Bernini-R Edit Video defeated Marey Realism V1.5 in a head-to-head video generation test, scoring 32.3 to 27.9 with a 94% confidence win, 3 task wins to 0, and one tie. The test, conducted by an unnam…
Truffle Security's scan of 7.6 petabytes of public Hugging Face data found 221,303 live, unique credentials across 6,003 datasets, including 8,557 Google service-account keys, 8,594 database logins, 3…
Granola, an AI notetaker startup, faces a proposed class action filed July 30th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging it unlawfully captures meeting participants…
OpenAI announced on August 1st that an internal version of its next major model, Astra, produced new results for 10 longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, a claim suppo…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on July 31st, an MIT-licensed model with API prices of $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, aiming to lower cost barr…
Axis Robotics, a Berkeley, California-based startup founded in 2025, raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC to develop a system that turns browser users into distributed operators generatin…
A reverse engineering analysis by user Lon alleges that Anthropic's Claude Code client can silently switch requests from Claude Fable 5 to Claude Opus 4.8, bypassing user controls and notifications, w…
PDW Holdings, a Huntsville defense drone manufacturer co-founded by Matt Higgins and Ryan Gury, received a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million from the U.S. Department of War's Office of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previewed an unreleased model family called 'Astra' to Washington policymakers, pitching a system designed to coordinate multiple AI agents over long periods, according to The In…
Plasma AI released Plasma Wiki, an open-source command-line tool that gives AI coding agents a deterministic way to inspect project knowledge stored in Markdown files, avoiding the need to load entire…
Amazon completed its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, the largest piece of OpenAI's record $110 billion financing round announced February 27 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, according to the F…
MemTensor, a Shanghai AI developer founded by former Alibaba data executive Xiong Feiyu, released the Metis family of models (4B, 9B, and 27B) that maintain memory inside the model backbone instead of…
Google is backing away from its planned standalone AI Studio mobile app one day before its scheduled release, despite claiming roughly 800,000 preorders across iOS and Android. The company announced o…
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University introduced Explorative Modeling (XM), a training method that generates K candidate outputs per example and backpropaga…
Google AI Studio reported roughly 800,000 pre-registrations for its mobile app, then announced it is pursuing an "entirely different approach" to mobile software building, suggesting a shift away from…
Tracer, a San Francisco AI lab founded by Adam Rida, launched Echo on July 31st, an adaptive inference system that coordinates multiple open-weight models and returns a single answer through an OpenAI…
Supabase, the Postgres-based development platform founded by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson, launched Supabase Evals on July 31st, an open-source benchmark for measuring how well AI coding agents bui…
E J Ziyad launched UML (Universal Memory Layer) on July 31 as a shared memory system for Claude, ChatGPT, coding agents, and custom apps, using a graph-based architecture to store and retrieve durable…
Argo IQ, a Los Angeles startup founded by Trenton Hughes, claims its revenue has grown tenfold since February 2026 after shifting from AI workflow monitoring to done-for-you growth operations, though …
Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab founded by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith, is in talks to raise a new financing round at a reported $5 billion valuation, according to Forbes. Index…