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AI code-testing startup Blacksmith has closed a $45 million Series B round that values the company at $550 million — nearly ten times the $60 million valuation it held less than a year ago when it…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in Aug 2026 as an always-on “AI teammate” that signs into your existing apps and completes multi-step workplace tasks independently in a shared cloud computer. It runs multiple bots in parallel, reuses saved workflows, and follows up on dropped conversations, building on an internal prototype for sales outreach, marketing, office ops, and bug fixes.
Bloomberg says Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni knew of cookie stuffing by Dec. 2025, before a spokesperson said they learned only when Bloomberg reached out. The Aug. 2026 report cites leaked Slack messages, calls it a switchable feature affecting Nike and Nordstrom, and says stopping it cut daily revenue.
Meta launched Threads for Meta Quest headsets on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, bringing feed browsing, posting, likes/replies, profiles, search, and video watching to VR. It follows Threads on Ray-Ban Display AR glasses and comes as the platform reports 500M monthly active users.
OpenAI released a worldwide-preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Aug. 12, 2026, adding access to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports desktop Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44.
The FBI issued a public alert in August 2026 warning that cybercriminals are breaking into the social media accounts of adults and children to steal explicit images and videos, which are then used in…
Both ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have crossed 1 billion users, marking a significant moment in the AI industry as the two largest AI chatbot platforms reach the same milestone within weeks of each…
Anthropic says an unreleased model on Aug 11, 2026 boosted the Riemann Hypothesis lower bound, confirmed by two in-house mathematicians and formalized in Lean. Over 1.5 days it tested 650 ideas across 60 subagents, spending 31M output tokens.
River AI, a startup focused on personally trainable AI agents, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round announced in August 2026 — just two months after the company emerged from stealth in June…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s special projects lead and former chief operating officer, announced his departure from the company in August 2026 after an eight-year tenure at the AI lab. In an internal…
Zoom patched an August 2026 bug enabling attackers to fully control a device during meetings; A Security says it found it in one day using fewer than 20 prompts on public AI models. Patch shipped Tuesday for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, abusing annotations; A Security says no user action and no visual cue.
Anthropic has announced plans to embed machine-readable watermarks and provenance metadata into content generated by its Claude AI models, citing compliance with European AI transparency rules as the…
A Security found a Zoom screen-sharing bug that could let any call participant silently take over another device with no victim interaction, tied to real-time annotation protocol handling. Zoom’s Aug 11, 2026 advisory says fixes roll out to Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android; A Security’s exploit took fewer than 20 prompts.
The FBI is investigating how a North Korean national was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency, according to a senior FBI official who spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C. on July…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion tender offer, buying back shares from employees of the privately held AI company. The deal, reported by Bloomberg and completed in 2026, valued OpenAI at $852…
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit on August 10, 2026, accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents. The filing is a direct response to a lawsuit Runlayer…
OpenAI’s Aug 2026 Daybreak adds Blue and Red tiers: Blue targets incident response, malware analysis and patch validation; Red broadens to security testing and vulnerability research. GPT‑5.6‑Cyber, built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, is available only in Red and is limited to trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits against major social media companies to proceed, after rejecting the platforms’ attempt to use a legal shield to dismiss the…