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Aug 20, 2026 480

Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps

Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.

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Aug 20, 2026 126

Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and ...

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Aug 20, 2026 91

Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model-routing platform that gives developers access to hundreds of models through a single...

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Aug 20, 2026 93

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

Each day, an airline transports tens of thousands of passengers on hundreds of flights. Often these are not straightforward point-to-poin...

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Aug 20, 2026 175

Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

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Aug 20, 2026 67

Agentic AI in government just hit the hard part: deciding what a machine may decide

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been early in adopting artificial intelligence for 9 years. It published a national AI strategy in Oct...

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Aug 20, 2026 71

A third of ChatGPT ads appear in irrelevant conversations

Advertising inside ChatGPT arrived with a promise that the assistant already knows what the user wants. So far, that hasn’t entirely been...

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Aug 20, 2026 67

AI data centre regulation just got a template that needs no new law

AI data centre regulation in Pennsylvania now begins with a signature. Before the state will so much as open a developer’s permit f...

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HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business...
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Aug 20, 2026 72

HoneyBook bets on agentic AI to streamline small business operations with its new Claude connector

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to b...

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Aug 19, 2026 186

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singular...

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Aug 19, 2026 127

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.

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Aug 19, 2026 140

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to catch up to rivals l...

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