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Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a 500M Series B at a valuation of at least 5B — The Series B round, which ch

Benedict Evans: An overview of macro tech trends: capex explosion, unprecedented surge in chip demand, supply chain bottlenecks, model commoditization, AI automation, and more — Twice a year, I produc

Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps — Chi

Alison Weissbrot / Adweek: Publicis agrees to acquire LiveRamp, which allows companies to share and build new data sets and models that can power agentic frameworks, for 2.2B in cash — Publicis Groupe

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: A profile of AI video generation startup Runway, which is training models directly on observational data, is now valued at 5.3B, and added 40M in ARR in Q2 — Every major A

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: In a viral X post that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, General Catalyst posted a “VC vs GC” video, with the VC apparently modeled after Marc Andreessen — One of the m

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment — For yea

Owen Walker / Financial Times: China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences — Beijing'

Kate Park / TechCrunch: Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a 27M seed at a 200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment — Asia's push into physical AI i

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google says Chromebooks will get support through their “existing date commitment”, and “many” models are “eligible to transition” to the Googlebook experience — During The And

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies — Neil Batlivala has

World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology

Krysta Fauria / Associated Press: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality — As conce

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Akamai says it struck a seven-year cloud computing deal with a “leading frontier model provider”; sources: the deal was with Anthropic and is worth 1.8B — Anthropic PBC has si

Bloomberg: Sources: WH is preparing to order US agencies to partner with AI companies on cybersecurity; the EO wouldn't require pre-release model testing by the government — The Trump administration i

IBM is exploring the application of quantum computing to simulate and model complex physical systems and phenomena in the universe. This research represents efforts to leverage quantum computers' uniq

Anthropic: Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,

Jay Peters / The Verge: Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former C

The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third

Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta is building agentic tools, including an OpenClaw-like assistant powered by its new Muse Spark AI model to help users create AI bots — Social media platfo

Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram — Meta Plat

Politico: Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from “interfering” with the government's use of models — A White House spokesperson sai

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Inference cloud startup DeepInfra raised a 107M Series B co-led by 500 Global and Georges Harik; it currently supports more than 190 open models — Dedicated inference clo

The AI Engineer World's Fair is a conference event featuring talks on emerging AI research and engineering topics including autoresearch systems, advanced memory architectures, world models, tokenizat

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW — - China's EV pri

Will Knight / Wired: A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a “vision-force-action model” incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation — From sorting chi

Digital security company DigiCert Inc. today introduced a new AI Trust framework to help organizations secure AI systems and their outputs, along with new capabilities to help secure autonomous agents

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) test-time computing have introduced the capability to perform intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning (thinking) before generating answers. While

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Scout AI, which is building an AI model to operate and command military assets like autonomous ATVs, raised a $100M Series A co-led by Align and Draper — At a U.S. military

Axios: Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos — - One source described the Whit

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans an AI overhaul for photo editing in iOS 27, including using on-device AI models to extend, enhance, and reframe photos — Apple Inc. is planning a major ov

Chris Metinko / Axios: Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a 23M Series A — Collov Labs, which tu

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sooth Labs, founded by ex-Meta employees to build AI models that let businesses forecast geopolitical events, is raising ~50M at a ~335M valuation — Sooth Labs, a new art

New York Times: SpaceX says it's working with Cursor to build “the world's most useful models” and it has the right to acquire Cursor for 60B or pay 10B for the partnership — The potential acquisition

The GitHub Blog: Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ — As shared in our recen

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more — Today, I'm talking wit

Abhinav Parmar / Reuters: Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026, a six-year low, as price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% — India's smar

We built a custom technology stack to run fast large language models on Cloudflare’s infrastructure. This post explores the engineering trade-offs and technical optimizations required to make high-per

Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine: How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding — Those c

Stanford HAI: 2026 AI Index Report: AI capability is accelerating, not plateauing, the US-China model gap has closed, the US leads in data centers and AI investment, and more — AI's influence on socie

The open source ecosystem is making it easier for AI enthusiasts and developers to build, customize and run increasingly capable agents locally. Throughout August, NVIDIA is celebrating the partners a

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open‑source mixture‑of‑experts language model totaling 30 B parameters with only 3 B active during inference, designed to serve high‑volume, low‑latency execution f

For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling the

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to th

Google announced Gemini Robotics 2.0 on July 30 2026, launching a family of three models that enhance robot dexterity, safety, and whole‑body intelligence for humanoid machinery. The publicly released

A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document’s 1,134 signatories work