In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · August 22, 2026 OpenAI is calling for California to add more safeguards to a landmark AI safety bill…
Author: Anthony Ha
Will the DOJ's investigation into a16z spook other VCs? |
Following a Bloomberg report that the Department of Justice is investigating venture firm Andreessen Horowitz for holding board seats with rival AI companies, VCs told…
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors |
In Brief Posted: 2:46 PM PDT · August 22, 2026 As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to…
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash |
The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of…
Who's behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha? |
In Brief Posted: 1:01 PM PDT · August 23, 2026 A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet…
Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions |
The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million (around $966 million) — the second largest penalty issued so far under Europe’s General Data…
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ |
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers to select different AI models to perform…
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work |
Anthropic published a blog post Friday seeking to answer some basic questions about how it will watermark the text generated by its chatbot Claude. Such…
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery |
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s…
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition |
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also…