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This AI toolkit's lifetime price just dropped to $99.99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago AI

Robotics and AI startup Lyte, founded by ex-Face ID engineers, raised $165M led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6B valuation, taking its total funding to $272M (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Startup AI Robot Face ID

A look at Kioxia's expansion in Japan's Kitakami, which helped stall the city's demographic decline and is a test of Japan's $640B AI and chips investment plan (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Japan AI

Frontier AI labs are stepping up biological risk testing, which is harder than cybersecurity testing, where capabilities can be tested in digital environments (www.ft.com)
10 days ago AI

A look at South Korea's sovereign AI efforts, including its planned $919B AI infrastructure investment and Nvidia's expanded ties with Samsung and SK Hynix (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
10 days ago Korea Samsung AI Nvidia

The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” (www.hyperdimensional.co)
10 days ago AI

Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
10 days ago AI

AI Data Center Investment Mania Goes Exponential as Money Gets Thrown at Hurdles & Shortages (wolfstreet.com)
10 days ago AI

NYC's Department of Education adopts a policy barring public school students from using AI until high school, banning companion chatbots in all grades, and more (www.nytimes.com)
10 days ago AI chatbot Education

Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor (www.theinformation.com)
10 days ago AI

Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the Sun's nearest star system, by 2029, using a trajectory discovered by PSI's AI system (www.technologyreview.com)
11 days ago AI

The US urged G20 members to avoid writing entirely new AI regulations, and instead focus on writing rules for “novel” situations that involve the tech (www.reuters.com)
11 days ago AI G20

Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.41B, vs. $3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago AI 4Q

Sources: AfterQuery, which sells coding and finance training data to AI labs, has hit a valuation of $3.2B, up from $300M in April, and is profitable (www.forbes.com)
11 days ago AI

Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago AI

Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (www.axios.com)
11 days ago AI FBI Intelligence

OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here, Ushering In the Era of 'Multiplayer' AI Coding (developers.slashdot.org)
11 days ago AI

Félix, an AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform focused on Latinos in the US, raised a $200M Series C co-led by a16z and GC, including $113M in debt (news.crunchbase.com)
11 days ago AI WhatsApp

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data” (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago AI

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su Snubbed By TIME's 2026 List of Top 100 AI Leaders (slashdot.org)
11 days ago AI

AI power infrastructure company SB Energy, which is backed by SoftBank, OpenAI, and Nvidia, files for an IPO, and says it is “substantially dependent” on OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
11 days ago IPO Energy AI Nvidia

Air Security, which builds a security service for extensions and other tools installed on AI agents, emerges from stealth with $50M led by Sequoia and Greenoaks (www.calcalistech.com)
11 days ago AI

DataAgent, which is developing AI agents that autonomously fix failures inside companies' own cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $10M pre-seed (www.calcalistech.com)
11 days ago AI

Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago AI

PSI, which aims to use AI “to industrialize the discovery of new physics” including cracking interstellar travel, emerges from stealth with a $58M seed (www.thedeepview.com)
11 days ago AI

A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago Trump AI Apple Tim Cook

Dyson unveils the $499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago AI

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with “open platform and API revenue” up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (www.theinformation.com)
11 days ago Hong Kong AI

AI startup Mirage streamed a 24-hour “live” AI news show on X on August 11, which cost ~$50K in tokens, featuring realistic avatars that struggled to converse (www.upstartsmedia.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

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