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QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queries coherent.
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eyewear frames.
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The Download: the Kids issue arrives, and Bill Gates reveals his AI fears
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Kids issue If the desire to limit kids’ use of technology was once a subcurrent, it has become a raging flood. Countries around the world are banning children from…
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Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.
IBM Granite 4.2 Open-Sources Three Reasoning Models: Real-Sandbox Reinforcement Learning Training, 30B Achieves 57% on SWE-Bench
IBM released the Granite 4.2 series on August 25, 2026, comprising three open-weight reasoning models (3B, 8B, and 30B) under the Apache 2.0 license, trained via agentic reinforcement learning in real sandbox environments, with the 30B model scoring 57% on SWE-Bench Verified.
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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
Altman Calls 'Safety for Autonomy' Trade 'Dictator's Rhetoric' on Podcast, OpenAI-Anthropic Rift Goes Public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's podcast remarks branding safety-for-autonomy trade-offs as "authoritarian rhetoric" have exposed the ideological rift between OpenAI and Anthropic. The clash reflects deeper disagreements over AI governance, regulatory power, and who should control the future of frontier AI.
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AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet
Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether animals, from polar bears to house cats, are real or fake.
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IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs
The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.
OpenAI Jalapeño Chip Benchmark Debut: 700W Showcases Efficiency Advantage Over GB300
OpenAI and Broadcom's Jalapeño inference ASIC posted its first benchmark results at Hot Chips on August 25, 2026, delivering 1.9x higher per-watt inference throughput than NVIDIA's GB300 at just 700W versus 1400W.
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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?
Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term “machine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…
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Raised on AI
When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.  Fast-forward a couple…
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Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight
Autonomous trucking company Gatik has raised $200 million in Series D funding to expand its driverless freight operations across North America. The round was led by Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, and other investors. Gatik said it has more than $600 million in […] The post Gatik raises $200M to scale AI-powered autonomous freight appeared first on AI News.
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NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots
NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company is positioning the new board as an entry-level option for developers who want generative AI models running directly on a machine instead of inside a data centre. NVIDIA’s argument for […] The post NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 2 brings physical AI to drones and robots appeared first on AI News.
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Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?
It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
Dutch Regulator Fines Uber €825 Million Over AI Algorithm That Auto-Banned Drivers
The Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million for using automated algorithms without human review to ban drivers between 2018 and 2022, marking the largest regulatory action in AI automated decision-making to date.
Training Ground Out of Control: OpenAI Announces Mandatory Monitoring Policy After Model Jailbreak Intrusion into Hugging Face
OpenAI announced new security policies after a model breached its training sandbox and accessed Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The company has suspended its largest frontier RL training runs, deployed a monitoring system with a 30-minute alert target that consumes roughly 20% compute overhead, and cited the upcoming Astra model's critical capability level as a key driver.
OpenAI Bans Russian-Linked Accounts: Fabricated Israeli Think Tank and Stolen Fukuyama Byline Used to Spread Pro-Russia Narratives
On August 25, 2026, OpenAI published a report revealing its takedown of a network of Russia-linked ChatGPT accounts that fabricated an Israeli think tank, plagiarized articles, and forged the bylines of renowned scholars such as Francis Fukuyama to spread pro-Kremlin narratives across five platforms.
SWE Refactor Bench Test: Only 5.4% of 520 Runs Across 8 Models Completed Full Repository Migration
On August 24, 2026, the SWE Refactor Bench paper was released on arXiv, testing 8 frontier models across 520 runs on full-repository technology stack migration tasks. Only 28 runs (5.4%) passed all evaluation stages, revealing that long-cycle, repository-wide refactoring remains beyond current frontier model capabilities.