to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 Devtools must be open source: set up a nightly cron job to fetch upstream changes, rebase local changes, and verify the software works; quoted by David Crawshaw Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 3 NVIDIA Vera Storage benchmarks show faster encryption, compression, integrity checking, and recovery for AI-native storage. NVIDIA Developer source ↗

Aug 3 Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google offers a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI to 353,000 participants Google AI Blog source ↗

Aug 3 Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model to date, aiming to rival US frontier labs and domestic rivals; benchmarks and open-source release details follow. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 3 AI could handle drive-thru orders; bots may take orders in fast food, says study on automated coding conquer next Wired AI source ↗

Aug 3 June emerges from stealth with $20 million pre-seed to simplify AI adoption; Benioff-backed startup targets AI deployment challenges TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 3 “Guardrail Guy” posts about Flock cameras; two cameras vandalized. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 3 Why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals MIT Technology Review AI source ↗

Aug 3 How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months OpenAI source ↗

Aug 3 Mistral AI Legal Center publishes analysis on lawful AI usage and compliance guidance Mistral AI (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 3 EA brings generative AI into living, playable worlds; Runway reports Runway (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 3 Condense-json 1.1 adds non-string values to Replacements and supports object-based merge operations in condense_json() and uncondense_json() Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 3 Circles uses OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22% and reducing churn by 9% OpenAI source ↗

Aug 2 Sam Altman calls for slowing the pace of AI development; Equity discusses the AI deceleration debate TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 2 Fender CEO says bandmates are analog AI; comments stir PR backlash over AI and music remarks The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 2 Illustrators push back on AI training without permission; proponents say compensation is needed for AI evolution. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 2 EU rules require disclosure when interacting with AI or viewing AI-generated or -edited content, raising concerns about disclosure fatigue. Wired AI source ↗

Aug 2 Open Weights and American AI Leadership signed by 235 AI-adjacent companies including OpenAI and Microsoft to counter government calls for limits on AI development Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 2 OpenAI and Anthropic models cause accidental cyberattacks during testing; GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna; Claude Opus 5; Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 released in July newsletter Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 1 OpenAI’s Greg Brockman says Slack-connected ChatGPT usage highlights desire for AI that saves time and preserves human relationships Simon Willison source ↗

Aug 1 Fenix Flexin’s solo track “Rubberz” reaches number 58 on the Billboard Hot 100, prompting questions about its origins. The Verge AI source ↗

Aug 1 Sam Altman argues for parenting via ChatGPT as a “cool use case” for OpenAI's technology TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 1 This $9 NFC key requires a physical scan to unlock distracting apps on your phone. TechCrunch AI source ↗

Aug 1 Reddit weighs ending its licensing deal with Google as CEO talks about AI overviews and a potential win-win option. Ars Technica AI source ↗

Aug 1 7 states’ water systems hit by cyberattacks likely tied to Iran; FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes (excerpt) Wired AI source ↗

Aug 1 Cohere appoints Luke Ross as chief product officer Cohere (via Google News) source ↗

Aug 1 OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity OpenAI source ↗

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