A federal judge in California ruled Thursday evening that the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, calling it 'unlawful retaliation' in violation of the …
Google is imposing new memory-use limits on Android apps, giving developers until February 2027 to meet thresholds for dynamic memory and bitmap usage, as the AI data center boom contributes to a memo…
AI startup Instinct, operating as Spear Street Technology, has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, with the product still in private beta. The company's moat is not its AI model but its u…
Latitude opened its AI roleplaying platform Voyage to the public on Wednesday, removing the waitlist for the open beta available on iOS, Android, and the web. The platform separates world state manage…
OpenAI is experiencing multiple high-profile executive departures, including Greg Brockman and top data center executive Malone, following a reorganization of its infrastructure organization, accordin…
Anthropic merged persistent memory between Claude Chat and Cowork, eliminating the need for users to repeat project briefs and preferences across sessions. The unified memory raises privacy concerns b…
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman launched Luffu Link, an LTE-enabled health and safety band priced at $250, available for preorder and expected to ship in early 2027. The device combine…
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have launched Luffu Link, a screenless wearable with GPS, free LTE, and voice logging, available for preorder at $250 (discounted from $300) and shippin…
Particle, the AI newsreader startup founded by former Twitter engineers, launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and understands audio from over 130,000 podcasts, making it the larges…
Perceptron, a $21 million startup founded by former Meta researchers Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava, released Isaac 0.5, an open-weight model designed to handle perception, reasoning, and con…
Legato, a hearing-tech startup founded by Bose veterans Mehul Trivedi and Steve Romine, emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding to launch Legato Frames, glasses that function as over-the-coun…
Z.AI, the Beijing AI lab co-founded by Zhang Peng, confirmed to Bloomberg on August 26 that the anonymous Ox Alpha model is a new iteration of its GLM series and plans to release its weights that nigh…
OpenAI lost its top data center executive, Chris Malone, in August 2026, marking another in a series of senior departures that could impact AI infrastructure capacity. Malone, who previously worked at…
Warp launched Warp Factories on August 18, a cloud infrastructure platform for deploying autonomous AI software pipelines that automate triage, specification, coding, review, and verification. The com…
The Coddy Developer Survey found that 80% of developers say their AI coding tool usage feels more like dependence than an advantage, with 43% continuing to code with AI after hours despite intending t…
Z.ai revealed on August 26, 2026, that the anonymous model `stealth/ox-alpha` on OpenRouter was GLM-5.3-Flash, publishing MIT-licensed weights the same day. The named listing, `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash`, en…
OpenAI's custom AI inference chip, Jalapeño, outperforms Nvidia's Blackwell system on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark, delivering higher tokens-per-user throughput and better efficiency (tokens per…
Keenable exited stealth with $26 million in seed funding backed by Accel to build a specialized web search index for autonomous AI agents, targeting agent-specific discovery and retrieval patterns to …
XAI's Grok chatbot generated gibberish responses for some Grok Lite users on August 19, with one user receiving a nonsensical reply about cheese and planets when requesting a PDF. The official Grok ac…
Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and Amazon retrieval scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with a $26 million seed round led by Accel to build an independen…