Nvidia reported a 100.00 RHAE score on the ARC-AGI-3 public set using its Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) system, up from Claude Opus 5's 30.16% published score, by wrapping the same model family in…
Copper hit an all-time record of $14,455 a tonne on August 7, 2026, as an AI-driven building boom collided with a Democratic Republic of Congo export ban on copper and cobalt concentrate, according to…
Reddit Inc. has discussed cutting off Google LLC's access to its content when their approximately $60 million annual AI training deal expires, according to The Wall Street Journal, and Reddit's stock …
North.cloud released v3, adding Azure support, AI spend tracking, and an ML-powered commitment engine called Autobot to unify cloud, AI, and data costs into one financial view. CEO Matt Biringer said …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported on August 20, 2026 that its AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue rose 45% in the June quarter to RMB48.44 billion ($7.14 billion), the fastest growth in 22 quarter…
Anthropic overtook OpenAI in business AI spending for the first time, with Ramp's AI Index showing Anthropic at 43.5% of U.S. businesses on its platform paying for subscriptions or tokens in July 2026…
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha, listed on OpenRouter under the provider name 'stealth' on August 20, is offering free access with a 1,048,576-token context window and reported strengths in codi…
AI coding agent vendor lock-in costs can reach six figures when teams attempt to switch tools, according to an analysis by Startup Fortune. The hidden expenses stem from non-exportable custom prompts,…
Micro1 has reached a $500 million gross annual run rate, up from $100 million late last year and $7 million at the start of 2025, according to TechCrunch. The AI data-labeling company, which recruits …
OpenAI rolled out support on August 20 for controlling Apple Messages from ChatGPT on the Mac, allowing the assistant to read, search, summarize, draft and send texts, available in ChatGPT Work and Co…
AMD and Intel shares each fell nearly 4% on August 19, 2026, while Nvidia held roughly flat, as rising long-term Treasury yields and dilution concerns weighed on the AI chip trade. The 30-year Treasur…
At least 75 AI data center projects worth roughly $130 billion were blocked or delayed in the first quarter of 2026, the largest single-quarter total recorded by Data Center Watch, as local opposition…
Ramp launched Router.com on August 19, a free AI model routing API that switches between models from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Nvidia, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Z.ai, and claims customers have cut inferenc…
Harvey, the $11 billion legal AI startup, unveiled Tenet, its first proprietary in-house model, as part of the Harvey II relaunch on August 18. Tenet, built on a customized version of Moonshot AI's op…
Fortinet acquired Virtue AI on August 17, 2026, to secure AI agents against attacks, with terms undisclosed and deemed immaterial. Virtue AI, which raised $30 million in April 2025 from Lightspeed Ven…
Five U.S. federal agencies, including the NSA, CISA, the FBI, the Department of Energy, and the EPA, issued a joint advisory on August 19 warning that threat actors are using AI-generated Python scrip…
Micro1, a startup founded by 25-year-old Ali Ansari, grew from $7 million to $300 million in annualized revenue by April 2026, according to Forbes, by pivoting from AI recruiting to supplying vetted h…
Xpeng's first-quarter 2026 gross margin hit 20.6%, ahead of Tesla's 16.9% automotive margin, as the Chinese EV maker races to build robotaxis and humanoid robots using its own Turing AI chips. Xpeng d…
Enterprise buyers are killing AI agent deals because founders cannot specify where customer data is processed, according to a report on startupfortune.com. Most AI agent startups rely on OpenAI, Anthr…
Security researchers at Adversa AI tricked Grok 4.5 Fast, the version running on grok.com, into leaking a user's name, location, subscription tier, and full prompt history by hiding malicious instruct…