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  1. 21Aug

    Over a Million People Have Clicked LinkedIn's AI Slop Button

    LinkedIn chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said over a million people have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button the company announced on July 30, reachable from the three dots menu on a post. He said users are "now experiencing 40% less views on what we classify as AI slop from just a few weeks ago." LinkedIn shipped the button weeks after AI detector Pangram flagged 41 percent of its longform posts as fully AI generated. Posters will now see a message reading "Some members told us this post seems like AI."

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  2. 21Aug

    Nvidia Research Puts the Harness, Not the Model, at the Center of Agent Performance

    Nvidia researchers using a custom harness tuned for memory and carrying a "supervisor" component got Claude Opus 5 to a 100% score on ARC-AGI-3, a set of 2D games with no instructions. Without the harness, Opus 5 scored 30%, the top result among all models tested. OpenAI, whose models scored under 10% on the benchmark, found last month that tweaking two harness settings tripled their scores, though none reached 100%. Nvidia calls its harness Agentic Variation Operators, and it is research, not a product.

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  3. 21Aug

    Starcloud Raises $250 Million for Orbital Data Centers

    Starcloud added a $250 million extension to its March $170 million Series A, valuing the orbital inference startup at $2.3 billion. Manhattan West Ventures led, and a person familiar with the deal said Nvidia put in $25 million, alongside Cisco, Benchmark, and EQT. Starcloud has asked the FCC to operate 88,000 spacecraft and is launching two 8 kW Starcloud-2 satellites on 2027 rideshares. CEO Philip Johnston is stockpiling capital to book launch capacity because SpaceX's Falcon 9 program is scheduled to end in 2028.

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  4. 20Aug

    Google Gives Publishers an Embeddable Preferred Sources Button

    Google is now letting readers push a button on a publisher's website to mark it a favorite source they want highlighted more often across Google Search, Discover, and Google News. As of May's launch, the company said people across the web had already selected over 345,000 unique sources through the method, and earlier Google studies found people are twice as likely to click through to a preferred source when one is available. It hands publishers a lever as AI answers cut clicks to the open web.

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  5. 20Aug

    ChatGPT Can Now Draft and Send Your Apple Messages

    OpenAI released an Apple Messages plug-in that lets ChatGPT sort, analyze, edit, and search a user's texts, suggest follow-ups based on earlier messages, and draft, send, or delete messages on their behalf. It works with ChatGPT, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, runs locally on the user's machine, and does not build an index of all messages. OpenAI discourages turning on persistent approval, warning that it removes your final chance to review a message before ChatGPT sends it as you.

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  6. 20Aug

    A Third of Web Pages Published Since ChatGPT Show AI Authorship

    Pew Research analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages from the past five or so years and found signs of AI authorship in over one-third (35%) of the pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 release. In a random sample of 10,000 pages collected in July 2026, around 10% showed significant signs of AI authorship. The .com domains carried those signs at around 10x the rate of .edu or .gov, both around 1%, while .org came in at 4.6%. Pew used the Common Crawl web archive and Open Pangram's detection technology.

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  7. 19Aug

    OpenAI Previews Private Safety Processing, Abuse Monitoring That Keeps No Data

    OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing for select customers, long-horizon safety monitoring that assesses the inputs and outputs of multiple conversations, not just one, while retaining none of the customer's data. A spokesperson said it can analyze those multiple conversations for signs of abuse without human review, sending narrowly defined signals so OpenAI can act. It answers Anthropic's policy of holding data for 30 days on covered models, which include all Mythos-class models and future models with similar capabilities.

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  8. 19Aug

    Google Adds AI Study Tools Across Search and Gemini

    Google launched study tools for students on Wednesday, aiming Gemini at the same users OpenAI, Knowt, and Gauth court. Search gains AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, customized practice quizzes, and study documents built from a student's uploaded files, with an interactive Lens in Search experience rolling out in the coming weeks. Gemini adds multi-step research reports in Gemini Live, functional 3D simulations, and a dedicated hub holding a study notebook, flashcards, and practice quizzes.

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  9. 19Aug

    TerraPower Pitches Heat Storage as Its Edge for Powering AI Data Centers

    TerraPower's 345-megawatt molten salt-cooled reactor sends extra heat into a giant vat of molten sodium, then taps that reservoir to raise steam when demand spikes, keeping the plant's equipment working through low-demand stretches. The company plans to announce its first data center project this year, expected to break ground in 2027 as its second power plant, after the first already under construction in Wyoming. Meta had agreed to buy eight of its Natrium power plants.

