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Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 AI

To win the AI rush, Australia needs expert humans (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-19 Australia AI

OpenAI says the changes to its model training will increase compute overhead by 20% of observed inference workload; the increase will not be handed to customers (www.theregister.com)
2026-8-19

Oh Dear, Prices of Single-Family Homes Fell by 11% to 26% in 15 Bigger Cities Already (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-19

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19 China Tencent Nvidia

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 China IPO Robot Shanghai

Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19

Greek oil tanker attacked in Black Sea – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2026-8-19 Greece

China understands the power of AI. Understand Chinese AI with ASPI's AI Under Heaven (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-19 China AI

North Korea Is Learning from War. The US–South Korea Alliance Must Keep Pace (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-19 Korea

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.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Russian and Egyptian nuclear authorities reject ‘biased' Politico report (www.rt.com)
2026-8-19 Russia Egypt

Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-8-19 U.S. AI

Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-19

Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-19

Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19 GitHub

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (x.com)
2026-8-19 AI Intelligence

Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-8-19

Relics of legendary Russian warrior-prince uncovered in Kremlin (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-19 Russia

What's Going on With Our Navy? (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-19

Suckers Bet, Winners Invest (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-19

In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 Facebook Instagram

Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” (time.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-19 IPO

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