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Modular put the Mojo compiler under Apache 2.0 and extended its platform to Trainium, TPUs and Qualcomm accelerators, opening the stack across rival silicon.

Stripe is buying AI gateway OpenRouter for a reported $7.5 billion, moving from collecting revenue into metering what companies spend on model tokens.

Etched raised $700M at a $21B valuation led by Jane Street, doubling its July price. The startup splits inference into prefill and decode with separate silicon.

The IOL-AI Challenge had the official Linguistics Olympiad jury grade machine entries. Claude Opus 4.8 hit gold-medal marks; scale did not predict results.

Artificial Analysis scored Z.ai's GLM-5.3 at 60 on its Intelligence Index, well above the 35 median, at $4.40 per million output tokens. The catch is verbosity.

Cerebras says its new CS-4 rack, built from three WSE-3 Turbo wafers, delivers 750 PFLOPS and up to 30x GPU per-user token speed. Shipments start this quarter.

Nvidia will initially guarantee under $120B of a proposed Ohio OpenAI data center, down from $250B, backstopping only phase one after investor pushback.

Bloomberg reports Stripe has finalised a deal to buy AI gateway OpenRouter for more than $7B, five times the startup's $1.3B valuation from May.

Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped $65B at the end of July, up from $47B in May, as it prepares a possible autumn IPO at a reported $2 trillion target.

OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens launches for ages 13-17 with content limits, 90-minute break reminders, opt-in parental quiet hours and age assurance over ID checks.

Claude's text watermark uses a SynthID-Text variant that alters token randomness, not the words themselves, and Anthropic is candid about its limits.

SEC filings show Nvidia holding a $21B SpaceX stake and backing OpenAI's Ohio data center, deepening AI's circular financing web.

Cursor's new Origin service brings repos, pull requests, and two-way GitHub sync into the AI editor, opening in beta to paid users.

OpenAI will personalize ChatGPT ads in the EU only for users who explicitly opt in, a stricter legal basis than most platforms use.

A self-propagating npm worm hit 444 packages in four hours, published through trusted workflows with valid provenance attestations.

Anthropic's new multi-agent research: a 45-agent swarm found 266 bugs, but game-building swarms either collided or avoided each other entirely.

SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock purchase of AI coding startup Cursor took effect August 14, giving the editor access to Musk's GPU fleet.

Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support ahead of an Apple Intelligence rollout, Reuters reports, after clearing regulator approval in July.

Mixedbread launched Toast 1, a specialised search agent it says matches frontier models at up to 10x lower cost and cuts legal-benchmark tokens by 3.5x.

Google has open-sourced HEIR, a compiler that converts pre-trained AI models to run on encrypted data, alongside four working private-inference demos.

A new verifier re-tested 2,638 AI-generated GPU kernels already marked correct and found 39.5% broken beyond any tolerance argument.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 open weights pair a 2.4T mixture-of-experts model with a 27B dense multimodal model sized for a single 24GB consumer GPU.

Anthropic's August risk report lifts misalignment risk to low as an uncertainty adjustment, and warns its task-based evaluations are saturating.

OpenAI turned on ChatGPT sponsored placements in five more countries on 11 August, limited to logged-in adults on the Free and Go tiers.