Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale…
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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale |
2:37 PM PDT · August 26, 2026 Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI…
Google's Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI |
Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task…
How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? |
OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop…
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach |
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an…
Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a 'global disruption' to its operations |
11:23 AM PDT · August 26, 2026 A cyberattack on U.S. medical device maker Boston Scientific is causing an ongoing “global disruption” to its operations,…
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI 'teammate' just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research |
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a…
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill |
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…
Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model |
Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens…
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…