DeepSeek has released Harness, the layer between an agent and its environment, under the MIT licence. Models, tools, sessions and the control loop itself all sit behind plugin boundaries and can be swapped without touching the source.
A 404 Media investigation placed an AirTag inside a book shipment and tracked it, revealing that Amazon scans printed books it buys in bulk and destroys them in the process. The data trains its Nova models.
According to Bloomberg, Stripe has finalised a deal to acquire OpenRouter, which gives customers a single access point to different AI models. The company raised at a reported $1.3 billion valuation in May.
AWS has described how to visualise Bedrock cost attribution, which traces every inference request back to the IAM principal that made it, using Athena queries and CUDOS dashboards. Spend can then be followed by user, application, team and project.
Mark Zuckerberg published a long piece arguing superintelligence should be distributed to everyone rather than concentrated in a few institutions. The same week Meta released the open-weight Glimmer, while the more powerful Muse Spark stays behind its own APIs.
Higgsfield's Cully Hill Boys is one of the AI films that comes closest to a traditionally produced feature. The Verge's review argues its strength comes from a script by a real screenwriter and from directors named in the prompts.
Google has announced a tap to share feature that sends files and contact information by touching two phones together. It reaches Pixel 6 and newer devices first, with Samsung models next.
Twitch is preparing to use creator content to train Amazon's generative AI models. Creators are enrolled automatically, and anyone who wants out must turn the setting off in account settings.
At its Made by Google event on 13 August 2026, Google introduced the Pixel 11 series, the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel Tag, its AirTag rival. Gemini features spread further across the devices.
Databricks co-founder Ali Ghodsi described how the company actually wanted to raise $1 billion but, faced with $15 billion of interest that followed a news report, closed a $5 billion round at a $190 billion valuation.
According to six of the company's backers, Anthropic's planned October float could come at a valuation of $2 trillion or more. That would make it the largest initial public offering ever.
Chinese firm Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3. The model shares the same base as its predecessor and all gains come from extended post-training alone. The company also reports finding 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects with security teams.