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Published Aug 12, 2026, 6:19 PM

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 5:51 PM

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 5:41 PM

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 4:57 PM

Mesh, an AI-powered contacts app and relationship manager from Automattic, is now an Android app.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 4:46 PM

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the s…
Published Aug 12, 2026, 2:22 PM

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all promising to capture your meetings and turn them into summaries and action items. Now, a whole wave of wearables — rings especially — are betting people want to capture stray thoughts and ideas the s…
Published Aug 12, 2026, 2:20 PM

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 11:00 AM

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.
Published Aug 12, 2026, 12:39 AM

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that "I was lead writer on this one…
Published Aug 11, 2026, 7:41 PM

That’s a lot of people chatting with their AI friends all day. | Image: Google For the 14th time, a Google product has hit 1 billion users. Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted on X that a billion people are using Gemini every month, and that Gemini is Google's fastest-growing product ever. A billion users is a huge milestone, but Google isn't the firs…
Published Aug 11, 2026, 7:15 PM

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 7:10 PM

The Verge
Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users. It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that with the Threads VR app, you…
Published Aug 11, 2026, 6:49 PM

Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 5:41 PM

One of OpenAI's longest-serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."
Published Aug 11, 2026, 5:41 PM

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 4:25 PM

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 1:00 PM

Spotify is introducing “AI Persona” labels for artist profiles that represent AI-generated identities and will exclude their music from editorial, algorithmic, and personalized recommendations by default.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 12:13 PM

Anthropic will extend support for watermarking AI generations for older models as well.
Published Aug 11, 2026, 12:03 AM

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.
Published Aug 10, 2026, 11:56 PM

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
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