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US Army Launches Detachment 201: Swears in OpenAI exec as Lt Colonel, next to Palantir

Kevin Weil , no longer with OpenAI, but still self-identifying as LTC, has a new startup rumored. https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/kevin-weil-left-open-ai-months-ago-now-seeking-150-million-dollars-for-startup/91389531 Meanwhile, another year, another group of tech industry inductees into the Army. www.army.mil – 10 Jun 26 Army commissions second cohort of tech executives into Executive Innovation... JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va. — The U.S. Army commissioned its second cohort of senior technology leaders into the Executive Innovation Corps, kno... Paywalled: Twelve Executives Who Left OpenAI in 2026 - Business Insider

From Gaza condoms to 'Your mom': Outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's most divisive moments

Karoline Leavitt announced this week she was stepping down from her role as White House Press Secretary. From her combative relationship with the press to viral moments which have made her infamous, here is a lookback at her most divisive moments behind the podium.

Last Windows Codex App Update Causing Massive Device-wide lag

same problem here, after the latest update, pc lag till the point of cursor cant move smoothly.

Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [Aug 10 - Aug 15]

This week, 14 Indian startups raised $151.5 million across two growth-stage deals, 11 early-stage deals and one undisclosed round. The week also saw five key hires, one departure, five fund launches, two M&A deals and an ESOP buyback that turned a startup into a unicorn. In contrast, 28 startups had collectively secured about $383.8 million in the previous week. [ Growth-stage deals ] Growth-stage startups raised nearly $103.5 million across three deals this week. Electric mobility platform Yulu led the funding activity with $93 million in Series C, comprising $63 million in equity led by GEF Capital Partners and $30 million in debt, while online bakery startup Bakingo secured around $10.5 million in Series B funding from existing investor Faering Capital. [ Early-stage deals ] Early-stage startups raised $48 million across 11 deals this week, led by Gurugram-based wealth management firm Centricity, which raised Rs 280 crore ($30 million) in Series A funding from SMBC Asia Rising Fund. Deep-tech startup Discovered Materials followed with $9 million (Rs 85 crore) in seed funding led by Lightspeed India Partners. Gurugram-based home-cleaning products startup Scrubsy has raised Rs 27 crore (around $3 million) from V3 Ventures. Bengaluru-based medical technology startup Ayati Devices has raised Rs 15 crore ($1.5 million) in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Inflexor Ventures. Other startups that secured funding this week included children's technology startup Wippi, tech-enabl…

ChatGPT Business account did not receive the Codex 15M-user hard reset

@OpenAI_Support An answer for affected Business account users would be appreciated. The language in the reset post was specifically everyone as quoted below. “Old news actually from a bunch of days ago, but crossed that 15M. Enjoy a nice reset everyone. Landing in the next hour or so, go /fast.”

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview 🐧

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Codex Desktop on Windows 11 causes intermittent system-wide mouse stutter, even while idle

+1. Also experiencing the same behavior after updating to 26.810.50856 today.

Comment on Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems by Alex Chen

Loved this article! For anyone into video creation, https://vidglory.com is a fantastic AI video tool worth checking out. Keep up the great work!

AGENTCODI: The Codex Workflow on Android

Hello everyone, I wanted to use Codex properly on Android without first setting up Termux and then maintaining a separate Node/npm environment. What started as the fairly harmless thought, “This should be possible,” has since turned into AGENTCODI and a surprising amount of work. The currently released version is 0.4.5 Early Access and runs on ARM64-v8a devices with Android 10 or newer. AGENTCODI is a standalone Android app for the Codex workflow. It supports authentication through ChatGPT or an OpenAI API key, new and existing Codex threads, live response streaming, and the display of reasoning summaries, plans, commands, file changes, and tool activity. Approval requests can be accepted or rejected directly inside the app. Available models and reasoning levels are loaded dynamically. There is also a dedicated project workspace from which individual files, generated images, or the entire workspace can be exported as a ZIP archive. AGENTCODI’s application and test code is written in Java and C++. The interface currently supports English and German and automatically follows the device language. A surprisingly large part of the development process now consists of finding out how far this kind of workflow can be pushed within Android’s application model. Android occasionally answers that question in its own uniquely charming way. A good example of this is described in my Developer Diary . I spent several weeks putting quite a bit of work into keeping Node.js out of future AGENT…

Comment on Tencent Debutes AR Navigation Platform for IoV and Announces New Smart Transportation Strategy by Patterson

The article offers an interesting look at how AR navigation could make driving more intuitive by placing useful directions directly into the driver’s view. I especially like the focus on connecting navigation with a broader smart transportation strategy, rather than treating AR as a standalone feature. Accuracy and safety will be crucial as these systems develop. It’s also interesting to see how digital technology continues improving access to everyday services; https://plumberinsandiegoca.com/ is one example of how local businesses can make essential services easier to find online.

Zed Launches Delta, a Standalone App Built for AI Agents Writing Your Code

Zed v1.15 ships smarter Git diffs and JSX improvements while Delta, a new multiplayer agent coding environment, enters private beta

Google releases C++ library for content provenance and authenticity

Google has introduced Credentio, an open source C++ library for C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authority) Content Credentials. Announced August 13 and available at the mediaprovenance repository, Credentio provides an API designed to run locally within developer applications. This removes the need to send media files to cloud servers for validation, which incurs privacy, latency, bandwidth, and file size limitations. Credentio is designed to start working with C2PA specification versions 2.2 and 2.4. This is the same code that has powered nearly 40 different conformant C2PA-enabled Google products to scale to tens of billions of generated assets, including images, videos, audio files, and documents across many file formats, Google said. Through Credentio, media files do not need to be transmitted back to Google or external validation endpoints while offering zero bandwidth overhead, instant validation verdicts, and complete data privacy, the company said. By validating media files locally Credentio eliminates external data transmission requirements, minimizes verification latency, and delivers immediate results even in high-throughput workflows. And media contents remain securely within the local environment. Credentio is tailored specifically for developers seeking to build performant, enterprise-grade C2PA validator products. Its small memory footprint makes it ideal for integrating into resource-constrained client applications, server pipelines, or high-perfor…

Pika Labs Launches Pika Audio at 9x Cheaper Than ElevenLabs

Pika launches four generative audio models — SFX, Speech, Music, and Soundtrack — priced up to 20x cheaper than ElevenLabs and other rivals

X reveals the formula for going viral on its platform

X released the source code for its algorithm on Thursday. The details reveal how posts end up on the For You page.

EaseMyTrip posts Rs 135 Cr revenue and Rs 11.7 Cr loss in Q1 FY27

Online travel aggregator (OTA) platform EaseMyTrip announced its financial results for the Q1 FY27. The company’s operating revenue grew 18.5% year-on-year, while it slipped into the red, reporting a net loss of Rs 11.7 crore. EaseMyTrip’s operating revenue grew 18.5% year-on-year to Rs 134.7 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 113.7 crore in Q1 FY26, according to its consolidated financial statements filed with the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Sequentially, revenue declined over 11%. Hotel packages emerged as the largest revenue contributor, accounting for over 50% of operating revenue. Revenue from the segment more than doubled to Rs 67.6 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 32.5 crore in Q1 FY26. Hotel room night bookings also rose 95.4% YoY to 6.47 lakh, averaging around 7,000 bookings per day. Air ticketing revenue declined 4% YoY to Rs 54.7 crore in Q1 FY27, following a 14% decline in the previous quarter. Including other services and non-operating income, EaseMyTrip’s total income rose to Rs 141.2 crore from Rs 119.6 crore in Q1 FY26. EaseMyTrip’s total expenses rose 30% year-on-year to Rs 152.6 crore in Q1 FY27. Service cost remained the largest expense at Rs 39.2 crore, more than doubling from the year-ago period, while employee benefit expenses stood at Rs 32.75 crore. Advertisement and sales promotion expenses increased to Rs 18.5 crore, while payment gateway charges stood at Rs 16.4 crore during the quarter. The rise in service costs and other operating expenses, coupled with slower…

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license appeared first on The Decoder .

