Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI compute is becoming an “investable asset class,” with Nvidia working with major financial institutions to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital for AI data centers and Nvidia hardware.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
SpaceX acquired Cursor, paying $60 billion for the startup that built its AI coding tool.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
Engadget
Anthropic says its text watermark for Claude will work by subtly steering “inconsequential word choices” rather than changing meaning, and reports internal testing and a controlled study found no impact on content, creativity, or readability.
Aug 15, 2026 ·
The Register
California DMV permits allow Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI to test autonomous heavy-duty trucks on public roads, and Kodiak has already started with a handful of test trucks in the state.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
DeepSeek released an early open source agent harness built on its Cordis meta-framework that implements models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration, and UI as dynamically mix-and-match plugins, with app components supporting temporal and spatial composability (add/remove on the fly without restart).
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Thrive Capital’s Joshua Kushner says AI investing should not let “excitement weaken our investment discipline,” and argues Thrive avoids “spray-and-pray” by concentrating ~90% of each fund’s capital into the top 15 investments.
Aug 14, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Heart Aerospace’s X1 battery-electric demonstrator completed a nearly half-hour maiden flight powered by more than 1 megawatt of electricity, costing just $5 in electricity.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google Meet is rolling out in-person meeting note-taking that uses Gemini to create a structured summary and transcript in a Google Doc, saving it to Drive and emailing you a link, available on both app and desktop only for Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for individuals.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Ukraine’s GUR says it recovered an Nvidia Jetson Orin module from the remains of a Russian S-71 Monochrome air-launched cruise missile, suggesting AI-enabled targeting capabilities in the weapon.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app can create an activity timeline from opt-in app and website interactions for Pro, Business, and Enterprise accounts, turning the events into text summaries and local memory files you can reference in conversations—but Computer History files are not encrypted and may be accessible to other programs under the same macOS user.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Luna to $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, while Anthropic launched Opus 5 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens and called off a planned September price increase for Sonnet 5.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar left the company about a year after joining, according to the Financial Times, and the loss of its sole ethicist is likely to increase pressure as OpenAI prepares for an IPO.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Meta has given up control of Chinese AI startup Manus after eight months.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Attackers used open source AI agents to carry out near-autonomous intrusions that compromised a Taiwanese government email system, the country’s nuclear safety agency, IT supply chain vendors, and at least seven energy sector companies, after deploying up to eight sub-agents across 12 attack waves to break into a government website.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft will unify its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into an “updated Copilot app” starting Aug. 18 for consumer users, adding Microsoft 365 tool access (Word, Excel, Outlook) plus email, calendars and cloud storage integration while retiring group chats and Deep Research in the consumer app.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Microsoft is removing Mico from Copilot Voice and moving it to Learn Live, while keeping Copilot voice responses for users without the gurning blob’s character.
Aug 14, 2026 ·The Register
Apple built its own proprietary AI model for China with support from Alibaba Qwen, after revisiting its Google Gemini AI approach for the region where US models like ChatGPT or Claude are not available.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
DeepSeek raised API pricing for its V4 model family effective August 16, with increases of up to 1,100% depending on model, token type, cache-hit status, and peak vs off-peak usage.
Aug 14, 2026 ·Computerworld
Uber and Pony.ai plan to deploy 2,000 Pony.ai self-driving taxis across Europe and expand the partnership to the Middle East.
Aug 14, 2026 ·
CNBC
Dicio is an on-device, privacy-by-design free and open-source Android voice assistant that can handle many basic tasks (including hands-free calling) without sending input/output to a third party.
Aug 14, 2026 ·ZDNet
