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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots — E

Grace Kay / The Information: At his first Cursor all-hands, Musk said Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic is leading the AI race, and more — Earlier this

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers managed Ray support on Amazon EKS. Create and monitor Ray clusters, connect JupyterLab and Code Editor notebooks to live clusters, get out-of-the-box observability

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute — Following several

Physical artificial intelligence is emerging as the next major phase of AI. These systems not only generate content or analyze data but also perceive, reason about and act in the physical world. The o

OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman is worried that artificial intelligence technology will end up being controlled by just a handful of companies or people in future, resulting in nobody else

Ina Fried / Axios: Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from TML earlier this year, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs and will report to Alexandr Wang — Prominent AI researcher Lu

U.S. President Donald Trump expressed support for data center projects in a radio interview that aired on Sunday. The segment was hosted by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who had testified again

Natasha Singer / New York Times: A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools — One

Reuters: Alibaba plans to raise ~10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close — China's Alibaba (9988.HK) on Su

“Most likely end state IMO is that closed, frontier tokens are 60-90% of economic value but only 15 to 25% of tokens.” Apple iPhones are about 20% of the world’s total smartphone shipments, but half o

George Hammond / Financial Times: Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 — AI lab's

Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the artificial intelligence model repository at 13 billion or more, Business Insider reported today. The company has brought in a bank to sound o

Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at 13B+, up from 4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest — The AI indu

**Summary for AI Knowledge Base** A social media post criticizes the focus of current public debates—primarily on data center infrastructure—while highlighting China's public development of advanced r

A year ago today we published The Last Economy by @EMostaque. Since then, scores on the hardest AI benchmarks have risen sharply, while the cost of useful intelligence has kept falling. The book asks

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unk

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of

Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to 100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to suppo

ChatGPT is usually treated as a prompt box. Ask for a cinematic shot, add a few camera words, copy the result into a video model, and hope the ending survives. My problem was that the ending usually d

I still meet/talk to people that are so outdated in terms of LLM that when they talk about ChatGPT, it feels like they're talking about what ChatGPT was 2-3 years ago. They don't know all the capabili

Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers c

Input tokens are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. This post describes a query-aware context compression pattern on Amazon Bedrock: after re

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers — Every day t

Agree with @gdb that we need to arm cyber defenders much more than they are now, both with APIs and open models. The real cybersecurity risk of AI is asymmetry of power, capabilities and ressources be

The AI Workforce Consortium today reported that the share of cybersecurity job postings across the Group of Seven economies that ask for artificial intelligence skills doubled over the year, and junio

London-based artificial intelligence startup Callosum Ltd. today announced that it has raised 100 million in funding. Atomico led the seed investment with participation from Plural, DCVC, and the U.K.

In Part 2 of this no-code ML series, you connect Amazon SageMaker Canvas to Snowflake, prepare and join transaction data with Data Wrangler visual transformations, and train an XGBoost fraud detection

William Langley / Financial Times: China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns — Co

Elon Musk explains why the values we build into Grok today could shape the superintelligence of tomorrow “The future is overwhelmingly AI and robots” AI will eventually become too intelligent for huma

As artificial intelligence data centers continue to proliferate across Ohio and public opposition grows, Axios reported today that the GOP’s Senate campaign arm has privately warned AI companies that

OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced wides

Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others — Callosum, a startup that makes s

On August 20 2026, Amir Efrati tweeted “open source AI is…happening? :) Anthropic & OpenAI better hope AT&T is the exception, not the rule.” He noted that open‑source AI advancements are underway whil

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more — Well, this seems interesting.

Anthropic PBC is privately hoping its upcoming initial public offering will match or even surpass the size of SpaceX Corp.’s record-breaking IPO as it doubles down on its bid to go public ahead of riv

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100M to 500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at 150M-200M — The near-bottoml

Bloomberg: Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise 60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies — Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a

Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with 20 million in seed funding to build artificial intelligence-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional’s expertise across their organization. The San

In 2018, Hugging Face publicly announced plans to develop a chatbot specifically for teenagers. By August 19, 2026, an update (tweet by Clement Delangue) reiterated that both Hugging Face and OpenAI w

Mike Stone / Reuters: Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In — Smack Technologies, a def

Telemetry data company Cribl Inc. today said it has acquired technology assets from artificial intelligence security operations startup Radiant Security Inc. The purchase covers the intellectual prope

OpenAI Group PBC recently paused some of its artificial intelligence training workloads over concerns that they could cause cybersecurity issues. The ChatGPT developer disclosed the move in a blog pos

Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports runtime domain and published-date filtering. New per-request filters give developers per-call control over which web sources their agents consult an

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs — F