Stardock Software released Clairvoyance 0.85 on August 25, 2026, introducing Multiplayer AI, which lets multiple people join and work in a live AI-agent session that remains on the host's computer rat…
OpenAI reported up to 3.6x lower end-to-end latency for its Jalapeno inference chip compared with Nvidia GB200 and GB300 systems in company-run engineering tests, with production deployment planned by…
Jeff Hajewski released LatticeDB 0.11.1 on August 25, 2026, an open-source Zig database that combines graph traversal, vector similarity, and full-text search in one local file, targeting local AI app…
OpenAI reported Tuesday that its custom inference chip, Jalapeno, delivered between 1.5 and 1.9 times more AI work per watt at peak throughput than Nvidia GB200 and GB300 systems across three public m…
Skild AI launched S1, a robotics foundation model that learns manipulation tasks from a single video demonstration without fine-tuning, enabling deployment in as little as 11 minutes. In internal test…
CTGT founder and CEO Cyril Gorlla found that the anonymous coding model Ox Alpha, which appeared on OpenRouter on August 20 without a named developer, heavily suppresses answers about seven topics tie…
IBM researchers released Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC, two 470-million-parameter English speech-recognition models that remove the language-model decoder to achieve over 20 times the throughput of ear…
Gatik, the autonomous middle-mile freight company founded by Gautam Narang, Arjun Narang, and Apeksha Kumavat, raised $200 million in a Series D round led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disrup…
Apple announced the new Mac Studio on August 25th, featuring the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips, with prices starting at $2,499 and $5,499, and deliveries beginning September 22nd. The M5 Ultra, built from…
Keenable, founded by former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and Amazon retrieval scientist Matthias Petri, emerged from stealth with a $26 million seed round led by Accel to build an independen…
Metricform, founded by Lindsey Aliksanyan, launched an AI-powered narrative intelligence platform on August 25 that monitors news, social media, forums, reviews, podcasts, the open web, and LLM-genera…
Stockholm-based eComID announced a $17 million seed round on August 25, 2026, led by Systemiq Capital, with participation from Regeneration.VC, Course Corrected, Swedish retailer Stadium, and returnin…
Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated Understanding on Tuesday, August 25, with a physics-focused foundation model that predicts physical systems across space and time, targeting se…
Cameron Smith, a Brisbane-based product manager and head of ecommerce at Bloody Good Tests, released Ambient Context on August 25th, an open-source macOS app that records focused-window text into loca…
Lunar co-founders Ken Villum Klausen, Peter Andreasen, and Joachim Strojer Hansen, along with state-authorized auditor Anders Houmann, raised €8.2 million in pre-seed funding for their new AI-native a…
SiFive launched the BigSky SF-2U870, a 32-core RISC-V server based on the P870-D cores, on August 24th, providing a development platform for porting Linux and CUDA before custom data-center chips arri…
Embedd, a London-based developer-tools company founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Michael Lazarenko, Maxim Gorinov, and Valentin Gololobov, has raised $2.7 million (€2.31 million) in a pre-seed round …
Laude Institute and MIT released Headlong on August 25th, an open-source agent harness that lets AI agents keep thinking and acting after users stop interacting, with its core under 10,000 lines of Ba…
Plicara Labs reported that non-English agent skills rose from 13.0% in Q1 2026 to 16.3% in Q2 2026, based on an analysis of 255,068 newly written skills. The increase signals rapid multilingual growth…
Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Photos embed server-issued identifiers into the pixels of AI images generated on-device, according to reverse engineering published on August 24 by security researcher Xu…