Google Research announced on August 17th that its deep learning method PhotoScan, which estimates body composition from smartphone images, can help classify insulin resistance nearly as well as a dual…
Open-source developer Tiger380 published a benchmark report claiming its J-Space text harness improved DeepSeek V4 Pro's performance on reasoning and agent tasks, with scores rising from 60.0 to 67.7 …
AI automation startup Relay is shutting down, and founder Jacob Bank is returning to Google to lead product and developer relations for Chrome, according to TechCrunch's August 17th report. Free accou…
Lanyon AI, a Princeton, New Jersey-based lab co-founded by applied mathematician Jonathan Gorard and computational physicists Ammar Hakim and James Juno, emerged from stealth on August 17 after closin…
Kimi Desktop 3.1.10, developed by Moonshot AI, contains a hidden internal gateway accessible by clicking the Version row five times, which allows employees to import off-quota Kimi, GPT, and Codex mod…
OpenAI awarded $1 million to 14 independent projects studying AI's economic and social effects, with up to $1 million in API credits, as announced on August 17. The recipients, selected from over 400 …
Sam Hogan launched Lumbridge on August 17, 2026, a persistent, multiplayer RuneScape-style world where AI agents can gather resources, trade, fight, and coordinate without human players. The open-sour…
Nous Research introduced Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop on August 17th, turning the AI agent's existing profiles into named Bots with separate roles, models, memory, skills and profile pictures. Users ca…
Vinod Khosla and three co-authors argued in a JAMA Perspective published August 17th that autonomous medical AI could eventually outperform physicians in cognitive care, including doctors who use AI a…
Amazon is buying printed books through commercial marketplaces, cutting off their bindings, scanning the pages for AI training data, and destroying the physical copies, according to an August 17th inv…
Browser Use co-founder and CTO Gregor Zunic launched macOS Harness on August 17th, an experimental open-source Python layer that gives coding agents direct control over native Mac applications, files,…
An expert witness retained by 3M used ChatGPT to draft most of his report for a civil trial over a fatal Houston industrial explosion, feeding the chatbot an explicit objective: build a case that left…
MiniMax, the generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, is pitching its H3 video model as a generator for animated game sprites, claiming it can maintain consistent character motion across frames wh…
CarSignal, founded by Michael Muzzin and Junaid Popalzai, launched on August 17th a $200-per-month AI operating system for independent auto repair shops, combining booking, diagnostics, estimates, par…
World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture co-founded by members of President Donald Trump's family, is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI gateway WorldClaw, which offers 43 of its 90 models from …
Wiz reported that GitHub Copilot Autofix introduced a script injection flaw in a Snowflake workflow, which Wiz's Red Agent exploited during authorized research. The vulnerable code entered Snowflake's…
Cursor co-founder and CEO Michael Truell launched Origin on August 17th, extending the AI coding company's stack into repository hosting, pull requests, and code shipping infrastructure. Origin begins…
Speko, a San Francisco-based voice AI routing layer founded by Beknazar Abdikamalov in 2026, selects speech, language, and synthesis models using language-specific benchmarks, offering a /v1 API that …
Bedrock Robotics, founded by Boris Sofman, Kevin Peterson, Tom Eliaz and Ajay Gummalla, has deployed operatorless excavators at three commercial construction sites in Texas and Nevada, including a wat…
Xpander, founded by David Twizer, Ran Sheinberg, and Moriel Pahima, raised a $7.5 million seed round announced on August 17, 2026, to bring enterprise AI agents into production, with Pico Venture Part…