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…
Lamb Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Niki Kotecha and Thomas Lanning, announced on August 4th that its planned custom inference chips could generate more than 20,000 tokens per second a…
Warp released Agent CLI, a standalone command-line product that brings its coding agent to any terminal, including Ghostty, iTerm2, VS Code, macOS Terminal, and Windows Terminal. The CLI carries over …
Microsoft Research on August 4th spotlighted PRISM2, a multimodal pathology model developed by Paige and Microsoft researchers, trained on 2,350,518 whole-slide images from 685,507 specimens and about…
Cursor, the AI coding company, open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK) on August 4th, a GPU kernel that it claims increased end-to-end training throughput for its Composer models by 41% against its prev…
Firecrawl, founded by Caleb Peffer, Eric Ciarla, and Nicolas Silberstein Camara, launched anydoc on August 4th, an open-source Rust engine that converts PDFs, Word documents, slide decks, and 10 other…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang released Alpamayo 2 Super's model weights and inference code on August 4th, giving autonomous-vehicle developers access to a 34-billion-parameter system designed to perceive ro…
OpenAI has hired Thomas Dullien, known as Halvar Flake, to work on cybersecurity and computing efficiency, starting August 10th. Dullien, a renowned reverse-engineering veteran and co-founder of zynam…
Anthropic has appointed former California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuellar as its first chief global affairs officer, effective immediately, to lead policy, strategic internatio…
Blue Water Autonomy, led by CEO Rylan Hamilton, was selected by the U.S. Navy to compete for open-ocean mapping work under a two-year contract with a shared ceiling of $40 million, covering internatio…
David Ball, founder of San Francisco-based Genome Computer, launched Genome Intelligence, a $15-per-month conversational interface that lets users explore their personal genome data with general-purpo…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-MM-Plugins, an open-source repository that packages multimodal capabilities as installable skills for six agent harnesses: Claude Code, Codex, Qoder, OpenClaw, Qwen C…
Mistral AI released Shieldstral on August 4, a 3-billion-parameter guard model that evaluates text and images against moderation policies written in plain English at inference time. The Apache 2.0 wei…
Cloudflare opened reservations for Cloudflare Wallet handles on August 4, introducing a payment system that lets AI agents purchase APIs, MCP tools, and web content under human-defined spending rules.…
Straiker, a Mountain View-based security startup founded by Ankur Shah, launched the Agentic Kill Switch on Aug. 4, a control that can take compromised or misbehaving AI agents offline in seconds, fol…
Endeavor Optical Networks emerged from stealth on August 4th with $10.75 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build a satellite-based network for routing data-cente…
Horizon3, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup, raised $250 million in a Series E round co-led by NightDragon and NEA, valuing the company at over $2 billion, tripling its previous valuation of…
Celeris-1, a diffusion-based language model from Celeris, topped Artificial Analysis' speed ranking among comparable nonreasoning models, generating 2,157.9 output tokens per second. The independent b…
Poet and former Google product marketer Tucker Bryant has placed a San Francisco billboard advertising ChatTJB, a parody LLM-style chat interface powered entirely by Bryant himself, who manually answe…