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Anthropic Explains How Claude’s Text Watermarks Work
Anthropic detailed how its new text watermarking for Claude works, explaining it uses subtle word choices to tag AI-generated content while maintaining output quality and offering a detection API.
Mercor Fuels Demand for Datasets from Dying Startups
Data-gathering firms like Mercor are buying or licensing the internal datasets of startups that are shutting down or being acquired, creating a new trade in AI training data.
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
SpaceX has officially closed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, folding the company into its GPU-powered compute empire as it ramps up AI infrastructure.
Anthropic Details Claude Watermark's Key Limitations
Anthropic detailed the inner workings of Claude's text watermark, revealing it only probabilistically indicates Claude's involvement, is sparse in code and factual writing, and disappears entirely aft
AI Coding Still Demands Upfront Design Work
A developer's essay argues AI hasn't eliminated the labor of software building — it has shifted from writing code to designing systems, crafting prompts, and managing context windows and compression.
Anthropic's 'Project Panama' Bulk-Buys Books for AI Training
Independent booksellers worldwide are reporting mysterious bulk purchases of their stock that court documents and experts link to AI training efforts like Anthropic's 'Project Panama,' which destructi
Google Pixel 11 Puts Gemini Center Stage, Raises Prices on Memory
Google's Pixel 11 series launched with Gemini AI positioned at the center of its competition with Apple, while a memory shortage forced Google to raise prices — the latest company to do so.
Point2 Technology Raises $136M Series B
Point2 Technology, developer of RF-based data center interconnection technology, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and other investors.
Vals AI Raises $40M Series A at $400M Valuation
San Francisco-based Vals AI, which builds evaluations and benchmarks for testing AI models on real-world tasks, has closed a $40 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $400 million valuation
OpenAI Staff Frustrated by Exec Exits as IPO Nears
OpenAI staff are reportedly frustrated by repeated executive reshuffles and departures as the company prepares for an IPO, with the ChatGPT maker also disbanding its 'preparedness' team in July.
Nvidia Halves $250B OpenAI Data Center Backstop
Nvidia has restructured its agreement to finance a massive OpenAI data center campus in Ohio, reducing its initial guarantee to only half of the deal's planned $250 billion backstop under new proposed
Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI
Tech CEOs including Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have been publishing lengthy essays framing AI as a historic force for good, with Zuckerberg's 6,500-word open letter as the latest en
Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Edges Mythos 5 on CyberGym
Chinese AI startup Z.ai said its open-source GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark, narrowly beating Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 at 83.8%, while gating its most sensit
Waymo Approved for Robotaxis in 18 California Counties
California regulators cleared Waymo to charge for fully driverless robotaxi rides across 18 counties — from Sonoma to San Diego — in the company's largest expansion yet and a regulatory win that highl
OpenAI Enterprise Revenue Overtakes Consumer Business
OpenAI's enterprise business now generates more revenue than its ChatGPT-led consumer business, CFO Sarah Friar told investors, with enterprise customers growing 32% in July.
Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works
Code strings inside Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app point to an upcoming over-ear headphone called the "Galaxy H1" that could launch in 2027, the company's first over-ear headphones since 2015's Level O
How Anthropic watermarks Claude text for EU AI Act
Anthropic is rolling out invisible text watermarks in future Claude models using a Google DeepMind-developed method, satisfying EU AI Act requirements starting August 2 without affecting output qualit
Gemini app gets 3.7 Flash & setting to turn off corner media watermarks - 9to5Google
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash and a new setting that lets users remove the visible watermark from its AI-generated images.
Google Unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash for Coding
Google unveiled Gemini 3.7 Flash, positioning it for coding and agent workflows and integrating it into GitHub Copilot, with Geeky Gadgets claiming it outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra on long-context tasks.
Google's Gemini Turns Spreadsheets Into Interactive Mini-Apps
Google is rolling out Sheets canvas, a Gemini-powered feature inside Google Workspace that transforms raw spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps.
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