Igor Babuschkin's River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, announced August 11 and led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with strategic investments from Nvidia and AMD Ven…
Cursor launched Origin on August 11th, a Git platform designed to host code produced by fleets of AI agents, extending the company's reach from agent assignment to code merging. The product, introduce…
Grok 4.6 appears close to public release after the unreleased xAI model briefly surfaced in Cursor's production model picker on August 10th and an outside developer received preview access hours later…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, said in an August 11th post on X that working with AI has restored a creative urgency he had not felt since his ea…
Palette, co-founded by Lars Ettrup, Brian Kyed, Steffen Sommer, and Christian Lomholt, announced an EUR 3 million pre-seed round on August 11 to build an operating layer for companies using multiple A…
Researchers Mauro Eldritch and Heiner Garcia Perez hired three suspected North Korean IT workers into a fake cryptocurrency startup and recorded their post-hire activities, revealing the use of forged…
Z.ai, the Beijing AI developer founded by Tsinghua University researchers Jie Tang, Li Juanzi and Zhang Peng, announced that its ZCode desktop coding application has reached 1 million users and that i…
Human Behavior launched v2 of its product on August 10th, using AI agents to convert session replays into proposed code changes and customer outreach, moving beyond analytics. CEO Amogh Chaturvedi ann…
Anthropic will apply model-level watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models across Claude Code, its API and consumer products worldwide, drawing an immediate objection from Nick Dobos, a …
Arcade acquired Smithery on August 5th, giving co-founder and CEO Alex Salazar control of a widely used registry for Model Context Protocol tools as Arcade pushes deeper into AI agent infrastructure. …
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, posted a teaser on X asking followers to guess who appears in a video or picture, but the post's attachment was not accessible …
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures to expand its technology into image detection, bringing its total reported financing to roughly $13 m…
Pangram, the AI-detection company founded by Max Spero and Bradley Emi, is testing a Gmail integration that automatically sends AI-written emails to spam or trash, as revealed in screenshots published…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is 'very close' to having substantially stronger AI models, though he did not name the models or provide a release schedule. Meta expects 2026 capital expendi…
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto on Monday arguing for the widespread distribution of 'personal superintelligence,' claiming AI should empower individuals rather than remain concentrat…
Anthropic will embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks in text generated by new Claude models worldwide, applying the marking across its consumer products, developer platform and cloud distributi…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Image-2.6 model scored 1,336 points to rank second in Arena's text-to-image leaderboard on August 10th, 45 points behind OpenAI's GPT Image 2 Medium and 20 points ahead of Grok Imag…
Rippling, led by Parker Conrad, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against AI infrastructure startup Runlayer on August 10, 2026, alleging that Runlayer infringed three Rippling patents, according to…
OpenAI completed a tender offer for roughly $7 billion of shares held by current and former employees, using its own money instead of outside investors, Bloomberg reported on August 10th. The transact…
Nvidia Corp. announced Monday that it signed memorandums of understanding with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish AI compute infrastructure financing platfor…