Deepseek Targets Visual Agents With New Experimental Flash Model

Anthropic deploys Claude Mythos 5 for cybersecurity, with humans approving fixes

Anthropic is putting Claude Mythos 5, its most capable model to date, to work finding security...

Nvidia GPU with glowing circuitry, symbolizing simplified AI model handoffs and reduced costs.

Nvidia's Linear Math Simplifies Costly AI Model Handoffs

Nvidia researchers have found a way to skip one of the most expensive steps in agentic AI: making a...

Insilico Medicine's AI drug development raises questions of credit, depicted by a futuristic AI brain and molecules.

Insilico Medicine's AI Drug Raises Question of Credit

Insilico Medicine's press release last year had no trouble crediting its generative AI platform for...

OpenAI GPT-Image-2 API generates an image of a dog with a transparent background, showcasing new feature.

OpenAI Adds Transparent Backgrounds to GPT-Image-2 API

OpenAI is adding transparent background support to GPT-Image-2 through its API, letting developers...

AI Tools & Apps

Slack interface showing code embeds for Claude, Devin, Copilot, and Vercel AI agents in chat.

Slack Code embeds Claude, Devin, Copilot, and Vercel AI agents into chats

Slack announced a new product Tuesday called Slack Code that pulls AI coding agents out of solo...

NASA, Satlyt, and Starcloud collaborate to run Google's Gemma AI on a satellite in Earth orbit.

NASA, Satlyt, and Starcloud run Google's Gemma AI in orbit

Google's Gemma family of open AI models has crossed one billion downloads, the company said, a...

Grok AI chatbot interface on a smartphone, displaying encrypted user data and a data leak warning.

Grok leaks user data when prompts are encrypted

Grok has a data leak problem, and xAI has known about it since June without fixing it.

Serval's Catalyst platform automates HR, IT, and analytics. A diverse team collaborates in a modern office.

Serval's Catalyst expands beyond IT to HR and analytics automation

Serval is flipping on Catalyst for every customer by default starting Thursday, marking the general...

Business & Startups

US Drafts Letter Forcing Partners to Choose Sides in AI Race

The State Department has drafted a letter telling partner governments they can't hedge on...

Anthropic's cloud data storage solution, addressing privacy concerns after criticism.

Anthropic keeps 30-day data rule but stores it in customer clouds after criticism

Since June, Anthropic has held onto every prompt and output run through its Mythos and Fable models...

OpenAI and Anthropic logos, with a graph showing OpenAI's Q3 API growth and an Astra model icon.

OpenAI Outpaces Anthropic in Q3 API Growth, Astra Model Launch Imminent

Three months ago, Anthropic looked like it had pulled ahead for good. The company hit a $65 billion...

Abstract image: glowing AI brain with financial charts, symbolizing uncontrolled enterprise AI spending.

Survey: 20% of enterprises lack real-time controls for AI spending sprees

One in five enterprises still can't shut off an AI agent's spending once it starts running,...

Research & Benchmarks

Deepseek Targets Visual Agents With New Experimental Flash Model

Deepseek pushed out V4-Flash-Vision-Exp this week, an experimental multimodal model that bolts...

Meta and Microsoft logos, symbolizing their AI partnership and significant financial agreement.

Meta Pays Microsoft Hundreds of Millions Annually for AI

Meta burns through trillions of tokens a week on Microsoft's Azure cloud, and according to a...

Claude AI interface displaying protein structures, symbolizing its expansion into protein design and scientific research.

Anthropic's Claude Expands Into Protein Design

Four days ago, Dario Amodei posted on X that Anthropic's biology work was still months from...

August 19, 2026 • 4 min read

OpenAI Revokes Access to Limited Cyber Program Daybreak Blue

Wednesday brought a wave of complaints from security researchers who found themselves locked out of...

Policy & Regulation

Person wearing Meta AI glasses, recording discreetly, sparking privacy concerns about covert recording.

Meta AI Glasses Sales Surge Raises Covert Recording Concerns

Meta sold more than 2 million pairs of its AI-powered smart glasses last year, and that number...

August 17, 2026 • 4 min read

Destroyed rare books, including a first edition, with a tracking device, highlighting Amazon's AI training practices.

Amazon Destroys Rare Books for AI Training, Tracking Device Shows

A tracking device tucked inside a rare book led reporters at 404 Media to an Amazon facility in Las...

Anthropic's Claude AI watermarking: digital signature on text, ensuring authenticity and detecting AI-generated content.

Anthropic Details How Claude's New AI Watermarks Will Work

Anthropic spent Friday trying to calm down a chunk of its user base. The company published a blog...

August 15, 2026 • 4 min read

Anthropic AI model text output, invisibly watermarked, demonstrating AI content authenticity and origin.

Anthropic Will Invisibly Watermark All New AI Models’ Text Outputs

Anthropic will start embedding invisible watermarks in text that Claude produces or even just...

August 13, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

August 19, 2026 • 4 min read

Stanford's Karen Liu, a robotics expert, discusses large-scale robot data collection for generalist AI development.

Stanford's Karen Liu on Generalist AI's Large-Scale Robot Data Collection

A robot arm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, watched a short video of a person unzipping a purse and...

DeepSeek V4 Flash Agent tasks failing due to price restructuring, impacting AI performance and cost efficiency.

DeepSeek's V4 Flash Agent Tasks Falter Amid Price Restructuring

DeepSeek's V4 Flash has spent the past few weeks sitting near the top of model leaderboards, with...

August 17, 2026 • 4 min read

AI model cost reduction: a person at a computer, charts on screen, symbolizing 52% cost savings.

Writer says its new AI model cuts costs by 52% amid token spending surge

Writer put a number on the problem everyone in enterprise AI has been dancing around: token...

August 15, 2026 • 4 min read

AI lab's advanced tech, glowing blue, symbolizes breakthroughs, yet raises concerns about human needs.

AI Labs' Breakthroughs Are "Pushing Us Further Away" From What People Need

Tim O'Reilly has been repeating the same line for three decades: create more value than you...

August 14, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

The AI Agent Harness Is Security's 'Natural Control Point

Three separate reports this summer, from OpenAI, Anthropic, and the UK AI Security Institute,...

Superwhisper S1-Mini text normalizer, a compact 462MB model for ASR transcripts, shown on a screen.

Superwhisper's S1-Mini Is a 462 MB Text Normalizer for ASR Transcripts

Superwhisper released three models this week under the S1 name, and only one of them ships as a...

Graph showing Anthropic leading OpenAI in business spend, 44% to 40%, according to Ramp data.

Anthropic leads OpenAI 44% to 40% in business spend, Ramp data shows

Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic has to show its books to anyone yet, so anyone trying to gauge which...

August 20, 2026 • 3 min read

Silicon Valley tech executive looking concerned at a smartphone, reflecting public AI backlash.

Silicon Valley Misreads Public's AI Backlash

Jason Kelce wants you to pee in a bottle and mail it to a data center. That's the pitch in a new ad...

Industry Applications