Samstag, 22. August 2026

16:00
London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings
TechCrunch
15:00
Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027
Bloomberg
14:45
Apparel retailers like Zalando, Zara, and ASOS are betting on AI virtual fitting rooms to create a better online shopping experience and cut costly returns
Bloomberg
12:40
Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications
New York Times
12:40
A look at the narrowing US-China AI gap, as a spate of compelling, low-cost releases makes Chinese AI models increasingly attractive to businesses
Bloomberg
10:35
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter
Wccftech
09:50
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have made Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, a data center hub, with ~100 data centers built or under construction
Wired
06:30
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come
Financial Times
02:30
With each successive era of LLMs, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model
SemiAnalysis
02:00
Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures
SiliconANGLE
01:25
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures
The Verge
01:00
Following abandoned IPO attempts in NYC and London, Shein is struggling to grow as it nears a Hong Kong listing at a fraction of its peak valuation of $100B
New York Times

Freitag, 21. August 2026

22:10
How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability
Wall Street Journal
20:36
Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors
New York Times
20:15
Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs
Fortune
19:55
Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation
BetaKit
19:10
OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks
Politico
18:45
Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content
9to5Mac
18:35
Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites
Reuters
18:15
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens
Reuters
17:35
Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation
Business Insider
16:50
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels
NVIDIA Technical Blog
16:25
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips
Bloomberg
16:10
DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others
Omarchy News
15:45
OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, has resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, and is returning to Salesforce, where she was Slack's CRO
The Information
15:40
The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024
Axios
15:06
Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI
Bloomberg
14:35
Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools
Claude
13:25
Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September
Bloomberg
12:55
Sources: the US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US
TechCrunch
12:20
Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026
TechCrunch
11:55
Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes
Financial Times
11:20
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR
Financial Times
11:00
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M
TechCrunch
09:50
Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027
Reuters
09:10
Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B
Reuters
09:00
DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests
Bloomberg
08:35
Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered
The Verge
08:00
A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services
Financial Times
07:15
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires
CNBC
06:40
Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company”
CNBC
06:25
Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition
Bloomberg
06:01
China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy
South China Morning Post
04:55
How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution
CNBC
02:10
How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M
Reuters

Donnerstag, 20. August 2026

23:35
Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments, split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250M for a Rio supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek
Reuters
22:25
Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M over eight months, putting its net annual run rate at $150M to $200M
TechCrunch
21:30
Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000
TechCrunch
21:00
A New Jersey teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without payment; TikTok already settled her claims
Reuters
20:05
A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies
Reuters
18:51
OpenAI debuts an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT Work and Codex read, search, and analyze chats, draft and send messages, and more
9to5Mac
18:21
Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China
Fortune
17:45
Email: Apple tells music industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will now be visibly labeled on Apple Music
Billboard
16:55
GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center
The GitHub Blog
16:40
Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies
Bloomberg
16:30
Google rolls out an embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app on Android
Search Engine Journal
16:10
Twin1 AI, which creates digital twins of professionals and integrates them with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, launches out of stealth with a $20M seed
Axios
15:36
Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B Nvidia licensing deal; Nvidia invested $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation and offered jobs to 109 Poolside employees
Newcomer
15:05
Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, merging two of the big US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty acquisition
The Hollywood Reporter
14:35
Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after quietly launching it in Brazil in July
TechCrunch
14:25
Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August
Bloomberg
14:10
Source: Anthropic plans a change later in 2026 that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud infrastructure
Bloomberg
13:25
Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years
Google
13:20
Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules
The Information
13:15
Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M
GamesBeat
13:10
Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026
TechCrunch
13:00
Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a “depraved” test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide
Bloomberg
12:10
The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations
Reuters
11:15
Filing: in 2025, TikTok generated $702.5M in net profit in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, its first annual profit, on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY
Forbes
10:55
A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance their info would be removed
Wall Street Journal
10:35
Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from third parties like Nvidia
Bloomberg
09:25
Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID, shipments fell 39%, and average console prices grew 16% to $542
Bloomberg
09:15
Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode acquires four-year-old AI consultancy Casper Studios for an unknown amount; Ode employs 100+ after buying Fractional
The Information
08:50
Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on internal US military information, making $8M overall with a 97.2% average win rate and attracting copycat bets
Reuters
08:35
GTA 6 leaker shares footage suggesting link or access to playable build of the game, as Rockstar struggles to contain even more gameplay videos
Eurogamer.net
08:20
Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents “like teammates” across all plans
The Verge
07:40
Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers
Bloomberg
07:30
Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas
Wired
07:15
Australia passes the News Bargaining Incentive, which will tax tech giants 2.5% on their Australian ad revenue if they don't strike deals with local news media
Reuters
07:00
PitchBook: 4,000+ California-based startups have raised ~$366B in venture capital in 2026 so far, more than triple the total of all other 49 US states combined
Wall Street Journal
06:45
Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C; Google and Salesforce Ventures invested
Bloomberg
06:30
Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition, its largest yet, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and tokens are the central currency for businesses
Wall Street Journal
06:20
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$39.64B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.54B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption
Bloomberg
06:15
Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users have to limit AI agents' access and trades
TechCrunch
06:10
South Korean media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal, featuring a 6.3% salary increase and profit-sharing bonuses paid as 60% shares and 40% cash
Bloomberg
05:55
Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app
Reuters
02:50
London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with models and chips, raised a $100M seed led by Atomico; the UK's Sovereign AI Fund also invested
Bloomberg
02:35
Virginia's Loudoun County hosts 250+ data centers that bring in huge tax revenues, but in 2025, its board voted to slow construction after residents pushed back
New York Times
02:20
A look at Backstory, Google DeepMind's experimental AI image authentication tool that Google has asked journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers to test
Nieman Lab
01:35
China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns
Financial Times
01:20
Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing
Nikkei Asia
00:40
How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military
Reuters
00:35
Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for “free porn” in June
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 19. August 2026

