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A new benchmark called DiG-bench, comprising 70 games designed to test AI systems' ability to discover hidden rules through interaction, shows that current frontier models struggle, with only Opus 5 and Fable 5 beating a…
Fewer than 50 engineers worldwide, including nine at Sheffield-based consultancy Amodo Design, are working full-time on AI verification tools to enable a slowdown of the AI race, a response to a July open letter signed b…
Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half its $6.9 billion valuation from last September, after Nvidia Corp. struck a licensing deal with the startup and hired away much of its tal…
Rapid7 researchers uncovered Operation ASTERIX, an active cryptocurrency phishing campaign that used AI coding assistants to develop phishing panels, fake wallet apps, and vishing infrastructure, exposing 885,000 phone n…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, marking the largest AI gateway deal on record and merging payments infrastructure with a routing layer that directs developer workloads across 400+ AI mod…
A multi-institution study by researchers from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon provides the first causal evidence that brief use of an AI assistant can cause immediate, measurable cognitive impairment in subsequent…
Wispr, a dictation and voice AI startup cofounded by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, has raised a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ven…
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump, is partnering with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw, which offers access to 43 Chinese-developed AI models from companies including Aliba…
The bug pipeline at this+that starts and ends with an email: a bug report is triaged by this+that, turned into a DoBox task, assigned via the Brain to the right engineer, fixed by an agent running locally via Claude Code…
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with Hong Kong-based WorldClaw, which offers AI models from Chinese companies flagged by the U.S. administration for national security concerns. A Re…
Octoweb, a keyboard-first WebKit browser written in Rust with about 25,000 lines, reached version 0.10.0, integrating the Octomind AI agent as a native citizen rather than a bolted-on chat panel. The browser, built by th…
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published August 16, 2026. The acquisition marks a 5.4x premium over OpenRouter's $1.3 billion Series B va…
An engineer detailed how to integrate an AI voicebot with a CRM using FreeSWITCH's Event Socket Layer (ESL) without adding latency. The approach leverages ESL's outbound mode for isolated, async connections, enabling rea…
Japan has become one of the world's most advanced climate-adaptation labs, with the government strengthening workplace heatstroke-prevention rules last year and companies like Obayashi Corp. shifting construction hours t…
GoodBarber's engineering team has developed a model-agnostic AI pipeline that treats language models as swappable catalog entries rather than hard-coded dependencies, making model retirements routine configuration change…
A 69-year-old retired teacher, Wynd Kaufmyn, began serving a seven-day jail term on Friday, August 14, after being convicted for her role in a February 22, 2025, blockade of OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, marking t…
At the Black Hat and DEF CON security conferences in Las Vegas, AI agents and their threat to cybersecurity dominated discussions, according to The Register's cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons. The episode of The Kettle…
HackEurope 2026, a hackathon spanning three countries, concluded with a grand prize awarded to a team proposing LLM-based wildfire prediction and drone orchestration for cloud seeding, despite the project lacking a funct…
Tracy Durnell argues that generative AI is widely considered inauthentic in creative work, citing Virginia Postrel's three meanings of authenticity—purity, tradition, and aura—and noting that audiences now assume digital…
Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition comes just three mo…