Intersignal's Braid v1.5.2 transferred signed semantic context between two local AI systems using different embedding models, a test of its protocol for moving machine state without cloud platforms. T…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B under the Apache 2.0 license and opened the weights for its flagship Qwen3.8-Max model on August 17, according to CNBC. The 27B model has 27,781,427,952 BF16 parameters an…
ATLANT 3D founder Maksym Plakhotnyuk launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO on August 17, a system the Copenhagen-based manufacturer claims is the world's first physical platform for AI-driven materials discover…
Aachen-based business AI company amber, founded by Philipp Reissel, Bastian Maiworm and Igli Manaj, is reported to have raised a €7 million Series A to expand in Europe and develop software that can a…
Lanyon AI, a Princeton, New Jersey research lab, disclosed a $10.6 million initial fundraising round on Aug. 17, led by Dimension with participation from Industrious Ventures, to develop AI-generated …
DoiT, a cloud-cost management company, acquired AI cost-attribution startup Attribute, founded by Izhak Zimmermann and Liad Tropp, and launched an integrated product on July 7 to trace AI costs to spe…
Higgsfield, an AI video platform founded by Alex Mashrabov and Yerzat Dulat, raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation, more than quadrupling its January valuation of $1.3 billion in …
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B ranked 15th among 33 models in WildClawBench, scoring 48.0% across 60 agent tasks run through the OpenClaw harness, according to the third-party benchmark. The 27-billion-paramet…
Independent researcher Jinho Jang released Qwen3.8-27B-CRACK-GGUF, a 27-billion-parameter derivative of Qwen3.8-27B with refusal behavior removed, packaged for local multimodal use via llama.cpp. The …
San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors approved a resolution on August 11th directing county staff to draft a permitting ordinance for commercial humanoid robots, potentially requiring a trained huma…
MathCode, an open-source terminal AI coding assistant from the Math-AI research community, converts plain-language math problems into Lean 4 theorems and attempts formal proofs, with a project page da…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, a three-year-old AI routing platform, for more than $7 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 16, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which is yet…
Mads Thines, a Copenhagen-based designer and product engineer, launched LoreKit, an open-source memory layer that gives AI coding agents a record of earlier mistakes, fixes, and project-specific lesso…
Pika, the AI video startup co-founded by Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, disclosed on April 2, 2026, that its PikaStream1.0 architecture generates real-time 480p video at 24 fps on a single Nvidia H100 GPU…
Software engineer Spartak is selling Unslop, a $19-per-month web editor that restores a writer's voice to AI-polished drafts by analyzing cadence, structure, and word choice, with the highest tier inc…
Meni Tasa's Jitpass introduces a security layer that moves plaintext developer credentials from files like .env, shell history, and AWS configuration into an encrypted local vault, releasing each valu…
Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI developer Decart at an approximately $7 billion valuation, with Decart's founders and largest investor Sequoia Capital favoring Anthropic over a repor…
OpenAI has shipped cross-model delegation for Codex's Multi Agents v2 system, allowing a model to assign work to any supported model, including GPT-5.6 Luna, as announced by Eric Provencher on X on Au…
Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn said on the company's August 5th earnings call that the cost of an AI-powered video call dropped from roughly $0.30 to less than $0.01, driven by a shift to op…
Insilico Medicine is previewing a Virtual Aging Cell research direction that incorporates biological age into its virtual-cell models, aiming to improve predictions of cellular responses to genetic ed…