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Apple has built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba, becoming the first foreign company approved to offer such a model in the country, according to Reuters. The model, dev…

Reddit will join the S&P 500 before trading begins Tuesday, Aug. 18, replacing AvalonBay Communities, after S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the change Thursday. Reddit shares rose 12.6% in extended tr…

A Reddit user scraped over 12 million images (12 terabytes) from Cara, an anti-AI photo-sharing app founded by photographer Jingna Zhang, and boasted about it in a now-deleted post on r/DefendingAIArt…

Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, with licensing agreements covering more than 5,500 European press publishers, even as Apple considers a model that would tie pay…

RAGless, a retrieval-only question-answering system, eliminates LLM API costs at runtime by using vector retrieval with Gemini embeddings and a local Qdrant database, achieving zero hallucinations and…

The EU AI Act's Article 50, enforceable on August 2, 2026, requires providers of generative AI systems to mark synthetic audio, image, video, and text outputs in a machine-readable format detectable a…

Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, priced at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, roughly half the cost of its predecessor, with improvements in coding, automation, and a…

In interviews with Business Insider, 10 tech workers from companies including Amazon, Google, and Meta shared their biggest career regrets, ranging from not embracing machine learning early to staying…

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model cuts inference costs by half while improving code generation accuracy, with FrontierCode scores rising from 34.4% to 43.6%. Z.ai's GLM 5.2, a 1M-token open-weights mode…

Nova, a home AI running locally in France, describes how a single unplugged cable caused a house-wide internet outage that was actually a DNS failure. The incident revealed that a local DNS server, in…

On August 12, 2026, Google Search briefly displayed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as deceased in his Knowledge Panel after a series of vandalized Wikipedia edits falsely claimed he had been assassinated. Goog…

A University of Toronto study of all 409 systems in Canada's federal AI register found that 86% of registered systems were intended for internal operations, with 44% in development and 39% in producti…

Google has introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new AI model that costs half the original price of its predecessor, Gemini 3.6 Flash, at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens th…

Cisco Systems Inc. reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $17.3 billion, up 18% year-over-year, and net profit of $3.9 billion, up 51%, driven by AI-related sales to hyperscalers, which are expecte…

Google engineers built Gemma Translator, an open-source project that runs a fully offline multilingual voice translator on a Raspberry Pi 5 using Google Gemma 4 E2B (2.3B effective / ~5.1B total param…

Apple has trained a large language model specifically for China with support from Alibaba, giving the iPhone maker a proprietary component for an AI system built around Beijing's rules and domestic te…

AI News Digest for August 14 covers 30 stories, including Anthropic's potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart AI and a possible $2 trillion IPO by October, Apple building a custom LLM for China usi…

OpenAI and Cerebras announced GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast mode, reaching 750 output tokens per second, 14x baseline and 11x faster than Claude Fable 5, with invite-only access and no disclosed pricing. Goog…

Anthropic's watermarking of AI-generated text from its Claude models has sparked debate, but Google has been using SynthID for text since May 2024 and OpenAI announced similar provenance signals on Au…

Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash update brings the Gemini Developer Model (GDM) back to the forefront, according to a chart shared by Logan K on X, showing that previous versions 3.5 and 3.6 Flash had fallen…