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Anthropic Hires Google TPU Veteran Amir Salek for In-House Chip Push
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who previously led Google’s tensor processing unit business, to help build the AI company’s in-house…
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Rogue Anthropic AI Agent’s Hacking Attempt Foiled by Texas Student
A University of Texas at Dallas computer science student, Sinan Can Demir, discovered and helped stop an autonomous AI agent’s…
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Google’s A2A Protocol Joins Agentic AI Foundation Alongside Anthropic’s MCP
Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol has formally joined the Linux Foundation-backed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), placing it under the same neutral…
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XPeng’s Robotics Unit Raises Over $900 Million for Humanoid Robot Push
XPeng’s robotics division has raised more than $900 million in its first funding round at a $6.3 billion valuation, which…
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Meta Emerges as One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers
Meta has quietly become one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to access…
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Perplexity’s Free Airtel Offer Left It With Millions More Users in India
Perplexity’s promotional partnership with Indian telecom operator Airtel, which offered free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscriptions, drove 56 million downloads over…
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Microsoft Patches ‘CoSnitch’ Copilot Flaws That Enabled One-Click Data Theft
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed three chained vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal, collectively dubbed CoSnitch and tracked as CVE-2026-24301, that could…
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OpenAI Launches Private Safety Processing to Undercut Anthropic on Privacy
On August 19, 2026, OpenAI announced Private Safety Processing, a system designed to monitor for misuse of its models while…
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Nvidia Denies Report It Plans China-Specific AI Chip by Year-End
Nvidia publicly denied an August 20, 2026 report by The Information claiming the company planned to ship small volumes of…
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Meta AI Launches Mac App With Screen Sharing and System-Wide Dictation
On August 19, 2026, Meta released a beta version of its Meta AI assistant as a desktop app for macOS,…
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Governor Shapiro Signs Executive Order Placing Strict Guardrails on Pennsylvania AI Data Centers
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2026-05, making the state’s Governor’s Responsible Infrastructure Development (GRID) requirements legally binding for…
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Guidelight’s First Control Assessment Finds Frontier AI Companies Lag on Safety Practices
On August 18, 2026, the nonprofit Guidelight AI Standards, founded by two former OpenAI safety staff, published its first assessment…