23:35
The EU seems to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, like sharing search data with rivals
Politico
23:10
At a White House event, Trump says CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore; Hyperliquid's HYPE token jumps 18%+
Bloomberg
22:15
The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a “back-to-basics” approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine
Wall Street Journal
21:15
Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected
PhoneArena
20:40
German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M to date and had a $1.35B valuation in 2021
CTech
19:05
Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs, including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate
Bloomberg
18:10
Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently
Bloomberg
18:00
Former Facebook Director of Engineering Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized Facebook and Instagram's growth and engagement over child safety
Reuters
17:00
Google unveils new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus college student offers for Google AI plans
Tom's Guide
15:50
Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the “beginning of the singularity”, a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY
Axios
15:45
Sources: SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition, but Cognition didn't engage; Cognition CEO Scott Wu: the AI coding startup is “not for sale”
Bloomberg
15:34
Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect”
CNBC
15:00
Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic
Bloomberg
14:45
Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter
The Information
14:00
Stripe agrees to acquire NYC-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors
New York Times
13:45
The US FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will “deploy enforcement resources” against companies that do not disclose it
Wall Street Journal
13:27
Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed
Bloomberg
13:25
Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace
The Verge
13:20
OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers
Axios
12:40
The US CFTC bans former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang from trading for five years, as part of a settlement over their roles at FTX
Bloomberg
12:35
Nielsen rolls out changes to make its ratings more accurate, including using data from smartwatch-like devices worn by its panelists without requiring logins
The Wrap
12:25
Google Pixel 11 review: a great design, fantastic camera features, and some Pro phone specs, but few gen-to-gen hardware improvements and it's expensive at $899
The Verge
12:20
Pixel 11 Pro review: Magic Capture can be useful and Rambler might be Google's best feature in years, but gaming performance is subpar and HiLight is useless
Wired
12:15
Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: a tougher body, an IP68 rating, and a decent triple rear camera, but an iterative hardware upgrade with a dated-looking design
The Verge
12:10
Google Pixel Watch 5 review: improved GPS is good and gesture controls are great, but it's $50 more expensive and the new health features haven't rolled out yet
The Verge
12:00
Memo: the GOP asks AI companies to stem the public backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill its chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio
Axios
11:55
Rivian spinout Also, which is developing autonomous driving tech, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital, after announcing a $200M round in March 2026
TechCrunch
11:45
Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M
Wall Street Journal
11:30
Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's Bengaluru-based fintech Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional funding, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation
TechCrunch
11:25
Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading all its users even if they don't subscribe to Prime
TechCrunch
11:20
Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical
The Logic
10:45
Sources: Nvidia is seeking to connect companies holding its GPUs with data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them in the Nordics
CNBC
10:15
A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns
Tom's Hardware
09:10
Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy as much as $12.2B of its shares; MRVL closes up 9.85%
Bloomberg
09:05
Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise
SiliconANGLE
08:45
Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it is supposed to hit theaters
The Verge
08:25
Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more
Wired
07:25
UK-based automotive dealership software maker Pinewood agrees to a £545M cash takeover by US private equity firm Ridgeview, after an Apax takeover fell through
Financial Times
07:15
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to almost 500 cities and towns in the US by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint
Bloomberg
07:00
OpenAI expands its ad pilot program to 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, after launching it in nine countries including the US
Adweek
06:45
SMR startup Oklo is building its reactor in Idaho, a step toward supplying Meta data centers with power; the US has an estimated 22 active reactor projects
Wall Street Journal
06:30
Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% YoY
Bloomberg
06:15
Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs
The Information
06:05
WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breaches probe; WTC falls 8%+
Bloomberg
05:55
Sources: Samsung raised prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity
Reuters
05:45
Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending
Bloomberg
04:15
US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteeing jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers
Wall Street Journal
03:55
AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over key unanswered questions
The Record
02:35
Nvidia, with its quarterly free cash flow up 18x over three years to $48.5B, is using its strong balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat
CNBC
01:15
Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0
VentureBeat
01:10
FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging mobile carriers, which make 3% to 5% of their revenue from roaming
Financial Times
00:45
Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens
VentureBeat
00:15
Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In
Reuters

