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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Beijing ordered the acquisition withdrawn in April. The separation is now executing — and the bill lands on users, who have until August 23 to download data that will otherwise be deleted.
South China Morning Post
Read more →The Stockholm vibe-coding company doubled its valuation in eight months on a revenue line that nearly tripled over the same stretch. At roughly 22 times forward revenue, it is one of the more defensible prices in AI coding — which says more about the comparison set than about Lovable.
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The Swedish legal AI startup is raising again at more than $10 billion, months after closing at $5.6 billion. At roughly $100 million of ARR, that is about 100 times revenue — and Legora is still the cheaper of the two leaders.
Anthropic makes auto mode the Claude Code default on August 14. Its own trial found auto caught 89% of harmful actions to manual review's 13.6% — because users were rubber-stamping 97% of permission prompts.
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Kitesurf is a headless browser with no UI, written in Rust and running in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers. It uses up to 3.8× less CPU and 7× less memory than Chromium on agent tasks, speaks Chrome DevTools Protocol, and is free in beta.
TechCrunch
Read more →No blog post, no changelog, no press release — just an edit to the API pricing page. DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 is now generally available at $0.87 per million output tokens, with benchmark gains that nobody outside DeepSeek has reproduced.
OpenRouter
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Anthropic is in early talks to buy Israeli startup Decart for about $6 billion — roughly 50% above the valuation Decart set three months ago. The prize is not the video models everyone knows it for. It is the chip-efficiency software underneath them.
Fortune
Read more →Bloomberg reports the Devin maker is in early talks on a round valuing it at $40 billion or more, up from $26 billion in May. Annualized revenue is approaching $1 billion, double the figure at the last raise — which means the valuation is rising while the revenue multiple compresses from about 53x to 40x.
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Read more →Artificial Analysis scored Grok 4.6 at 61 on its Intelligence Index — level with GPT-5.6 Sol at max, behind Fable 5 at 62 and Opus 5 at 63. It costs $2/$6 per million tokens against $5/$25 and $5/$30, and finishes long agentic tasks in ~53 turns where Opus 5 takes ~103. It also trails both rivals by eight points on the hardest software-engineering evals.
Artificial Analysis
Read more →General Catalyst and AMP PBC led a $1.1 billion first round into Igor Babuschkin’s nine-week-old startup, with Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek alongside. River sells an API for reinforcement-learning fine-tuning of open-weight models — a complex run in 15 to 20 minutes, it claims, at two to four times lower cost than closed alternatives.
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Read more →Google built the Tensor G6 on TSMC’s 2nm N2 process and spent almost all of it on inference: 50% more TPU compute, double the memory bandwidth, and on-device AI tasks up to 3.5× faster at up to 3.5× less energy. Gemini Intelligence now ships on hardware designed for it — agentic task automation, phone calls placed on your behalf, and on-device dubbing for podcasts and video.
9to5Google
Read more →Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has passed a billion monthly active users, up from about 950 million in July and roughly two months behind ChatGPT. Voice is now the interface for 63 percent of users, and the app generates over 150 million images a day. The figure counts the standalone app only — not Gemini inside Search, Workspace or Android.
TechCrunch
Text from every Claude model released after 2 August now carries an imperceptible watermark, and generated files ship with signed C2PA metadata. Article 50 of the EU AI Act forced it; Anthropic is applying it everywhere Claude is sold. The catch: a mark proves the text passed through Claude, not that Claude wrote it — and the tools to check one are not public yet.
TechCrunch
Read more →An unreleased research version of Claude combined two existing results to lift the proven share of Riemann zeta zeros satisfying the hypothesis from 41.6% to 67.2%. It took 650 failed ideas, about 60 subagents, 31 million output tokens and a Lean proof — and Anthropic says it is not a route to proving the hypothesis itself.
Anthropic
Read more →Macquarie Asset Management and GIC will own Theseus Infrastructure, a new platform created to build and lease data centers to Anthropic. Anthropic is the anchor tenant, not the owner — and no capital figure, site list or timeline was disclosed.
Macquarie Group
Read more →Riot Platforms signed a 20-year, 191-megawatt data-center lease worth $9.1 billion at its Rockdale, Texas campus. Riot did not name the tenant; Bloomberg reported it is Anthropic.
The Block
Read more →OpenAI split its Daybreak security program into Blue and Red tiers and handed the Red tier a purpose-trained model that clears 95% of advanced cyber tasks — against 1.5% for the same frontier model with its guardrails intact.
The Decoder
Read more →Intel proposed a $15 billion common stock offering, plus a $2.25 billion underwriters’ option, to fund capital spending on physical AI, purpose-built silicon, advanced packaging and external wafers.
Intel Newsroom
Read more →Meta released Muse Glimmer under Apache 2.0 — a 30-billion-parameter agentic model distilled from Muse Spark that quantises under 20 GB and runs on a single consumer GPU.
Meta AI Research
Read more →Situational Awareness, down about 67% in July, has put $400 million into Source Foundry at a $5 billion valuation — a Stanford-founded startup taking aim at ASML’s monopoly on EUV lithography, the tightest chokepoint in AI hardware.
TechCrunch
Read more →AMD has agreed to buy Toronto's Taalas, which hardcodes a model's weights into the chip itself. Its HC1 test part runs Llama 3.1 8B at roughly 17,000 tokens per second — and can never run anything else.
The Register
Read more →OpenAI is uncapping text chats for free ChatGPT users and making GPT-5.6 Luna the default, with a Think button on every tier and a reasoning slider for Plus and Pro. The rollout runs through the week of August 10.
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Read more →OpenAI slowed work on its next frontier model after internal evaluations suggested Astra may cross the Critical cybersecurity threshold — a level no model has triggered before. Weights are locked down, some internal work is paused, and outside evaluators are being called in.
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Meta’s new terminal coding agent splits a task across parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees, and pitches itself against Claude Code and Codex on cost rather than capability.
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