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AI News
Aug 12, 2026 26

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the cent...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 29

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 34

Google tests AMIE for clinical video consultations

Google’s research medical AI system, AMIE (Video), conducted synchronous video consultations with professional patient actors and receive...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 27

Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, a...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 17

Google unveils Pixel 11 lineup, new AirTag rival, and Gemini features at Made by Google 2026

From the Pixel 11 series and a brand new competitor to Apple’s AirTag, here are all the announcements from the Made by Google 2026 event.

Research
Aug 12, 2026 27

Putting sign language AI into users’ hands

Introducing sign-language-to-text (SL2T), our breakthrough model powering new sign language features for Deaf and hard of hearing users.

Research
Aug 12, 2026 21

LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge

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AI News
Aug 12, 2026 24

Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health

The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 23

Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup

Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized canc...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 23

Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work

SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, an always-on AI agent service designed to behave like independent "AI teammates" that can do your work ...

AI News
Aug 12, 2026 24

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

Research
Aug 12, 2026 23

Empty shelves or lost keys? Recall is the bottleneck for parametric factuality

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