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…
The FBI is investigating how a North Korean national was hired to work for a U.S. federal government agency, according to a senior FBI official who spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C. on July…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion tender offer, buying back shares from employees of the privately held AI company. The deal, reported by Bloomberg and completed in 2026, valued OpenAI at $852…
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit on August 10, 2026, accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents. The filing is a direct response to a lawsuit Runlayer…
OpenAI’s Aug 2026 Daybreak adds Blue and Red tiers: Blue targets incident response, malware analysis and patch validation; Red broadens to security testing and vulnerability research. GPT‑5.6‑Cyber, built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, is available only in Red and is limited to trusted partners like Accenture, IBM, CrowdStrike and Cloudflare.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for thousands of lawsuits against major social media companies to proceed, after rejecting the platforms’ attempt to use a legal shield to dismiss the…
Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, 2026, an open-weight AI model built to run autonomous agents directly on consumer hardware, offering the clearest indication yet of what CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s…
Security research says Klaviyo’s sign-up form misconfiguration exposed new customers’ email addresses and passwords—and company details—to third-party “pixels” from Facebook, Google, HubSpot, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and X. The issue ran at least Feb 2024–Nov 2025; Klaviyo fixed it and says fewer than 200 people were affected.
Google announced in August 2026 that it is adding Venmo as a payment option on Google Play, allowing users to purchase games, apps, add-ons, and other digital content through the platform.
Users can…
Discovered Materials says its AI-agent pipeline using Anthropic models can evaluate thousands of semiconductor candidates per day (vs ~20 during founder Akash Ramdas’s Stanford PhD). The 2026 $9M seed—led by Lightspeed India Partners with Peak XV and angel Paul Graham—targets thermally cooler chip materials, and it plans to patent viable GPU uses.
Anthropic is switching Claude Code’s auto mode on by default for Pro, Max, and Team account holders, with the change taking effect on August 14, 2026. The move reduces the number of manual approval…
