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OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer, signaling IPO timeline may slip

OpenAI has reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, buying back shares from its workforce at a valuation of $852 billion....

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Anthropic’s AI agents started a turf war when given the same task—and invented truces to end it

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team published new research on Thursday showing that when AI agents with conflicting goals encounter each other, they can...

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Spotify to label AI Personas and remove their music from recommendations

Spotify announced on Tuesday that it will begin labeling AI-generated artist profiles with “AI Persona” badges and exclude their music from its...

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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to scale AI across accounting, IT, and physical assets

Thrive Holdings, an OpenAI-backed firm that applies artificial intelligence to traditional businesses, has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12...

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Blacksmith’s valuation jumps nearly 10x to $550M as AI code testing demand explodes

Blacksmith, a startup focused on testing and validating AI-generated code, has raised a $45 million Series B round led by Peak XV...

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Google’s Gemini app hits 1 billion monthly users, CEO Sundar Pichai announces

Google’s Gemini app has crossed the 1 billion monthly active users mark, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on X on August 11, 2026,...

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Zuckerberg lays out vision to put superintelligent AI in everyone’s hands

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 14-page letter on Monday titled “The Future is for Everyone: The Path to a...

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Anthropic makes Claude Code auto mode the default, citing safety gains over human review

Anthropic announced Friday that it will make Claude Code’s auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team accounts starting August 14,...

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Discovered Materials raises $9M to use AI agents in hunt for cooler chips

As data centers strain under the heat generated by AI workloads, a new wave of startups is turning to artificial intelligence to...

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Jill Lepore warns Silicon Valley’s ‘artificial state’ is replacing democracy: ‘A return to tyranny and mystification’

Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has a stark warning for the era of AI and big tech: Silicon...

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