Google is building a dedicated set of content creation tools directly into the Pixel 11’s camera app, announced in 2026. Called Creator Suite, the new mode is designed to help creators record,…
Nightmare Eclipse published the Windows zero-day “ShieldBreak” on Aug. 12, 2026, after Microsoft’s legal warning, enabling full system takeover. The proof-of-concept Windows app abuses Windows Defender to escalate on Windows 10, Windows 11 (including 25H2) and Windows Server 2025; Will Dormann verified it works. No patch is available.
Facebook officially rolled out its standalone Creator Studio app for iOS in August 2026, bringing AI-powered tools designed to help creators grow their audiences and manage community engagement in…
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith has closed a $45 million Series B round that values the company at $550 million — nearly ten times the $60 million valuation it held less than a year ago when it…
SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot in Aug 2026 as an always-on “AI teammate” that signs into your existing apps and completes multi-step workplace tasks independently in a shared cloud computer. It runs multiple bots in parallel, reuses saved workflows, and follows up on dropped conversations, building on an internal prototype for sales outreach, marketing, office ops, and bug fixes.
Bloomberg says Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni knew of cookie stuffing by Dec. 2025, before a spokesperson said they learned only when Bloomberg reached out. The Aug. 2026 report cites leaked Slack messages, calls it a switchable feature affecting Nike and Nordstrom, and says stopping it cut daily revenue.
Meta launched Threads for Meta Quest headsets on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026, bringing feed browsing, posting, likes/replies, profiles, search, and video watching to VR. It follows Threads on Ray-Ban Display AR glasses and comes as the platform reports 500M monthly active users.
OpenAI released a worldwide-preview ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Aug. 12, 2026, adding access to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports desktop Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS, Debian 13, and Fedora 43/44.
The FBI issued a public alert in August 2026 warning that cybercriminals are breaking into the social media accounts of adults and children to steal explicit images and videos, which are then used in…
Both ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini have crossed 1 billion users, marking a significant moment in the AI industry as the two largest AI chatbot platforms reach the same milestone within weeks of each…
Anthropic says an unreleased model on Aug 11, 2026 boosted the Riemann Hypothesis lower bound, confirmed by two in-house mathematicians and formalized in Lean. Over 1.5 days it tested 650 ideas across 60 subagents, spending 31M output tokens.
River AI, a startup focused on personally trainable AI agents, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round announced in August 2026 — just two months after the company emerged from stealth in June…
