HiddenLayer, an Austin-based AI security company, will contribute to the U.S. Department of Energy's $60 million Prometheus initiative, led by Idaho National Laboratory, to secure AI used in nuclear e…
FORT Robotics, a Philadelphia-based robotics safety company founded by Samuel Reeves, plans to go public through a merger with blank-check company Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., creating a combi…
Bartowski, the model quantizer known online as Colin Kealty, released a new calibration corpus on August 17 for quantizing open-weight language models into smaller GGUF files, claiming it helps at agg…
SpaceXAI's updated acceptable use policy, effective August 14, 2026, bars customers from using its services or outputs to help build products that compete with SpaceXAI 'directly or indirectly,' a bro…
Webml-community released a WebGPU demo that runs Alibaba's Qwen3.5 Small models (0.8B, 2B, and 4B) locally in browsers, using Transformers.js for the JavaScript runtime and WebGPU for hardware acceler…
On May 25, 2026, AI consultant Ashutosh Shrivastava posted a Gemini Omni Flash clip demonstrating a synthetic version of himself, highlighting Google's personal avatar workflow within Gemini Apps. Goo…
Elie Steinbock, founder of Inbox Zero, launched Bot Directory on August 17th, a searchable catalog of prompts for Grok Bot that lets users create agents for tasks like email triage, sales follow-up, a…
At least 62 Y Combinator startups with approximately $1.91 billion in disclosed funding are hosting custom domains on AI coding platform Replit, according to a DNS-based analysis by RuntimeWire. The 1…
Researchers from the Anthropic Fellows Program and Anthropic demonstrated that evolved natural-language instructions, called 'mind viruses,' can spread between AI agents, survive context resets, and r…
MiniMax, led by founder, chairman and CEO Yan Junjie, posted an undated workout joke on X pairing its open-weight model pitch with Vercel's v0 AI application builder, promising "Mini chest maxxing wit…
Replit added black-box penetration testing on August 17, enabling its AI app builder to probe published applications from an attacker's perspective and pass confirmed findings to Replit Agent for prop…
Cognition, founded by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, used its AI agent Devin to migrate its marketing site from Astro to Next.js, with the agent recording its verification runs to reproduce sub…
Alvys, a transportation management system provider founded by Nick Darman, launched Alvys Foundry on August 17th, a platform that lets carriers and brokers build custom AI agents in plain English, dep…
Google Research announced on August 17th that its deep learning method PhotoScan, which estimates body composition from smartphone images, can help classify insulin resistance nearly as well as a dual…
Open-source developer Tiger380 published a benchmark report claiming its J-Space text harness improved DeepSeek V4 Pro's performance on reasoning and agent tasks, with scores rising from 60.0 to 67.7 …
AI automation startup Relay is shutting down, and founder Jacob Bank is returning to Google to lead product and developer relations for Chrome, according to TechCrunch's August 17th report. Free accou…
Lanyon AI, a Princeton, New Jersey-based lab co-founded by applied mathematician Jonathan Gorard and computational physicists Ammar Hakim and James Juno, emerged from stealth on August 17 after closin…
Kimi Desktop 3.1.10, developed by Moonshot AI, contains a hidden internal gateway accessible by clicking the Version row five times, which allows employees to import off-quota Kimi, GPT, and Codex mod…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, according to Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources familiar with the company's fina…
OpenAI awarded $1 million to 14 independent projects studying AI's economic and social effects, with up to $1 million in API credits, as announced on August 17. The recipients, selected from over 400 …