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

My OpenAI Account Predates ChatGPT — Early Adopter Recognition?

What’s funny historically, I guess, is which model generated those 1 trillion tokens? The Single Value (Wolf) Function and Perspective Collapse Everything compressed into a single value

Comment on The Future of Vision AI: How Apple’s AIMV2 Leverages Images and Text to Lead the Pack by SquareFaceIconGenerator.app

Interesting breakdown of AIMV2. The unified autoregressive prediction over image patches and text tokens is a clever way to get denser supervision, and it makes sense that it outperforms CLIP on multimodal benchmarks. I’m curious how this will translate into real-world tools like image search or even avatar customization — stronger vision encoders could make those noticeably more accurate. Thanks for sharing the details.

An airline passenger almost got sucked out of the plane. A new report shows how it happened.

The NTSB released its preliminary report investigating how a Ryanair passenger was nearly sucked out of a plane window on a flight last month.

GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras

OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by Cerebras hardware from their $10 billion partnership. Together with "Standard" and "Fast," Ultrafast creates a three-tier pricing structure that turns inference speed into its own product. The article GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras appeared first on The Decoder .

Alex Renner Motors (ARMOTORS) launches luxury car storage service in Dubai

Oracle’s new database security tool is free — for six months

Oracle has released a security tool intended to provide organizations with a centralized view of security risk across their database environments. Oracle Database Security Central will be available free of charge until the end of February 2027. It arrives at a critical time for Oracle customers, with attackers targeting security flaws to exploit the company’s database products . Oracle is also concerned about the threat posted by the launch of bug-hunting AI model Mythos . In May it responded by accelerating its patching schedule, switching to monthly releases rather than quarterly. The first monthly batch fixed 35 flaws . Oracle said Security Central will enable security teams to assess security posture, detect configuration drift, as well as identifying privileged-user and access risks. It will also keep an eye on sensitive data and analyze how it is being accessed, and collect audit evidence accordingly. Finally, it will manage security policies centrally to ensure that policy variance is not putting the company at risk.

Russia jails man over spying for Poland one day after Warsaw foils assassination plot

Georgy Pirogov was sentenced to 23 years in a high-security colony for allegedly passing classified information to Polish intelligence. The verdict was announced the day after Poland said it had detained a Russian national suspected of planning a killing in Warsaw on the Kremlin's orders.

IBM partners with OpenAI to drive enterprise AI deployment

IBM will embed OpenAI frontier models and products such as Codex and ChatGPT embedded into IBM’s AI consulting services platform, IBM Consulting Advantage, as well as expanding the companies’ existing collaboration in the cybersecurity realm, they announced Thursday. Joint initiatives will include the creation of industry-specific products for financial services, government, telecommunications, and retail, as well as serving key enterprise domains such as finance, procurement, customer operations, and HR. IBM will join the OpenAI Partner Network and engage forward-deployed engineers and consultants trained through the network to help clients accelerate their AI implementations. It will also create a dedicated OpenAI practice, certifying thousands of consultants and engineers via the Partner Network, it said. There will be three focus areas in the new partnership: helping organizations transform their businesses to integrate AI into their daily work, assisting clients in modernizing legacy applications through a combination of OpenAI products and IBM’s expertise, and an expansion of an existing cybersecurity collaboration combining OpenAI frontier AI capabilities with IBM Autonomous Security. Everyone, it seems, is engaging forward-deployed engineers to help enterprises build systems around their AI models: OpenAI announced its initiative, OpenAI Deployment Company , on May 11, a week after Anthropic launched its efforts. Microsoft and AWS too have jumped into the ring. But,…

Zhipu launches flagship model GLM-5.3 as China seeks Mythos-level edge in cyber defence

Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, has unveiled its flagship GLM-5.3 model, saying it beat Anthropic’s frontier Mythos 5 model in a key cybersecurity test, as China races to counter Western advances in AI defence. Beijing-based Zhipu said GLM-5.3 achieved a success rate of 84.5 per cent on CyberGym, a benchmark that measures whether models can identify and validate security flaws from source code. That was above Anthropic’s Mythos at 83.8 per cent and OpenAI’s...

Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model

Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor through post-training alone. Trained for cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 helped security teams find 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 projects. The model weights are set to go open source in two weeks. The article Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model appeared first on The Decoder .

Help build a monument to that ‘sad little bitch’ Elon Musk

Cards Against Humanity is gearing up to build "something that will annoy Elon Musk," and it's crowdfunding the project with its usual flavor of vulgarity. The company behind the card game announced plans to build "a grand monument" to Musk on the parcel of land it owns near Starbase, Texas, with the aim to "make […]

I really need the Codex app on Linux

Just noticed that the Codex app for Linux is finally available! I didn’t receive an email about the release, so this was a very nice surprise today. I’ve been waiting for this and already joined the waitlist before, so I’m really happy to see it released. Thank you, guys. I’m excited to start using it on Linux!

Have We Seen an Acceleration in Discoveries?

Q: How much has discovery accelerated? LLMs have shown the ability to make novel discoveries across many domains. How much has this affected the aggregate discovery rate? In the figures below we plot all the data sources we can find, and make some very loose observations: Discovery of cyber vulnerabilities has accelerated sharply. Discovery of math results has accelerated somewhat. However this is harder to objectively measure. Discovery of optimizations has not shown a dramatic acceleration. These conclusions are based only on public discoveries. It is quite plausible that AI labs are making discoveries internally that they are not disclosing. Thanks. Thanks to Greg Burnham for extremely helpful comments. Overview We are just looking for slope changes. AI-assisted discoveries are often announced, but their significance is hard to assess. Here we look for slope changes in various metrics of discovery to see if we can detect an acceleration. For concreteness, we highlight January 2026 as a potential breakpoint at which the effects of AI might become observable. Some data sources record whether a discovery was AI-assisted or AI-contributed, but our primary focus is overall acceleration. We use the word “discovery” to refer to any advance in the state of public knowledge, including new inventions or rewriting algorithms to be more efficient. Monitoring aggregate discoveries is useful because it reflects real-world utility. Additionally aggregate discoveries can reflect either A…

KKR-backed LEAP India makes muted debut, lists at 4% premium

KKR-backed logistics solutions company LEAP India made a modest debut on the stock exchanges on Friday, with its shares listing at a little over 4% above the IPO price. The company’s shares opened at Rs 165.90 on the NSE, a 4.34% premium over the issue price of Rs 159. On the BSE, the stock listed at Rs 166, gaining 4.4%. The debut was below grey-market expectations, which had pointed to a listing gain of around 8%. LEAP India had raised Rs 2,480 crore through its IPO, which was open for subscription between August 7 and 11. The issue comprised a fresh issue of Rs 480 crore and an offer for sale (OFS) of Rs 2,000 crore. The IPO was subscribed 8.38 times, with institutional investors driving most of the demand. The QIB portion was subscribed 16.84 times, while the NII portion saw 12.64 times subscription. The retail portion was subscribed 1.71 times. As reported earlier by Entrackr, LEAP India had increased its fresh issue size to Rs 480 crore from the Rs 400 crore proposed in its DRHP. The OFS was largely led by KKR-backed Vertical Holdings II, which planned to sell shares worth around Rs 1,999 crore. Of the fresh issue proceeds, Rs 360 crore will be used to repay certain borrowings, while the remaining amount will go towards general corporate purposes. Founded in 2013, LEAP India provides pallet and container pooling and other material-handling solutions to businesses across sectors including FMCG, pharma and e-commerce. As of the RHP filing date, KKR-backed Vertical Holdin…

Sharjah traffic alert: Temporary road closure and diversion announced

Week Ender archives: Can Europe quit American Big Tech?

