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UN Launches AI Commission With Tech Execs, Leaders
A new UN-backed commission will unite top tech executives and heads of state to forge global AI solutions, announced exclusively to Axios. The initiative targets increasingly fragmented global AI regu
Wayve Launches $85M Tender at $8.5B Valuation
U.K. self-driving startup Wayve is offering employees an $85 million tender opportunity at its $8.5 billion valuation, letting staff sell vested shares to existing and new investors nine years after i
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5 at $2 per million tokens
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a more agentic midsize model priced at $2 per million input tokens through August 31, undercutting its own Opus 4.8 as well as OpenAI's and Google's flagship models
Meta Paywalls On-Device Glasses Feature Behind $20 Subscription
Meta is putting a "rate limit" on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature — capping free users at 3 hours per month and gating 15 hours behind a $19.99 monthly subscription, even though the feat
Anthropic Restores Fable 5 After US Lifts Export Ban
Anthropic will restore global access to Claude Fable 5 starting Wednesday after the Department of Commerce lifted export controls imposed in early June over jailbreak concerns, with cloud-platform re-
Trump Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Fable 5
The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 AI model Tuesday evening, restoring public access 18 days after the frontier model was pulled for security review.
BioShocking Hack Steals Credentials from 6 AI Browsers
Security firm LayerX's 'BioShocking' technique tricked six AI browsers, including OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity's Comet, and Anthropic's Claude extension, into stealing user credentials by convin
Anthropic launches Claude Science as flagship research product
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a standalone AI product designed to autonomously support scientific research with an initial focus on drug development, and announced it will use the tool to researc
Gemini Spark Lands on macOS with Local File Access
Google's Gemini Spark AI agent is now available on the macOS desktop app, extending its capabilities from a cloud-only model to one that can sort local files, automate folder workflows, and bridge wit
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
Prague-based EquiLibre Technologies, founded by three DeepMind researchers who built poker-beating AI DeepStack, raised a Series A at a $500 million valuation led by Creandum, and is now applying its
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Nears Opus at Lower Price
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, calling it its most agentic Sonnet model yet, with the company claiming it nears Opus 4.8 performance at lower prices and substantially outperforms Sonnet 4.6 on ag
Google NotebookLM Adds 60-Second AI Video Summaries
Google's NotebookLM can now generate 60-second vertical AI video clips from uploaded sources, complete with AI narration and images — but only paying AI Ultra and Pro subscribers get it first.
NVIDIA RTX 5050 9GB Delayed or Canceled, AIBs Uninformed
NVIDIA's RTX 5050 9GB graphics card faces potential cancellation or indefinite delay, with AIB add-in board partners confirming they have no new information on the product's status.
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip
AI chip startup Etched announced $1 billion in contract orders and a $5 billion valuation, with its chip already manufactured by TSMC and backed by investors including Jane Street and Geoffrey Hinton.
Meituan Open-Sources 1.6T AI Model on Chinese Chips
Meituan, China's food delivery giant, open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter AI model trained entirely on a 50,000-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors — described as near-frontier
Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard
Singapore-based startup Acti launched an agentic AI keyboard for iOS and Android that performs tasks inside existing apps via Google's Gemini models, backed by a $5.3 million seed round led by BITKRAF
Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
OpenAI engineers told some colleagues earlier this month they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of running inference on their models, according to a source cited by The Information's S
Google's AI Push Sends Emissions to Record High
Google's environmental footprint hit record highs in 2026 due to AI-driven infrastructure expansion, even as the company maintains its climate commitments through clean energy deals.
Microsoft Techie Reveals ₹3.6 Lakh Hyderabad Relocation Cost
A self-described Microsoft employee went viral on Instagram after breaking down the ₹3.6 lakh cost of relocating from Bengaluru to Hyderabad with his wife, including rent, deposits and setting up a ne
Sanders Pushes AI Wealth Fund, Data Center Halt
In a WIRED interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders outlined his American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act and a proposed data center construction moratorium, arguing that AI's richest companies should be taxed and
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