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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

KnowledgeForge mines resolved ITSM incident tickets into new knowledge base articles and automatically curates the existing library by deduplicating, quality-scoring, and improving content, using Amaz

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% — Kuaishou Technology earning

More open weights frontier for generative media, more... impossible to not think of @c_valenzuelab's excellent blog 'we are solving graphics backwards' in it, he argues that in traditional computer gr

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others — Expansion of th

OpenAI Group PBC is falling further behind its rival Anthropic PBC, if its latest financials are any indication. The artificial intelligence model maker told investors that its revenue rose 18% on a s

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the

OpenAI Group PBC today announced it’s rolling out a stricter version of its ChatGPT chatbot created for younger users. The announcement of “ChatGPT for Teens” follows scrutiny over how generative arti

Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a 30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amo

Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~600M at a 6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~1B in May, and has an initial ~250M deal with Anthropic — Fractile, a startup developing

CNBC: Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told empl

Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed — Stripe Inc. has agreed to buy OpenRouter Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that helps developers access and switch betwe

Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at 7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reporte

Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised 110 million in funding. Seligman Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Samsung C

Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba G

Allie K. Miller’s tweet notes that AI is being applied beyond traditional job functions: designers use it more for engineering tasks than design itself, sales teams rely on AI primarily for marketing

DFlash 2 is here! Qwen3.8-27B at 70 tok/s on an M5 Max MacBook Pro. ⚡ Up to 4.6× the speed of autoregressive decoding, with the same output. This is the next generation of DFlash, seeded at Z Lab and

A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising 6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foun

Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize op

Google LLC today revealed it’s partnering with the U.K. government and the country’s aviation industry on a new initiative called Operation Blue Skies that aims to use artificial intelligence insights

An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails — The ar

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a 20M Series A, following a 10M seed in January 2025 — Artificial inte

Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good ti

Something super exciting happened quietly on HF over the past month: AI agents became AI builders, and they did it in the open! During our ICML reproduction challenge, 1,221 humans teamed up with codi

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congression

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to 6.7B, while its losses deepened; Anthropic's Q2 revenue more than doubled to 11.6B, with a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker'

Pew Research Center: Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have becom

Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged 200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup. The startup was founded in

Greg Brockman: Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses — The OpenAI-Hugging Face

Higgsfield Inc., a generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals, today announced that it has raised 400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the compan

OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has signed a 20-year lease for a sprawling data center cluster in Ohio. The campus is being built on the premises of a former uranium processing plant. The con

Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after closing on a 20 million round of early-stage

The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights in

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left h

Washington Post: How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United State

Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a 30M seed at a 500M valuation — AI research company Pathway ha

Bloomberg: Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than 7B; OpenRouter was valued at 1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Op

Bloomberg reports Stripe agreed to buy model router OpenRouter for over $7B; Stripe has not confirmed the deal.