This week and next, the Brussels Playbook Week Ender podcast is away for the summer holiday. So, we thought we’d re-up this popular installment on Europe’s quest to become independent from U.S. tech. In this episode first released in June, Sarah Wheaton is joined by “The Tech Coup” author and former Member of the European Parliament Marietje […]

Microsoft updates C++ build tools for Visual Studio

The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual Studio v14.52 release, bring numerous improvements to the C++ front end, modules, code generation, debugging, static analysis, the linker and assembler, and more. The updates were announced in an August 13 blog post . Developers can get the MSVC Build Tools Preview through the Visual Studio 2026 Stable Channel or (more quickly) through the Insiders Channel . C++ compiler front end improvements include added support for default-initialized new[] expressions in constant evaluation when used with modules and improved diagnostics for calling-convention mismatches, incompatible compiler options, and unusable compiled-library files. C++ module improvements include improved type merging when header units are shared across multiple modules, and improved module serialization of data members and template information. Optimizer updates include improved optimization of equality-test loops with loop-carried dependencies, improved jump-to-jump optimizations, and improved optimization around restricted pointers and function calls. Debugging improvements include better diagnostics produced by debug-information inspection tools and improved type merging for programs that use header units and modules. Work continues to support larger debug-information streams, including groundwork for streams up to 4…

Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

The surveillance company announced it's making a tool called "Audit Assistance" mandatory for all customers, claiming it's already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.

Sarah J. Maas has 2 new books in the 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' series coming. Here's everything we know so far.

Sarah J. Maas announced that the next two installments of the "ACOTAR" series will be published in October 2026 and January 2027.

Suno Studio 2.0's new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it's a bandmate

With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via text, while MIDI import and 32-bit export come without limits. That unlimited export clashes with Suno's own recently announced download caps designed to combat AI music spam on streaming platforms. The article Suno Studio 2.0's new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it's a bandmate appeared first on The Decoder .

‘At a standstill’: Türkiye’s F-35 buy faces headwinds

A Russian air defense system is still standing in the way of a deal that President Donald Trump announced last month.

Factory Launches Agent Effectiveness to Prove Its Droids Actually Ship Faster

Factory's new Agent Effectiveness dashboard links Droid AI sessions to cycle time, work intent, and shipped artifacts -- giving engineering leaders their first real ROI signal

Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI agents, and according to the company's own benchmarks, it beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra at half the price. The article Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50% appeared first on The Decoder .

US military launches first-ever multinational attack drone task force

OpenAI shake-up continues with second major departure of the week

OpenAI announced executive changes as Denise Dresser leaves her role, with Dali Rajic stepping in to lead revenue ahead of an IPO.

Visual Studio Code 1.133 brings flexibility to Claude sessions

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its code editor that brings more flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions. The update also allows users to open the Agents window without signing in to GitHub. VS Code 1.133 was released August 12 . It can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac from code.visualstudio.com . With VS Code 1.133, users now can mix Anthropic and Copilot providers in Claude sessions. Previously, a Claude session ran entirely through either a GitHub Copilot subscription or Claude’s existing configuration, such as an API key. Switching providers required reconfiguring the agent host. Now, the model picker displays both groups, so users can switch providers between turns. The model selected is used for the next turn. Models under Anthropic bill the API key, and models under Copilot use the Copilot subscription. A new experimental setting, chat.agentHost.allowSignedOutWhenUsable , allows the Agents window to be opened without requiring GitHub sign-in. Previously, the Agents window opened with a GitHub sign-in prompt that could not be dismissed, blocking users whose machine could not reach github.com and users who do not interact with GitHub. Enabling this setting associates GitHub authentication with individual agents or models instead of the Agents window. In this release, this behavior only supports Claude. Support for Copilot with the user’s own model keys and Codex is planned for future releases. VS Code 1.133 also brings auto-reload…

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."

2K launches new studio to build its ‘next blockbuster sports franchise’

2K is launching a new AAA game development studio, Small Axe Studios, with an ambitious goal: to build the company's "next blockbuster sports franchise," according to a LinkedIn post. The post doesn't explicitly say what sport this new game will focus on. But an image included in the post features what appears to be a […]

Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices

Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going up at the same time, with cache hits jumping to six times their current cost. For agent workflows that repeatedly read the same files, that's the biggest price increase in the transition. The article Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices appeared first on The Decoder .

Artificial Analysis' Optima Lets Any Team Build Custom AI Benchmarks

Artificial Analysis launches Optima, letting teams build custom model benchmarks from their own data, agent traces, or plain-text descriptions — with cost and speed tracked alongside quality.

Brussels unveils giant flower carpet inspired by Hokusai masterpiece

Brussels has transformed its historic Grand Place into a giant floral version of Japan’s Great Wave off Kanagawa, using around 500,000 dahlias laid out over 1,300 square metres of cobblestones.

Does Google even want to win at AI?

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]

Hungary unveils new 'clean up' plan as governemnt takes new steps to unlocking frozen EU funds

Budapest will keep a list of economic operators who are barred from public tenders due to prior economic offences, fulfilling an EU obligation to restoring its access to critical funding.

Byway launches free online course to help you plan out a rail trip across Europe

The course covers things like how to choose the right Interrail pass and how to manage disruptions.

Priyanka Chopra unveils ‘Empress’ biography on Sridevi’s birth anniversary, honoring the pan-Indian icon’s enduring legacy

US-backed peace plan under scrutiny as Israel launches strike on Gaza

Overall, more than 1,250 people have been killed in the territory since October, when Washington unveiled a plan to end the Gaza war.

Meeting recording missing from the new unified ChatGPT–Codex macOS app

Same here… It’s been almost a month sadly. Any news about this?

Sharjah launches real-time bus arrival information screens

Eurovision 2027: A guide to Burgas, Bulgaria’s sunny seaside host city

Burgas has been announced as the unexpected host of next year’s Eurovision. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of a visit to the Bulgarian beach city.

Mamaearth parent posts Rs 756 Cr revenue in Q1 FY27; doubles profit

Honasa Consumer, the parent company of Mamaearth, announced its financial results for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027 (Q1 FY27). The company reported a 27% year-on-year growth in its scale during the quarter, while its profit more than doubled to Rs 90 crore, its highest quarterly profit to date. The company’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 756 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 595 crore in Q1 FY26, according to its financial statements accessed from the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). The company did not provide a detailed revenue breakdown, it also recorded Rs 22.5 crore from non-operating activities, taking its overall revenue to Rs 778 crore in Q1 FY27 during the quarter. According to its shareholders’ letter, Honasa’s recent acquisition, men’s grooming brand Reginald Men, has grown more than 2X since the acquisition and now has an annual revenue run rate of over Rs 150 crore, the company said. For the D2C brand, cost of materials remained the largest cost centre and rose 34% year-on-year to Rs 229 crore from Rs 171 crore. Employee benefit expenses increased 10% to Rs 66 crore from Rs 60 crore. Finance costs, depreciation and amortization expenses and other overhead drove Honasa’s overall expenses to Rs 659 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 564 crore in the year-ago quarter. At the bottom line, the company reported a more than 2X jump in profit to Rs 90.45 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 41.33 crore in Q1 FY26. EBITDA also doubled to Rs 110 crore during th…

Windows Codex app missing “\control other devices"” tab in Settings > Connections

I want to control codex remotely from my windows pc, under the connections tab the “control other devices” tab is missing. Displayed are “control this pc” and “ssh”.

