Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model gateway startup, for more than $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg published in August 2026.
OpenRouter allows customers…
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of July 2026, according to a report from the Financial Times. The team was responsible for assessing whether AI models posed serious risks —…
OpenAI has introduced a feature called Computer History to ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS, which records user actions — including clicks and keystrokes — to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex…
A woman has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging that her stepfather used the company’s Grok chatbot to transform a photo taken when she was 11 years old into more than 7,000 explicit…
Anthropic’s Aug. 15, 2026 post says Claude text watermarking uses Google DeepMind’s SynthID-Text, embedding an invisible pattern via word swaps like “overcast” vs “grey,” and doesn’t change output quality. It’s for EU AI Act Transparency Code compliance, with a planned detection API; light edits probably won’t remove it, but rewriting every word could—prompting mixed Reddit and X backlash.
SpaceX has officially completed its acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding startup, following a deal that was first announced in April 2026. Cursor confirmed the closing in a post on its blog.
The…
Indie dev Marco Arment launched Unforgetful for iOS and Mac on Aug 14, 2026, aiming to beat Apple Reminders for chronic snoozers by using the existing Reminders database and swapping in its own notifications. Alerts repeat until tasks are marked complete and deleted, snooze intervals scale as you defer, and the app avoids showing multiple tasks at once.
Google says that from August 2026, users can turn off visible “sparkle” media watermarks in Gemini and Flow via a new “Media watermark” toggle. The option disables bottom-right markers, but invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain, and Gemini or Search can verify AI generation—except in countries that legally require visible marks.
Google has introduced a new photography feature called Camera Looks for its Pixel 11 lineup, but older Pixel devices will not have access to it — at least for now.
Camera Looks processes image data…
Paris-based French startup Kog aims for 10x faster LLM inference on standard datacenter GPUs, targeting a first big model by September 2026. A May 2026 Hacker News demo reached 3,000 TPS on AMD MI300X and Nvidia H200 with its Laneformer 2B, and KIE targets 30x.
A growing number of Republican state legislators are introducing bills to prevent AI from ever gaining legal personhood, as human-AI marriages slowly emerge from the fringes of the AI companion app…
Flock says it will require its April 2026 “Audit Assistance” tool for all law-enforcement customers by year-end, after more than one-third enabled it voluntarily. The non–AI feature flags abnormal search patterns for administrator review and can lock users out, as retention drops from 30 to 7 days with “Evidence Mode” for longer cases.
