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…
Waku version 0.1.0, a native desktop control plane built in Rust with GPUI, combines coding-agent CLIs into one local application, allowing developers to monitor, interrupt, and rollback agent session…
Sellara, a New York startup founded by former Citi employees, has launched AI agents that automate post-trade workflows for investment banks, and claims to be live with one of the largest U.S. banks. …
OpenAI's Codex desktop app lead Andrew Ambrosino benchmarked a new approach to loading large ChatGPT and Codex conversations, cutting a 741-turn, 231 MB test thread's load time from 27.62 seconds to 1…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 topped the Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark with a mean score of 0.78, outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna Pro (0.77) and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro (0.76), Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 (0.73), A…
Netflix engineers Ying Li, Arjun Rao and Shradha Sehgal tested GenRec, an LLM-backed ranker, on approximately 10% of traffic for four weeks and reported a statistically significant 0.006% relative imp…
Stephen Cresswell published Yadda 3.0.0 on August 15th after using Claude Code, running Opus 4.8, to modernize the JavaScript testing library in roughly one day, followed by version 3.1.0 with support…
Sankalp placed 12th among 183 entrants with a time of 1,804.779 microseconds on an NVIDIA B200 in GPU Mode's qr_v2 competition, using OpenAI Codex to make over 1,500 submissions over 14 days. His resu…
Andon Labs co-founders Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund carried out the first firing recommended by Luna, their Claude-powered AI manager, at their San Francisco retail experiment Andon Market, after…
Xia Chen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Munich Data Science Institute and Georg Nemetschek Institute at the Technical University of Munich, released ThoughtDAG v0.3.13 on August 14, 2026, an open-sourc…
Amp, a coding-agent company led by CEO and co-founder Quinn Slack, obtained SOC 2 Type II certification while allowing engineers to push code directly to the main branch without mandatory pull request…
Moonshot AI's Kimi Work desktop app attaches raw diagnostic records from the five most recent agent conversations to every user feedback submission, according to a RuntimeWire analysis of Kimi Desktop…
Deltix launched an open-beta AI testing agent for iOS that lets developers run plain-English tasks in a local simulator and convert successful runs into deterministic regression checks called Playbook…
OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT desktop onboarding flow that rewards new users with credits for completing a starter task, according to a RuntimeWire analysis of build 26.803.81509 dated August 11. The fl…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.1, an open-source runtime for building coding agents, on August 13th under the MIT license, alongside the general-availability version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSee…
California's Department of Motor Vehicles has issued testing permits to Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, allowing them to test heavy autonomous trucks on public roads with a human safety operator, as …
Maple, an Austin-based encrypted AI access company, announced it made DeepSeek V4 Flash available to paid customers, though its public materials do not specify qualifying plans, usage limits, or wheth…