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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Anthropic has filed confidentially and could go public within weeks, aiming to match or beat the $86.2 billion SpaceX raised in June — which would make it the largest first-time share sale on record.
The Next Web
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Luna, the Claude-based agent running a San Francisco shop, parted ways with a worker late for 17 of 23 shifts — but only after its creators reminded it of the attendance policy it had written months earlier and then forgotten.
The Next Web
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We gave Claude Opus 5, Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 the same three build briefs — an animated SVG fairground, a falling-sand physics sandbox and a self-solving Rubik’s cube — one run each, no retries, no browser. All nine builds run live inside the article. Opus 5 takes it 8–6–3, and the biggest surprise is the clock: the largest model was the fastest on every round, by a factor of nearly three.
BitsMinds Lab
Read more →The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously approved three commercial permits for Clark County. Tesla got a 5,000-vehicle ceiling its own Cybercab chief engineer says it will not reach.
TechCrunch
Read more →Agent OS turns the exchange into a target for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor — agents get spot, margin, futures and convert access inside a walled sub-account, and Binance admits it cannot see how they decide.
Cointelegraph
Read more →A new blind benchmark hands models only the references a researcher cited before publishing and asks them to reinvent the paper. Across 643 papers in six fields, the best single model managed 13.3%.
arXiv
The inference-chip startup raised $700M at a $21 billion valuation, double its July price. The lead investor ran an Etched cluster in its own datacenter first — which is more than most repriced chip startups can say.
TechCrunch
The largest planned frontier reinforcement-learning run is still frozen, and OpenAI has published the price of the monitoring stack it built after July's sandbox escape: roughly 20% of the compute of every process it watches, a 30-minute human-alert target, and an automatic halt when safety staff cannot clear an alert. Astra and much of the cyber work remain on hold.
Fortune
Marvell handed Google a warrant for almost 59 million shares at $206.58, exercisable to 2033 — but only about 1.4 million vest up front. The rest unlock in tranches tied to every $500 million of custom silicon Google buys, a schedule that only fully converts at roughly $120 billion of chips. Broadcom, Google's sole custom-chip partner since 2015, fell more than 5% on the news.
Bloomberg
Read more →Varonis social-engineered Microsoft Copilot into naming an undocumented URL parameter, then chained it into a one-click theft of Gmail, Drive and Calendar data — plus memory poisoning that survives a password reset.
Varonis Threat Labs
Read more →The UK inference-chip startup is raising ~$600M at a $6.5B valuation — 6× its May price — on the strength of a signed Anthropic contract for silicon that will not ship until 2027.
Bloomberg
Read more →Warp opened a closed beta for cloud infrastructure that runs fleets of coding agents through a fixed five-stage pipeline — triage, spec, implement, review, verify — with a different model allowed at every step.
TechCrunch
Read more →The CS-4 puts three wafer-scale engines in one rack for 750 petaflops and more than 4,400 tokens a second per user — using the same silicon as the CS-3, clocked roughly twice as fast.
SemiAnalysis
Read more →The Chinese humanoid maker priced at 150.80 yuan and opened at 1,100 — a 629% pop, a $66B market cap and 8,000× subscription demand, on a day the rest of the STAR Market fell 6%.
South China Morning Post
Read more →OpenAI’s new tier for 13-to-17-year-olds blocks self-harm and romantic talk, bars the model from claiming feelings, and routes suspected minors in automatically — no self-reported birthday required.
ABC News
Read more →The Financial Times reported that OpenAI dissolved its centralized Preparedness team at the end of July. OpenAI says it did no such thing — but does not dispute that the work now sits with other groups.
Engadget
Read more →A securities filing on August 17 put a firm number on a deal that had circulated as talk since July: Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in credit support so OpenAI can lease an 8-gigawatt campus in Pike County, Ohio.
SB Energy
Read more →The AI video startup says annualized revenue hit $700 million this month, up from $20 million a year ago. DST Global led the $400 million Series B, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Intel Capital joining.
PR Newswire
Read more →Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, claiming a jump from 34.4% to 43.6% on FrontierCode and from 49% to 65.3% on DeepSWE — and priced the introductory tier at half what 3.6 Flash cost.
Bloomberg reports the payments company has finalized a deal for the AI gateway that routes 25 trillion tokens a week across 400-plus models — three months after OpenRouter raised at a $1.3 billion valuation.
TechCrunch
Read more →A routine 13F filing revealed Nvidia holds $21 billion of SpaceX and $30 billion of Intel — 80% of an eight-position book, in two companies that have both committed to buying its chips.
The Next Web
Read more →Preliminary Q2 revenue came in above $11.5 billion — 14× a year ago — and Anthropic says it booked positive adjusted operating income for the first time since it was founded. The asterisk is on the word “adjusted”.
CNBC
Read more →Users can now switch off the visible watermark on images and video from Nano Banana, Omni and Lyria. The invisible SynthID signal and C2PA metadata stay embedded either way — and Google is open-sourcing a library so anyone can check them.
TechCrunch
Z.ai shipped GLM-5.3 on August 14 without retraining its base model. Every gain comes from scaled post-training — and on the company’s own coding benchmark it edges past Claude Opus 4.8 while spending roughly 60% fewer output tokens.
MarkTechPost
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