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…
Metric founder and CEO Hrant Davtyan released ArmBench-ASR on August 20, a benchmark evaluating nearly 30 speech recognition systems on 20.7 hours of Armenian audio across five datasets, with Google's…
Ben Stokes, founder of AI marketplace PromptBase, has narrowed his open-source payments project Zoneless to focus on creator and marketplace payouts, unwinding a broader attempt to build a full paymen…
Stwipe, a parody site credited to Duckbill and shitposting.ai, launched August 20 as a fake acquisition of OpenWouter, a fictional Dutch man named Wouter, mocking Stripe's August 19 agreement to acqui…
Simple AI released a 2,000-hour robotics dataset on August 20 that eliminates the need for a target robot or robot teleoperation during data collection, using its HiFi-UMI system to record human demon…
Mistral AI launched Agentic Search on August 20, giving enterprise AI systems a multi-step retrieval loop to search, open, and read long documents instead of answering from the first batch of text chu…
Serval launched Catalyst into general availability on August 20, 2026, an AI agent that mines enterprise ticket histories to draft code, permissions, and workflows for automating recurring work, direc…
Causum, founded by Reza Fatahi, launched the AI Agency Protocol (AIAP) on August 20 to place expiration dates on AI agent authority by inserting an authorization broker between agents and credentials.…
Ali Hussain's New York AI finance startup Tabs was last valued at about $400 million and had raised around $90 million, according to Hussain in a Crunchbase News profile. The company, founded in 2023,…
Pine64 founder TL Lim is extending the production freeze on all Linux hardware through at least mid-2027, halting production of Arm and RISC-V single-board computers, the PinePhone family, PineTab2 ta…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff launched Slack Code on August 20th, a shared workspace where software teams can assign work to coding agents from Anthropic, GitHub, Cognition, and Vercel directly within S…
Callosum, a London AI infrastructure startup founded by Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg, has raised $100 million in seed financing led by Atomico, with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK'…
Ramp co-founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh launched Ramp Router on August 19th, offering a no-fee AI gateway through 2026 with $26 in credits per account, but OpenRouter, which Stripe acquired for …
TrueFoundry, founded by Nikunj Bajaj, Abhishek Choudhary, and Anuraag Gutgutia, has open-sourced TrueForge, an MIT-licensed runtime for building and operating AI agents, claiming 30-75% cheaper task c…
Replit launched Free Mode, a lower-cost setting for its coding agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, giving paid Core and Pro subscribers credit-free everyday tasks with five-hour limits and up to 3…
OpenAI is pitching its Codex agent harness for tax preparation after a 2025 tax-year pilot processed 7,000 returns and cut accountants' preparation time by 31%, according to Current (formerly Crete Pr…
Sirius, founded by Azamat Khamidov and Benazir Toleubekova, emerged from a16z Speedrun Cohort 006 with an AI platform that automates customer retention decisions when subscribers attempt to cancel, an…
Jeremy Morrell, a principal engineer at Cloudflare, proposes that web applications let users generate missing features via LLM-written code running in sandboxed runtimes, addressing niche workflows th…
Higgsfield, the AI video platform co-founded by CEO Alex Mashrabov, has placed its video models on Together AI's cloud, adding another infrastructure supplier two days after closing a $400 million Ser…
Idler, a Y Combinator-backed startup, publicly launched on Wednesday as a research lab building evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI models, disclosing a $9M see…