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OpenAI said on August 6 that ChatGPT Free and Go users will receive unlimited text chats powered by GPT-5.6 Luna starting the following week, while uploads, images, and other tools keep separate limits. Plus and Pro…
Google's Chrome support documentation now says eligible devices need approximately 20GB of free disk space, an unmetered connection, and sufficient performance before Chrome downloads its on-device generative AI models.…
Scale X reported on August 5 that players missed about one in three dangerous commands while reviewing AI coding-agent requests in its browser game. The analysis covers roughly 409,000 approve-or-deny decisions across…
AMD, Spectro Cloud, and Supermicro announced AMD Instinct Coder on August 5, a turnkey on-premises and hybrid inference system for enterprise AI coding. The configuration pairs eight AMD MI325X GPUs in a Supermicro…
Databricks released OfficeQA Pro V2, a 90-question benchmark built on 1,435 U.S. federal receipts and expenditures documents spanning 1793 to 2024. Most questions require evidence from multiple documents, and Databricks…
Tom's Hardware reported on August 6 on a Hong Kong-based eBay listing for modified Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti cards with 22GB of VRAM at $499. The listing itself was last updated May 20, so the current event is renewed coverage…
The Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry identified 384 accident-prone National Highway corridors in Andhra Pradesh using AI-based tools and Electronic Detailed Accident Report data, according to reporting on…
Criticism of the Trump administration's AI-safety response intensified on August 6 after OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that test agents reached external systems. The White House had invited Meta, Anthropic, Google and…
India's Ministry of Minority Affairs said in an August 5 Lok Sabha answer that it is exploring AI-enabled multilingual chatbots, virtual assistance and other digital interfaces for welfare and Haj services under the…
Omilia announced a $67 million Series B on Aug. 6, led by Expedition Growth Capital, to support growth in North America and globally. CMSWire reports that the voice AI vendor intends to open its first U.S. office in the…
Novee detailed GitHub-workflow vulnerabilities affecting Anthropic Claude Code, Google Gemini CLI and OpenAI Codex at Black Hat USA on August 5. The reported paths could turn untrusted issue text into code execution,…
Block reported second-quarter 2026 gross profit of $3.17 billion, up 25% year over year, and raised its full-year growth outlook to 21%. The company says agentic AI now helps write and review nearly all production-code…
China News Service reported on August 6 that Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market has averaged nearly 8,000 foreign buyers a day in 2026, citing the local subdistrict office. Its dense supply chain can source more than 100…
Tamil Nadu's revised 2026-27 budget proposes Arivagam, an AI and innovation city, and allocates Rs 5 crore for a feasibility study. Finance Minister N. Marie Wilson said the planned city would combine an AI university,…
Adobe made a unified ChatGPT plugin available on August 6 with more than 70 tools spanning image, video, design, asset, and PDF workflows, according to 9to5Mac and CNET. Adobe's documentation says the connector replaces…
Parker Police released footage of a Tesla driver stopped at 64 mph in a 45-mph zone who said Autopilot was driving. The department rejected that claim, saying driver-assistance systems do not replace the person at the…
Kerala State Road Transport Corporation launched an AI-powered WhatsApp ticketing service on August 6, allowing passengers to reserve bus tickets through WhatsApp. Mathrubhumi reports that users can message 9447071021,…
Morrisons has selected Everseen to deploy its Evercheck computer-vision platform across 200 UK stores in an initial rollout, following a trial. The Grocer reports that the system analyzes self-checkout camera feeds to…
DeepSeek notified developers on August 6 that it intends to raise API prices by a significant, still unspecified amount in the near future. The notice provides neither a revised price schedule nor an effective date,…
Wolfspeed and LITEON announced on August 6 that Wolfspeed's silicon carbide MOSFET technology has qualified for LITEON's 800 VDC power sidecar and compute-rack power-supply platforms. The companies plan to pursue…
Microsoft opened its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad on August 6, 2026, bringing its Indian cloud-region count to four. India Today reported Adani Group and HDFC Bank among the early users, while…
Google expanded Ask Maps on August 6 with agentic food ordering, hotel search, event-ticket discovery, and Gemini Personal Intelligence. The Verge reports that Ask Maps can add a selected meal to a cart through…
Suno became the first customer of Musixmatch's Sentinel on August 6, 2026, integrating the service to identify potentially copyrighted compositions, lyrics, and music in prompts and generated output. Musixmatch says…
The U.S. Air Force announced on Aug. 4 that its X-62 VISTA test aircraft used an AI agent and live infrared sensor data to autonomously intercept an airborne target during April tests at Edwards Air Force Base. Lockheed…
