OpenAI cut prices on its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model on August 21, reducing input tokens from $5 to $4 per million and output tokens from $30 to $20 per million, a 33% reduction on output, effective th…
At Black Hat USA 2026, Zenity Labs demonstrated that every major AI browser—Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, and Copilot in Edge—can be fully hijacked without a sin…
Starting August 2, 2026, every Claude model Anthropic ships embeds an invisible statistical watermark into every text response, including API calls, with no opt-out. The watermark, based on Google Dee…
Stripe agreed to acquire OpenRouter, the API gateway used by 8 million developers to access 400+ AI models, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg confirmed on August 16. The deal values OpenRouter at 5.…
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, improving Terminal-Bench 3.0 coding scores from 4.6% to 28.3% solely through post-training, without changing the 743-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts architectu…
New York City now employs more tech workers than San Francisco — 394,300 to 375,730 — according to CBRE's "Scoring Tech Talent 2026" report, marking the first time NYC has led in 13 years. However, th…
Binance launched Agent OS on August 20, a developer platform that lets AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and ChatGPT place live crypto trades on Binance via a standard MCP server configuration. Th…
Blacksmith, a San Francisco startup building CI infrastructure for GitHub Actions, raised $45 million in a Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, up 10x from a year ago, to addr…
Checksum launched Continuous Quality Loop on August 4, the first QA product designed for AI-generated code, after a survey found 61% of engineering leaders shipped a production incident caused by AI-g…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup acquired by Stripe for $7 billion on August 16, released three new tools within 72 hours: an Image API supporting 30+ models from eight providers, an analytics dashbo…
A 30-month study of 26,811 Chinese high school students found that AI tools boosted homework scores by 18% and cut homework time by 30%, but monthly exam scores dropped 20% within six months and colle…
OpenAI announced Zero Data Retention (ZDR) for its frontier API models on August 19, promising that prompts and responses are deleted after processing with no employee review or training use. The comp…
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, a multimodal model that outperforms its text-only predecessor on agent benchmarks, scoring 83.9 on Terminal Bench 2.1 (up from 82.7) and 59.3 on DeepSWE (up from…
Six companies — Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google — shipped Agent Plugins 1.0 to general availability on August 12, introducing a universal plugin format for AI agents that allows …
CISA added CVE-2025-62593, a critical remote-code-execution flaw in Ray, the distributed AI framework used by OpenAI, Netflix, and Uber, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 17, gi…
Micron Technology announced on August 20 the launch of Micron Research Labs, a $10 billion, decade-long initiative to create the first dedicated AI memory research institution in the U.S., with a flag…
OpenAI launched Computer History on August 13, an opt-in Mac feature that records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches into persistent ChatGPT memories stored as unencrypted plain-text Markdown files …
Pew Research Center found that 35% of web pages published since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 show significant signs of AI authorship, based on an analysis of 490,000 pages from the Common Crawl a…
DeepSeek released its MIT-licensed Harness v0.1 agent runtime on August 13, and the GitHub repository surpassed 135,000 stars and 8,800 forks within four days. The open-source runtime, built on the Co…
A confirmed bug in OpenAI's Codex CLI is inflating AWS Bedrock bills by up to 10x for developers running agentic coding sessions, with one developer documenting $1,182 in charges over four days on a w…