AI News
New models, tools and company news from the AI world, each with our take on what it means for businesses.
- Nvidia Backstops OpenAI's Ohio Lease With Up to $105BOpenAI signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt Ohio campus, and Nvidia is guaranteeing the finished buildings' residual value up to $105 billion.
- Anthropic's Bio-Safety Filter Was Off for Nearly a YearAnthropic's own risk report says its biological weapons classifiers were inactive from May 2025 to April 2026, with about 133 million chats running unfiltered.
- Qwen 3.8 27B Ships Open Weights That Fit Into 17 GBAlibaba released Qwen 3.8 27B under Apache 2.0: a 17 GB quantized file with a 262k context window and vision support that runs on a single workstation.
- Stripe Is Buying OpenRouter for More Than $7 BillionBloomberg reports Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, the gateway fronting 400+ AI models, for over $7 billion. That is five times its May valuation.
- OpenAI Loses Its COO and Hires a New Revenue ChiefCOO Brad Lightcap is leaving OpenAI after eight years, the fourth senior exit in two months, while the company names Dali Rajic chief revenue officer ahead of a planned IPO.
- Microsoft Cuts Five Copilot Features and Merges Its AppsDeep Research, Mico and Copilot Labs are among five features Microsoft retires on August 18, as the consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps merge into one.
- Fable 5 Took Just 6 Percent of Anthropic's TokensAnthropic's strongest model took only 6 percent of the company's token volume in its first month. Ramp's data suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier capability has a ceiling.
- DeepSeek Raises API Prices as V4-Pro Gets SharperDeepSeek's V4-Pro jumped on coding benchmarks, but API prices rise on August 16. Cache hits get six to twelve times more expensive, while the Harness agent framework goes MIT-licensed.
- Grok 4.6 Ties GPT-5.6 Sol and Costs 60 Percent LessSpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches GPT-5.6 Sol at 61 points on the Artificial Analysis index while costing $2/$6 per million tokens, and finishes agent tasks in half the steps.
- Made by Google 2026: Pixel 11 and the New Gemini FeaturesGoogle unveiled the Pixel 11 line and new Gemini features. Prices rose, voice note-taking got seriously better, and the billion-user figure comes with a footnote.
- Researchers Reconstructed Prompts From Model OutputIIT Bombay and Adobe Research built a method that rebuilds a model's prompt from its output text with near-perfect accuracy. Your system prompt is not a secret store.
- Lovable Doubles to a $13.3 Billion ValuationLovable raised another $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling in eight months. Where describing software instead of writing it works, and where it stops.