ByteDance and Motion Picture Association signs AI copyright agreement

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association signed an agreement to strengthen copyright protections on AI video and image models like Seedance and Seedream.
18 August 2026

Nvidia's $500 billion plan to keep ageing GPUs valuable is a gamble with its own balance sheet

Nvidia backed a $500 billion AI data center initiative with a 25% collateral value guarantee to create a secondary market for aging GPUs.
17 August 2026

AI coding startup Cognition in talks to raise new round at $40 billion valuation

Cognition is in talks for a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation as its AI coding agent Devin approaches $1 billion in annualised revenue.
17 August 2026

Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million

European vibe-coding startup Lovable confirmed a $400 million Series C funding round at a $13.3 billion valuation to expand its AI app development platform.
17 August 2026

AI backlash is a crisis of trust, says Anthropic CEO

Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei recently said in a series of posts on X that public hostility toward artificial intelligence reflects a deeper erosion of trust in institutions, rather than safety warnings from industry leaders.
17 August 2026

US to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China

Washington last year launched the Pax Silica initiative aimed at securing supply chains for AI models, semiconductors and critical minerals, amid a fierce technology rivalry with Beijing.
17 August 2026

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.
16 August 2026

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.
16 August 2026

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