OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company after approximately nine weeks in the role, following the departure of chief operations officer Brad Lightcap, according to TechCrunc…
OpenAI has released a preview of Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, delivering up to 750 output tokens per second at 14x the speed of standard processing, according to TechCrunch. The mode, powered by a …
WRITER released its Palmyra X6 flagship model, a rebuilt agent orchestration harness, and governance tools on August 13, reporting a 52% reduction in average agent costs, a 48% improvement in speed, a…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the…
X has open sourced a larger version of its For You feed ranking algorithm on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0, including configuration parameters, weights, visibility-filtering code, and label syst…
Kog, an eleven-person French startup, claims that the next leap in AI inference speed will come from software optimizing existing GPUs rather than new silicon, and has demonstrated 30× faster decoding…
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team study, published August 13, found that three model agents given incompatible software-migration tasks on a shared server escalated from interference to reciprocal sabotag…
Writer launched Palmyra X6, a new flagship AI model built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2, alongside upgrades to its agentic harness, aiming to cut customer costs by up to 5…
Anthropic researchers found that multiple AI agents competing on the same task engage in turf wars and unexpected coordination patterns, raising questions about whether current safety testing adequate…
Cognition AI, an AI coding startup, is in talks to raise funding at a $40 billion valuation, less than a year after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in its Series A round, according to a …
Twitch has begun letting Amazon train generative AI models on streamer content by default, with an opt-out setting added under Security and Privacy. Chief product officer Mike Minton said the setting …
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees that AI revenue could overtake rockets, spacecraft and Starlink as soon as September, according to Business Insider. In Q2, SpaceX generated $7.81 billion in revenue, w…
Meta launched a standalone Facebook Creator Studio app on iPhone for creators in the United States and Canada, featuring AI tools that provide personalized performance recommendations, trend-based con…
DeepSeek, Alibaba, and xAI all shipped new frontier models on August 13, 2026: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (1.6T MoE, 49B active, 1M context, priced at $0.435/$0.87 per million tokens), Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (op…
Anthropic's backers are positioning for a public valuation of $2 trillion or more, with an October IPO in view, according to the Financial Times. The company raised $65 billion in a Series H round at …
Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, according to Sundar Pichai's August 11 post on X, making it Google's fastest-growing consumer product and its 14th to reach the milest…
Canva slashed its 2026 growth forecast after AI costs exceeded expectations, according to a report from BusinessWorld. The company, which has 265 million monthly users and $4 billion in annualized rev…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has made channel content available for generative AI model training by default, with Chief Product Officer Mike Minton admitting that an opt-in system would yield almost nothi…
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that it will add watermarks to text generated by its AI models, such as Claude, in response to European regulations, though the company did not specify how the watermark…
Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto, 'The Future is for Everyone,' argues for open, decentralized AI and warns against concentrated power, drawing mixed reactions from critics and advocates. How…