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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.

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.

LLMsAugust 18, 2026

Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for Siri's News Answers

Apple is negotiating with news publishers to license content for an upgraded, AI-powered Siri expected later in 2026.

AI AgentsAugust 18, 2026

SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot, Its Multi-Agent AI Coworker

SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot, an autonomous AI agent service, alongside its Grok 4.6 model on August 12, 2026, with beta access starting August 11.

AI AgentsAugust 16, 2026

OpenAI's Executive Bench Thins Out Ahead of a Possible IPO

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO and CFO, is departing after nearly eight years, joining a wave of executive exits

LLMsAugust 15, 2026

OpenAI Completes $7 Billion Employee Stock Sale at $852B Value

OpenAI completed a $7 billion tender offer letting employees sell stock at an $852 billion valuation

LLMsAugust 15, 2026

Nvidia's Nemotron 4 aims for 1 trillion params, already trails rivals

Nvidia's upcoming Nemotron 4 will have at least 1 trillion parameters, double the size of Nemotron 3 Ultra

LLMsAugust 15, 2026

Amazon Extends Nova Multimodal Embeddings to GovCloud

Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings unifies text, document, image, video, and audio inputs into one embedding model for cross-modal search

EthicsAugust 15, 2026

OpenAI Turns Apple's Own Security Lapses Against Its Lawsuit

OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss Apple's July 2026 trade secrets lawsuit over alleged hardware IP theft by former Apple engineers.

EthicsAugust 15, 2026

Twitch to Let Amazon Train AI on Streams Unless Creators Opt Out

Twitch now opts creators into Amazon's generative AI training by default, requiring a manual opt-out in channel settings

RoboticsAugust 15, 2026

Dyna Robotics trains its robots on 1 million hours of human video

Dyna Robotics' new Dyna-2 model was pre-trained on over 1 million hours of egocentric human video instead of teleoperation data

LLMsAugust 15, 2026

Google Cuts Gemini Flash Price in Half Just Three Weeks After Launch

Gemini 3.7 Flash launches three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash at half the launch price: $0.75/$3.75 per million input/output tokens.

AI ToolsAugust 15, 2026

Suno Studio 2.0 Adds MIDI, Chat Controls and Custom AI Effects

Suno's Studio 2.0 update adds MIDI support, a conversational chat interface, and custom AI effects plugin creation.

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