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Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-26 IPO AI Bill Gates

Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework (www.gatesnotes.com)
2026-8-26 AI Bill Gates

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 AI Asset

Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-8-26 U.S. AI chatbot

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 India AI Nvidia Intelligence

Foreign AI is unavoidable. Australia's challenge is in application (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-26 Australia AI

Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-26 AI

South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Korea AI

New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26 AI New Zealand Ban Social Media

Can AI replace traditional language learning? A new study says not yet (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-8-26 AI

AnonyMousKIT PhaaS uses voice AI agents to phish iPhone passcodes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26 iPhone AI

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (www.skild.ai)
2026-8-26 AI Robot

Perplexity and Nvidia Launch Fully Local AI Agent With Zero Token Costs (slashdot.org)
2026-8-26 AI Nvidia

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26 AI

AI Is Hitting Entry-Level Jobs Hardest, Stanford Study Finds (slashdot.org)
2026-8-26 AI

Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others (variety.com)
2026-8-26 AI Sony

Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU (www.therobotreport.com)
2026-8-26 AI Nvidia

Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 U.S. Mexico AI Latin America

Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-26 Linux AI Nvidia

Tel Aviv and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to $1B” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-26 AI Nvidia

Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, with up to 4x faster AI performance and up to 2x faster graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro (www.apple.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

Apple updates the Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, with up to 4.3x faster AI performance, faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+ (www.apple.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 Google AI

Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 AI

Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-25 AI

Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving (www.scmp.com)
2026-8-25 Mobile AI Xiaomi

Indian IT firm's $1.5 billion deal with Porsche is powered by AI (www.rt.com)
2026-8-25 India AI

Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-25 AI Apple

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