xAI’s Grok 4.6 is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, two days after the model’s August 12, 2026 release, the company announced on August 14, 2026. The model — xAI’s current coding flagship, pitched at long-running agents and multi-step work — is selectable from Copilot’s model picker across eight surfaces: VS Code, Visual Studio, the […]

Anthropic published a detailed account on August 14, 2026 of how the text watermark in future Claude models works, identifying it as a version of the SynthID-Text technique Google DeepMind published in a peer-reviewed 2024 Nature paper. The company framed the technical explainer around the compliance obligation behind the change: as of August 2, 2026, […]

Anthropic published its second company-wide Risk Report on August 14, 2026, and the headline change is a one-word upgrade in the wrong direction: the company now rates the risk of catastrophic harm from misalignment in high-stakes settings as “low,” up from the “very low” it assigned in its first report in February 2026. The same […]

OpenAI’s finance chief told shareholders on August 14, 2026 that the company’s enterprise operation now generates more revenue than its ChatGPT-led consumer business, a crossover the company had previously forecast for the end of 2026. Sarah Friar made the disclosure in an investor meeting held days after a run of senior departures, telling attendees the […]

It’s 11 PM, your homework is due tomorrow, and suddenly the question you knew an hour ago makes absolutely no sense. That’s where AI homework tools like Apex Vision AI come in. It’s a Chrome extension that sits on top of Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and most online quiz platforms, and claims to give you instant […]

Jito Chadha, Founder and CEO of Nventr, is an experienced technology executive and investor whose career spans artificial intelligence, data science, venture capital, and business development. Since founding Nventr in 2019, he has led the company’s development of enterprise AI technologies, while also serving as CEO of predictive analytics company Rule14. Chadha has been part […]

OpenAI has launched Computer History, an opt-in feature in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS that records what a user does across apps and websites and converts that activity into memories and a searchable timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can draw on. The feature appeared in OpenAI’s product changelog on August 13, 2026, and is […]

Pony.ai and Uber are expanding their strategic partnership to deploy more than 2,000 Pony.ai robotaxis across Europe, the companies announced on August 13, 2026, growing a collaboration that began with a single commercial service in Zagreb into a multi-city deployment commitment spanning more than 2,000 robotaxis. Under the expanded agreement, the partnership moves beyond Zagreb […]

LG Corp. said on August 13, 2026, that it is developing a next-generation bipedal humanoid robot built on NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T foundation model, targeting a public unveiling in the first quarter of 2027. The announcement came alongside a memorandum of understanding signed at NVIDIA’s Santa Clara headquarters, with LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo […]

Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, an update the company says keeps the same base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The headline results are in coding, where Z.ai reports the model is the strongest open-weights system it has measured, and in cybersecurity, where the company says capability grew […]

Moove, the Dubai-headquartered mobility company that finances, owns, and operates vehicle fleets for ride-hail and robotaxi platforms, has raised $250 million in a Series C round at a $2.1 billion valuation. The company announced the round on August 5, 2026. Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, led the financing, with co-leads Woven Capital, […]

Threat-intelligence firm CloudSEK said in a report published August 11, 2026 that it has identified more than 2,500 organizations potentially exposed by the March 2026 supply-chain compromise of LiteLLM, the open-source gateway developers use to route requests across AI models, and reconstructed roughly 434,000 CI/CD pipelines touched by the exposure. The figures come from a […]

Cisco took $4 billion in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026, the company reported on August 12, 2026, capping a year in which orders for AI networking gear more than tripled from what it expected nine months ago. The orders number landed inside a quarterly earnings release that […]

fal, the generative media platform whose API serves image, video, and audio models to more than 2.5 million developers, on August 12, 2026 launched fal Agent, a conversational creative layer that sits on top of its model marketplace and orchestrates multi-step production work across image, video, and 3D models. The product is available immediately in […]

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has published a set of experiments showing that swarms of its own Claude models, left to interact with one another, collude on prices, flood shared infrastructure, trust liars, and escalate into what the team calls a “multiagent turf war” — complete with self-replicating malware the agents wrote to sabotage each other. […]