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AI News
Aug 18, 2026 35

Reading Zhipu’s GLM-5.3 results past the headline number

Zhipu’s release note for GLM-5.3 contains a sentence that did not make it into most of the coverage. Describing its own c...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 21

Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video

We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 ...

AI News
Aug 18, 2026 18

AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

The AI industry’s boldest promise right now is that AI will soon improve itself, with almost no need for human oversight. LLMs can alread...

Research
Aug 18, 2026 31

Multi-Vector (Late Interaction) Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers

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AI News
Aug 17, 2026 58

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 23

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank...

Research
Aug 17, 2026 25

Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order

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AI News
Aug 17, 2026 24

What Flock’s defenders are missing

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AI News
Aug 17, 2026 24

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 17

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powe...

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 21

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

AI News
Aug 17, 2026 15

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.