Knowledge catalogue
Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.
Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Comin
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 sets new standards on coding, knowledge work, and long-running problem-solving tasks, and can fix the root causes of software issues — It's only th
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — Anthropic PBC is releasing a new versi
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Anthropic says Fable 5.1 will cost an estimated 25% less than Fable 5 for typical workloads and up to 45% less for highly agentic work — In June, Anthropic first released Fable 5,
Anthropic: Anthropic unveils Claude Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, for trusted partners and with cybersecurity and life sciences safeguards — We're introducing Claude Fable 5
Ben Patterson / PCWorld: Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are Anthropic's first models to watermark text outputs; a detection API is available to eligible groups as required under EU law — Aside from b
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the 499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd.
Wired: OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners — The company will give select partners early
Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.41B, vs. 3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed f
Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the compan
The Information: Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its fort
Anna Tong / Forbes: Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of 3.2B, up from 300M in April, and is profitable — Twenty three year-old Spencer
Bloomberg: Sources: Cognition is raising around 1B at a ~47B valuation, up from 26B in May; Cognition received nearly 10B in investor interest — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc
Erin Woo / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google plans to release Gemini 3.8 Flash as soon as Wednesday; Gemini 4 has done well on pre-training evals but still needs to complete post-training — Interna
Andreessen Horowitz: a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B — - Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. …
Anthropic: Anthropic details security efforts following Claude cyber evaluation incidents, including a weeks-long pause on higher-risk RL and work to curb reward hacking — On July 30, we reported thre
Financial Times: Big Tech reported Q2 “other income” rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom — Analysts say large p
Bloomberg: Nvidia plans to invest 3.5B into MediaTek through convertible bonds; MediaTek forecasts AI chip revenue of about 2B this year — Nvidia Corp. is investing $3.5 billion into MediaTek Inc., de
Rocket Drew / The Information: Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners — For all the t
Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Anthropic has signed a $35B cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda; Nvidia will hold the lease on and supply chips to a Texas data center built by Hut 8 —
The Information: Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing — OpenAI in recent months has
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input — From
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs” — The Penta
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on user PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage — Anth
Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Industry insiders say Chinese robot makers currently rely on Nvidia silicon and software; Nvidia's physical AI business generates ~$10B in annual revenue — Busine
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments — The wh
Aaron Tilley / The Information: Sources: OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Macs for RL, Anthropic rents them, Nvidia sees Apple as its main local AI rival as Macs gain traction with AI devs — The hot
Ajeya Cotra / Planned Obsolescence: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot — It's a
@claudedevs: Anthropic will “permanently” raise weekly Claude Code limits by 25% on Sept. 14 for most plans, which will work out a 17% reduction, given the current 50% boost — Starting September 14, w
Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” — OpenAI
Tim Ingham / Music Business Worldwide: Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and Benjamin Mann, alleging tens of thousands of copyrighted songs were used to train Claude's LLMs —
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia — Meta's India and S
VideoCardz.com: Modders get an experimental version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering library running in over a dozen games after it leaked in NBA 2K27's early access build — DLSS 5 mod spreads to C
Emily Graffeo / Bloomberg: Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft — Lambda Inc., a
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with 10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model — Z.ai
Jack Queen / Reuters: A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless” — A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the P
Anthropic: Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let three external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks — Earlier this year, we ran a pilo
Will Knight / Wired: Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms — The potential for AI
Google DeepMind: Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP — Building trust in propri
Bloomberg: Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platf
Priyanka Salve / CNBC: Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche — Porsche has si
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more — It c
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised 156M at a 5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity — Identi
Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit 279B in Q2, up from 119B in Q1, 95.2B in Q4 2025, and 50.3B in Q3 2025 — The AI chi
CNBC: Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong — Nvidia shares rose nearly 9% Thursd
Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, A
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks — Code reviewed by WIRED
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month — It seems the
Reuters: Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~4B valuation — Anthropic discussed buying arti
New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as 10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place — The company is rethinkin
Bloomberg: Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating — The US government is inves
Newcomer: Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a 1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures — Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raisi
Madison Mills / Axios: Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 — After burning t
Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them — Artificial i
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: AI assistant Instinct is raising a 250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a 2.5B valuation, bringing its total raised to 350M — Buzzy startup Instinc
Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers — Anthropic add
Karen Weise / New York Times: Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is t