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AI News
Aug 14, 2026 32

Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnershi...

Research
Aug 14, 2026 45

State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations

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AI News
Aug 13, 2026 29

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft ...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 31

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabi...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 23

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 30

OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of...

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 19

OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 28

IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

AI News
Aug 13, 2026 28

Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s s...

Research
Aug 13, 2026 31

Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets

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AI News
Aug 13, 2026 25

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
Research
Aug 13, 2026 30

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

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