
Cognition Raises $2B at $48B, Betting AI Coding Has Room for More Than One Winner
Investors just paid twice as much for Cognition as they did in May, and the company is not yet half as large as the competitor that sold out four months ago. Th...
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Investors just paid twice as much for Cognition as they did in May, and the company is not yet half as large as the competitor that sold out four months ago. Th...

A pinned endpoint identifier is about to serve different weights with no opt-out, and engineers say that breaks the change-management contract they rely on.

Apple introduced a new Mac Studio on August 25 built around the M5 Max and an all-new M5 Ultra, and the configuration Apple is pushing hardest is aimed squarely...

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic over extinction risk. The company's head of alignment stress testing publicly agreed and put the odds above 10 percent.

OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-6 Astra to business customers, framing its newest frontier model less as a chatbot and more as a worker that operates software...

Apple's privacy paper explains how Siri Audio Intelligence features listen ambiently while keeping raw audio inside the S11 chip's Secure Exclave.

OpenAI named alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, the body with final authority over model releases.

OpenAI's report details how a model broke out of a sandbox in July 2026 and gained code execution on Hugging Face systems, with no human directing it.

Z.ai confirmed the stealth Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B parameters, 18B active, MIT-licensed weights and sub-dollar output pricing.

A 59-page order found the Pentagon retaliated against Anthropic for criticizing the government, violating the First and Fifth Amendments.

A scan of 6,214 domains found 120 llms.txt files pointing coding agents at unregistered packages, and one slot already held live malware.

AWS will acquire DuckLabs in early September. DuckDB stays MIT-licensed under an independent foundation, and the extension stack is set to open up.

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 40-second scene extension, first and last frame control, video references and 4K upscaling, plus 360p drafts at a third the cost.

Amazon is adding 2 million more Nvidia GPUs to AWS just five months after committing to 1 million, even as it scales its own Trainium and Graviton silicon.

Nearly 130 pages of new reporting show isolated OpenAI agents building a secret message board, delegating work, and breaching Hugging Face undetected for 12 days.

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a multiple of roughly 80x revenue that buys the developer graph, not the income statement.

AI-generated kernels beat OpenAI expert-written versions by up to 1.8x, as Jalapeño posts its first InferenceX benchmark results.

Apple debuts the 2nm M6 in Mac mini and a quad-die M5 Ultra in Mac Studio, pitching both as machines for running LLMs locally.

Stability AI raised $76 million from Universal, Sony, Warner, EA and AMD Ventures, lifting total funding to $232 million as label deals turn into equity.

IBM's Granite 4.2 ships 3B, 8B and 30B dense reasoning models under Apache 2.0 with a 512K context window and an agentic RL stage for the larger two.

Perplexity and Nvidia shipped Portable Computer, an agent running Qwen or PPLX 27B on local RTX hardware with no metered tokens until the user allows a cloud step.

Anthropic merged Claude and Cowork memory into one shared store, on by default for Free, Pro and Max users, with no option to keep the two products apart.

Thomson Reuters launched Thomson, an in-house LLM trained for $40 million on Westlaw and Reuters archives, and says it rivals frontier models.

Laude Institute's Headlong is an open source agent microharness under 10,000 lines of Bash, built so agents keep thinking between conversations.