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Published Aug 20, 2026, 6:49 PM
Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 6:20 PM
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Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner tool.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 5:18 PM

TechCrunch
ChatGPT and other AI models are now authoring and editing much of the new web.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 4:46 PM

Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 4:07 PM

Meta is bringing Pocket, its experimental AI-powered app for creating and sharing interactive games, to users across the U.S. after quietly testing it in Brazil.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 3:42 PM

MIT Tech Review
“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy…
Published Aug 20, 2026, 1:00 PM

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 12:11 PM

The company said that the dictation feature works across all apps, just like other tools such as Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 9:30 AM

Binance's Agent OS works with tools such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
Published Aug 20, 2026, 7:00 AM
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OpenAI Blog
Introducing AI Futures, a new OpenAI blog exploring how transformative AI could reshape power, governance, the economy, and individual freedom.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 11:32 PM

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 10:10 PM

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 9:51 PM

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 7:11 PM

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 7:00 PM

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 6:46 PM

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 5:26 PM

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price c…
Published Aug 19, 2026, 3:44 PM

TerraPower's nuclear power plant possesses a strategic advantage over competitors, especially when chasing after data center deals.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 3:00 PM

Amazon is making its AI-powered Alexa+ assistant free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the U.S., automatically upgrading users whether or not they subscribe to Prime.
Published Aug 19, 2026, 2:18 PM

VentureBeat
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, V…