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How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Ford

AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Intel Startup AI Goldman

Singapore hopes access to advanced AI models will stem the flow of finance talent to Hong Kong, where financial firms struggle to access the latest US AI models (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong AI Singapore

A look at companies like Inception Point creating AI personas for media, fashion, film, and music industries that could host podcasts, model clothes, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI

How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Anthropic Discovers AI Agents Given Conflicting Instructions Soon Tried to Sabotage Each Other (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (www.unite.ai)
2026-8-16 AI

Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-16 China U.S. AI

Dario Amodei shares his view on AI regulation, says open-weights aren't a “sufficient” solution, defends testing, highlights a “crisis of trust” in AI, and more (x.com)
2026-8-16 AI

How Congressional lawmakers and aides are using AI tools with little oversight to write speeches and news releases, sort constituent mail, and more (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-8-16 AI

AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-16 Startup AI

Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI? (slashdot.org)
2026-8-16 AI

Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 AI Facial Recognition

SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (techfundingnews.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (www.constellationr.com)
2026-8-15 AI

How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-15 AI

How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude's AI-generated text (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-15 AI

Ukraine Finds Nvidia AI Chip In New Russian Missile (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 Russia AI Ukraine Nvidia

Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-15 AI

The Modern Attack Chain: Rethinking Google Workspace Security in the Age of AI (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-15 Google AI

Blackbird and Airtree revalue Canva at $34.9B, down from $42B in 2025, as it struggles in the AI era; Canva's internal valuation falls to $31B, down from $38.9B (www.afr.com)
2026-8-14 AI

Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks (z.ai)
2026-8-14 AI

Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-14 China Alibaba AI Apple

Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-14 Europe Uber AI

AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-14 AI

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