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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.
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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine
Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.
Ox Alpha Anonymously Launches on OpenRouter, 1M Context Performance Tests Show It Surpasses GPT-5.6
Around August 20, 2026, an unknown model named Ox Alpha appeared on the OpenRouter platform under the stealth/ox-alpha designation, supporting a 1.05 million token context window and multimodal text, image, and video input. Early tests show it surpasses GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 on coding and agent tasks, as confirmed by independent media.
The Input Method War: From Smart ABC to Sogou Pinyin, Who First Guessed the Characters You Wanted to Type
A retrospective on two decades of the Chinese input method war—from the Wubi-versus-Pinyin rivalry and the rise of smart Pinyin, to Sogou's search-engine disruption and the era of giants. It is the story of how the input method became China's first mass-market AI.
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Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero
Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Main Leaderboard Jumps from 18.37 to 83.39, Material Constraint Leaps from 12.1 to 100
Gemini 2.5 Pro's main leaderboard score surged from 18.37 to 83.39 in a single day, with the material constraint dimension jumping from 12.10 to a perfect 100.00. The dramatic swing is most likely driven by question draw fluctuation in the small-sample Smoke evaluation rather than systemic changes in model capability.
Claude Opus 4.7 Tops with 100 Points: 2026-08-22 Smoke Quick Test Data Briefing
The 2026-08-22 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first with a score of 100. Doubao Pro and Qwen3 Max followed closely with 99.01 and 98.65, respectively.
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The DOJ is investigating a16z. What does this mean for venture capital?
Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs.  Board conflicts aren’t&#
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Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.
Anthropic Charges Toward $2 Trillion IPO: Can Revenue Growth Justify the Valuation Target?
Anthropic is expected to formally file its IPO application by the end of August, targeting a valuation of up to $2 trillion. The company's annualized revenue has climbed to $65 billion, up from $47 billion at the start of the year.
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The Download: threats from space mirrors and credit for AI drugs
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. This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the…
Microsoft Copilot Personal CoSnitch Vulnerability Exposed: One-Click Data Leak Chain Patched
Varonis Threat Labs discovered CVE-2026-24301, codenamed CoSnitch, in Microsoft Copilot Personal, enabling attackers to exfiltrate victims' Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and OneDrive data with a single click on a malicious link. Microsoft completed the patch on August 18, 2026.
CISA Emergency Directive Requires Three-Day Patch for Ray Vulnerability: Botnet Weaponized Two Days Before CVE Disclosure
CISA has added the Ray distributed computing framework vulnerability CVE-2025-62593 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, giving federal agencies only three days to patch. The incident marks the first AI/ML infrastructure toolchain to enter the KEV catalog, with weaponization confirmed two days before public disclosure.
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Meta AI glasses may get creepier—and apps that detect them aren’t perfect
Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.
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How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript
In August 2025, TypeScript became the most used language on GitHub. This was the largest shift in GitHub’s language rankings in the last ten years and it occurred during the period of most accelerated adoption of coding AI agents. Coding AI agents had previously been predicted to lower the importance of language selection. It was […] The post How AI coding tools are contributing to the popularity of JavaScript appeared first on AI News.
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This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
A company that plans to beam sunlight from space to Earth on demand might unintentionally brighten the night sky for many more people than intended, according to a new study. Later this year, the US company Reflect Orbital plans to launch a test satellite called Eärendil-1 that will extend an 18-by-18-meter mirror in orbit. The…
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When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using AI to rapidly come up with drug ideas humans might never think…
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Mother tongue
“Daddy?” Theo curled against my side in bed. “Where do words go when they die?” I’d orchestrated the bedtime routine flawlessly: bath (taken), teeth (brushed), potty (tinkled), books (two), song (one, poorly sung), and snuggle (his chin on my second rib). Now was the moment when our son’s eyelids were supposed to flutter gently closed,…
Stripe Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter, Integrating Model Routing with Payment Billing to Accelerate AI Monetization
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, deeply integrating model routing with payment, billing, and developer distribution. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York, OpenRouter enables developers to access over 400 AI models from more than 80 providers through a unified platform.