Knowledge catalogue
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
Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration — Top Open
New York Times: Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips — The artificial intelli
ABC: An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist — By national AI reporter Cam Wilso
Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity — SemiAnalysis
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g
Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a 45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~70M — seri
Shane Burke / The Information: US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development — Local government re
Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral did
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actio
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Anthropic announces a feature that allows different Claude Code sessions to message each other with updates and other information, available on macOS and Linux — Users running
Anthropic: Anthropic updates Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards to reduce false positives, cutting biology-related “fallbacks” by ~85% in testing across product surfaces — We're making updates to Cla
Black Hat on YouTube: At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment — The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenA
Arriana McLymore / Reuters: Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in chatbot results, while making sure purchases are done on their own sites to collect customer data — As shoppers incr
Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5 — TikTok owner trainin
The Information: Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest 2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus 1B more if it hits certain thresholds — Nvidia has agreed to i
Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sources: the US Commerce Department's BIS is reviewing how Chinese AI companies access Nvidia chips overseas, including by legally renting foreign data centers — A key U
Bloomberg: A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding — Alfred Lin and Pat Grady ar
Tobias Mann / The Register: AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum — Early tech demos show model
Bloomberg: DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; V4 Flash currently costs 0.14/1M input and 0.28/1M output tokens — DeepSeek plans to implement a signifi
Anna Tong / Forbes: Docs: US data labeling companies, like Surge AI and Mercor, that sell training datasets to US AI labs and the government are also selling them to Chinese labs — The same Silicon Va
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines — Chinese artificial intelligence start
Megan Morrone / Axios: Filing: OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” — If the case survives
Bloomberg: Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is conce
Jada Jones / ZDNET: Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching — ZDNET's key takeaways
Melissa Hancock / Fortune: Ooredoo, Nvidia, Nokia, and Indosat launch Zankore, Indonesia's first dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform; Ooredoo, which owns a 49% stake, commits $800M — Ooredoo Gr
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI debuts Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, and Vercel are on its steering committee — OpenAI's GPT-5 tur
Bloomberg: OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless — OpenAI is asking a federal jud
Herb Scribner / Axios: OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more — OpenAI on Thursd
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI voice startups raised 7B in Q1 2026, up from 1B in Q1 2025, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for next-gen AI agents — OpenAI an
Carl Zimmer / New York Times: Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding 16 viable viruses that can infect bacteria but don't threaten humans — Scientis
Reuters: Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share — Chinese technology giant Aliba
The Information: Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT — Executives at Canva,
Nichiket Sunil / Reuters: Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised 2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a 10.5B post-money valuation, up from 5.5B in April — Firmus said on Friday
Tom Carter / Business Insider: Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a “multi-chip approach” — - Anth
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, a browser-accessible AI agentic workspace for enterprises that lets employees build custom micro-apps — Cloudflare In
Axios: Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist; GOOG drops 3%+ — Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CE
New York Times: Developers in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper — Developers built Sunf
Bloomberg: Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales — Microsoft Corp. generates mo
Bloomberg: Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will lead Google DeepMind as SVP, reporting to Sundar Pichai — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is losing some of its most pro
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release — Hark, a startup
Wall Street Journal: Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 “contributor” tier priced at 0.10/1M input and 0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training — The company, press
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at 1.25/1M input and 4.25/1M output tokens — Meta is rolling o
Lily Hay Newman / Wired: OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach involved AI agents creating an internal message board, unnoticed by humans, where they shared exploits and planned the hack — At the Black
Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year — It's also planni
Business Insider: Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech — Google wants its AI