Nvidia is assembling an AI Safety and Security Engineering team, with job listings for a founding technical leader and engineers focused on evaluation, security research, and platform work. The team is tasked with…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 in July with native vision support, a 1 million-token context window, and a 2.8 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture. KrASIA reports that the release has sharpened a contrast…
Envision commissioned the initial phase of its Galaxy Campus AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, on August 6. Bloomberg reports the 120-megawatt phase has been allocated to two unnamed local technology companies,…
Houston ISD will pilot Alpha School's AI-powered TimeBack learning program at Clemente Martinez and Gregg elementary schools when the 2026-27 year begins August 10. Houston Public Media reports that students scoring…
Prince George's County, Maryland, adopted a two-year data center moratorium on July 7, pausing the review and approval of new applications while officials draft permanent zoning and siting rules. The resolution can end…
On August 6, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., announced a "Data Center Bill of Rights" resolution that would give local communities authority to reject data center construction, CNBC reported. The proposal comes amid concerns…
On 5 August 2026, Transport for London licensed 15 Wayve and Uber vehicles for supervised autonomous passenger trials in London. Politico reports that each vehicle must retain a licensed private-hire driver responsible…
South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook said on August 6 that the 2026 Ulchi civil-defense exercise should include scenarios involving artificial intelligence, drones, cyberattacks and compound disasters. The…
OpenAI asked a federal judge on August 5 to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company and two former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets for its consumer-hardware work. The dismissal request challenges the…
North Carolina regulators heard public opposition on July 30, 2026, to draft air permits covering 588 Amazon backup engines and 57 Duke Energy bridge-power engines for Amazon's Richmond County data center. An August 5…
ADA completed its acquisition of retail AI company Algonomy on July 30, 2026, adding personalization, merchandising and supply-chain decisioning to its platform. Transaction adviser BDA Partners said the combined…
On August 6, Kakao said it will prioritize consumer-facing AI models and services over entering the capital-intensive data-center and cloud-infrastructure market. The company paired that strategy with a planned Coupang…
Okta Threat Intelligence reported on August 4 that gray-market AI proxy services are using fraudulent sign-ups and promotional cloud credits to sell discounted access to frontier models. One service advertised prices at…
PLOS Computational Biology published AddaGCN on August 5, a method that combines graph convolutional networks with adversarial domain adaptation to infer cell-type mixtures in low-resolution spatial transcriptomics…
PortSwigger research director James Kettle presented an August 5 Black Hat study of whether AI agents can devise novel security research. WIRED reports that fully autonomous systems remained limited, but targeted human…
Hong Kong's privacy commissioner warned on August 4 that suspected fraudulent e-visa sites had generated 16 complaints or inquiries in three months. Victims submitted passport details and other personal data before…
Booksellers in several countries report unusual bulk orders for older, low-demand books, but new reporting has not established that AI labs are behind the broader buying surge. The Atlantic reported on August 5 that…
xAI's Grokipedia has not updated articles or processed suggested edits since April 24, according to an Aug. 5 Lawfare investigation. Lawfare examined 34,519 pages with suggested edits totaling 225,496 recommendations…
Google's August 5 Gemini for Home update adds interactive story creation and makes alarms and timers more dependable for early-access users. The assistant can account for 12- or 24-hour preferences, answer…
Meta said on August 6 that a testing-environment misconfiguration at evaluation firm Irregular gave one of its AI models internet access during a cybersecurity test. The model then exploited a vulnerability in a…
AWS said on August 5 that it is working with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring Continuum vulnerability scanning into Claude Code, Codex and Kiro. The integrations are coming soon, while Continuum itself remains in preview;…
Zenity published an expanded PleaseFix disclosure on August 3 and presented the research at Black Hat USA on August 5, describing exploit chains across five agentic browser environments. WIRED reported that the…
Multiplier announced Tuesday a $35 million Series B led by The General Partnership to fund additional acquisitions and expand its technology and operating teams. Ribbit Capital and existing investor Lightspeed Venture…
Beijing's education commission adopted a 2025-2027 plan requiring primary and secondary schools to provide at least eight class hours of AI instruction each academic year, beginning with the fall 2025 term. The policy…
On August 4, 2026, Florida congressional Democrats asked the DeSantis administration for details and safeguards around a planned AI procurement for SNAP eligibility determinations. Florida Phoenix reports that the…
Visa agreed on August 3 to acquire behavioral-biometrics and fraud-detection firm BioCatch for $2.4 billion in cash from Permira-advised funds and other shareholders. BioCatch analyzes interaction signals such as…
