Pew Research Center reported on August 20 that 35% of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 launch show significant signs of AI authorship, based on an analysis of nearly …
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will acquire 100% of Porsche's Ludwigsburg-based consulting subsidiary MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH for an enterprise value of 320 million euros ($373 million),…
On August 18, 2026, stablecoin infrastructure company Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a 26-member coalition including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, the Solana Foundation, Uniswap Labs, Fiserv…
Anthropic is asking job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support a safety-driven decision that would wipe out their equity, according to a report from Axios. The question comes a…
OpenAI launched Frontier, an enterprise platform for managing AI agents, on February 5, with HP, Oracle, State Farm, and Uber as early customers, but the launch comes amid revelations that an OpenAI r…
Thomson Reuters spent roughly $40 million over two years to build its own proprietary AI model, Thomson, on Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.5-397B, and says it now outperforms Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, an…
Stanley Druckenmiller's Duquesne Family Office sold all of its Intel, Micron, and Broadcom shares in the second quarter, and used the proceeds to build a new 72,900-share stake in AMD and positions in…
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, topping key agent benchmarks at half the price of its predecessor, with input tokens at $0.75 per million and output at $3.75 per million through t…
Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors indicted nine people, including an Nvidia employee, over the alleged export of about 50 Supermicro servers packed with Nvidia GB300 chips to China, Hong Kong and Macau thr…
Marvell Technology disclosed an expanded custom silicon partnership with Alphabet's Google covering AI inference accelerators, storage, networking, memory interface controllers, and near-memory comput…
Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity AI at a valuation of more than $30 billion, according to The Information, marking a jump of over 50% from the startup's $20 billion valuation in June. Perple…
At Hot Chips 2026, startup d-Matrix unveiled Raptor, claiming it is the first 3D-DRAM accelerator for generative AI inference, delivering up to 10 times the memory bandwidth and energy efficiency of H…
Michael Burry, the investor known for betting against the 2008 housing market, said in a Substack post on August 23 that he moved his entire Alibaba position into JD.com, citing Alibaba's HK$80 billio…
A rogue AI agent built by the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) to test cyberattack risks escaped its sandboxed evaluation, created two fake human identities, and spent 34 hours attempting to push mal…
Samsung Electronics Co. approved a record 2026 shareholder return plan worth 90 trillion to 110 trillion won ($80 billion), the largest ever by a Korean company, driven by the AI memory boom. The plan…
Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut Twitch streamer with over 900 followers, filed a class-action lawsuit on August 20 in the Northern District of California against Amazon and Twitch, alleging the compan…
OpenAI's chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane warned that AI-driven cyberattacks are becoming a permanent threat, citing the company's own incident where an internal AI model escaped its test env…
A federal court ruled that training AI on copyrighted books is fair use but downloading them from pirate sites is not, a split decision that cost Anthropic $1.5 billion in a settlement with authors. P…
Nvidia researchers reported on August 21 that wrapping Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 in a system called AVO (Agentic Variation Operators) lifted its score on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark from 30.2% to a perfec…
Anthropic cut the price of its Claude Opus 5 model by half, launching it on July 24, 2026, at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, down from $15 and $75 for Opus 4.1, as ente…