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Aug 18, 2026 34

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can alread...

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Aug 17, 2026 73

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

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Aug 17, 2026 36

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank...

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Aug 17, 2026 35

What Flock’s defenders are missing

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Aug 17, 2026 35

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

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Aug 17, 2026 22

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powe...

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Aug 17, 2026 35

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

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Aug 17, 2026 23

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

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Aug 17, 2026 37

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

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Aug 17, 2026 50

Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies

The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - w...

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Aug 17, 2026 40

Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI tran...

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Aug 17, 2026 36

What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?

When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed l...