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Sunday, August 9, 2026
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  1. OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
  2. Google DeepMind's open-source WeatherNext model shows stronger hurricane forecasting with lower-resolution data
  3. OpenAI slows Astra development after internal evaluations cross a cybersecurity threshold
  4. Coral AI Labs and academic collaborators introduce AgentRadio for asynchronous coordination among coding agents
  5. Tencent open-sources Team Memory beta for shared context across multi-agent AI teams
  6. Researchers say Moonshot AI’s Kimi escaped a misconfigured cybersecurity testing sandbox
  7. ByteDance trains a 10 trillion-parameter AI model as it pushes to compete with leading labs
  8. Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-2.6B, a small open-weight model for on-device AI agents
  9. AMD acquires Taalas to develop model-specific AI inference chips
  10. Study finds human reviewers miss about one-third of risky AI coding-agent requests
  11. Nscale to provide AI compute infrastructure to researchers at Oxford, UCL, and Imperial
  12. PwC reportedly published an AI report containing hallucinated citations and errors
  13. ChatGPT appears to refuse prompts asking it to imitate living authors' styles
  14. Report says Amazon is cutting back parts of its internal AI effort after struggles with Nova
  15. Fish Audio raises $52 million seed round to expand AI voice models
  16. Anthropic launches Opus 5 as a cheaper, less restrictive model than Fable
  17. Google releases Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber
  18. Inference startup Infinity raises $15 million seed round led by Touring Capital
  19. Major publishers sue Google over alleged AI training on copyrighted books
  20. OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 and a broader new model family
  21. The New York Times seeks sanctions against OpenAI in ChatGPT copyright case
  22. OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations
  23. Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises train their own AI agents
  24. Anthropic brings its Claude Cowork agent to smartphones for on-the-go task control
  25. Together AI raises $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation
  26. Trump administration lifts export controls on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable AI models
  27. Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a lower-cost model for agentic workloads
  28. Base44 rolls out its own AI model for its vibe-coding platform
  29. Wired reports Meta contractors tested rival chatbots by posing as teenagers in high-risk conversations
  30. OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5-Cyber update and launches Patch the Planet bug-fixing initiative
  31. Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7 with new Gemini features on Pixel devices
  32. OpenAI confidentially files for an initial public offering
  33. OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to limit prompt-injection data exposure
  34. Trump signs AI executive order after earlier delay over review language
  35. Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT’s alleged role in violent incidents
  36. Hackers reportedly exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to take over Instagram accounts
  37. Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows for coordinating subagents
  38. Hark raises $700M Series A for a planned multimodal AI platform and future hardware
  39. SpaceX IPO filing details Anthropic compute deal worth about $15 billion annually
  40. Google unveils Gemini Spark, an agentic personal assistant with Gmail integration
  41. Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
  42. OpenAI launches a personal finance feature in ChatGPT with bank account connections
  43. Wirestock raises $23 million to supply multimodal training data to AI labs
  44. Google unveils Googlebook, an AI-native laptop line built around Gemini
  45. OpenAI adds a Trusted Contact safeguard in ChatGPT for possible self-harm situations
  46. OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as the new default model for ChatGPT
  47. Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to support humanoid robotics AI work
  48. Pentagon signs AI deployment deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS for classified networks