Lumilens emerged from stealth on August 6 with more than $700 million in new financing, bringing total funding above $900 million at a $5.51 billion valuation. The San Jose startup, founded in 2024 by…
Coinbase Business began enabling merchants to accept payments from AI agents through the x402 protocol during the week of July 23, 2026, according to CoinDesk. The company's product documentation says…
Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-63520 on August 11, a SharePoint Server remote code execution flaw with a CVSS score of 8.1 that, when chained with July's CVE-2026-55040 authentication bypass …
Researchers published an August 10 preprint reporting that encrypted reasoning-trace blocks from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google APIs can be replayed across sessions, users, and models, allowing attacke…
Brad Lightcap announced on August 11 that he is leaving OpenAI after eight years to start a new venture, ending a tenure that included four years as chief operating officer. In April, chief revenue of…
Manus said August 11 it will resume independent operations after Chinese regulators demanded that Meta unwind its reported $2 billion acquisition of the AI-agent developer. Affected users must back up…
OpenWALDO, a Ctrl IQ Inc.-sponsored open-source project led by Gregory M. Kurtzer, launched publicly on July 29 with an August 11 index listing 167.3 billion reference tokens across 93.9 million docum…
LTX released LTX-2.5, an open-weight video and world model, on August 11, with native availability in ComfyUI and downloadable weights on Hugging Face. The model adds a diffusion video decoder, native…
Spotify announced on August 11 that it will add AI Persona badges to artist profiles whose public identity may be AI-generated, starting in mid-September, and will exclude music from those profiles fr…
Juno Im, an offensive security researcher at Xint whose team has won at DEF CON, Pwn2Own and DARPA's AIxCC, told Lets Data Science that the first thing he tries against an application with a language …
ZeroDrift launched Command on August 11, a compliance control plane that checks human- and AI-generated communications before delivery using deterministic rules and the company's Anchor 3.0 Preview sm…
Blumira opened a pilot on August 11 for Hearth, an AI security command center that investigates across an organization's existing security tools without requiring a Blumira platform subscription. The …
National University of Singapore announced on Aug. 11 that all students, faculty and staff will receive access to ChatGPT Edu from Aug. 31, 2026, under a collaboration with OpenAI, and that incoming f…
ASSET Research Group disclosed GhostSplice on August 10, a proof-of-concept that splits a secret-exfiltration request across multiple MCP tool channels to bypass AI coding agent refusals. In controlle…
OpenAI opened a waitlist on August 10 for Premium seats in ChatGPT Business, a higher-capacity option with five times the usage of Standard seats and no five-hour usage limit. Premium is priced at $12…
Nigeria's federal government is promoting digital infrastructure, local technology development and talent building at GITEX Nigeria 2026, scheduled for August 31 to September 3 in Abuja and Lagos. Com…
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program on August 10, adding Blue and Red access tiers and releasing GPT-5.6-Cyber to approved defenders. The release followed OpenAI's August 7 disclosure t…
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) reported 84 previously unknown security vulnerabilities across seven open-source 4G and 5G core network implementations, with 83 findings confirme…
Anthropic introduced on August 11, 2026, a machine-readable content-marking system for output from supported Claude models, embedding invisible text watermarks and C2PA-based signed provenance metadat…
Nvidia signed memoranda of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR on August 10 to establish independent financing platforms for AI infrastructure, aiming t…