Sebastian Thrun revealed Dulo, a small stealth robotics startup, during an August 18 keynote at the Actuate robotics conference in San Francisco. Dulo's first-party Stanford-hosted page says the team …
Developers and commercial services released tools claiming to remove or disrupt AI provenance marks after Anthropic detailed text watermarking for Claude on August 14. Business Insider reports that Gu…
Google made Gemini in Chrome available to eligible Android users in the United States on August 18, extending its page-aware browser assistant to mobile. The feature, which uses Gemini 3.1, can summar…
AMD reported on August 18 that its rack-scale AI systems achieved a 4x energy-efficiency improvement from its 2024 baseline through mid-2026, surpassing its previously projected 3x gain. The company, …
BitBox released firmware 9.26.5 on August 17 to patch a memory-corruption flaw and a silent-payment issue found during internal reviews that included frontier AI models. The company reported no known …
Personetics and Plaid announced a partnership on August 18 to integrate Plaid's open finance connectivity into the Personetics AI Cognitive Banking Platform, combining internal and external account da…
Microsoft has introduced a public preview of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Dynamics 365 Business Central admin center as part of its 2026 release wave 1, with availability starting Apr…
A peer-reviewed MIT CSAIL study published August 18 in Nature Communications found that diffusion-model outputs become harder to attribute to any single training image, person, or artist as training s…
GitHub suffered a widespread service degradation on August 17 that disrupted its web interface, API, Actions, pull requests, webhooks and Copilot, with BleepingComputer reporting error rates of about …
Databricks reported that Stanford's team won its June 17 Grounded Reasoning Cup with 63.3% accuracy on OfficeQA Pro V2, a held-out benchmark built from about 120,000 pages of U.S. Treasury documents, …
Rippling President and CPO Matt MacInnis said on July 30 that the company ran roughly 2,100 scored attempts per model across 15 AI models on payroll, personnel, and finance tasks, with SaaStr's August…
Google published an open-source Customer Support & Returns Agent on August 17 that demonstrates three infrastructure controls—signed database writes, isolated code execution, and deterministic action …
On August 10, researchers from Anthropic and EPFL released a preprint demonstrating that self-propagating payloads can transfer between AI agents through persistent, editable system-prompt files, with…
NLPatent rebranded as Clerq on August 18 and launched an agentic AI platform for patent research workflows, introducing rapid invention-disclosure triage and full patentability reports with cited refe…
Mozilla's Smart Window Beta adds an optional AI-focused window to desktop Firefox for organizing tabs, comparing pages, summarizing content, and revisiting browsing history. Mozilla says it does not r…
Round Hill Music filed separate copyright lawsuits against Anthropic and Suno in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on August 17, alleging unauthorized copying of at least…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed CoSnitch on August 18, a one-click attack chain in Microsoft Copilot Personal that could automatically execute an attacker-supplied prompt, exfiltrate data through connec…
CISA added Ray vulnerability CVE-2025-62593 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 17, 2026, with an August 20 remediation date under BOD 26-04 guidance. The code-injection flaw affe…
HCLTech and NetApp expanded their partnership on August 13 with a hybrid cloud storage-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI, generative AI, and data-driven workloads, combining HCLTech's U4X infras…
Groq announced a $350 million Series A on August 17 at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with planned participation from Nvidia, to expand its AI compute infrastructure. The company expects …