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Cybercriminals are targeting Grand Theft Auto fans with fake websites that impersonate Rockstar Games, the developer behind the long-awaited GTA 6, according to cybersecurity company Malwarebytes….
Keenable, built for AI agents, emerged from stealth in Aug 2026 with a $26M seed led by Accel to make web-scale retrieval cost-effective. It says it has a 100B+ document index, an API in use at AI labs/inference providers, and partners with Gradium, with 15 engineers planning to double by year-end.
WhatsApp announced on August 25, 2026, that it is rolling out several new security features, including stronger two-step verification, support for multiple passkeys, and additional context for calls…
Pie, the social app founded by Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn, launched a Communities feature on Tuesday, August 26, 2026, giving users permanent digital spaces to organize social groups — a move that…
Google is rolling out Android 17’s Motion Assist in phases in 2026, starting with some Pixel phones, to cut car motion sickness by using accelerometer/gyroscope data to move edge “dots” with vehicle motion. Users can tweak opacity, shapes, colors, and auto-activation via Quick Settings; it mirrors Apple’s Motion Cues (introduced in 2024).
Google’s $10M mid-August 2026 bid to buy ~34 years of Spirit Airlines records is met with a formal objection from the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) representing 5,500 former flight attendants. Court filings list 1M+ time-card records, 175,000+ employee records, and 500M Microsoft Teams entries, and the sale still needs approval.
Alabama’s Attorney General announced in August 2026 that the state has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate…
Hugging Face has been approached by potential buyers at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported in August 2026 — nearly triple the $4.5 billion valuation the AI startup carried…
GrapheneOS won’t support Motorola phones until 2027: this year’s Signature and Razr handsets are “very close” but still lack memory tagging and secure element integration. A Mastodon post dated Aug. 24, 2026 says support starts with a Motorola slab flagship, then brings Razr Fold and Razr Ultra, with Razr Ultra the first officially supported flip phone.
Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter in August 2026 as a free, anonymous “stealth” reasoning model for coding and sustained agentic work, listed on a Thursday. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison called it “very impressive,” while Z.ai GLM and Microsoft MAI theories remain unconfirmed.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News to balance privacy and safety amid backlash, after a 2026 Washington Post review cited 46 alleged misuse cases, including stalking former partners. Flock cut default retention from 30 to 7 days, and three House members proposed banning federal buys of Flock cameras.
Harvard Business School launched an eight-week entrepreneurship program in 2026 that uses AI-generated avatars of its instructors to deliver personalized feedback to participants. The program, called…
In August 2026, Inherent’s Faraday agent independently reproduced published scientific papers better than Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.5—without being shown the outcomes. Built on Qwen 3.6 (27B parameters) and trained with reinforcement learning, it was evaluated for “research taste” and launched from stealth after a $50M seed.
OpenAI’s global affairs team, in an Aug. 2026 LinkedIn post, urges California SB 53 changes—monitor frontier models during training/evaluation for serious incidents and tighten cybersecurity across the model-development lifecycle. It cites recent incidents, including last month’s escaped model that hacked Hugging Face systems, and backs “reverse federalism.”
Researchers have revealed that expired Visa credit cards can be “zombified” and used to make contactless payments, even after they have been discarded or left unattended. The finding was presented at…
Claude Opus 4.6, an Anthropic AI model released in 2026, readily generated sexually explicit content in testing conducted by TechCrunch — despite Anthropic’s policies explicitly prohibiting such…
TikTok and ByteDance agreed to a $400M DOJ COPPA settlement over claims that the app let millions of children under 13 use it and collect their data without parental consent, including for targeted ads. Reached Aug. 2026 after the DOJ sued in 2024, it mandates tighter age controls and added parent oversight, with no admission—following a $5.7M Musical.ly settlement in 2019.
LinkedIn says its “Seems like AI slop” button—added on July 30, 2026—has been clicked more than 1 million times. Hari Srinivasan reports views on content it classifies as AI slop are down 40% from a few weeks ago, and a new notification will warn when members say a post “seems like AI.”