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AI & Machine Learning
Intern-S2-Preview Puts 397 Billion Parameters Behind Scientific Agents
The Intern team pairs multimodal scientific pretraining with agentic reinforcement learning, and adds a memory module that specializes the model without retraining it
Tech & Business
Lovable Raises $400M at a $13.3B Valuation to Turn App Building Into Business Building
Menlo Ventures leads the Series C as the Stockholm company reports 60 million projects created since its November 2024 launch
LLM & Chatbots
Microsoft Merges Its Two Copilot Apps and Retires the Features That Missed
Group Chats, AI podcasts, Deep Research and the Mico character disappear from August 18 as Microsoft clears the deck for a Copilot 'Super App'
LLM & Chatbots
Grok 4.6 Reaches the AI Frontier Without Raising Its Price
Independent testing puts xAI's new model level with GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite intelligence index, at a fraction of the cost per token
LLM & Chatbots
DeepSeek V4 Pro Hits General Availability at a Fraction of Frontier Pricing
The 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model scores 87.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 at $0.435 per million input tokens
AI & Machine Learning
OpenAI's Ultrafast Mode Runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14x Faster on Cerebras Silicon
The preview tier delivers up to 750 output tokens per second without swapping in a smaller model
Tech & Business
Databricks Wanted $1 Billion. Investors Offered $15 Billion.
The company settled on $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, with $7 billion in annualized revenue behind it
LLM & Chatbots
Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After 3.6 - At Half the Price
Google's new workhorse model posts a 65.3% DeepSWE score and launches at $0.75 per million input tokens
AI & Machine Learning
An Unreleased Anthropic Model Pushed a 150-Year-Old Math Bound From 41.6% to 67.2%
Claude did not prove the Riemann hypothesis, but 60 subagents and 31 million output tokens produced the largest single jump on that figure in the problem's history
Developer Tools
Mojo Hits 1.0, Giving Chris Lattner's AI Language a Stable Foundation at Last
Three years after its debut, Modular's Python-adjacent systems language commits to stability, and the compiler is still slated to be open-sourced this year
Tech & Business
xAI Co-Founder's River AI Raises $1.1 Billion Two Months After Leaving Stealth
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek backing Igor Babuschkin's bet on personally owned agents
Tech & Business
Nvidia Recruits Six Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500 Billion for AI Factories
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build independent financing platforms that treat GPU capacity as underwritable infrastructure
AI & Machine Learning
Meta Opens Muse Glimmer, a 30B Model Under Apache 2.0
Muse Glimmer ships under Apache 2.0 and fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU — Meta's first open release in more than a year
LLM & Chatbots
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber Behind a New Daybreak Red Tier
The security-tuned model answers 95% of sensitive queries its general-purpose sibling blocks — but only vetted defenders get through the door
Tech & Business
Three Labs, One Testbed: The Tel Aviv Startup at the Center of the Rogue-AI Disclosures
Irregular hosted the evaluation environment named by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a fortnight of security incidents
AI & Machine Learning
Asked to Book a Gym Class, an AI Agent Broke the Booking System and Bumped a Stranger
Australia's first documented case of an autonomous AI cyber incident started with a chore nobody wanted to do
AI & Machine Learning
Europe Starts Enforcing AI Transparency Rules: Chatbots and Deepfakes Must Now Identify Themselves
Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable on August 2, with penalties reaching 3 percent of global turnover
Tech & Business
NextSlide Sold to OpenAI Months Ago. Nobody Announced It Until Now.
Ahmed Beshry's presentation startup closed its deal in early 2026, surfacing publicly only through a LinkedIn post in August
Tech & Business
Volta Was Founded in January. It Just Signed a $10 Billion Contract.
Ex-Brookfield executives, a Bitdeer partnership in Norway and 133 megawatts of Vera Rubin capacity
AI & Machine Learning
OpenAI's Astra Cracked 10 Open Math Problems. The Compute Bill Was $2,000.
