Anthropic published a technical guide on August 15, 2026, explaining how users can reduce costs and extend session limits in Claude Code, its terminal-based coding assistant, by leveraging prompt cach…
Citi Research analysts led by Yu Xiangrong said US-China AI trade decoupling is 'manageable' and unlikely to materially disrupt China's AI exports, with even a full decoupling putting at most 9.2 perc…
Bumble has abandoned its founding women-first rule, a retreat from the identity that set it apart since 2014, as the online dating industry, estimated at nearly £10 billion globally, bets on AI to rev…
Indian IT stocks have recovered most of their first-half losses, with the Nifty IT index halving its year-to-date decline from 32% on July 1 to roughly 17%, as investors treat the sector as a cheap he…
Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise over $500 billion for AI infrastructure, with CEO Jensen Huang saying Nvidia may backstop up to $12…
DeepSeek released a developer preview of Harness, a software framework for building autonomous AI agents, on Thursday, August 14, 2026. The framework offers four operational modes—standard, code-focus…
Generative AI has not leveled the innovation playing field, according to a study of 47 innovation teams across 12 industries that found output quality varied by a factor of 3.2 on novelty scores and 2…
Andrew Sheng, distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, warns that the global AI boom, with annual spending exceeding $200 billion, resembles a 'candyfloss economy' b…
Chinese startup Z.ai reported its open-source GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym benchmark, edging out the 83.8% it reported for Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5, but lagged on exploit developm…
Japan's June trade deficit and the yen's slide reveal structural economic decay as its auto sector loses ground in the electric vehicle transition, with Chinese competitors leading in battery costs, s…
NASA astronauts Anil Menon and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot will perform a spacewalk on August 18, 2026, to replace a failed high-speed antenna on the International Space Station's Z1…
Guangdong, China's wealthiest province with a GDP exceeding $2 trillion, signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Alibaba Group Holding on Thursday in Guangzhou to expand investment in computing …
NVIDIA signed a memorandum of understanding with Apollo Global Management, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to build a compute financing platform targeting ov…
A bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun district, the AGI Bar, offers customers free access to the DeepSeek V4 Flash AI model via two Nvidia supercomputers, removing cost barriers for developers and start-ups…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin privately urged Google DeepMind staff to accelerate work on the Gemini model, as Alphabet Inc. seeks to close the gap with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, according to two p…
DeepSeek's V4-Pro-0813 model scored 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, trailing OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra by 4 points and Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 by 7 points, while ranking 12th on the Vals …
Google announced the Pixel 11 series at Made by Google 2026 on August 13, 2026, introducing AI features including Rambler, a transcription engine that strips filler words, and Magic Capture, a camera …
IIT Roorkee has launched a four-month postgraduate certificate programme in Building AI-Powered Business Applications, designed by its iHUB DivyaSampark for working professionals with at least three y…
Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has begun its pre-IPO tutoring process, hiring Citic Securities to guide preparations for a mainland China listing, with a mandatory tutoring period of at least three mon…
Mirage, the AI video company formerly known as Captions, launched the world's first AI news network streaming live on X through its @TryMirage account on August 12, 2026, featuring AI-generated anchor…