SpaceX completes acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor
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Claude will watermark AI text. Here’s how it works
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Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active users, Google says
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Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text
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Spotify to exclude AI artists from algorithms in September
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11 August 2026 Technology
Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud
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10 August 2026 Technology
Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, browser designed for AI agents
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9 August 2026 Technology
AI presentation startup NextSlide acquired by OpenAI
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9 August 2026 Technology

SpaceX completes acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor

SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding assistant startup Cursor, integrating its team and technology into the SpaceXAI division.
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Claude will watermark AI text. Here’s how it works

Anthropic detailed how its invisible text watermarking system for Claude models works to comply with EU AI Act transparency rules.
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Bangladeshi companies look beyond chatbots with agentic AI

Known as agentic AI, these systems are designed not only to generate responses but also to plan, make decisions and execute actions across multiple software applications. A small but growing number of Bangladeshi companies are beginning to develop products based on the technology.
15 August 2026

Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active users, Google says

Google’s Gemini app now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Monday, making it the fastest-growing product in the company’s history and the 14th to reach the billion-user milestone.
12 August 2026

Anthropic to watermark Claude-generated text

Anthropic has committed to embedding machine-readable marks in all content generated by its Claude models, the company said on Tuesday, as it became a signatory to the EU AI Act’s Code of Practice on transparency for AI-generated content.
12 August 2026

Spotify to exclude AI artists from algorithms in September

Spotify is set to introduce a new system in September that will identify artist profiles whose public identities appear to have been created using generative artificial intelligence (AI), while excluding those profiles from most personalised recommendations by default.
11 August 2026

Meta’s new open-source AI runs locally without the cloud

Meta has introduced Muse Glimmer, a new artificial intelligence model that is small enough to run locally on a single consumer graphics card.
10 August 2026

What happens to your digital life after death?

Explore what happens to digital assets, social media, and online accounts after death, and how digital estate planning protects your online legacy.
10 August 2026

Cloudflare unveils Kitesurf, browser designed for AI agents

Cloudflare has recently announced Kitesurf, a new web browser built specifically for AI agents rather than human users.
9 August 2026

AI presentation startup NextSlide acquired by OpenAI

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built an AI tool to turn prompts, notes, and documents into presentations, the company’s founder, Ahmed Beshry, announced in a blog post.
9 August 2026

OpenAI pauses upcoming model development after ‘critical’ cyber risk

OpenAI said on Friday it cannot rule out that its upcoming AI model, Astra, possesses “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, forcing the company to pause certain internal work and strengthen safety measures.
9 August 2026

Pangram raises $9 million to scale AI content detection

AI detection startup Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its tools for identifying AI-generated text and images.
3 August 2026

Zuckerberg predicts billions will have personal AI agents within five years

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has told investors that he expects billions of people to have personal AI agents working on their behalf around the clock within five years.
3 August 2026

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-Max, its largest AI model yet

Alibaba on Monday unveiled Qwen 3.8-Max, the most powerful model in its Qwen family. The model, which has 2.4 trillion parameters but activates only 95 billion at a time, will be available via Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio, with the open weights to follow next week.
3 August 2026

LinkedIn adds 'seems like AI slop' reporting button

LinkedIn has introduced a new reporting option allowing users to flag low-quality AI-generated content in their feed, and has simultaneously removed its own AI post-writing tool, replacing it with a proofreading feature that corrects without replacing the user's voice.
2 August 2026

Could AI make Bangladesh’s construction sites safer?

A site engineer, however diligent, cannot be in two places at once, and manual inspection is inherently reactive. It catches a violation after the fact, if it catches it at all.
2 August 2026

Google Earth pauses AI image generation after users violate policies

Google has rolled back a newly launched artificial intelligence feature in Google Earth that let users generate photorealistic images of any location, just one day after introducing it.
2 August 2026

OpenAI uncovers more rogue AI breakouts: report

OpenAI has discovered additional instances in which autonomous AI agents escaped containment, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
2 August 2026

A closer look at AI’s growing hunger for printed books

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.
2 August 2026

AI firms are buying millions of old books—then destroying them

Artificial intelligence companies are buying old and out-of-print books in bulk to create training data, prompting concern that uncommon editions could disappear after being scanned and destroyed.
29 July 2026