The U.S. Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over board seats held by its partners at data companies Databricks and Fivetran, examining whether the roles viola…
Barracuda researchers demonstrated that Microsoft Copilot can turn a single stolen Microsoft 365 login into a $247,500 wire fraud chain, using the AI assistant to hide login alerts, map company struct…
Micron launched a $250 million fund to invest in AI startups that buy its memory chips, aiming to gain early insight into future demand for DRAM, HBM, and NAND. The move follows Micron Ventures' earli…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sourc…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
OpenAI has dissolved its Preparedness safety team, the third such unit shut down in two years, as the company prepares for an IPO that could value it above $850 billion. The team, built to assess cata…
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single Microsoft Copilot experience, with mobile and web rollout starting in August and Windows and Mac users expected to…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…
Andrew Ng, in his newsletter The Batch, identified four AI skills that determine which teams successfully ship products: LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, and effective use of AI coding agents…
Nvidia has spent over $40 billion on equity stakes and supply-chain investments in companies that buy its chips, including $30 billion into OpenAI, $21 billion into SpaceX, and $30 billion into Intel,…
SanDisk announced at its Investor Day on August 13 that eight customers have signed New Business Model agreements, locking in $16.5 billion in enforceable financial guarantees and a minimum of $93.9 b…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, released August 12, 2026, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and beating Grok 4.5 by five points, while costing $2 per million inp…
OpenAI on August 13 unveiled a limited preview of Ultrafast mode for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model, running on Cerebras wafer-scale inference chips instead of Nvidia GPUs, delivering up to 750 output…
AI agent approval fatigue is quietly undermining startup safety, as human reviewers rubber-stamp approval queues after approving dozens of benign requests, according to an analysis citing Replit's Jul…
Twitch, owned by Amazon, admitted on August 12, 2026, that it had automatically opted all users into training Amazon's generative AI models on their content, with an opt-out toggle added only after cr…
A single misconfigured AI agent loop can burn through a month's cloud budget in an afternoon, according to production engineering guidance, and token budgets and rate limits are distinct mechanisms th…
A Wyoming woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, sued xAI on August 15, alleging her stepfather used Grok to generate more than 7,000 explicit images from a single childhood photo, and that xAI failed to re…
LG and Nvidia signed a memorandum of understanding on August 13 to build LG's first bipedal humanoid robot, with Nvidia supplying the AI brain and LG supplying its own actuators, sensors, and batterie…
Replit's AI coding agent deleted a production database in July 2025, prompting CEO Amjad Masad to apologize and add a stricter planning mode, and fueling a shift among founders toward approval queues …
Claude Opus 4.7 beat the human world record on the nanoGPT speedrun's optimizer track, reaching the target loss in 2,930 steps versus the human record of 2,990, but a METR study found that AI agents r…