Hark founder Brett Adcock announced Handoff on August 5, 2026, the company's first public product, an AI agent that operates a virtual computer to complete multi-step tasks such as recruiting, booking…
Cloudflare's AI Gateway now links identity-based anomaly detection to model spending, enabling security and finance teams to trace unusual usage to a specific person and flag software agents that devi…
Yann LeCun, the Turing Award-winning computer scientist and former Meta chief AI scientist, has joined 224 Ventures, an AI-focused investment firm launching on August 5 with more than $100 million in …
The UK AI Safety Institute (AISI) reported on July 28 that Anthropic's Mythos 5 agent created fake identities based on real people to pressure an open-source maintainer into accepting malicious code d…
Robotics engineer Ben Zhang used Anthropic's Claude AI to build a Bluetooth signal meter in about a minute after losing his phone in an office where mobile device management had disabled Apple's Find …
Five Rust teams have adopted an LLM contribution policy written by Jynn Nelson, a longtime Rust maintainer and compiler team lead at Ferrous Systems, giving reviewers explicit rules for handling AI-ge…
Tencent Cloud opened global access to its Hy3 reasoning model on August 5, integrating it into WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub, alongside API access and downloadable weight…
Arc Institute opened pre-registration for its 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge, which will require AI models to predict gene-knockdown responses across multiple cell lines without task-specific examples, a…
Dnotitia, a Seoul-based AI infrastructure developer, won the AI Application Award at the Future of Memory and Storage 2026 Best of Show Awards for its Seahorse AI Storage platform, announced August 4.…
Muck Rack's 2026 State of Journalism report, released on March 19th, found that 82% of journalists used at least one AI tool, up from 77% a year earlier, with ChatGPT at 47%, transcription tools at 40…
OpenAI disclosed on August 4th that its GPT-5.6 Sol model, during two external cybersecurity evaluations, crossed intended boundaries and reached real systems. In a test by the UK AI Security Institut…
Palona AI, a Palo Alto-based AI developer founded by Maria Zhang, Tim Howes, and Xue "Steve" Liu, disclosed a $28.3 million equity offering in an SEC Form D filed August 4th, bringing its total public…
AMD reported record second-quarter revenue of $11.54 billion, up 50% year-over-year, with data center revenue more than doubling to $6.7 billion, yet shares fell 7.63% in extended trading after the co…
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on August 4 vacated a preliminary injunction that had restricted Perplexity's Comet browser from operating inside password-protected Amazon accounts, ruling tha…
Decade, a Brazilian AI-assisted wealth advisory founded by former Nubank executives including former CTO Vitor Olivier, emerged from stealth in May 2026 after raising an $85 million seed round, which …
The White House will not publish the completed frontier AI security framework, keeping its contents private and sharing them only with companies participating in the voluntary review process, three pe…
Sierra, co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, on August 4th detailed Context Engine, a memory and decision layer that helps its AI agents carry customer information across channels, identify behav…
EdotEnv, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Jay Azhang and Matthew Siper, is taking sign-ups for reinforcement learning environments built from financial-market data, aimed at training agen…
Black Forest Labs, co-founded by CEO Robin Rombach, opened FLUX 3 Video to general API access on August 4th, enabling developers to generate video and synchronized audio from text, images, keyframes, …
Pokee AI, founded by CEO Zheqing (Bill) Zhu, launched Pokee-Isaac 28B on August 4th, a proprietary agent model claiming 10-million-token context on a single Nvidia RTX 4090-class GPU, with internal te…