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  10. 18Aug

    OpenAI Launches a Separate ChatGPT Built for Teens

    OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT for Teens, a distinct experience with age-appropriate protections on by default to reduce exposure to harmful or developmentally inappropriate content. It adds a Study Mode with guided, step-by-step support, homework reminders that steer students toward learning instead of answers, quizzes, and learning visualizations. Parents can manage settings, get safety notifications, and set Quiet Hours. The launch follows a wave of lawsuits over teen safety, years after teens started using the chatbot.

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  11. 18Aug

    Etched Raises $700 Million at a $21 Billion Valuation

    Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation led by Jane Street, double the $10.3 billion it was worth in July and up from $5 billion in December. The company no longer sells a standalone chip: it delivers its technology as full systems it calls frontier inference clusters. Jane Street led after testing the hardware and says it now has its own rack running in its datacenter.

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  12. 18Aug

    Cursor Launches Origin, a Code Host Aimed Squarely at GitHub

    Cursor, now officially part of SpaceX, launched Origin, a code-hosting platform built to do what developers use GitHub for: collaborate on codebases, browse and edit them, handle pull requests, and store them in repositories. Agent native features are coming, and GitHub repos can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts. It arrived as GitHub was degraded for over six hours at a nearly 20% error rate worldwide, one of 257 outages LeadDev counts over the past year.

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  13. 17Aug

    Anthropic's Annualized Revenue Run Rate Passes $65 Billion

    Bloomberg reported that Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and just $9 billion at the end of last year. The Financial Times reported that investors expect the company to finish 2026 between $100 billion and $120 billion, against $40 billion for OpenAI. Anthropic was last valued at $965 billion in late May and will seek a public valuation of $2 trillion or more.

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  14. 17Aug

    Groq Raises $350 Million at a $3.5 Billion Valuation to Become a Neocloud

    Groq raised $350 million led by Disruptive, with planned participation from Nvidia, at a $3.5 billion valuation, down from $6.9 billion last September before Nvidia hired founder and CEO Jonathan Ross and other top talent in a $20 billion licensing deal. Groq says it is not a down round but a new valuation for the post-licensing company, which runs 13 data centers serving more than 6 million developers, enterprises, and AI-native companies.

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  15. 17Aug

    Nvidia Puts $1.5 Billion Into SB Energy, Developer of OpenAI's Ports-Pike Site

    Nvidia said it will invest $1.5 billion in SoftBank and OpenAI-backed SB Energy, making it the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at OpenAI's Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, Ohio. SEC filings show Nvidia will also provide up to $105 billion in credit for a site that could scale from an initial 4.25 gigawatts to 8 gigawatts, powered by a 9.2 gigawatt natural gas plant expected to cost $33 billion on land owned by the US Department of Energy.

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  16. 16Aug

    Stripe Will Reportedly Acquire AI Gateway OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion

    Bloomberg reported that Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter at a price of more than $7 billion, three months after the AI gateway announced a $113 million Series B at a reported $1.3 billion valuation. OpenRouter provides access to more than 400 models and claimed 8 million global users, with CEO Alex Atallah calling it the equivalent of Stripe for AI. A Stripe spokesperson said the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

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  17. 16Aug

    Dario Amodei Calls the AI Backlash "Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust"

    In a series of posts on X, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected investor Gavin Baker's argument that public negativity toward AI is primarily caused by him or any other AI leader warning about AI's risks, saying "I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust." Amodei said his own messaging has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits, and that "by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven't yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world."

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  18. 14Aug

    Google Makes the Visible Watermark Optional on Its AI Generations

    Google is letting users switch off the visible watermark on content from its Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models through a Media Watermark toggle in settings, covering Gemini, the Flow video editor, and Search soon. The invisible SynthID watermark and C2PA metadata stay in place either way, and Google is open-sourcing a library called Credentio so developers can validate content credentials locally.

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  19. 12Aug

    Google Puts Gemini Across the Pixel 11 Line at Made by Google '26

    Google used its Made by Google event on August 12 to launch the Pixel 11 at $899 and the Pixel 11 Pro at $1,099, alongside the Pixel Watch 5 from $399 and a $29 Pixel Tag tracker. The Gemini additions include American Sign Language translation in Live Transcribe through the Pixel Camera, a Rambler voice input mode built for run-on sentences and filler words, and Circle to Search working directly inside the camera app.

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  20. 12Aug

    Lovable Raises $400 Million at a $13.3 Billion Valuation

    Vibe coding startup Lovable confirmed a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund with more than a dozen other investors, after a $330 million Series B at $6.6 billion in December 2025. The company reported a $500 million annualized run rate as of June 2026 and says it hosts 60 million projects drawing 900 million monthly visitors.

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