{"slug": "ai-news-digest-aug-5", "title": "AI News Digest · Aug 5", "summary": "Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, agreed to acquire Airtable, a project-management software company, for $1.28 billion in an all-stock deal. The acquisition is expected to expand Bending Spoons' portfolio of productivity tools and marks one of the largest deals in the sector this year.", "body_md": "# AI News Digest · Aug 5\n\nHere are today's 30 AI stories at a glance — tap any headline for the full story:\n\n[AI Models Are Beating Benchmarks Designed to Catch Them](/en/news/5076/)[Hmm](/en/news/5073/)[DoorDash Air Got FAA Certification — But Your Dinner Won't Fly](/en/news/5066/)[The Return of the Ceiling-Less G](/en/news/5064/)[SpaceX Grapples with AI Compute Costs as Starlink Expansion](/en/news/5061/)[Title: White House AI Guidelines Exempt U.S.](/en/news/5059/)[Chinese Labs Release 10 Open Models in 30 Days — US Startups](/en/news/5055/)[AI Stock Rout Hits Hedge Funds Hard in July](/en/news/5053/)[Claude Code vs. OpenAI Agents](/en/news/5051/)[OpenAI Just Dragged Apple Into the Dirt Over Those Trade Secret](/en/news/5048/)[Why the New Leapmotor Z9S Feels Overpriced Despite Its Tech](/en/news/5046/)[OpenAI Faces $1M Settlement Over Alleged Bias Against U.S.](/en/news/5043/)[White House's Closed-Door Approach to AI Safety Testing](/en/news/5040/)[OpenAI Settles $3.](/en/news/5038/)[Bending Spoons to Acquire Airtable for $1.28B in All-Stock Deal](/en/news/5034/)[**Burry's Chip Short Prediction](/en/news/5032/)[Texas Freezes Data Center Permits Over Grid Strain Concerns](/en/news/5025/)[Building Self-Improving RL Environments That Scale With Model](/en/news/5023/)[Maple-Preview: 20B MoE Hits 120 tok/s on iPhone](/en/news/5019/)[Local AI Voice Agent on $50 Arduino Uno](/en/news/5017/)[Credit default swaps (CDS) are essentially insurance contracts](/en/news/5014/)[Building Self-Improving AI Agents: Stanford CS329A Insights](/en/news/5011/)[AI data centers are sprouting up everywhere](/en/news/5009/)[AI-Powered Cybercrime Surges Across Africa](/en/news/5007/)[DuckDuckGo's Privacy-First Vision: Sunglasses Over Surveillance](/en/news/5000/)**How China's Space Tech Powers Olympic Podium Wear**[Open-Source LLMs Are Having Their Oppenheimer Moment](/en/news/4995/)[Google's $200B Bet on Anthropic](/en/news/4991/)** Anthropic Secures $10B Compute Deal with Volta for AI Scaling**[Simple self-hosted LLM assistant with user-steered compounding](/en/news/4986/)\n\nStory tracker · related coverage\n\n[AI News Digest · Aug 4 1d ago](/en/news/4939/)\n\n[AI News Digest · Aug 3 2d ago](/en/news/4859/)\n\n[AI News Digest · Aug 2 3d ago](/en/news/4770/)\n\n[AI News Digest · Aug 1 4d ago](/en/news/4677/)\n\n[AI News Digest · Jul 31 5d ago](/en/news/4541/)\n\n[AI News Digest · Jul 30 6d ago](/en/news/4407/)\n\n[Next SpaceX Grapples with AI Compute Costs as Starlink Expansion →](/en/news/5061/)\n\nStep-by-step guides and pitfalls for this path are in\n\n[an AI side-hustle playbook](https://tanyan888.com/), with plenty of directly applicable cases.## All Replies （0）\n\nNo replies yet — be the first!", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-news-digest-aug-5", "canonical_source": "https://promptcube3.com/en/news/5121/", "published_at": "2026-08-05 06:00:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-05 14:07:48.869477+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-startups", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Bending Spoons", "Airtable"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-news-digest-aug-5", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-news-digest-aug-5.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-news-digest-aug-5.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-news-digest-aug-5.jsonld"}}