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@alibaba_qwen: Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “everything is a plugin” that can be swapped out as a plugin — DeepSeek
Emma Roth / The Verge: Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain — Google will still
Kate Rooney / CNBC: Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July — At the end of a we
Reuters: Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a la
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop — Un
Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in
Z.ai: Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexSh
Reuters: Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Fri
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data — Robotics comp
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more — What happen
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack — OpenAI's rogue agent ha
The Information: DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks but is priced much lower, at 0.435/1M input and 0.87/1M output tokens — Chinese AI developer D
Counterpoint Research: In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth — - AI inference work
Alex Townsend: Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra — On July 30, 2026, the fir
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use — OpenA
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second — OpenAI is previewing a new way
Bloomberg: Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion — Pony AI Inc. said it plans
Ara Kharazian / Ramp: Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost — Dear Colleagues
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a 2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit 100B to 120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect th
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO — Demis Hassabis di
Financial Times: Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a 10B+ valuation, up from 5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to 150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at
Financial Times: Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires — The rise of equity-rich tec
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first with ASL and English — Google Deep
Victoria Song / The Verge: Google unveils the 399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The 399 Goog
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google unveils the 899+ Pixel 11, 1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more — For the last f
Mistral AI Blog: Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models — At Mistral, we believe every
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed in 2025 — SACRAMENTO
Wall Street Journal: Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet — From marathon tra
Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about 6B — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence
Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google — Google co-found
Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons — The UK governme
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out — The streaming platform Twi
Thomas Claburn / The Register: Anthropic says new Claude models in the EU will add watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to files, to comply with the EU AI Act, and it will update older models — EU rul
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad buildout, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if AI revenues fail to materialize — On Januar
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters: IBM and Together AI sign a 240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models — IBM (IBM.N) a
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router — Artificial inte
Julian Hast / Bloomberg: OpenAI is hiring a power-trading lead to manage commodity hedging across its expanding data center power portfolio, as tech companies seek reliable electricity — OpenAI is hir
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI launches a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, supporting ChatGPT Work, Codex, and more; Computer Use outside the in-app browser is not available — On
Will Knight / Wired: Researchers find that feeding a frontier model's encrypted reasoning traces to a weaker model from the same provider can make it output the traces in plaintext — Researchers devis
Bloomberg: Singapore raises its 2026 GDP growth forecast to 4.5%-5.5% from 2%-4%, citing stronger-than-expected global AI investment and improved external demand — Singapore upgraded its 2026 economic
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Trajectory, founded by ex-DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta staffers to build continual learning models, raised 40M led by Sequoia at a 300M valuation —
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic is courting investors for what could be the biggest IPO ever, touting rapid growth and plans to address mounting public backlash against AI — Company is racing
Business Insider: Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise 150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least 750M — Kevin Weil, the former chief prod
The Information: Sources: Nvidia is developing a Nemotron 4 model with 1T+ parameters, up from Nemotron 3 Ultra's 550B parameters but smaller than leading Chinese open models — Nvidia is doubling down
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users — SpaceXAI and Cursor
Cade Metz / New York Times: xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally — Igor Babuschki
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind arrived in 2016, and now hosts OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and more — Wha
Joel Khalili / Wired: A profile of Founders Pledge, which has recorded $4B in pledges from founders so far in 2026, as the AI industry now accounts for a third of its lifetime total — A new generation
Anthropic: Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem — Recently, a member of staff
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Macquarie, and Singapore's GIC form Theseus Infrastructure to develop AI computing sites; Anthropic commits to cover consumer electricity price hikes — Anthropic PB
Claude / @claudeai: Anthropic makes Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing permanent at 2/1M input tokens and 10/1M output tokens, canceling a planned September 1 increase — We're making Claude Sonnet
Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models — New la
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is “small enough” to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers — Meta Platforms I
Financial Times: Nvidia partners with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development — Apollo, Blackstone and Goldman Sa
Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative — OpenAI is introducing a more cybe
OpenAI: OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models — Introducing new ways to unlock
Liam Knox / Bloomberg: Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up ~33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched — People are anxious t
Bloomberg: Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda is selling a $917M leveraged loan to finance the purchase of GPUs as part of a contract with Nvidia — Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic agreed to a 20-year, 9.1B compute deal with Riot Platforms for 191 MW of capacity at a Rockdale, TX campus; RIOT jumps ~25% after hours — Anthropic PBC