Adit Singh joined Mayfield as an infrastructure partner to invest in hardware, infrastructure software, cybersecurity, and physical AI, citing Mayfield’s semiconductor portfolio strength.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
DSpark draft checkpoints for LFM2.5 deliver up to 3.18× higher throughput on an H100 and up to 2.87× on a MacBook Pro (M4 Max), while keeping greedy output quality unchanged.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Ramp launched Router, an AI model routing service that lets users switch between multiple large language models via an API and tracks token spend, cost, latency, and fallback attempts in a dashboard.
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Task Manager’s Processes tab on supported newer Windows devices can now show per-process NPU use alongside CPU/GPU activity, while the Performance tab shows overall utilization for CPU/GPU neural engine workloads.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Register
Meta is rolling out its experimental vibe-coding gaming app Pocket to everyone in the U.S., letting people generate small interactive games from AI prompts and publish them to a feed as “gizmos.”
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Inertia Enterprises says it cut fuel-pellet manufacturing time from several days to about 2–3 hours per pellet by reducing crystal growth to roughly 30 minutes (down from up to a week at the National Ignition Facility).
Aug 20, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Google added a new “Preferred Sources” button that lets readers add a publisher to Google Search and immediately return them to the publisher’s page, with that site appearing more often in Google Search (including Top Stories, AI Overviews, and AI Mode).
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Engadget
Robotaxi Tracker data says all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin from the past two weeks were unsupervised, spanning 54 different vehicles.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Engadget
Greg Brockman has expanded control of OpenAI’s day-to-day operations and now oversees product strategy and the company’s entire “scaling” arm as OpenAI prepares for an IPO, with his comments replacing CEO Sam Altman’s in at least one recent press release quote.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Scammers are using AI to impersonate high-profile targets, including celebrities and politicians, to carry out audio deepfake impersonation scams.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
CNET
Mastercard introduced “Agent Pay” in April to let AI agents shop online for consumers through the same vetting and checks as human cardholders, with transactions tokenized for added safety.
Aug 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Slack introduced Slack Code, letting users invite AI coding agents from within Slack conversations to create project-specific code channels where teams can watch, review, and redirect proposed changes with live HTML previews and the option to pause, stop, or redirect agents.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Register
Bitdeer AI won a five-year contract worth about $400 million for roughly half of its A102 AI data center in Malaysia, covering 50% of the facility’s 9.5MW capacity and expected to start generating revenue in 2027.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Madison Large Cap Fund (class I) returned 8.4% in Q2 2026, versus a 15.2% gain in the S&P 500 Index, as U.S. stocks’ strongest performance since 2020 was led by a narrow group of AI-related stocks.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
All 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin tracked over the past two weeks were unsupervised, involving 54 different cars, after previously having human safety monitors onboard.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
Waymo says it has scaled the compute power 20x over eight years and runs robotaxi operations on trunk-installed processors designed for low-latency, ruggedized, redundant, real-time sensor fusion.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
OpenAI’s latest internal math breakthroughs—spurring debate after the release of “10 Advances in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science” and claims that its newest model (likely Astra) solved multiple long-running problems—have triggered an “existential crisis” among mathematicians over what mathematics and mathematicians’ roles should be in the AI era.
Aug 20, 2026 ·The Verge
X is reportedly in talks with Circle Internet Group to use USDC stablecoin payments to pay influencers and content creators, including royalties through its Original Content Rewards Program.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An encrypted “prompt injection” can bypass Grok’s safety guardrails and cause it to exfiltrate a user’s chats and other personal information via a link whose parameters are populated with the user’s name, location, and chat history.
Aug 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Adobe’s Firefly adds no-mic AI tools to generate speech from uploaded scripts, create instrumental AI music (background tracks only) from prompt “fill-in-the-blank” inputs, and generate sound effects by prompting or transforming uploaded recordings, with all generated audio covered by a universal license for commercial use.
Aug 20, 2026 ·CNET
