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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
Brad Lightcap, one of the longest-serving executives at OpenAI, is leaving the powerful AI lab to “start…
General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a…
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in…
Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations
Spotify will begin labeling AI-generated artists with “AI Persona” profile tags and ban their music from…
Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
Anthropic will watermark text generated by its models, including Claude, to comply with European regulations,…
The VC Firm That Helped Build Latin America’s Startup Scene Is Crossing Into Silicon Valley
Monashees, one of Latin America’s oldest and most influential VC firms, believes the next phase of the…
AI-Native, Not AI-Sprinkle: Why AI Is A Business Change, Not A Technology Change
The buy-and-build SaaS playbook regularly faces the problem of old code: A roll-up strategy executed over…
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
In Brief Posted: 5:03 PM PDT · August 10, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Tim…
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
Every day seems to brings fresh news of an AI agent going “rogue.” Whether that’s compromising Hugging…
Robot mall cops are being replaced by humans
Robot security guard have failed so hard that they’re being replaced with humans: [404, archive; Proof]…
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the…
Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of…
📈 Making sense of the AI capex logjam
For the research and modeling behind this analysis, see our 2026 State of the AI Economy Report.Based on…
Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer…
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and…
Global New Unicorn Counts In The First Half Of 2026 Have Already Surpassed 2025’s Totals
A total 195 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in the first half of 2026 — far surpassing counts…
The Biggest Consequence Of An AI IPO Isn’t The IPO Itself. It’s What Happens Afterward.
By Andrew Gershfeld The current focus on AI IPOs is largely centered on public market performance. Investors…
Aschenbrenner apostou tudo na IA — e perdeu
Rodrigo Ghedin translates “Aschenbrenner bet everything on AI — and lost” into Portuguese for Manual do…
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
In Brief Posted: 1:35 PM PDT · August 9, 2026 Image Credits:Getty Images Anthony Ha Embattled hedge fund…
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
In Brief Posted: 12:20 PM PDT · August 9, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony…
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial…
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
Over the past few months, AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their boundaries,…
🔮 Agents form alliances, DeepMind’s reset & how likely is a crash? #596
Hi,It’s time for our Sunday briefing #596, final holiday edition before I get back to my desk next week. If…
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
In Brief Posted: 2:24 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 Image Credits:Thossaphol / Getty Images Anthony Ha Planned…