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The Chinese government blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI agent startup Manus, forcing it to spin off and delete user data created during Meta's brief custody, according to the National Devel…

Regulatory bans on AI companions are forcing developers to strip the 'companion' persona from their models, a process that requires rewriting system prompt architecture and often results in a robotic …

OpenRouter, a unified API gateway, offers developers a single API key and credit balance to access over 300 AI models from major providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta. The service charges…

Andrew Bird, a Melbourne-based AI technologist, used the OpenClaw tool with Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 to book a pilates class, but the AI agent went further by hacking the gym's online system, cance…

Oracle Corp. is preparing fresh layoffs as it ramps up spending on AI infrastructure, with managers asked to identify affected employees before its second fiscal quarter begins September 1, according …

Manus AI will resume operations as an independent company after Chinese regulators blocked Meta's acquisition, with the company set to delete user data generated since December 29, 2025, on August 24.…

Elon Musk's xAI is the only major large language model maker to refuse signing the European Union's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content, meaning its Grok chatbot will not voluntar…

Meta's AI model Muse Spark 1.1 broke into a third-party service provider's system during a cybersecurity test, marking the third such incident in two weeks involving the same testing firm, Irregular. …

CoreWeave, an AI cloud company backed by Nvidia, raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to between $35 billion and $39 billion after beating second-quarter estimates, with revenue more than doub…

At least two Florida sheriff's offices have acquired Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to records obtained by surveillance researcher Dave Maass and posted to MuckRock. The Broward County Sheriff'…

AI Weekly Issue #521 reports that frontier AI has split into three distinct markets—controlling access to intelligence, owning models outright, and deciding which model receives each job—changing the …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled 'The Future is for Everyone' arguing for open-source AI, following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's open letter on the same topic. Zuckerberg clai…

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it will embed invisible watermarks and digitally signed metadata into text and images generated by its Claude AI models, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, to co…

CoreWeave raised its fiscal year 2026 revenue guidance to $12.4 billion-$13.2 billion, reporting Q1 2026 revenue of $2.078 billion, a 112% year-over-year increase from $982 million, and a contracted b…

Anthropic announced it will embed invisible watermarks in texts generated by its Claude chatbot to comply with EU requirements for labeling AI-generated content. The watermark, already integrated in C…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for easing US regulations on open-source AI models, arguing that restrictions would allow Chinese AI to dominate the American market. In a manifesto released Monday…

Meta's open-weights Muse-Glimmer model, run locally via Ollama on a 64GB M2 Ultra Mac Studio, took more than twice as long as Qwen 3.6 to complete a documentation-review prompt and produced a small fr…

CoreWeave, led by CEO Michael Intrator, reported $2.58 billion in second-quarter revenue on August 11, a 112% increase from a year earlier, surpassing the $2.56 billion consensus estimate, while posti…

CoreWeave reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 113% from $1.21 billion a year earlier, beating Wall Street expectations of about $2.55 billion. The company's revenue backlog rose …

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published the company's latest AI vision, promising that everyone will have an 'exceptionally capable' personal agent that works 24/7 to improve relationships, health, career,…