Anthropic's revenue more than doubled in a single quarter
Anthropic booked $11.5B in Q2, up from $4.73B in Q1, and posted its first positive adjusted operating income.
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Nvidia quietly built a $21B SpaceX stake, SEC filing shows
Nvidia's latest SEC disclosure reveals a $21 billion position in SpaceX — one of the largest private-company bets by a chipmaker ever.
SpaceXAI's Grok Bot gives every AI agent its own computer
xAI's new bots get their own cloud computer, sign into your real apps, and keep working with your laptop shut.
Three labs, one week: AI pricing just split in two directions
Google halved Gemini 3.7 Flash to $0.75/M, OpenAI shipped a 14x-faster tier, and DeepSeek hiked prices 4.5x.
Grok 4.6 doesn't beat DeepSeek V4 Pro — and it costs 7x more
Both shipped Aug 12-13. Grok wins knowledge work, DeepSeek wins agents and security — at $0.87 vs $6 per million output tokens.
DeepSeek ends the price war: API rates jump up to 4.7x
From Aug 16, DeepSeek doubles off-peak API prices and doubles again at peak. V4-Flash output: $0.28 → $1.32 per million tokens.
OpenAI's exec exodus hits a dozen — right before the IPO
COO, CRO and three safety leads all walked in weeks. OpenAI is burning through executives right before its Wall Street debut.
Grok 4.6 is cheap — until your agent crosses 200K tokens
SpaceXAI's new frontier model matches GPT-5.6 Sol on benchmarks at a fraction of the price. The fine print doubles it.
Claude's new watermark had a remover on GitHub within days
Anthropic started watermarking every Claude output on Aug 2. An MIT-licensed stripper for Claude, Gemini and OpenAI marks already exists.
AMIE matched doctors in video consults — and patients liked it
Google's AMIE handled 100 simulated video visits and scored on par or better than primary care physicians on diagnosis.
Gemini Hits 1B Users as Anthropic Eyes a Fall IPO
Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly users, Anthropic is courting IPO investors, and Nvidia is going open-weight at 1T params.
Nvidia gets Wall Street to bankroll $500B of its own demand
Six of the biggest capital pools on earth will finance Nvidia GPU buildouts — off Nvidia's balance sheet, on MOUs, not signed deals.
Harvard and MIT made 8.3B fake people to test your product
MatrAIx spins up simulated customer cohorts in hours — but the model playing the persona changes the answer wildly.
xAI co-founder's River AI raises $1.1B to build AI you own
Igor Babuschkin pulled $1.1B from General Catalyst, Nvidia and AMD to let anyone fine-tune and actually own their AI.
OpenAI Lets Your Projects and Skills Follow You Between Agents
Codex, ChatGPT Work and outside AI agents can now share the same projects, chats, skills and plugins.
OpenAI's Codex app finally lands on Linux — with one catch
Codex now ships native builds for Ubuntu, Debian 13 and Fedora — but Computer Use is still missing from the Linux version.
Meta goes Apache 2.0 with Muse Glimmer, a 30B that fits 24GB
Meta's first no-strings open-weight model in years: 30B, agentic, beats Gemma 4 31B on coding, runs on one consumer GPU.
OpenAI bought a slides startup and told nobody for 5 months
NextSlide's team joined OpenAI back in March; the deal only surfaced in August. ChatGPT is quietly growing an office suite.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 lands at #2, 45 Elo behind GPT Image 2
MAI-Image-2.6 debuted on Arena at 1336 Elo — second only to GPT Image 2, and ahead of Grok, Nano Banana and Meta.
SA hits AI with a $3m royal commission — an Australian first
South Australia is giving AI the royal commission treatment: three commissioners, ~$3m, subpoena-grade powers, report due July 2027.
97% of execs shipped AI agents. Half their staff never saw one
WRITER's 2026 survey: nearly every exec says they deployed AI agents, but only 52% of employees use one and just 29% see ROI.
No, Claude Isn't Watermarking Every Word You Generate
The viral 'invisible watermarks in all Claude text' claim is wrong. The real story: Claude Code fingerprinted proxy users, then got patched.
Meta open-sourced a 30B agent model that fits your GPU
Muse Glimmer is Apache 2.0, runs offline on a 24GB card, and beats Qwen and Gemma on multi-step tool use.
Google's AI brain trust reshuffles — and Jeff Dean walks
Hassabis moves up to Alphabet chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu takes over DeepMind, and Jeff Dean exits after 27 years.