Why the industry's next winners may not be the companies building the models. The Industry Is Asking the Wrong Question The ...

Twitch users can now block their streams, VODs, clips, and chat from being used to train Amazon's generative AI models, under a new setting the Amazon-owned platform added to its account controls. The ...

Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, 2026, a 3.1-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model built to run on phones, laptops, and single GPUs rather than in a data center. The model, ...

I’ve tested a lot of AI tools over the past few years, and one thing that still drives me crazy is how quickly your workflow turns into a pile of different apps. One tool for research, another for ...

Moove, the Dubai-headquartered mobility company that finances, owns, and operates vehicle fleets for ride-hail and robotaxi platforms, has raised $250 million in a Series C round at a $2.1 billion ...

Stockholm-based Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, the company announced on August 12, 2026, following its Series B in December 2025 (valuation not ...

DeepSeek has released the production version of its flagship model, DeepSeek V4 Pro, ending a preview period that ran nearly four months. The build, designated V4 Pro 0813, appeared on August 12, 2026 ...

Skan AI, a Menlo Park startup whose software watches how employees actually move work through enterprise applications, has raised $63 million in Series C funding co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell ...

Vijay Rayapati is the co-founder and CEO of Atomicwork. Before founding the company, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Nutanix, where he led the End User Computing business ...

Google DeepMind has shipped a sign-language-to-text model, SL2T, inside two consumer Android products, the first time sign language AI has reached a shipping phone feature. The model powers ...

Blacksmith, a San Francisco startup that runs continuous integration workloads on purpose-built hardware, has raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550 million valuation, the ...

Pudu Robotics launched the PUDU ET1 on August 12, 2026, an AI-native compact scrubber-dryer robot built for commercial spaces of 100 to 800 square meters, taking the Shenzhen company's cleaning lineup ...