OpenAI opened a limited preview of Ultrafast on August 13th, a new API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14 times faster than its Standard processing tier, generating up to 750 output tokens pe…
Mistral released OCR 4.1 into public preview on July 16, 2026, adding native paragraph-level bounding-box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores. The model is priced at…
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based AI company founded by Yan Junjie, released Music 3 on August 13, 2026, an open-weights model that generates complete songs of up to five minutes from lyrics and a productio…
OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, published two studies on August 12 showing that its top enterprise users adopt reusable AI skills roughly six times as often as typical customers and use Plugins at over…
Alloy Robotics, a Sydney-founded software maker using AI agents to debug robot fleets, has raised $8M in a funding round led by Square Peg, valuing the company at $80M. The round, announced Thursday, …
DeepLumen, a startup co-founded by Joy Wu, said on August 13 that its Agentic Page product is live across more than 1,000 merchants and has begun attributing orders from AI discovery, entering commerc…
Trunk Tools, a New York software company founded by former carpenter Sarah Buchner, is expanding from document search into connected AI agents for construction bidding, submittals, drawings, and field…
DeepSeek will raise API prices for its V4 models on August 16, 2026, introducing a two-tier rate card with off-peak rates 50% below peak pricing, but even the cheapest off-peak rates exceed current pr…
Brian Roemmele, founder of technology research site ReadMultiplex, released a Mac-only tool and local rewriting workflow on August 12th that he says can remove the machine-readable watermarks Anthropi…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on August 13th that the A100 fleet remains 'mission-capable' through 2029, citing CUDA's role in extending the lifespan of AI accelerators. The statement amplifies a CoreW…
OpenAI has begun rolling out giftable ChatGPT credits, allowing personal ChatGPT users to buy prepaid credits for another person via one-time claim links, with entry points already shipped in its Wind…
Anthropic is in talks to acquire real-time AI startup Decart for about $6 billion, Bloomberg reported on August 12, citing people familiar with the matter. The negotiations have not produced a signed …
Zed CEO Nathan Sobo launched Delta on August 12th, opening a private beta for a multiplayer application that keeps agent conversations, code changes, and review comments in one synchronized workspace.…
Magnific, the creative AI platform founded by Javier "Javi" Lopez and Emilio Nicolas, will showcase MiniMax H3 at its San Francisco office on Aug. 13, 2026, in an event titled "Magnific Spotlight: Min…
Daniel Kimber and Ajain Vivek, founders of Brainfish, have launched Ballet in early access for design partners, a tool that turns plain-English workflow descriptions into reviewable, version-controlle…
The White House plans to bring powerful open AI models into its prerelease security review framework, reversing an exemption outlined to developers earlier this month, according to a White House offic…
UBlock Origin's volunteer filter maintainers have stopped producing fixes for Facebook ads, concluding that Meta Platforms Inc. can counter their open-source filters faster than they can maintain them…
Lee McIntire, a veteran infrastructure executive and former CEO of TerraPower, has been appointed CEO of Fermi, the Texas-based AI power campus developer, more than three months after the board remove…
Cognition added xAI's Grok 4.6 to Devin Desktop and Devin CLI on August 12th, giving developers another foundation model for agent-driven coding. In Cognition's FrontierCode 1.1 Extended benchmark, Gr…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, has made channel content available for generative AI model training by default, with Chief Product Officer Mike Minton admitting that an opt-in system would yield almost nothi…