Dienstag, 18. August 2026

23:30
OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add a 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads, but costs won't be passed on to customers
The Register
23:15
Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent ~10K Nvidia H200 chips each in mainland China in recent weeks; US licenses permit the H200 in China and Hong Kong
Financial Times
22:25
Hangzhou deploys SUPCON's traffic-control robots, which operate autonomously from 7am to 6pm and use cameras and radar to direct traffic and flag violations
Bloomberg
22:00
Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February
Bloomberg
21:20
Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+
Fortune
20:30
Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack with 50% fewer components built on its new Nexus architecture and powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips, available in Q3 2026
Reuters
20:05
Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30
Pew Research Center
19:15
Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and chemical analysis, and says it'll launch an access program for scientists
Anthropic
18:50
Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its loss jumped 32% to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B as it swung to a small operating profit
Wall Street Journal
18:35
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points above GLM-5.2, on par with Kimi K3, but below Opus 5's 63 and Fable 5's 62
@artificialanlys
17:50
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's smart glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information”
New York Times
17:40
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials
NBC News
17:20
In opening arguments, US state AGs say that Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejects the claims
Reuters
17:00
Sam Altman says OpenAI decided to slow the development of some AI models due to a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment”
Time
16:40
Sources: Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic
The Information
16:20
The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with up to $5M for four years and up to $75M for one year
Bloomberg
15:00
VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1 2026, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested across 2022 to 2024
Crunchbase News
14:10
OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold
Axios
13:40
Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home
The Verge
13:10
Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its ~$10B target as banks compete for roles on the upcoming IPO; Anthropic could limit the size
Bloomberg
12:35
The EU says it “welcomes Apple's changes”; Apple will reduce its fees in the EU, charging 26% for apps with IAP, 20% for alt payments, and 15% for link-outs
Bloomberg
12:10
Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new 5% Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers
Apple
12:05
Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using its own version of Kimi K3
Business Insider
11:25
Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021
Axios
11:20
Meta ran ads for a nudify app; one ad showed a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store
Wired
11:05
Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in January 2025
SiliconANGLE
10:40
Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP
New York Times
10:25
Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation
Reuters
09:15
As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to write new rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws
Reuters
09:00
Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more
Wired
08:45
Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance to $149B-$151B; KLAR falls 23%
Wall Street Journal
07:56
How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; District Judge Rogers adopted a hybrid structure for the multiweek trial
Reuters
07:41
Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen. 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years
Wired
07:15
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand
Bloomberg
07:06
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails
New York Times
07:01
Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models
The Information
06:45
Reddit launches an early experiment to create short videos featuring AI voices reading select text posts and comments, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android
The Verge
06:35
Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform aimed at helping businesses use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock is up 40%+ since a June low
Bloomberg
06:26
AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July
Wall Street Journal
06:15
Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its plan to retire the OS in February 2027
Bloomberg
06:00
Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts to reduce warming due to contrails
New Scientist
05:50
Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals
Bloomberg
05:42
Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC references unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, two new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more
MacRumors
04:00
In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower
Financial Times
02:25
Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool for making Hollywood-quality adult content
Wired
01:00
Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch
Politico

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23:20
Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens
Associated Press
22:50
Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions
Nikkei Asia
21:55
A short video found in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri to answer questions
MacRumors
20:45
Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount and gave a 12-hour deadline as it scrambled for cash at the end of July
Wall Street Journal
18:25
David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas
@davidsacks
17:40
Pornhub parent company Aylo agrees to pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from CSAM
404 Media
17:20
Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B
Axios
17:05
Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical”
CNBC
17:00
BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B via pay-later loans in 2025, nearly 2x from 2023
New York Times