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AgentRouter, a non-profit unified LLM API gateway, is offering developers $200 in free credits upon signup via referral links, with no credit card required. The platform provides a single API endpoint…

Lettertrace, a new open-source tool released under the MIT License, lets companies self-host monitoring of how often AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini mention their brand. The developer-f…

Apple trained its own AI model for China with support from Alibaba, according to Reuters, and the Cyberspace Administration of China registered Apple's generative AI service last month, clearing a key…

SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, a deal first announced in April with an option to buy for $60 billion. Cursor will gain access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which th…

MyFirst.News, a daily news podcast for curious kids, features hosts Sam and Leah explaining important true stories in about ten minutes, covering topics such as an earthquake in Indonesia, illegal gol…

Netflix's GenRec, an LLM-backed ranker in the 1B–10B parameter range, beat its mature production recommender system in a four-week A/B test on roughly 10% of live traffic, posting statistically signif…

Google unveiled its 8th-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) at Cloud Next '26, shipping in two variants for the first time: TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for inference, both sharing Axion CPUs, l…

Google will allow users to remove watermarks from AI-generated content produced by its Gemini model, a move that comes as the European Union and South Korea implement laws requiring clear identificati…

Google will allow users to hide the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models, with rollout beginning in the coming days. The toggle, ava…

XAI, the Elon Musk-founded AI venture, lost all 11 original co-founders by late March 2026, with more than 80 researchers and engineers also departing in the same window. Google chief scientist Jeff D…

NVIDIA has moved its 800-VDC power architecture from concept to production, with the first MGX-compatible 800-VDC power rack scheduled for Q3 2026, delivering high-voltage DC to AI compute racks while…

Homomorphic encryption has moved from theory to production, enabling private AI inference where servers compute on encrypted data without exposing weights or queries. The CKKS scheme supports encrypte…

On August 7, OpenAI sent Texas Governor Greg Abbott a letter pledging that its data centers will 'pay their own way,' support new power generation, conserve water, and operate transparently, following…

Google's Pixel 11 series launched with the Tensor G6 chipset and Gemini Intelligence, but the base Pixel 11 misses six camera features exclusive to the Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL, including 120x Pro Res …

Google's Tensor G6 processor, powering the Pixel 11 series, prioritizes AI, efficiency, and security over raw CPU and GPU performance, featuring a seven-core CPU, PowerVR GPU, and a fifth-generation T…

Google released HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler that converts pre-trained AI models to run on fully encrypted data, on August 14, 2026. The tool, bui…

A 14-year-old student from Sri Lanka built FetchAI, a cyberpunk-styled web app that uses Google's Gemini API to identify dog breeds from uploaded photos and generate personalized short stories. The ap…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on August 15, 2026, from the Red Fort that India will train one crore youth in artificial intelligence within the next year, alongside free online coaching for c…

Qwen released Qwen 3.8 27B, a dense model that runs at approximately 138 tokens/second on an RTX 5090 with the ninfer inference engine, and Z.AI released GLM-5.3, a coding-focused model that achieves …

Second Look Research (SLR), an AI safety research group, announced that its summer fellowship has shown that rerunning AI safety papers on every new frontier model release is both easy and valuable, w…