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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'

Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders m

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

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We still don’t know how people are really using AI AI companie

Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a 110M Series A at a 1B+ valuation — Velaura AI was

AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI regularly publish reports on how people are using products like Claude and ChatGPT, but they only release the data they want us to see, AI researchers say. “Ther

Artificial intelligence startup Groq Inc. today announced that it has raised 350 million in additional funding. The Series A round was led by returning backer Disruptive. Grok stated that Nvidia Corp.

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's te

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality — When I wro

Give an autonomous agent a wallet and spending guardrails so it can pay for paywalled APIs, MCP servers, and web content. This post connects OpenClaw to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments and the x402

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5 were benchmarked on DeepSWE. A cascading strategy that starts with Pro 0813 and escalates to Fable only when it fails solves 82.7 % of tasks at an average cost

The QAD (Quantization‑Aware Distillation) pipeline for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning leverages NVIDIA Model Optimizer to aggressively compress the model with W4A16/NVFP4 quantization while keeping accuracy c

Bloomberg: Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to 105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests 1.5B in SB Energy — Nvidia Corp. has agreed to spe

Structured outputs, web search, web fetch, MCP connector, and tool search are now available for Claude models hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, turning a model endpoint into a production agent pla

Gemini and Pixel have entered long‑term partnership agreements with Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint‑Germain to deliver AI‑powered personal intelligence exper

Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC has won an auction to acquire massive volumes of internal business data from the bankrupt airline operator Spirit Airlines Inc. for a hefty 10 million price. A report by Blo

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

Hexaware Technologies Ltd. today introduced the Zero Friction Enterprise, a delivery framework that folds the information technology services company’s modernization, cybersecurity, engineering, opera

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

Letta's agent-memory SDK supports persistent agent memory across managed cloud, self-hosted App Server or local deployment, according to Letta.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open model built for high-volume agentic workloads, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. This post shows how to deploy the 30B Mixture-of-Experts model (3B

Tobias Burns / CNBC: Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations — Recent Securitie

The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research,

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

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center — A

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

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna (max), and just one point behind GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) - that GLM is 7

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generatio

AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders fo

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

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it — The world's

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

Hugging Face: Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem — In the AI world, time f

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

I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fun

Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for runni

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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.

OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of 7 billion, according to a report

Anthropic: Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite — Future Claude models will gene

The article describes an end‑to‑end DIY project that builds an AI text detector from scratch, including dataset construction, model training, local deployment, and a reinforcement learning verifier (R

Grace Shao / Bloomberg: Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experie