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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests that sci-fi's most popularly-depicted method of interfacing with AI may actually produce worse results than even badly-typed prompts. From HAL to Deep Thought, from C3P0 to ...

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 ...

Cisco took $4 billion in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026, the company reported on August 12, 2026, capping a year in which orders for AI networking ...

Ryanair, Europe's largest airline, and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership on August 12, 2026, under which the carrier will deploy Google Workspace and Google Cloud services to 35,000 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking the public how to rebuild the National Vulnerability Database for an era of artificial intelligence, opening a 62-day comment window on ...

The deal is less a new logo than a deepening of an existing relationship. The scope spans the properties fans actually touch: FIFA ID as a unified identity across platforms, a personalized FIFA.com, ...

AI has launched Grok Bot, a beta product it describes as a team of always-on AI agents that get their own cloud computer, sign into a customer's existing tools, and finish multi-step jobs without ...

NVIDIA published a detailed case on August 12, 2026 for treating its AI factory compute as an investable infrastructure asset class, two days after signing memorandums of understanding with Apollo, ...

Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership on August 11, 2026 that will install Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside a US-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data ...