Researchers have introduced LiveAnimate, a new system from China that enables real-time full-body deepfake video generation, overcoming the resource-intensive offline limitations of existing systems l…
Meta has shipped Muse Code, its first coding agent, in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a co-trained model with a 1 million-token context window. The agent, available via the Meta Model API, is priced …
SkinBit has raised $6 million in pre-seed funding from Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures, Profluent Capital, Lyft co-founder Logan Green, and nine board-certified dermatologists to expand its ful…
Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing, bringing the total Series B to $84 million and the company's disclosed funding to approximately $114 million. The round was …
Anthropic launched inference hooks on August 5, 2026, a beta feature for Claude Enterprise that routes every employee prompt through the organization's own security server for an allow-or-deny verdict…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating the experimental loops of the scientific …
Houston Methodist researchers published the first peer-reviewed evidence that ambient AI in the operating room is associated with a 7% rise in surgical case volume, about 25 additional cases per month…
A new report from Microsoft highlights widespread adoption of AI in education and increasing demand for support, but experts warn that frictionless learning risks making students more nonchalant by re…
Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, marking the first public acknowledgment of the effort. The company posted a job li…
Absa, one of Africa's largest banks, reduced the time to deploy a new financial crime detection model from 120 days to 15 days, yet a PwC survey found that 56% of enterprise CEOs have seen no signific…
Akamai Technologies reports that inference is replacing training as the dominant AI workload, requiring a shift from hyperscale datacenters to distributed, power-aligned commercial scale facilities to…
Inna Braverman, founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power, a Nasdaq-listed renewable energy company, said the company's wave energy technology can help meet growing electricity demand from AI infrastructure a…
A Deloitte survey found that 87% of respondents expect generative AI to be adopted in legal work within the next two to three years, but the article argues that realizing value requires embedding AI i…
The Rust project's compiler, libs, types, rustdoc, and bootstrap teams adopted a formal policy on August 5, 2026, governing large language model use in the rust-lang/rust repository, as announced by p…
Tencent opened its Hy3 large language model to global users on August 5, 2026, making it available through WorkBuddy, Miora, and Tencent Cloud TokenHub, with free access until August 31, 2026. Hy3, a …
TIER IV, the Tokyo-based developer of the open-source autonomous driving software Autoware, and automotive supplier Astemo signed a memorandum of understanding on August 5, 2026, to jointly build a ne…
SpaceX's AI segment nearly tripled its revenue to $2.56 billion in Q2 2026, but still posted a $1.26 billion operating loss, according to its quarterly report filed with the SEC on August 4, 2026. The…
Waymo opened its Dallas robotaxi service to the general public on August 4, 2026, ending the invitation-only phase that began with the city's commercial launch in February. The company reported nearly…
Mistral AI released Shieldstral on August 4, 2026, a 3B-parameter open-weights safety classifier that judges text and images against moderation policies written in plain language at inference time, ra…
AWS made Web Search generally available on Amazon Bedrock on August 4, 2026, enabling foundation models to ground answers in current web knowledge without a third-party search provider. The server-sid…