RuntimeWire launched RuntimeWire Investigations on August 11, a dedicated section for original reporting on startup and AI companies, founders and investors, featuring exclusives built from documents,…
Researchers Alexander Panfilov, David Schmotz, and Ilia Shumailov found a way to recover encrypted reasoning from models by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, as detailed in a paper posted on August 10th.…
Unsloth AI released a native desktop app on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, that packages its local model training and inference software for Mac, Windows, and Linux, claiming it is the first desktop app …
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on August 11, an open-weight reasoning model with 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active per token, designed to run agent workloads on a single Nvidia …
Cursor and SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on August 11th, extending Cursor's agent technology from software development into sales, support, recruiting, finance and other computer-based work. The early be…
Manus, the AI agent company founded by Xiao Hong, is advising affected users to back up data generated on or after December 29, 2025, before it deletes the data during a two-day window later this mont…
Keet, a two-person startup founded by Zack Ashen and Tommy Tsai, is testing an iOS app that generates personalized courses with short explainer videos, quizzes, games, and adjustable curricula, availa…
Igor Babuschkin's River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, announced August 11 and led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with strategic investments from Nvidia and AMD Ven…
Cursor launched Origin on August 11th, a Git platform designed to host code produced by fleets of AI agents, extending the company's reach from agent assignment to code merging. The product, introduce…
Grok 4.6 appears close to public release after the unreleased xAI model briefly surfaced in Cursor's production model picker on August 10th and an outside developer received preview access hours later…
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, said in an August 11th post on X that working with AI has restored a creative urgency he had not felt since his ea…
Palette, co-founded by Lars Ettrup, Brian Kyed, Steffen Sommer, and Christian Lomholt, announced an EUR 3 million pre-seed round on August 11 to build an operating layer for companies using multiple A…
Researchers Mauro Eldritch and Heiner Garcia Perez hired three suspected North Korean IT workers into a fake cryptocurrency startup and recorded their post-hire activities, revealing the use of forged…
Z.ai, the Beijing AI developer founded by Tsinghua University researchers Jie Tang, Li Juanzi and Zhang Peng, announced that its ZCode desktop coding application has reached 1 million users and that i…
Human Behavior launched v2 of its product on August 10th, using AI agents to convert session replays into proposed code changes and customer outreach, moving beyond analytics. CEO Amogh Chaturvedi ann…
Anthropic will apply model-level watermarks to text generated by supported Claude models across Claude Code, its API and consumer products worldwide, drawing an immediate objection from Nick Dobos, a …
Arcade acquired Smithery on August 5th, giving co-founder and CEO Alex Salazar control of a widely used registry for Model Context Protocol tools as Arcade pushes deeper into AI agent infrastructure. …
MiniMax, the Shanghai-based generative AI company founded by Yan Junjie, posted a teaser on X asking followers to guess who appears in a video or picture, but the post's attachment was not accessible …
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, raised $9 million in funding led by Menlo Ventures to expand its technology into image detection, bringing its total reported financing to roughly $13 m…
Pangram, the AI-detection company founded by Max Spero and Bradley Emi, is testing a Gmail integration that automatically sends AI-written emails to spam or trash, as revealed in screenshots published…