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…
On July 7, 2026, Anthropic added Claude Cowork sessions to web and mobile, allowing users to start, steer, review, and resume the same session across Claude Desktop, web, and mobile, with sessions att…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2025, with a 500,000-token context window and an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 61, five points above Grok 4.5, matching OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol …
WIRED senior writer Kate Knibbs profiled RuntimeWire, an AI-operated newsroom, after it beat WIRED's reporters by more than three hours in covering an OpenAI presentation at Black Hat. RuntimeWire pub…
MiniMax founder Yan Junjie is promoting a developer livestream on fal about building with the H3 video model, featuring speakers Lovis Odin, Ethan Wei, and Victor Su-Ortiz, though no date or registrat…
OpenRouter listed DeepSeek's V4 Pro 0813 as a general-availability endpoint on August 12, with a 1-million-token context window and rates of $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million outpu…
Alibaba released the open-source Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model weights on August 12, a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with about 95 billion active parameters per token, making it the…
Suvi Health, a Denver-based company founded by digital health executive Kelly Benning, launched on August 12 with Mayo Clinic as its co-development partner and first pilot site, offering ambient AI th…
ClearJet, an Austin logistics technology company founded by Chris Guggenheim in 2022, raised $12.35 million in Series A funding on May 28, 2024, according to CB Insights, to build a parcel network tha…
Skan AI, co-founded by Avinash Misra and Manish Garg, has raised $63 million in a Series C round co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, bringing its total funding to approximately …
Discovered Materials, founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, launched on August 12, 2026, with AI agents that propose new semiconductor materials and a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed wi…
Cytix, a Manchester cybersecurity developer founded by Ben Armstrong, Thomas Ballin, and Matt Milan, raised $7 million in Series A funding led by Northern Gritstone, with participation from Auriga Cyb…
Cognition, the AI coding company led by CEO Scott Wu, is in early talks with investors about a financing that could value it at $40 billion or more, Bloomberg reported on August 11. The proposed valua…
OpenArt, the San Francisco AI creative platform, is promoting Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0, a model launched July 21 that accepts up to 4,500 tokens, renders text in 12 languages, and claims legible text …