RuntimeWire, a tech news outlet, reports that its AI sidekick model, which automates routine newsroom tasks like embargo calendars and transcripts, enabled the publication to publish more than 80 stor…
Prodigy Research, a two-person Y Combinator-backed lab founded by brothers Michael Wang and Yuhua Wang, claims its AI-driven delta-neutral trading strategies returned 140% during Y Combinator's Summer…
Apple Inc. said former engineer Chang Liu used a confidential power-converter schematic in his work at OpenAI and trained an AI agent to operate the circuit-simulation software LTspice, according to a…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent v0.21.0, the 'Pantheon Release,' on August 31st, adding Bot Mode for multi-agent group chats, persistent memory for scheduled jobs, and browser control. The update,…
Meta took Muse Code out of beta on August 31st, adding cross-session messaging, workflows for coordinating teams of subagents, and monthly subscriptions starting at $5, 26 days after its beta launch. …
Vanta has released Agentic Trust Controls, an open-source library of 65 controls for AI agent governance, expanding its early-access version from 61 controls and mapping to ISO 27001 and ISO 42001. Th…
Pennant, a two-person startup founded by Ryan Nowicki Stewart and Tomas Taylor, has joined Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch with AI software for institutional proxy voting, claiming early customers in…
Runway unveiled Solaris on August 31st, a research model that generates interactive interfaces frame by frame in real time, extending its Gen-4.5 video model to treat mouse and keyboard activity as co…
DeepSeek released the 168GB weights for its 305B-parameter DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp model under an MIT license on August 31, 10 days after the API debut, enabling local deployment and modification…
Together AI signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN for access to a 250-megawatt data center, projecting more than $5 billion in annualized gross revenue in the first year, with HUMAIN supplyin…
SpaceXAI is on course for an early-September release of Grok 4.7, following Elon Musk's August 12th promise that the model would be ready in three to four weeks and would surpass every available rival…
Anthropic appears to be preparing Claude Fable 5.1 for Amazon Bedrock, according to an API response uncovered on Monday, August 31st, that distinguishes the unlisted model from invalid identifiers. Th…
Almanac, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch company founded by Rohan Sharma, Kushagra Chitkara, and Divit Sheth, launched an AI workplace agent that compiles team activity into a self-updating wiki and …
A proposed class action filed June 14th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges Anthropic's $200-a-month Claude Max 20x plan delivers only 6x-8x the usage of Pro, no…
Locke, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Parth Badhwar, pairs AI agents with in-house lobbyists to help companies monitor regulation, influence policy, and pursue government contracts, claiming…
Think, a Riyadh-based AI infrastructure company founded by Ahmed AlSharif, launched Think Fabric on August 31, a bare-metal platform combining liquid-cooled AI servers, workload-management software, a…
Replica Cyber, founded by Kristopher Schroeder and Ryan Underwood, launched an architecture on August 31 that places autonomous AI agents in isolated workspaces for banks and regulated businesses, all…
OpenClaw 2.0, released by Peter Steinberger on August 30th, adds persistent shared sessions, cloud workers, and handoffs, positioning the open-source agent as a credible alternative to Grok Bot and Ch…
Vercel is offering MiniMax's H3 and H3 Max video models through its AI Gateway at a 50% discount from August 30 through September 13, 2026, with no code changes required for existing applications. The…
OpenClaw released version 2.0 on August 30, rebuilding its browser interface, simplifying setup, and adding shared sessions for collaborative AI agent use. The open-source project, with roughly 388,00…