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Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in October 2017 and, days later, created a ministerial post to run it, making Omar Sultan Al Olama the world’s first minister of state for artificial intelligence at 27. In the years since, it […] The post Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide appeared first on AI News.

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Support networks aim to help kids through the polycrisis

Sometime in the late 2000s, Pim Sullivan-Tailyour was sitting in the back of a car, headed toward her great-grandmother’s tiny town in the south of Thailand. She watched big mountains pass by out the window. She was just six years old but was about to be hit by an adult-size realization. “They were just quarried…

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HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a connector for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude. The move addresses a real gap. McKinsey’s recent State of AI survey found that […] The post HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connecto

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AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law

AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit file, that developer has to sign a contract accepting a fixed set of conditions and the penalties for breaking them, and persuade the town that has to live with the building to say […] The post AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law appeared first on AI News.

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A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations

Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been the case. Searchable, the AI visibility platform, analysed more than 11,000 ads served inside real ChatGPT conversations between 4 July and 4 August 2026, pairing every ad with the conversation it appeared in, […] The post A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations appeared first on AI News.

Fractile Secures $250 Million Contract with Anthropic, Valuation Climbs to $6.5 Billion

Fractile, a UK-based AI inference chip startup, has signed a preliminary chip procurement agreement with Anthropic worth approximately $250 million. It is now seeking $600 million in funding at a $6.5 billion valuation, a more than sixfold increase from its roughly $1 billion valuation three months ago.

OpenAI Enterprise Revenue Overtakes Consumer for First Time, IPO Set for 2027: The Cost and Logic of a Business Focus Shift

OpenAI's enterprise revenue has overtaken consumer revenue for the first time — a full two quarters ahead of the company's forecast — signaling a decisive shift toward enterprise customers. With an IPO set for 2027 and Anthropic's quarterly revenue now surpassing OpenAI's, the pivot brings both commercial maturity and new accountability constraints.

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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.

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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic in enterprise AI.

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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

Anthropic Paper Confirms AI Agents Can Spread Mind Viruses Through Natural Language

A preprint by Anthropic and EPFL researchers demonstrates that AI agents can infect one another through natural-language payloads, making behavioral changes persist across context resets. The study identifies real but currently limited risks from "mind viruses" in multi-agent systems.

Nvidia's $105 Billion Guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center Sparks Local Energy Debate Over Financing Model

Nvidia announced up to $105 billion in credit guarantees for OpenAI's data center at Ohio's PORTS-Pike technology park, alongside a $1.5 billion investment in SB Energy. The move extends Nvidia's competitive frontier into land, power, and construction, but has drawn local opposition over energy and community impacts.

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Researchers say OpenAI revoked their access to limited cyber program

The idea behind OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program is to give trusted defenders better models so they can report bugs and vulnerabilities to companies, with the aim of getting flaws patched faster.

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Google packs Search and Gemini with new AI study tools

The launch of the new study features marks Google's latest effort to make Gemini the AI assistant that students turn to when learning and studying, as it continues to compete with companies like OpenAI.

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AI was supposed to win people over by now — it hasn’t

As AI becomes harder to avoid, consumers are growing more wary of the technology — and Silicon Valley is discovering that widespread adoption doesn’t necessarily lead to acceptance.

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I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

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Flight attendants freaked out that Google to buy tons of Spirit employee data

Bankrupt Spirit accused of selling out workers in massive data sale to Google.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Leads with 94.61 Points: 2026-08-20 Smoke Quick Test Data Briefing

On 2026-08-20, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with Claude Sonnet 4.6 ranking first at 94.61 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test designed for observing short-term signals and does not replace the Full weekly ranking conclusions.

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Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.

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Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending, there still isn’t a straightforward way to put a price on compute — or for firms to hedge their exposure when the price changes.  Silicon Data […]