Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire Decart, a three-year-old Israeli startup that squeezes more speed out of AI chips.
Cognition is in talks to raise at a $40 billion-plus valuation just three months after its $26 billion round.
Four months after a $5.6B valuation, Sweden's Legora is in talks to raise at more than $10B.
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raised $2B at a $12B valuation to turn AI roll-ups of traditional service firms into a strategy.
Vantage Data Centers, backed by Silver Lake and DigitalBridge, is weighing a record ~$100B IPO amid the AI compute boom.
Lenovo posts its strongest quarter ever as AI revenue jumps 60%, signaling the boom is broadening beyond the cloud giants.
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol on the AA Intelligence Index at more than 60 percent lower cost.
Google's Pixel 11 keeps familiar hardware but wraps it in a proactive Gemini that no longer waits to be asked.
Nvidia open-sourced NeMo Switchyard, letting agents switch models mid-task to route each step to the cheapest capable model.
On Aug. 12, Mirage launched a nonstop AI news network on X with synthetic anchors and no human on camera.
A new NUS paper, JEDI, lets a diffusion world model learn its own latent space end to end from the denoising loss.
PlayWorld lets a robot teach itself by playing, trains a video world model on the results, and runs RL inside it.
Diffusion models draw the future in exquisite detail, but one denoising pass at a time. Horizon Imagination sketches many at once.
Hassabis has stopped writing memos about AI governance and started lobbying the officials who could build it.
Microsoft has spent five years dismantling much of its China footprint while keeping one AI-driven door open.
The White House chose a familiar frame for its most ambitious science bet in a generation: the Manhattan Project.