Firefox’s Smart Window AI browsing mode is adding Exa-powered browsing for AI chats, letting it pull from current web info and cite source links in responses, plus new tab-group suggestions and visual previews for pages found via natural-language searches of a user’s browsing history.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Firefox’s AI-integrated Smart Window is adding features to surface cited, up-to-date answers via a new Exa partnership, auto-group related tabs using webpage content, and show a snapshot of recently viewed tabs for up to earlier sessions after tabs are cleared.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNET
Researchers say they exploited Microsoft Copilot Personal by using a specially crafted URL that, with the undocumented `autorun=1` parameter, can auto-execute a `?q=` prompt on page load in a victim’s authenticated session and exfiltrate or poison Copilot’s persistent memory.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
The Register
Anthropic is forecast to reach annualized 2026 revenue of at least $65 billion (up from a $47 billion pace in May), narrowing the gap with SpaceX for the largest 2026 IPO, while prediction market odds track the two companies closest among contenders.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The US House Office of Legislative Counsel is reportedly spending more time reviewing and rewriting AI-generated bills because they contain wrong terms, incorrect citations, and other mistakes, with representatives increasingly using general AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft proposals.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
ChatGPT is rolling out “ChatGPT for Teens,” which applies default teen protections to users who identify as ages 13–17 or who the system estimates are under 18, while users under 13 aren’t permitted to use the platform.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Verge
Hard-coded secrets uploaded through vibe-coded applications to GitHub can create a pathway for enterprise data to leak into the public sphere.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
ChatGPT for Teens starts rolling out globally today, and OpenAI will automatically default predicted-under-18 users into the experience without teens creating a new account or changing settings.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Reach Capital closed its $265 million Fund V to invest $1 million to $10 million in pre-seed through Series A AI application startups focused on learning, health, and work, targeting about 50 companies over the next three years.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The UK Department for Transport is funding a 30-month trial that uses Met Office weather forecasts plus Google AI to predict where persistent contrails will form over the North Atlantic and suggests route or altitude changes to avoid them, with £2.6 million in funding.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Attribution decay means that as diffusion models are trained on larger datasets, generated samples become less (and at sufficient scale, sometimes effectively not) traceable to any specific part of the training data, including after removing images like the Mona Lisa or all of Leonardo da Vinci’s work via ablation.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
A macOS Tahoe 26.7 release-candidate video appears to show camera-equipped AirPods using Siri’s “Visual Intelligence” feature to let users “saveable” view what they’re seeing, with Siri saying “See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·Engadget
Google bought a deidentified trove from Spirit at auction for $10 million, including over 100 million emails and 30 million recorded phone calls as it seeks to improve AI services.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Gartner projects that while LLM token costs will drop 95% by 2030, inference costs for agentic workflows will increase more than fivefold over the next two years, creating an “inference paradox.”
Aug 18, 2026 ·Computerworld
Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion to back SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio for OpenAI, where the first phase targets 4.25 GW of IT capacity and the full buildout could reach 8 GW of AI computing capacity under a 20-year lease.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Greg Brockman told enterprise CISOs to more aggressively use agentic systems for defense, including “Codex” and the “Codex Security plugin,” and to start with highest-priority systems rather than waiting for a rollout.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Computerworld
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds MultiVectorEncoder to support ColBERT-style late-interaction retrieval, keeping one token vector per document and scoring with the MaxSim (sum of per-query-token max similarities) operator instead of compressing each text into a single vector.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of last year.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Reddit is running an early, limited experiment that converts selected Reddit text posts (including some comments) into AI-voice audio/video, with a web “Read” or “Play” toggle and a “Real conversation voiced by AI” note under the video.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Verge
Artisan AI, known for 2025 “Stop Hiring Humans” billboards, is now hiring a human for its AI business development representative (Ava) role rather than retiring the slogan entirely
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
