Ninety days ago, OpenRouter was a 30-person startup that had just talked investors into a $1.3 billion valuation.
Nvidia spent Monday doing something chipmakers do not normally do: it co-signed a data center.
Higgsfield, the AI video and image generation startup founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, said Monday it has raised $400 million.
Anthropic has told investors it booked more than $11.5 billion in revenue in the second quarter and turned positive adjusted operating income.
Chinese retail investors asked for roughly 8,288 times the stock on offer. They got odds of 0.0181%.
Z.ai did not train a new model. It kept training the old one — and what came out is now the strongest open-weight coder.
For three years the deal every AI developer had to accept was simple: you could have the smart model or the fast one. Pick.
Alibaba's Qwen team pushed Qwen3.8-27B to Hugging Face on Friday, August 14. By Sunday it had been downloaded millions of times.
Google's dedicated image-generation model line ended on Monday. Three stable Imagen 4 endpoints went dark.
OpenAI has given ChatGPT a working memory of your desktop, and it built the thing by conspicuously avoiding one design choice.
A team led by Penn State materials scientists has built a memory device that runs on less than a tenth of a volt.
The cheapest model on Notion's new Knowledge Board resolves 95.34% of real knowledge-work tasks for two cents.
Databricks' own engineers were doing what most enterprise developers do in 2026: pointing every coding task at the most expensive model.
The most expensive part of a frontier training run is no longer the GPU. It is increasingly the problem of getting data between them.
Strip away wages and the scarcity of workers, and ask a narrower question: how fast can a pile of factories, mines and power plants copy itself?
The team whose entire job was to ask whether OpenAI's own models could help someone build a bioweapon no longer exists.
OpenAI is writing checks to the people who will grade its homework.
Nearly half the AI models on a Hong Kong platform that accepts the Trump family's stablecoin were built by Chinese companies.
California's legislature spent less than an hour on Aug. 13 deciding the fate of its entire artificial intelligence agenda.