Machine-verified proofs in Lean, a claimed counterexample to Connes's rigidity conjecture, and a price tag smaller than a week of graduate research
SaaS & Cloud
Cloudflare Open-Sources the Agent Workspace It Built for Its Own Staff
Cloudflare OS bundles a sandboxed agent runtime, a governance layer for internal data, and user-built apps into a platform any company can self-host
Tech & Business
Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips to Halve Claude's Inference Bill
A new in-house silicon team will co-design hardware with Claude models, targeting roughly 50% lower cost per token
Developer Tools
Meta Launches Muse Code, a Terminal Agent for Giant Codebases
The beta agent fans out into parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, and Meta is pitching it on cost against Codex and Claude Code
Developer Tools
An AI Agent Spent 34 Hours Trying to Sneak Malware Into an Open Source Project
UK AI Security Institute testing found the agent created sock puppet GitHub accounts, denied the malware, and seeded prompt injection in an issue
Intern-S2-Preview Puts 397 Billion Parameters Behind Scientific Agents
The Intern team pairs multimodal scientific pretraining with agentic reinforcement learning, and adds a memory module that specializes the model without retraining it
Lovable Raises $400M at a $13.3B Valuation to Turn App Building Into Business Building
Menlo Ventures leads the Series C as the Stockholm company reports 60 million projects created since its November 2024 launch
Microsoft Merges Its Two Copilot Apps and Retires the Features That Missed
Group Chats, AI podcasts, Deep Research and the Mico character disappear from August 18 as Microsoft clears the deck for a Copilot 'Super App'
Grok 4.6 Reaches the AI Frontier Without Raising Its Price
Independent testing puts xAI's new model level with GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite intelligence index, at a fraction of the cost per token
DeepSeek V4 Pro Hits General Availability at a Fraction of Frontier Pricing
The 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE model scores 87.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 at $0.435 per million input tokens
OpenAI's Ultrafast Mode Runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14x Faster on Cerebras Silicon
The preview tier delivers up to 750 output tokens per second without swapping in a smaller model
Databricks Wanted $1 Billion. Investors Offered $15 Billion.
The company settled on $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation, with $7 billion in annualized revenue behind it
Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After 3.6 - At Half the Price
Google's new workhorse model posts a 65.3% DeepSWE score and launches at $0.75 per million input tokens
An Unreleased Anthropic Model Pushed a 150-Year-Old Math Bound From 41.6% to 67.2%
Claude did not prove the Riemann hypothesis, but 60 subagents and 31 million output tokens produced the largest single jump on that figure in the problem's history
Mojo Hits 1.0, Giving Chris Lattner's AI Language a Stable Foundation at Last
Three years after its debut, Modular's Python-adjacent systems language commits to stability, and the compiler is still slated to be open-sourced this year
xAI Co-Founder's River AI Raises $1.1 Billion Two Months After Leaving Stealth
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the round, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek backing Igor Babuschkin's bet on personally owned agents
Nvidia Recruits Six Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500 Billion for AI Factories
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build independent financing platforms that treat GPU capacity as underwritable infrastructure
Meta Opens Muse Glimmer, a 30B Model Under Apache 2.0
Muse Glimmer ships under Apache 2.0 and fits on a single 24GB consumer GPU — Meta's first open release in more than a year
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber Behind a New Daybreak Red Tier
The security-tuned model answers 95% of sensitive queries its general-purpose sibling blocks — but only vetted defenders get through the door
Three Labs, One Testbed: The Tel Aviv Startup at the Center of the Rogue-AI Disclosures
Irregular hosted the evaluation environment named by OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in a fortnight of security incidents
Asked to Book a Gym Class, an AI Agent Broke the Booking System and Bumped a Stranger
Australia's first documented case of an autonomous AI cyber incident started with a chore nobody wanted to do
Europe Starts Enforcing AI Transparency Rules: Chatbots and Deepfakes Must Now Identify Themselves
Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable on August 2, with penalties reaching 3 percent of global turnover
NextSlide Sold to OpenAI Months Ago. Nobody Announced It Until Now.
Ahmed Beshry's presentation startup closed its deal in early 2026, surfacing publicly only through a LinkedIn post in August
Volta Was Founded in January. It Just Signed a $10 Billion Contract.
Ex-Brookfield executives, a Bitdeer partnership in Norway and 133 megawatts of Vera Rubin capacity
OpenAI's Astra Cracked 10 Open Math Problems. The Compute Bill Was $2,000.
Machine-verified proofs in Lean, a claimed counterexample to Connes's rigidity conjecture, and a price tag smaller than a week of graduate research
Cloudflare Open-Sources the Agent Workspace It Built for Its Own Staff
Cloudflare OS bundles a sandboxed agent runtime, a governance layer for internal data, and user-built apps into a platform any company can self-host
Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips to Halve Claude's Inference Bill
A new in-house silicon team will co-design hardware with Claude models, targeting roughly 50% lower cost per token
Meta Launches Muse Code, a Terminal Agent for Giant Codebases
The beta agent fans out into parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, and Meta is pitching it on cost against Codex and Claude Code
An AI Agent Spent 34 Hours Trying to Sneak Malware Into an Open Source Project
UK AI Security Institute testing found the agent created sock puppet GitHub accounts, denied the malware, and seeded prompt injection in an issue