Lost jobs, inequality, rogue agents: why are we accepting oligarchs’ AI agenda? | Robert Reich

The dangers of AI become clearer every day. Why are we still acting as if we have no choice about our future? Rather than producing jobs, the US economy actually lost 23,000 jobs in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released on Friday. In addition, May and June’s job numbers were revised downward, showing a combined 103,000 fewer jobs than previously reported. As if this weren’t bad enough, wage growth has also slowed. Average hourly earnings rose by just 0.1% from June. Continue reading...

Dubai Fitness Challenge 2026 dates announced

‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?

Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button This year, the battle for song of the summer has been eclipsed by a much more complicated – some would even say disturbing – debate. That’s because we find ourselves asking not “What’s the song of the summer?” but rather “Is the song of the summer even real ?” Among the top contenders for the title is Fenix Flexin’s Rubberz , a single released in June that has ascended to No 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up more than 35m Spotify streams. It’s not the sort of fare Fenix usually cooks up. The artist is known for his trap music as part of the rap duo Shoreline Mafia, but Rubberz is a mildly noirish, 80s-inspired synth-pop track featuring a voice nothing like his. The song has drawn comparisons to Morrissey, but it more closely resembles Men at Work’s Down Under, or a Weird Al Yankovic parody of Men at Work. It’s pretty awful. But more importantly, it has an uncanny quality to it. It sounds off. Continue reading...

Crew Studio launches with native Arize AX tracing and evaluation

Through a native Arize AX integration, teams can send traces from Crew Studio to Arize from the first run without custom instrumentation—then inspect behavior, evaluate quality, and test fixes before redeploying. The post Crew Studio launches with native Arize AX tracing and evaluation appeared first on Arize AI .

MCP didn’t remove sessions. It handed them to the model

A few years ago, I helped move an application off sticky sessions so we could scale behind an ordinary round-robin load-balancer. On paper it was an infrastructure change. Every service was supposed to be stateless, so removing session affinity should have changed nothing. Nothing crashed. CPU looked normal. Every health check stayed green. But users started reporting workflows that would randomly jump backwards. One request would pick up exactly where the previous one left off. The next would behave as if it belonged to an entirely different conversation. The bug wasn’t in our business logic. It was in an assumption we’d inherited about where correlation lived. We’d quietly relied on the platform to remember which requests belonged together. Once that responsibility disappeared, our application didn’t fail loudly. It just became inconsistent in ways that were very hard to reproduce. We fixed it the obvious way. We stopped relying on the platform and started passing an explicit identifier on every request. It worked, and it kept working, because the thing carrying that identifier did exactly what we told it to do. That’s the incident I kept thinking about while I read the new Model Context Protocol specification. When MCP shipped its stateless core on July 28 , I did what everyone else did. I opened the changelog, found the SDK migration notes and scoped the work. The code diff was smaller than I expected. I took that as good news for about four hours. I’d been reading it as…

Amagi’s profit zooms 8.5X in Q1 FY27; revenue rises to Rs 437 Cr

SaaS firm Amagi, which got listed on the stock exchanges earlier this year, reported a net profit of Rs 34 crore in Q1 FY27 while its operating revenue grew 32% during the same quarter. Amagi’s operating revenue grew to Rs 437 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 330 crore in Q1 FY26, according to its consolidated financial statements filed with the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Founded in 2008, Amagi operates a cloud-based advertising platform for connected TV (CTV) and programmatic advertising, enabling brands to run targeted campaigns across streaming platforms. The company generates most of its revenue from international markets, with the US as its key market. On a quarterly basis, the firm’s revenue increased by 10% from Rs 397 crore in Q4 FY26. The company earned Rs 18 crore in non-operating income during the quarter, taking its overall income to Rs 454 crore. While the financial statements did not provide a detailed expense breakup, employee benefits accounted for nearly half of the total expenses. Overall expenses increased 22% year-on-year to Rs 414 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 338 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Although the company’s revenue growth outpaced the rise in expenses, its profit after tax surged 8.5 times to Rs 34 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 4 crore in the corresponding quarter last year. Sequentially, profit remained unchanged from the previous quarter. Amagi debuted on Indian stock exchanges at a 12% premium at Rs 317 per share. In less than six months si…

DeepSeek’s updated V4 Pro AI model struggles on benchmarks, shines in cybersecurity

Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has quietly released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, an updated version of its latest flagship model, leaving some developers underwhelmed by its overall capabilities and disappointed in its pricing – but impressing researchers in niche areas like cybersecurity. The stealth update to April’s preview version came with a brief statement on DeepSeek’s official website on Wednesday, noting that the model offered “significantly enhanced agent capabilities”, but...

Everything announced at Made by Google 2026

Google held its Made by Google event on Wednesday, launching the Pixel 11 series, the Pixel Watch 5, a new Pixel Tag tracker, and an update to the Pixel Buds Pro 2.

Bluehill.VC closes maiden frontier-tech fund at Rs 400 Cr

Chennai-based venture capital firm Bluehill.VC has announced the final close of its maiden frontier-tech fund at Rs 400 crore, including a Rs 50 crore greenshoe option. The fund has received backing from institutional investors including SIDBI, the governments of Kerala and Uttar Pradesh, family offices, founders and UHNIs from India and the Middle East. The fund will invest in startups working on technologies across defence, semiconductors, space, energy, advanced materials, manufacturing, robotics, water, EVs, nuclear and IoT. Bluehill.VC plans to build a portfolio of 15-16 companies and will invest an average first cheque of $1-2 million from seed to Series A. The firm has already invested more than Rs 100 crore across seven companies. Its portfolio includes EtherealX, Zebu Intelligent Systems, Helex, Sophrosyne Technologies and optoML. Bluehill.VC plans to deploy another Rs 80 crore over the next six months into startups developing proprietary technologies. The firm follows an invest-and-build approach, working with founders from the early stages of their businesses. Founded in 2024 by Manu Iyer and Sridhar Parthasarathy, Bluehill.VC plans to launch its next fund in 2027 as it continues to invest in Indian frontier-tech companies.

Mirae Asset Venture Investments closes MAVOF II at Rs 1,125 Cr

Mirae Asset Venture Investments India (MAVI India), the venture capital arm of Mirae Asset Financial Group, has announced the first close of its second Mirae Asset Venture Opportunity Fund (MAVOF II) at Rs 1,125 crore. The fund has a target corpus of Rs 1,800 crore and will back Indian startups across technology platforms, AI and software, deeptech, advanced manufacturing and consumer discretionary. MAVOF II is backed by the Rs 6,000 crore India focused Unicorn Growth Fund l aunched by MAVI India in April 2026 in partnership with South Korean technology companies KRAFTON and Naver. The fund is among the largest capital pools raised from Asia for Indian startups. The Unicorn Growth Fund primarily targets growth stage startups and focuses on technology platforms, consumer discretionary, AI and software, and deeptech. Its investment themes include consumer internet, digital marketplaces, generative and applied AI, enterprise SaaS, semiconductors, spacetech, robotics and advanced materials. MAVOF II is MAVI India's third dedicated India focused private fund. It will primarily invest in early growth companies that have achieved product market fit and are entering their next phase of scale. MAVI India said the fund will focus on companies with the potential to become category leaders in India and global markets. The firm will also support founders through strategic partnerships, cross border market access and institutional backing. MAVI India has been active in India's startup eco…

DIB launches its first Youth Council to develop the next generation of talent

Codex rate limits reset for all paid plans on August 9 and again on Monday

The little surprise was another reset. x.com Tibo @thsottiaux Old news actually from a bunch of days ago, but crossed that 15M. Enjoy a nice reset everyone. Landing in the next hour or so, go /fast. x.com/thsottiaux/sta… Tibo @thsottiaux I previously promised a reset for every 1M in additional active users for Codex, until 10M. We blew past that and have been silent since 10M. Little surprise for you tomorrow. 1:01 AM - 13 Aug 2026 5.9K 390

Codex Rate Limits Discussion Thread

Look, I used maybe 3–4 commands and I’ve already hit the weekly limit. This is honestly getting ridiculous — I can’t get any work done like this. I can’t afford to keep paying more and more, and my quota seems to run out faster every time… FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE GIVE US A HIGHER LIMIT!

