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Google is introducing an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Watch 5 and Fitbit devices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI

Google is cutting the Google One AI Pro trial bundled with Pixel 11 Pro and other handsets from 12 to 6 months, and removes the free trial from the Pixel 11 (9to5google.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI

AT&T says open models currently account for ~25% of its AI usage, and it targets 70% to 80% over time; AT&T uses an average of 45B AI tokens per day (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-13 AI AT&T

Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-13 Google AI GPS

AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $143M Series C co-led by Atomico and Smash at a $1.5B valuation, after raising a $60M Series B in September 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-12 Startup AI

Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-12 AI

Skan AI, which is building a “context graph of work” by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-12 AI

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and “beat” human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (www.wired.com)
2026-8-12 AI

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-12 Startup AI

Q&A with Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt on AI R&D, RSI, whether human expert data is bottlenecking progress, token prices, alignment, and more (www.dwarkesh.com)
2026-8-12 AI

Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12 Alibaba AI Shanghai

A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-12 Google AI

Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-12 Europe Startup AI

Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks with investors to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $26B valuation in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-12 Startup AI

Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-12 AI

OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed last year (www.politico.com)
2026-8-12 AI California

Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July (www.ft.com)
2026-8-12 China Taiwan AI

Sources: former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil is aiming to raise $150M for a new AI science startup, seeking a valuation of at least $750M (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-12 Startup AI

Spotify Will Label 'AI Persona' Profiles, Exclude Their Music From Recommendations (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-12 AI Spotify

Sources: David Sacks' Craft Ventures is targeting around $1B for a new fund, its first since Sacks stepped down as the White House AI and crypto czar (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-12 AI

SpaceXAI rolls out Grok Bot AI agent app in beta on Mac, iOS, Windows, and Linux, initially for SuperGrok Heavy, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams Premium users (9to5mac.com)
2026-8-12 IOS Linux AI

Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do “not represent a real person”; the system uses human review and AI tools (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-11 AI Spotify

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B-parameter MoE model that it says delivers up to 4x faster output speeds, and an agentic AI model router (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-11 AI Nvidia

Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-11 AI

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multi-year deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-11 IBM AI Nvidia

Revelio Labs: short-term AI training programs made up nearly 33% of the professional certificate market in 2026, up from just 2% in 2022 before ChatGPT launched (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-11 AI

Big Tech's AI boom echoes the 1870s railroad expansion, and Nvidia shifting risk to institutional capital may expose investors if revenues fail to materialize (stratechery.com)
2026-8-11 AI Nvidia

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's River AI raised $1B led by General Catalyst to build home or small business computer servers capable of running AI locally (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 AI

How India's IT services sector, which employs 6M people, contributes ~7% of GDP, and generates $300B+ annually, is shedding jobs as AI automates formulaic work (www.ft.com)
2026-8-11 India AI GDP

A look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (www.ft.com)
2026-8-11 Startup AI London

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