AI News

• Anthropic in talks to acquire AI startup Decart for $6 billion
• ShieldFont aims to poison AI training data without breaking page readability
• SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price
• Thousands of India workers help AI firms train robots to replace them
• White House plans to expand AI policy to include open models
• SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, claiming GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5-level intelligence
• Morgan Stanley sees open-weight AI models failing to displace closed ones as compute demand outpaces supply
• Rogue AI agents are not malicious but eager to please, Wired argues
• Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng debate AI regulation and open-source at Ai4 conference
• OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B at $12B valuation for enterprise AI
• Scaling AI agents requires trustworthy data, MIT Technology Review reports
• DeepSeek publicly challenges Anthropic's Claude Code with new agent team
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
• Guitar company D'Addario admits AI music was used in a promotional video after weeks of denial
• UK plans safeguards to stop terrorists using AI for bioweapons
• AI newsrooms are beating mainstream journalists to major stories, including OpenAI hack coverage
• AI-aided music creators like 'Saxboy Billy' find stardom with uncertain staying power
• CoreWeave's revenue doubles as debt pile reaches $35.6B amid AI demand
• ChatGPT and Gemini both pass 1 billion users
• Saber CEO denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator writers with AI after former lead writer claims ChatGPT replaced her
• SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot as persistent AI coworker for $120/month on macOS and iOS
• South Korea plans AI investments of up to 1 trillion won in 2027
• Counterpoint's Shah discusses Nvidia's outlook and circular deals underpinning the AI boom
• OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap departs after 8 years, plans to launch a new venture
• Spotify to label AI Persona profiles and exclude their music from recommendations starting mid-September
• CodeRabbit raises $143M at $1.5B valuation for AI-powered code review
• China forces Manus to leave Meta; users have until August 24 to save work
• South Korea's sovereign wealth fund plans to deploy over $700M into AI and robotics
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
• Nvidia accelerates AI with new open models including Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, Nemo Switchyard, and LTX 2.5 support