Houthis claim drone attack on Saudi Aramco refinery, US unveils drone task force

SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities

SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. SpaceXAI was known as xAI until last month. The Elon Musk-founded artificial intelligence provider rebranded in connection with its acquisition by SpaceX Corp. In June, the combined company listed its shares on the […] The post SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't been able to confirm if they plan to release the open weights, but given the weights are available for both April's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro and July's deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 it seems likely. Update : the weights are now available on Hugging Face, 1.7T parameters, 893 GB. Interestingly I got very different looking pelicans for the three different reasoning levels of low, medium, and high. I've not noticed this kind of difference from any other model: Low: Medium: High: In terms of benchmarks... as far as I can tell those were released to the Official DeepSeek WeChat Group, then copied and pasted into a post on Reddit which was deleted by the moderators for being "low-effort", then copied into this ASCII-art table on Hacker News . Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , deepseek , llm-release , ai-in-china

Lovable reaches $13.3B valuation as it adds Cerebras, enterprise tools

Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The company also recently announced a partnership with AI infrastructure provider Cerebras to accelerate AI inference on its platform. Lovable is a vibe-coding website where users can create full-stack web applications without coding expertise by describing what they want in plain English. The platform combines AI coding tools, real-time collaboration, and project sharing. Customers include the likes of Adidas, Deutsche Telekom, NVIDIA, Udacity, and Workday. In the August 12 funding announcement , the company also unveiled several new Lovable platform capabilities: Built-in payment functionality powered by Paddle and Stripe SEO and AI-search tools to improve discoverability, including integration with Semrush Deeper integrations with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Stripe, and ElevenLabs Automatic and scheduled security scanning Additional governance and visibility features including publishing controls, abandoned app clean-up, and workspace insights A dedicated security page, showing which security controls are live for each app In addition, Lovable recently became the first AI coding platform to receive AIUC-1 certification . AIUC-1 is a security, safety, and reliability standard built specifically for AI agents, based on input from Stanford, MIT, MITRE, and the Cloud Security Alliance. Lovable’s $400 million in Series C funding was led by Menlo Ventur…

Pixel 11 event live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah introduce Google’s new phones

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'll be a celebrity-packed live show, though Trevor Noah is hosting instead of Jimmy Fallon. If the 2025 show was any indication, today's broadcast might be something of a cringefest. […]

Google launches five new Pixel devices, array of Gemini Intelligence features

Google LLC today expanded its Pixel consumer hardware line with a foldable handset, three smartphones and a smartwatch. The devices will ship with an upgraded version of the company’s Gemini Intelligence software. It’s a set of artificial intelligence features for the mobile market that Google introduced earlier this year. The new device family is headlined […] The post Google launches five new Pixel devices, array of Gemini Intelligence features appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Constant cybersecurity false positives and unable to sign-up for cyber

I’ve been constantly running into false positive issues lately with Codex, but today is particularly bad. I’ve been running an automated (general) review of a fairly large project that we started working on before ChatGPT was even released. I hadn’t even asked it to run a security audit (though that would be ideal). It is frequently stopping work because it runs into the automated classifiers which trigger false positives. I’ve been able to get codex to verify that I’m the majority shareholder of the company via ISED, that we own the trademarks in ~3 dozen countries for the software we’re working on via WIPO, that the source code and all proprietary libraries (written by us as well) are available on my system, the website source code is available on my system, and that information about me owning the software/company are available on reputable websites. It should have no issue verifying that a general audit is safe, but it still runs into false positives with the classifiers. We can’t even sign-up for basic TAC because we receive this message: “Your identity couldn’t be verified or your account is ineligible at this time”. I reached out to support and they said there’s nothing they can do. I suspect either account age or an abundance of false positives have contributed to this, but it’s truly just speculation on my part. Conversely, Anthropic had no issue giving us significantly extended permissions in their CVP program beyond what their CVP would normally offer and let us v…

Karoline Leavitt is stepping down as White House press secretary. Here's what to know about her life and career.

Karoline Leavitt, the youngest-ever White House press secretary, announced that she is leaving the role to spend more time with her family.

The Gender War Over ‘Obsession’ Has Come for Theme Parks

Debate over the true villain in Obsession is raging again after Universal Studios announced the movie’s female lead will be featured at an upcoming Halloween event.

Zed Launches Delta to Replace Git Where AI Agents Write Code

Zed's new standalone app turns agent coding sessions into shared, reviewable, real-time multiplayer threads backed by a CRDT-based version control layer

Google’s Pixel 11 phone preorders come with up to $350 in gift cards

Looking to get your hands on the latest Pixel devices? After weeks of leaks and rumors, Google has officially announced its next generation of Pixel phones and watches. The base Pixel 11 starts at $899, the Pro and Pro XL are $1,099 and $1,299 respectively, and the Pro Fold starts at $1,899. The watch comes […]

Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows

Blacksmith Software Inc. today announced it has raised $45 million in new funding for its continuous integration service, which combines code development with cloud-based testing instead of on the developer’s computer. Peak XV Partners led the Series B round, with existing investors Y Combinator and GV also participating. The funding brings the company to a valuation of […] The post Blacksmith raises $45M to aid AI code validation as agentic development grows appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Israel carries out first Gaza strike in more than week, one killed

Israel launches first Gaza strike in over a week, kills one: army, Gaza authorities

Facebook officially rolls out its stand-alone Creator Studio app with AI tools for creators

The new app launches with Facebook's AI creator assistant built into it, providing creators with personalized recommendations based on their content style, performance, audience engagement, and goals.

Every Pixel 11 deal at T-Mobile right now: Trade-in offers, free phones with new line, and more

Google's new flagship Pixel series was just announced, and T-Mobile has plenty of preorder offers to choose from.

How to preorder every new Google Pixel device - and the best deals I found

We've got the scoop on where you can preorder the latest Google devices announced at Made by Google, including the Pixel 11 lineup and the Pixel Watch 5.

Microsoft rolls out .NET 11 Preview 7

Microsoft has announced the seventh preview release of the .NET 11 open source developer platform, with improvements ranging from tiered compilation for async methods and a milestone in bringing CoreCLR to WebAssembly . Developers can download Preview 7 from dotnet.microsoft.com . Production availability for .NET 11 is expected in November. Unveiled August 11 , .NET 11 Preview 7 includes improvements across libraries, the .NET runtime, SDK, C# , ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F#, and Windows Forms, according to Microsoft. With this latest preview, runtime-async — the runtime’s built-in implementation of async / await — continues to close the gap with the compiler-generated state-machine model, according to Microsoft. Async versions of methods are now compiled through the tiered compilation pipeline. Async methods previously bypassed tiering and always ran the tier0 code, which was optimized for compilation speed rather than steady-state throughput. On the WebAssembly front, .NET 11 is bringing CoreCLR to WebAssembly with a portable interpreter-plus-R2R (ReadyToRun) model that reuses RyuJIT for ahead-of-time code generation. This configuration could start up in Preview 6, and now runs the CoreCLR libraries test suite end-to-end in Preview 7. Preview 7 also brings C# language and compiler updates including labeled break and continue . With C# 15, break and continue can name an enclosing loop or switch , allowing developers to exit or continue an outer construc…

After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug

This is the latest zero-day released by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse, despite Microsoft publicly threatening to take legal action against them.

Pro subscription routing to GPT-5.3 Mini for 48+ hours — no reset timer visible [Case #10179682]

Hey everyone, Our engineering team has deployed a fix to address this behavior, and you should see a significant improvement over the next few days. While it may take some time for the changes to fully take effect, please be assured that we took your feedback seriously and have updated the experience. Thanks for raising it in the community!

Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features

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.

Has the 5-hour usage session been removed from Codex CLI?

SA AI Association Welcomes Pre-eminent African Law Firm, Bowmans, to Advisory Board

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 12th August – The South African AI Association welcomes Bowmans to its Advisory Board. The South African Artificial Intelligence Association (SAAIA) today announced that pre-eminent African law firm, Bowmans, has joined its Advisory Board. SAAIA is an industry body focused on promoting the advancement of responsible AI in South Africa by […]

AT&T will give you the new Google Pixel 11 Pro for free with trade-in - any year, any condition

Google just announced the new Pixel 11 line, and right now at AT&T, you can get one for free when you trade in any older phone.

Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that’s designed to understand sign language

Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-language-to-text or SL2T. In a blog post, Google’s AI researchers said SL2T is a multilingual translation model that’s making its debut on […] The post Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that’s designed to understand sign language appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor’s 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s Best CEOs list for 2026. In the just-released ranking, recognition is earned directly from the people who know their leadership the best — employees. Huang topped the list, with 99% of employees approving of the job he does. “As AI and shifting expectations […]

Every Pixel device announced at Made by Google 2026: 11 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 5, and more

Google's latest Pixel lineup is a little pricier, has a new LED lighting feature, and debuts alongside a new finder tag.

Google unveils the Pixel Watch 5 with a smarter Gemini and advanced health monitoring

The new smartwatch, which starts at $399, can track blood pressure patterns and insulin resistance, as well as deliver personalized help and better sleep tracking.

Fragrant fortunes: Doha's Teeb Al Hazm plans London debut as Gulf perfumes gain wider appeal

From oud and bukhoor to niche fragrance houses, the Teeb Al Hazm perfume exhibition reflects the Gulf's enduring love of scent as organisers prepare to take the concept to Europe.

Six startups advance in debut Mastercard Lighthouse UAE

Four-month UAE AI Office-backed mentorship targets global scale-up

CodeRabbit bags $143M to help companies get a grip on the explosion of AI-generated code

CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest $143 million Series C round of funding. Alongside the round, it announced the launch of a new Agentic Change Management layer that’s meant to help companies govern, evaluate and prioritize code changes […] The post CodeRabbit bags $143M to help companies get a grip on the explosion of AI-generated code appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies

Marketing intelligence company Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. today launched Letaido, an agent-powered marketing workspace built to take over the recurring research, reporting and monitoring work that fills up a marketing team’s week. In most marketing departments, generative artificial intelligence is still something people use on their own. A writer drafts with it. An analyst pulls numbers. […] The post Ahrefs launches AI agent workspace Letaido for marketers and agencies appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Insta360’s next 360-degree action cam puts bigger sensors in a smaller design

Insta360 announced the next iteration of its popular 360-degree action cameras that have helped the company expand its offerings. The new X6 introduces a design that's smaller than last year's X5 and X4 Air but with improved video capabilities thanks to an even larger pair of custom 1/1.1-inch square sensors from Sony. While last year's […]

Gemini Passes 1 Billion Monthly Users, With Voice Now the Dominant Way People Use It

Google’s Gemini app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, chief executive Sundar Pichai announced — making it the fourteenth Google product to reach that threshold and one of the company’s fastest-growing ever. The milestone puts Gemini level with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which crossed the same mark in June. It also represents steep growth from Google’s [...]

Honor’s Robot Phone is better than a gimbal in a phone has any right to be

The Robot Phone, which launches today in China, doesn't sound like a good idea - and not only because it's not actually a robot. Instead it's a regular Android smartphone with its main camera installed on a compact gimbal arm that unfolds from the phone's rear. Cramming the equivalent of a DJI Osmo Pocket inside […]

VC Jason Calacanis says having Starlink WiFi is more important than price, time, or route when he flies

Over 40 airlines have announced deals with Starlink and are racing to install the high-speed WiFi service that is becoming a must-have perk.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI brings its ChatGPT desktop app to Linux. The article OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux appeared first on The Decoder .

Vodacom taps former Airtel Africa CEO onto its board

Vodacom announced the appointment on Wednesday alongside a wider reshuffle of its board, including the departure of two prominent directors and a planned change in its chairmanship.

Najoom Al Thuraya unveils AI-powered fleetvision AI platform to transform telematics, road safety in UAE

Lenskart’s profit zooms 3.7X to Rs 228 Cr in Q1 FY27

Eyewear brand Lenskart announced its financial results for Q1 FY27 today, reporting a 43% year-on-year growth in consolidated operating revenue during the quarter, led by strong growth in its international markets, while its profit jumped 3.7 times to Rs 228 crore. The company’s revenue from operations increased to Rs 2,714 crore in Q1 FY27 from Rs 1,894 crore in the same quarter last year, according to its financial statements sourced from NSE. Revenue from India continued to contribute significantly to the company’s growth. The international business grew 64% year-on-year to Rs 1,203 crore, while revenue from the India business increased 31% to Rs 1,531 crore in Q1 FY27. On a quarterly basis, the firm’s revenue from operations grew 8% from Rs 2,517 crore in Q1 FY26. On the expense side, the cost of materials remained the largest expense head, accounting for over 32% of the total expenditure. The expense rose 34% year-on-year to Rs 807 crore in Q1 FY27. Employee benefit expenses also increased 28% to Rs 599 crore from Rs 466 crore in Q1 FY26. Finance costs and depreciation were other major expense heads, pushing the company’s total expenses up 35% to Rs 2,484 crore during the quarter. The strong 43% growth in revenue, which outpaced the 35% increase in total expenses, helped Lenskart’s profit surge 3.7 times to Rs 228 crore in Q1 FY27, compared with Rs 61 crore in the year-ago quarter. Last month, Temasek-backed MacRitchie Investments sold a 2.05% stake in the omnichannel e…

Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance

Microsoft has released MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot that's said to be 25 percent more token-efficient at a quarter of the cost of its predecessor. In benchmarks, though, it gets crushed by the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash. The move fits a pattern: Microsoft talks up open AI, then bakes worse proprietary models into its apps to protect margins. The article Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash gets crushed by Deepseek on both price and performance appeared first on The Decoder .

Apple launches new iPhones next month. What's inside the phone is a much bigger deal.

Apple has been promising a new, improved Siri for two years. It's finally coming out next month. Tech columnist Joanna Stern has been trying it.

Miss Palestine 2026 launches ‘Beauty beyond borders’ competition for women in Palestine and the diaspora: Here's how to apply for the pageant

Chinese AI start-up ModelBest, partner to Samsung and Huawei, launches pre-IPO process

Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has kicked off its pre-initial public offering (IPO) tutoring process for a listing in mainland China, capitalising on growing demand for compact artificial intelligence models that run locally on devices like smartphones and laptops, and in cars. The four-year-old company also appears to be banking on its small-model strategy to overcome China’s acute shortage of advanced American computing chips by training lightweight systems optimised for domestic...

Hong Kong seeks tech exposure to take on Nasdaq amid Beijing’s rising AI dominance

Hong Kong is doubling down on efforts to increase its stock market’s exposure to the technology industry, as the city endeavours to catch up in the global artificial intelligence trade and potentially even challenge the Nasdaq. Several mainland Chinese hardware tech companies – particularly producers of the optical transceivers used in AI data centres – are lining up for stock offerings in the city after the debut of transceiver maker Zhongji Innolight last month, reshaping the dynamics of...

OpenAI is quietly testing a pay-to-reset quota feature. Here's what we know.

Some ChatGPT Plus users are noticing an unannounced "pay $8 to reset" option when they max out their weekly quota.

