SGLang, the open-source inference project associated with Ying Sheng and Banghua Zhu, published deployment recipes for Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B model, enabling single-GPU serving with NVFP4 quantization …
LibAI Lab launched NewFace on August 20, an AI production workspace that turns product photos, reference videos, and written briefs into e-commerce images, UGC-style clips, and batches of short-form a…
Anthropic's $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm Ode, led by Chris Taylor, has been built around private equity portfolios, with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announcing the ve…
Pew Research Center found signs of AI writing or substantial editing on 35% of webpages with publication dates after ChatGPT's November 2022 release, based on a study of 490,000 English-language pages…
OpenCode founder Jay V reported on X that the company's $10-per-month Go subscription surpassed 301,000 active subscribers, with a dashboard showing 301,018 accounts and 14.6% growth. At standard pric…
Apple Music will make "Made With AI" labels visible to listeners later this year, requiring record labels and distributors to flag material AI use across tracks, compositions, artwork and music videos…
OpenAI added an Apple Messages plugin to ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop on August 20, enabling the agents to search conversations, summarize threads, draft responses, and send replies from a Mac. T…
Locus, a YC-backed startup founded by Cole Dermott, launched Locus Pro on August 20th, a billing and metering layer that gives AI platforms one prepaid balance and credential for over 600 pay-per-use …
Liquid AI, an MIT spinout, released four updated LFM2.5 checkpoints on August 19, trained with quantization-aware distillation (QAD) to retain roughly 97% of their BF16 average benchmark performance w…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro topped the 12-task Editorial Craft benchmark with a mean score of 0.97 at an estimated cost of $0.0091 per task, according to RuntimeWire's evaluation of 12 AI models. OpenAI …
GitHub blamed a capacity failure in its Central US data center and a retry storm that multiplied Copilot traffic for the August 17th outage that lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, according to a postmorte…
SpaceXAI made Grok Build available on every Grok plan on August 19, expanding the prompt-based app builder to web, iOS, and Android with grok.me hosting, model access without separate API keys, and di…
Micro1 founder and CEO Ali Ansari offered $12.5 million on August 19th to acquire Spirit Airlines' corporate data, a 25% premium over Google's winning $10 million bid in the bankruptcy auction, but th…
Daniel Vaughn, Head of UX at Dreadnode, published Huzzah, an experimental AI coding editor that uses persistent developer-written pseudocode in .hz files as a specification to regenerate source code v…
Goldman Sachs is testing buyer interest in YipitData, a New York data provider backed by Carlyle, which is exploring a sale that could value it at $2.5 billion to $3 billion, Reuters reported on Augus…
Anthropic launched Claude Academy on August 20, a free public catalog of courses and tutorials that turns its internal employee training into product onboarding for Claude.ai, the Cowork agent, Claude…
North launched North v3 on August 20, adding Microsoft Azure coverage and integrations for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Snowflake, less than two months after raising a $5M Series A. The Brooklyn startup's A…
Meta Superintelligence Labs reported on August 20 that its Muse Spark 1.2 model scored 72.0 across 10 multimodal evaluations when given access to tools, up from 59.8 without them, a 12.2-point increas…
Monk, an AI accounts receivable platform, announced Thursday that it now manages more than $2 billion in receivables, a company-reported figure that does not represent revenue, cash collected, or fund…
OpenAI expanded Computer History, an opt-in feature that records selected app and website activity for ChatGPT and Codex, to Mac desktop app users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Sw…