Taiwan is on track for its first year of double-digit GDP growth since 2010, driven by AI hardware exports, while Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, mainland China, and South Korea all reported over 20% expo…
Reddit Inc. has discussed cutting off Google LLC's access to its content when their approximately $60 million annual AI training deal expires, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Reddit's stock …
North.cloud released v3, adding Azure support, AI spend tracking, and an ML-powered commitment engine called Autobot to unify cloud, AI, and data costs into one financial view. CEO Matt Biringer said …
Phoebe Gates, cofounder of AI personal shopping assistant Phia, attended a secret Stanford University winter-quarter class titled 'So You Think You Can Rule the World?' that taught students how to exp…
Google's $10 million purchase of Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages, faces opposition from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, …
A seven-year study of four-day workweeks across Iceland, Japan, the UK, Australia, and the U.S. found that 45% of 3,000 surveyed workers believed they could finish tasks in five hours without interrup…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported on August 20, 2026 that its AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue rose 45% in the June quarter to RMB48.44 billion ($7.14 billion), the fastest growth in 22 quarter…
A group of educators in Charleston, South Carolina, watched an instructor prompt an AI tool to 'create a map of the world,' which produced a map riddled with errors, including misspelled country names…
Anthropic overtook OpenAI in business AI spending for the first time, with Ramp's AI Index showing Anthropic at 43.5% of U.S. businesses on its platform paying for subscriptions or tokens in July 2026…
Anthropic plans to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record $75 billion IPO, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The AI company, valued at $965 billion in May, aims to go public…
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha, listed on OpenRouter under the provider name 'stealth' on August 20, is offering free access with a 1,048,576-token context window and reported strengths in codi…
AI coding agent vendor lock-in costs can reach six figures when teams attempt to switch tools, according to an analysis by Startup Fortune. The hidden expenses stem from non-exportable custom prompts,…
Chinese-developed models now carry more than 60% of traffic on OpenRouter, the neutral routing platform, with Xiaomi's MiMo V2.5 ranking first by token volume in July, while US models' share fell from…
Micro1 has reached a $500 million gross annual run rate, up from $100 million late last year and $7 million at the start of 2025, according to TechCrunch. The AI data-labeling company, which recruits …
Northzone, a venture capital firm, warns that most AI productivity tools are overhyped and overfunded, estimating that only a few will survive as standalone businesses. The firm notes that AI applicat…
OpenAI rolled out support on August 20 for controlling Apple Messages from ChatGPT on the Mac, allowing the assistant to read, search, summarize, draft and send texts, available in ChatGPT Work and Co…
Marloo, an AI startup founded by the team behind Sharesies and Lightyear, reports 37% average monthly revenue growth since inception, with over 900 paying advisory firms across eight countries and $13…
AMD and Intel shares each fell nearly 4% on August 19, 2026, while Nvidia held roughly flat, as rising long-term Treasury yields and dilution concerns weighed on the AI chip trade. The 30-year Treasur…
At least 75 AI data center projects worth roughly $130 billion were blocked or delayed in the first quarter of 2026, the largest single-quarter total recorded by Data Center Watch, as local opposition…
Ramp launched Router.com on August 19, a free AI model routing API that switches between models from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Nvidia, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Z.ai, and claims customers have cut inferenc…