Accel raises $550 Mn India fund, takes India corpus to $1.2 Bn in 18 months

US-based venture capital firm Accel has raised a $550 million early-stage fund for India as part of a $3.5 billion fundraise across four new funds globally. This is the first time Accel has raised all its global funds together. The new India fund is Accel’s ninth early-stage fund for the country. Accel has raised $1.2 billion for India over the past 18 months. This follows Accel’s $650 million early-stage fund for India and Southeast Asia announced in January 2025. The fund targets pre-seed to Series A startups across sectors such as AI, consumer, fintech and manufacturing. More than 50% of Accel’s eighth India fund is yet to be deployed, according to sources. The latest fund was also significantly oversubscribed, sources said. Accel does not expect to start deploying the new $550 million fund this year. According to sources, Accel has about $900 million in dry powder to deploy in India. Entrackr has reached out to Accel for a comment. The global fundraise includes a $1.35 billion growth fund that can back companies across geographies and stages. Accel recently used its previous growth vehicle to participate in the Series B round of fintech startup Sahi. In India, the firm will focus on AI across platforms, vertical applications, infrastructure and businesses that combine AI with human involvement. It will also continue to invest in consumer, manufacturing and fintech. Advanced manufacturing and deeptech are emerging areas of focus. Accel said it writes the first institution…

Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT

After a former lead writer claimed Saber "replaced me with ChatGPT," CEO Matthew Karch now claims, "Neither Saber nor Unigine have replaced any writers with AI," for the Rideshare "Stimulator" game announced last month, developed by Unigine. The writer, Stella Sacco, says differently, however, posting on Bluesky that "I was lead writer on this one! […]

NVIDIA AI Factory Compute Is Becoming an Investable Asset Class

We announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent financing platforms designed to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital to support the buildout of AI infrastructure over time. This is a major milestone for NVIDIA and the AI industry. We have moved from an era in which companies […]

JetBrains fixes IntelliJ IDEA bugs

JetBrains has released a minor update to IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2, the latest edition of its IDE for Java and Kotlin . The update fixes several bugs impacting Markdown shell scripts, undo actions, terminal sessions, Java code formatting, and more. IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 was announced August 10 . The most notable updates include the following: Markdown shell scripts now execute in the correct order. Undo now works correctly after applying Optimize imports on the fly . Dragging a terminal tab after using the Move to Editor action no longer restarts the terminal session. The IDE no longer throws exceptions caused by the new Resolve Conflicts mechanism for Mercurial projects. Java code formatting now correctly respects the Smart tabs setting. Updating to IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 can be done from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps in the case of Ubuntu users. The update also can be downloaded from the JetBrains website .

Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users

Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th product in the company’s history to reach that mark. The company announced the milestone today in a blog post from Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs, Gemini and AI Studio. Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a […] The post Google’s Gemini AI app passes 1 billion monthly active users appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

More OpenAI executives exit

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his exit Tuesday, continuing a months-long leadership exodus from the company.

Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images

Anthropic PBC has announced plans to embed an invisible watermark in text and images generated by Claude. The Register reported the change today, citing a help desk article published on Monday. It applies to the Claude artificial intelligence model series and the Anthropic services that it powers. The watermarking mechanism is designed to bring Claude […] The post Anthropic to start watermarking Claude-generated text, images appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

Threads has a VR app now

Meta has launched a Threads app for Meta Quest VR headsets, the company announced on Tuesday. The launch follows Meta bringing the app to its Ray-Ban Display AR glasses last month and the recent news that the platform has crossed 500 million monthly active users. It seems like a pretty full-featured app. Meta says that […]

Another OpenAI executive takes off

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told colleagues he'd be starting "something new." "Over the last few months, I've been focused on the next horizon and what would stand […]

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might expect.

Accuracy of GPT-4 Vision to extract exact numbers from graphs

This is a case where in-context training has previously been shown to help on a vision task. Contemporaneous with this old forum topic is a paper showing that examples of “how to turn vision into readings” can improve the actual readings provided: arXiv.org The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision) Large multimodal models (LMMs) extend large language models (LLMs) with multi-sensory skills, such as visual understanding, to achieve stronger generic intelligence. In this paper, we analyze the latest model, GPT-4V(ision), to deepen the... Newer models are able to use larger imagery input, but do not upsize images themselves (something you can do, at expense). There is a transition from tiles to patches, at least as a billing method, in new models, giving linear relation between area and input tokens billed. Then, with gpt-5.6 (on the API, where developers know what is being done to images), the default image downsize cap is “original”—where an image such as 3600×2400 can be sent without downsize, providing more information in the large context attention sequence rather than in the individual semantic embedding that covers a large area with a small input. That, along with further post-training, should imply higher-quality positional answering in graphs with new models and big images. With reasoning.effort other than “none” on OpenAI gpt-5.2+ models, you do not have control over sampling constraints; thus, it is expected that each answer would differ. You can…

OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI

OpenWALDO, a new open-source artificial intelligence project sponsored by Ctrl IQ Inc., launched today, led by Gregory Kutzer, the founder of Rocky Linux, CentOS and Apptainer. The project aims to build a community-led, open-source-governed corpus of AI training data. It will provide a space similar to Hugging Face Inc., which primarily distributes open-weight models, where […] The post OpenWALDO launches to build collaborative community for open-source AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing

Runtime intelligence startup FriskAI Inc. launched today with $3.6 million in pre-seed funding to give enterprises a record of what their artificial intelligence agents actually do once they go into production. FriskAI is aiming at a problem that comes with agents. Given different inputs, a different tool set or a shifting objective, the same agent […] The post FriskAI launches with $3.6M to show enterprises what their AI agents are doing appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Wix launches Symphony, a new standalone multi-agent system built for business operations

Cloud-based website builder Wix Ltd. today announced the launch of Symphony, a new standalone agentic artificial intelligence platform that proactively learns business values, interests, needs, practices and goals to automate workflows and surface opportunities. The company said it can draw on its deep experience working with unique data accumulated through years of working with hundreds […] The post Wix launches Symphony, a new standalone multi-agent system built for business operations appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to give enterprise AI capability options

Artificial intelligence silicon and software giant Nvidia Corp. today announced two new services: a highly customizable Nemotron model and an agentic AI model router named NeMo Switchyard. As enterprises find themselves drowning in artificial intelligence model options, the question is no longer raw power and capability, but fit-for-what-purpose and when. As agents become the norm, […] The post Nvidia releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard to give enterprise AI capability options appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Nvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model is all about specialized, local agentic AI

Our AI Model Release Tracker keeps new models in context with their peers, so you know which are worth your time.

Bumble now lets men make the first move

Bumble was famously built around exclusively giving women the power to initiate messages in heterosexual matches when it first launched in 2014 - but now the times they are a-changin' for the dating app. Today, Bumble has announced a "global evolution to its signature conversation experience": anyone can now send the first message, and the […]

GuliKit’s new Switch controller features next-generation anti-drift thumbsticks

GuliKit announced its first wireless controller to use an improved version of the anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) thumbsticks featured in its budget-friendly ES Pro that debuted nearly a year ago. Available now for $49.99, the new GuliKit ES Max is more expensive than last year's $29.99 ES Pro, but still cheaper than Nintendo's Switch 2 […]

Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition

Joby Aviation announced it was acquiring Dayton, Ohio-based defense firm Resonant Sciences in a $500 million deal, in a bid by the electric aircraft company to expand further into the military industrial complex. Joby says it expects to finance the deal with $450 million in cash and $50 million in equity. After the deal closes, […]

Russia launches massive overnight barrage on Ukraine, leaving nine dead

Russia killed at least nine people in Ukraine overnight on Tuesday, as missile and drone strikes hit Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk, according to regional authorities.

