Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
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.
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
Read more →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
Read more →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.
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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Read more →Beijing ordered the acquisition withdrawn in April.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.
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
Read more →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.
The Next Web
Read more →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.
Bloomberg / TechCrunch
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.
TechCrunch
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
Read more →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
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