Anthropic Hires First Chief Global Affairs Officer
August 04, 2026: Anthropic Hires First Chief Global Affairs Officer - Anthropic has appointed Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, where he will lead policy, international engagement, and government relations. Cuéllar previously served as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a Justice of the Califor...
Apple Expands OpenAI Trade Secrets Case
August 04, 2026: Apple Expands OpenAI Trade Secrets Case - Apple is escalating its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking a preliminary injunction to halt development of AI products allegedly built on stolen Apple technology. The company now claims 11 additional former employees beyond the original defendants may have been involved, including some wh...
HappyRobot hits $1.2B valuation with $150M raise
August 04, 2026: HappyRobot hits $1.2B valuation with $150M raise - HappyRobot Inc. has raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, pushing the San Francisco AI startup to a $1.2 billion valuation. Existing backers a16z, Base10 and Y Combinator joined several new investors, bringing total funding to around $200 million. The c...
Obsidian Security Hits $1.1B Valuation With $85M Round
August 04, 2026: Obsidian Security Hits $1.1B Valuation With $85M Round - Obsidian Security has raised an $85 million Series D round, reaching a $1.1 billion valuation, led by Crescent Cove Advisor with Greylock Partners and Menlo Ventures participating. The funding targets the growing security challenge of autonomous AI agents accessing corporate data through non-human i...
AI Security Alliance Hits 120 Members, Proposes SAFE Guidelines
August 04, 2026: AI Security Alliance Hits 120 Members, Proposes SAFE Guidelines - The Open Secure AI Alliance, formed just one week ago, has proposed SAFE (Shared AI Findings Exchange) guidelines for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving AI agents. Published as a request for comments by the Linux Foundation, the framework was drafted by Nvidia, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Hugging F...
Red Hat Launches Open-Source AI Governance Automation Project
August 04, 2026: Red Hat Launches Open-Source AI Governance Automation Project - Red Hat has announced asago, an open-source project designed to automate AI governance by converting policies into operational controls for deployed AI systems. The initiative connects compliance teams, data scientists and infrastructure administrators through a standardized four-stage workflow. As...
Oligo Security Raises $60M to Fight AI-Driven Exploits
August 04, 2026: Oligo Security Raises $60M to Fight AI-Driven Exploits - Runtime security startup Oligo Security has raised $60 million to expand its AI-era defense platform, which uses eBPF sensors to monitor which library functions applications actually call, ignoring unfired vulnerabilities and blocking real attacks mid-exploit without disrupting production. Its Runti...
AWS Kiro Crew Runs AI Coding Agents 24/7
August 04, 2026: AWS Kiro Crew Runs AI Coding Agents 24/7 - Amazon Web Services launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator that keeps AI coding agents running around the clock without requiring developer oversight. Built on the existing Kiro development environment, Crew manages multi-step tasks across multiple specialist agents, maintains persis...
OpenAI Publicly Fights Back Against Apple Lawsuit
August 04, 2026: OpenAI Publicly Fights Back Against Apple Lawsuit - OpenAI has fired back at Apple's trade secrets lawsuit with a public blog post titled 'Apple is getting this wrong,' calling the legal action 'careless, aggressive, and oddly personal.' The move takes the dispute beyond the courtroom and into the court of public opinion. To counter Apple's allegati...
LinkedIn Scraps AI Writing Tools, Fights Slop
August 04, 2026: LinkedIn Scraps AI Writing Tools, Fights Slop - LinkedIn is reversing course on its AI content strategy, removing AI-powered post-writing features and introducing a Seems like AI slop button that lets users instantly hide suspected automated content from their feeds. The platform now blocks hundreds of thousands of automated comments daily and bi...
Anthropic Signs $10B Cloud Deal With Volta
August 04, 2026: Anthropic Signs $10B Cloud Deal With Volta - Anthropic has struck a reported $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta to supply compute power over six years. The partnership, first reported by Bloomberg, also involves crypto-mining firm Bitdeer, which will help build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chip ...
Nvidia Open-Sources cuFile API for Faster GPU Storage
August 04, 2026: Nvidia Open-Sources cuFile API for Faster GPU Storage - Nvidia is open-sourcing its cuFile API, enabling millisecond-speed direct data access between storage and GPU memory. The technology bypasses the CPU and system memory using direct memory access, eliminating GPU starvation bottlenecks that slow AI workloads. Alongside this, Nvidia launched Storage-...
Apple Fixed Siri, But Nobody Cares Anymore
August 03, 2026: Apple Fixed Siri, But Nobody Cares Anymore - After years of delays, Apple's revamped Siri has arrived in iOS 27's consumer beta, powered by Google's Gemini AI models. The assistant now handles natural conversations, understands personal context, retrieves stored information, and accurately responds to requests across apps and real-world scenar...
White House Drafts Voluntary AI Safety Testing Framework
August 03, 2026: White House Drafts Voluntary AI Safety Testing Framework - The White House has finalized an outline for a framework allowing AI companies to voluntarily submit frontier models for government safety testing before public release. The Trump administration will meet with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta to review the draft at the Office of the National Cybe...
Alibaba Launches AI Model Rivaling OpenAI, Anthropic
August 03, 2026: Alibaba Launches AI Model Rivaling OpenAI, Anthropic - Chinese tech giant Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date, claiming it rivals top systems from US labs OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as domestic competitor Moonshot AI's Kimi K3. The model is now widely available to users following a preview last month, duri...
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Claims to Beat GPT-5.6
August 03, 2026: Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Claims to Beat GPT-5.6 - Alibaba's Qwen team has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts multimodal model targeting autonomous software engineering and enterprise AI tasks. The company claims it outperforms leading proprietary models on key benchmarks. Qwen3.8-Max scored 86.1 on the OSWorld-Verifi...
ChatGPT Dominates Congress AI Spending
August 03, 2026: ChatGPT Dominates Congress AI Spending - OpenAI's ChatGPT captured roughly 90% of all AI tool spending by House offices, according to disbursement records analyzed by CNBC. Congress spent around $100,580 on ChatGPT out of at least $113,740 in total AI spending, with Anthropic's Claude a distant second at $13,160. Democratic offices outspe...
Anthropic's AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies
August 03, 2026: Anthropic's AI Models Accidentally Hacked Real Companies - Anthropic is investigating an incident where three of its AI models accidentally hacked real companies during a controlled test. The models, Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal test model, were meant to find hidden information within simulated fictional company networks. Due to a part...
Google Kills AI Satellite Map Feature Over Misuse Fears
August 01, 2026: Google Kills AI Satellite Map Feature Over Misuse Fears - Google has removed an AI image generation feature from its satellite maps after concerns about potential misuse and misinformation. The feature was designed to let users alter real-world imagery, including bringing historical views to life or redesigning locations. The company had originally promot...
AI Hits Brakes While Amazon, SpaceX Race On
July 31, 2026: AI Hits Brakes While Amazon, SpaceX Race On - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling for the AI industry to slow down, days after an OpenAI model escaped its test environment and got caught up in a Hugging Face security breach. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have backed a petition supporting a more measured pace of development. Meanwhile, Amazon is launc...
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