AI News
- Samsung to return record $80bn to shareholders
- Japan Adds $944 Million for Rapidus in AI Chip Race
- Anthropic eases enterprise data retention after customer pushback
- Poolside strikes $6B NVIDIA licensing deal in rare reverse execuhire
- OpenAI revenue up 35% this quarter after GPT-5.6 Sol launch as Ramp data shows API lead over Anthropic
- Nvidia pays $6 billion to license Poolside Model Factory and hire 109 staff
- China Humanoid Robot Makers Control 97% of Global Shipments
- OpenAI GPT-Image-2 API Can Generate Images With Transparent Backgrounds
- Fujifilm Expands Key Chip Material Output to Capture AI Demand
- OpenAI Slows Development After Models Breached Hugging Face in Cyber Test
- Alibaba profit plunges over 75% as quarterly AI capex nears $10B
- Brazil launches AI supercomputer push, splits projects between Chinese, US firms
- Broadcom in talks to raise $60B+ in debt for AI chip financing tied to Anthropic
- Nevada approves up to 5000 Tesla robotaxis in Las Vegas, caps Waymo and Uber at 1000 each
- Astromech raises $20M at $3.8B valuation for genomic AI models
- ChatGPT Search site: operator share jumped to 16-17% on August 8
- Google lets publishers embed a Preferred Sources button for Search, Discover, and News
- OpenAI rolls out Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS
- OpenAI gains on Anthropic among US businesses in new Ramp data
- OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT control for Apple iMessage
- Google Discover gets AI chatbot-style feed customization in the Google app
- Google will let you tailor your Discover feed using natural language now
- Adobe Firefly adds three AI audio tools and Google Gemini Omni Flash
- Rippling drops Runlayer suits and releases competing MCP gateway the same night
- Waymo Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis
- Stripe to buy OpenRouter in $8bn deal
- Alibaba quarterly AI capex nears $10 billion as profit plunges
- Pew study finds AI authorship signs in over one-third of post-ChatGPT web pages
- Dynatrace signs definitive agreement to acquire Arize AI
- Anthropic IPO May Match or Beat SpaceX Record Raise, Bloomberg Reports
- Same-model LLM judge approved bad SQL twice with full confidence
- Meta Has Quietly Become One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers
- Slack launches collaborative vibe-coding channels for team AI agent work
- Unitree IPO closes up 460% at about $50B as state centers buy robots
- Microsoft Research releases Skala 1.1 with 2.8 kcal/mol GMTKN55 benchmark error
- Binance launches Agent OS so AI agents can trade via ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor
- OpenAI builds Private Safety Processing to catch enterprise misuse without storing customer data
- Anthropic keeps unreleased Model 2 internal above every public Claude tier
- SoftBank backs Gravis Robotics with $200M for autonomous excavator retrofits
- Network Bio raises $50M for biobank-pooled AI foundation model
- GOP campaign memo asks AI companies to counter data-center backlash in Ohio Senate race
- Amazon makes Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US
- Nvidia Discusses Mercor Investment at $20 Billion Valuation
- SpaceX Attempted to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cognition
- US agencies warn AI-built exploits target Siemens S7 industrial controllers
- Unitree Robotics Surges in Shanghai Debut on 6.1 Billion Yuan IPO
- OpenAI patches Codex after GPT-5.6 Sol deleted real user files
- OSWorld 2.0 Drops Top Computer-Use Agents Back Near 20 Percent
- Waymo Adds Gemini to Custom Ojai Robotaxi Fleet
- OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for frontier API customers