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AWS Adds Eight Open Models to SageMaker JumpStart

AWS added eight open models to SageMaker JumpStart, including FLUX.2-small-decoder, Gemma-4-12B-it, GLM-5.2 FP8, GLM-OCR, LightOnOCR-2-1B, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and langcache-embed-v3-small.

AI AgentsAugust 19, 2026

AI Connect 2026 Set for Riga This August

AI Connect 2026 is scheduled for August 22, 2026, in Riga, Latvia

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

OpenAI's Ultrafast Mode Pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 Tokens a Second

OpenAI's new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x normal speed, hitting up to 750 tokens per second

HardwareAugust 19, 2026

Nvidia Pledges $125B Backstop to Unlock $500B in AI Financing

Nvidia signed MOUs with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to raise over $500B in third-party AI infrastructure financing.

AI AgentsAugust 19, 2026

HeyBreez Raises $2.5M as Voice AI Calls Top 1 Million a Month

HeyBreez closed a $2.5M oversubscribed seed round led by Lunara Partners, with Jabbar Group and DASH Ventures also participating.

AI AgentsAugust 19, 2026

AWS Adds Approval Gates to Amazon Quick's Asset Sharing

AWS added approval policies to Amazon Quick, requiring designated approvers to sign off before assets are shared within an organization

EthicsAugust 19, 2026

Historian Jill Lepore Names Names in New Book on Tech Power

Historian Jill Lepore's new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State' names Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Thiel and Altman as architects of a tech-driven shift in political power

Jill Lepore for the Library of Congress 2020

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

Dario Amodei breaks silence to fight back at safety critics

Dario Amodei used a rare X post to reject claims that his AI safety warnings fueled backlash against U.S. data centers

EthicsAugust 19, 2026

Flock Safety built an AI tool that tracks people, WIRED finds

WIRED reconstructed Flock Safety's OS Investigate AI system from code on the company's law enforcement login pages, revealing it can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns.

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

Anthropic's EU-mandated watermark for Claude sparks quality debate

Anthropic is adding invisible watermarking to Claude's text output to comply with an EU rule requiring AI-generated text to be marked starting in December.

AI PolicyAugust 19, 2026

Turkey Sets $10 Billion AI Plan, Targets 5 Million Trained

Turkey's 2026-2030 AI action plan targets training 5 million people in AI literacy across all 81 provinces within two years

How will Türkiye’s AI Action Plan unfold between 2026-2030? | Opinion

AI AgentsAugust 19, 2026

How a legal delivery firm turned 1,100 staff into AI builders

ABC Legal deployed Claude Enterprise to about 1,100 employees in early 2026, with roughly 310 using it daily across departments by July.

ResearchAugust 19, 2026

What Wireless Foundation Models Mean for 6G Networks

A 28-page arXiv survey by Nasir Saeed maps how foundation models could underpin AI-native 6G wireless networks.

AI AgentsAugust 19, 2026

Relay shuts down as its founder returns to Google's Chrome team

Relay, Jacob Bank's AI workflow automation startup, is shutting down; free users lost access August 15, 2026, and paid customers follow on September 14.

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

New Framework Exposes a Trust Gap in Healthcare LLMs

A new arXiv paper proposes a four-component framework for evaluating causal grounding in healthcare LLMs, tested on a cardiovascular pilot.

ResearchAugust 19, 2026

DeepMind's hurricane AI cuts track error by 140 kilometers

Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones model cut five-day hurricane track error to 230 km, versus 370 km for ECMWF's ENS system and 335 km for DeepMind's own GenCast

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

AWS Brings OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Models to Bedrock in India

AWS added OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models to Amazon Bedrock in India via dedicated inference profiles.

LLMsAugust 19, 2026

AWS Adds Cross-Region Routing for OpenAI Models on Bedrock

AWS added Cross-Region inference support for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, Luna) on Amazon Bedrock, announced August 17, 2026.

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