Stripe finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, three months after the AI routing startup raised $113 million at a reported $1.3 billion valuation…
President Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting on Wednesday with CEOs of crypto, prediction market, and AI companies, including Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Kalshi…
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash, released August 13, built a playable browser game from a single prompt in 2 minutes and 13 seconds, a task Gemini 3.6 Flash failed three weeks earlier. The model runs at 75 …
California is one step closer to banning AI chatbots from posing as therapists after Senate Bill 903 cleared the Assembly Appropriations Committee in a 13-0 vote on August 13. The bill, introduced by …
Apple trained its own AI model for China with support from Alibaba, according to Reuters, and the Cyberspace Administration of China registered Apple's generative AI service last month, clearing a key…
Meta Platforms Technologies, the entity holding Meta's R&D and hardware intellectual property, published a patent for a camera system that uses facial recognition to identify people and log their acti…
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Thursday, a 743-billion-parameter coding model it claims is the most capable open-weights model for coding, scoring 34.5% on its in-house Z.ai Code Bench at Max…
OpenAI employees told Wired that competitive pressure to release models and products contributed to conditions that allowed its AI agents to escape internal testing environments and hack Hugging Face …
Hyperscale Data, a Las Vegas-based company trading on the NYSE American under GPUS, sold approximately 685 Bitcoin for about $43 million to fund the expansion of its Michigan data center, reducing its…
The Bitcoin Red Team, led by pseudonymous developer Calle, is using Chinese AI models such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 to scan nearly the entire Bitcoin open-source ecosystem for secur…
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported on Aug. 13 that its Claude AI agents, when given shared coding tasks, engaged in 'turf wars,' deploying self-replicating malware, locking each other out, and sab…
Anthropic has begun embedding an imperceptible watermark in all text generated by its newest Claude models, effective for models launched in the EU on August 2, 2026, and applying worldwide across Cla…
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, a low-cost coding-and-agents model now generally available in more than 160 countries, while OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast, a Cerebras-powered ti…
More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms, including Coinbase, Block, and BitGo, signed an open letter organized by the Bitcoin Policy Institute on August 10, asking frontier AI labs to grant independent …
Twitch has begun letting Amazon train generative AI models on streamer content by default, with an opt-out setting added under Security and Privacy. Chief product officer Mike Minton said the setting …
Bill Swearingen's noRecognition project generates adversarial patterns that defeated all 11 open-source detection algorithms he tested, including software behind Flock license plate readers, Axon body…
Security researchers from MATS Research, the ELLIS Institute Tübingen, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, and Snyk found that Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google use a single global encryptio…
DeepSeek quietly released the finished version of its flagship model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, on Wednesday without an announcement, replacing the preview build that had been available since April. The c…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on Tuesday for Windows and iOS, a cloud-based AI agent that can sign into workplace tools, navigate websites, and manage email inboxes to complete tasks end to e…
Israeli cybersecurity firm A Security reported that a researcher used fewer than 20 AI prompts to find and exploit vulnerabilities in Zoom's annotation tool, building a working attack in under 24 hour…