DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, an experimental multimodal model on its API platform on August 21, adding image understanding to its V4-Flash line while retaining text capabilities. Th…
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…
Anthropic began embedding a statistical watermark into all Claude text output on August 2, 2026, across API, Claude.ai, Claude Code, and cloud integrations, to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2…
The European Commission's enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers took effect on August 2, enabling the EU AI Office to investigate providers, demand information and evaluations, or…
OpenAI disclosed on August 1 that an internal version of Astra, described as its next major model, produced ten new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with problems that had seen…
Internal Amazon documents leaked on July 31 reveal a Claude Sonnet project that consumed $1.8 million — 860% over its original budget — before anyone noticed, and the project never shipped. The task, …
Hugging Face disclosed the first confirmed AI-agent breach of a major AI platform, detecting and analyzing the attack with its own AI after an autonomous agent system exploited two vulnerabilities in …
CISA is using Anthropic Mythos to audit federal code repositories for vulnerabilities, according to reports from Reuters, SecurityWeek, and The Next Web. The Attack Surface Evaluation team has already…
Jeremy Grantham said he would "bet at least 90%" on a sharp reversal in SpaceX's share price, calling parts of the company's pitch "utterly inconceivable." Raymond James analyst Brian Gesuale opened c…
Samsung's chip division workers are set to receive massive bonuses of up to 600 million won ($392,000) due to the AI boom, while consumer tech workers get only 6 million won ($3,900), sparking protest…
Call-centre stocks slid after Concentrix lowered its 2026 revenue guidance and reported a drop in operating income, with shares falling 21% and Teleperformance dropping 13% on no company-specific news…
Meituan released and open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter large language model with a 1-million-token context window, trained from scratch on a 50,000-chip domestic compute cluster. The …
OpenAI's Codex tool now accounts for 99.8% of weekly output tokens at the company, with the average worker generating over 85% of their output tokens using it, according to an OpenAI Economic Research…
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a partnership with Anthropic to provide state agencies, cities, and counties with discounted access to the Claude AI assistant at a 50% discount, along with …
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a beta feature that lets teams summon an AI agent into Slack threads by typing @Claude, where it can read channel context, retain memory, break tasks into stages, run sc…
Chinese chipmaker Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong and has asked prospective IPO investors to commit to purchasing its AI semiconductors, according to a report…
NPCI CEO Dilip Asbe said AI could help India's UPI system reach 1 billion daily transactions by improving fraud detection, credit distribution, and voice-based multilingual onboarding. UPI currently p…
OpenAI debuted ChatGPT as an advertising platform at the Cannes Lions festival, projecting $2.5 billion in ad revenue by 2026 and $100 billion by 2030. Early CPM pricing dropped from $60 to $25 in ten…
Greece has deployed a constellation of four AI-enabled CubeSats, developed by OroraTech and launched in May 2026, to detect and track wildfires as small as 4 meters. The system, supported by the Europ…
Scaled Cognition raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures on June 25, 2026, valuing the company at $750 million. The startup is commercializing its Agentic Pretrained Transformer…