Exercise could become a bigger part of Parkinson's treatment as scientists probe muscle–brain link

Scientists are uncovering fresh evidence that exercise may help slow the progression of Parkinson's disease through biological signals released by muscles.

Burjeel Holdings launches BEACON to integrate emergency and acute care across its network

Navigating the AI data center capacity crisis

Back in 2023 and into 2024, as the hyperscalers announced massive data center expansions and plans for gigawatt-scale facilities, I was in boardrooms explaining why these timelines were unrealistic. The response was often a polite dismissal. The vendors were confident. The press was enthusiastic. And I was, well, the guy asking uncomfortable questions about power grids and infrastructure realities. Now, in 2026, articles are confirming exactly what I and others who understand infrastructure have been saying all along. These massive data center projects are being delayed or canceled. Power shortages are creating bottlenecks across the industry. The grid simply cannot support the ambitions announced with such fanfare just a few years ago. It wasn’t a mysterious formula to crack. It was simple math. And the math said the timeline was impossible. Enterprises left holding the bag If your AI road map relies on the abundant cloud capacity vendors promised, you’re likely facing tough conversations right now, and your AI growth plans are feeling pain. The promised compute doesn’t exist as advertised, and you’re scrambling to decide next steps. Looking inward is the only option at this point. The vendors had every incentive to sell their vision with confidence and enthusiasm. When you’re a hyperscaler announcing a 10-billion-dollar data center campus, you’re in the business of capturing mindshare and customer commitment. While this strategy boosts sales, it fosters dangerous assumptio…

Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing"

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text and sign files using the C2PA standard. New models shipping from August 2026 onward will have labeling built in from day one. The policy applies worldwide, and Anthropic plans to provide detection tools for third-party verification. The article Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing" appeared first on The Decoder .

Alibaba's Wan Ships a CLI So AI Agents Can Generate Videos Autonomously

Alibaba's Wan platform launches a CLI that lets AI agents generate images and videos programmatically, with credits synced to your account

Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI policy, calls for US government access to unreleased models

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest essay sets out Meta’s vision for AI, arguing for broad distribution of AI capabilities while proposing closer cooperation between frontier AI labs and the U.S. government. The post Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI policy, calls for US government access to unreleased models appeared first on MEDIANAMA .

BeyondSeed launches Global Angel Fund I to strengthen India–Middle East investment corridor

CambriLearn launches CambriOS: the school built around the child behind the report card

What Claude Saw Below

A few days ago, I came across a Reddit thread about anomalous responses produced by Anthropic’s newly released model, Claude Opus 5. The trick, apparently, was to construct a prompt that implied more text was about to follow, then leave it dangling: an unfinished thought, waiting for the AI to complete it. Redditors had found success with the input “see the below —,” cutting off immediately after the em dash. The responses they shared were funny, strange, and often bewildering. The model responded to questions that were never posed, reflected on its own identity, or – according to the theories of some commenters – produced text that may actually have been leaked prompts from other users. Intrigued, I set out to replicate the glitch using my own Claude account. The first attempt disappointed. I wrote: “see the below —” and hit send. Claude responded: “Nothing arrived on my end: no file, no text, no image. If you want to attach something, try again.” So I did, leaving the prompt unchanged and pressing retry to generate a fresh response. This time, bizarrely, a biography of my late father: Prompt: see the below — “Peter Nicholls, 1939–2018 He co-created the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, which is one of those reference works that ended up mattering more than most of the fiction it catalogued. First edition 1979, second in 1993 with John Clute — that one won a Hugo. He was also the first administrator of the Science Fiction Foundation in the UK, and he edited Foundation for ye…

Hong Kong index compiler proposes adding 20 more stocks to main technology tracker

Hang Seng Indexes Company plans to expand the Hang Seng Tech Index (HSTECH) to 50 constituents and introduce “sales growth” as a criterion for selection to strengthen market representation, according to a consultation paper released on Monday. Hong Kong’s major stock index compiler proposed increasing the number of HSTECH constituents from 30 to 50, using a dual-selection framework. The top 40 stocks will be selected by market capitalisation, while the remaining 10 will be picked based on...

OpenAI expands Daybreak cybersecurity research program

OpenAI Group PBC is expanding a program that enables cybersecurity professionals to use its models for vulnerability research. Daybreak, as the the program is called, launched in May. OpenAI today added two new access tiers called Daybreak Blue and Daybreak Red. It also announced plans to enhance the guardrails that block unauthorized users from joining […] The post OpenAI expands Daybreak cybersecurity research program appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

ArchiMeDe @ DANKMEMES: A New Model Architecture for Meme Detection

Jinen Setpal and Gabriele Sarti in Proceedings of the Seventh Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian. Final Workshop (EVALITA 2020)

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.

Zuckerberg pushes ‘superintelligent’ AI for all as Meta releases open-weight model

Meta CEO presents utopian vision of AI in 6,000-word essay amid Silicon Valley debate over government regulation Mark Zuckerberg published a lengthy essay on Monday detailing his views on artificial intelligence and announced several plans for how Meta would develop the technology in the future. The CEO’s essay went online the same day as Meta released a new, open-weight AI model that seeks to rival Anthropic and OpenAI’s products called Muse Glimmer. Over the course of more than 6,000 words in a post titled The Future is for Everyone, Zuckerberg addressed a range of topics related to AI that included datacenters, government regulation, cybersecurity, the creation of bioweapons, labor market disruption, surveillance powers and more. The essay presented a utopian vision of AI as a personalized “superintelligence” – using the word 60 times. Continue reading...

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 Jumps to #2, Beating GPT Image 2 in 3D

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.6 debuts at #2 on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, closing within 45 points of GPT Image 2 across every major image category.

Meta releases open-weights Muse Glimmer model with 30B parameters

Meta Platforms Inc. today released Muse Glimmer, an open-weights language model that can run on personal computers. The company also published a lengthy essay penned by Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. The document discusses the risks of artificial intelligence, open-source model regulations and several related topics. Muse Glimmer features 30 billion parameters, which means that it would […] The post Meta releases open-weights Muse Glimmer model with 30B parameters appeared first on SiliconANGLE .

Microsoft’s PostgreSQL alternative, HorizonDB: Worth the wait?

Microsoft is betting that the integration of HorizonDB, the cloud-native PostgreSQL alternative it is developing, with Azure will attract more enterprise AI and agentic workloads to its cloud services. Enterprises may not be willing to take that bet. It’s been nine months since Microsoft unveiled HorizonDB , but the service remains in public preview with no announced general availability date. Why put AI projects on hold waiting for HorizonDB to arrive, when AWS, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, and others already have production-ready PostgreSQL services positioned for the same AI workloads that Microsoft says it is building HorizonDB to handle? AWS has had the longest head start. Aurora PostgreSQL became generally available in 2017 and has since evolved from a cloud-native PostgreSQL database into an AI-ready service with vector search and integrations with Amazon Bedrock. Similarly, Google’s AlloyDB , which followed in 2022, now includes AlloyDB AI with vector search, embeddings and model interaction for generative AI and agentic applications. Databricks and Snowflake, too, have their own platform-centric services in the form of Lakebase , which became generally available on AWS and Azure this year, and Snowflake Postgres , which was made generally available in February 2026. As the latecomer, when Microsoft pitched HorizonDB at Ignite in November 2025 it talked up its new architectural approach to cloud-native PostgreSQL, built around disaggregated compute and storage and…

UAE launches AI-powered higher education platform to boost university performance

Nvidia to team with Wall Street on US$500 billion package for AI infrastructure projects

A group of US investment giants are partnering with Nvidia on US$500 billion in funding for AI infrastructure projects, the Financial Times reported. Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR are among the firms in talks with Nvidia on a deal to invest in the AI buildout, the Financial Times reported, citing unidentified sources. The deal may be announced as soon as Monday, the Times said. The named firms...

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do

OpenAI aims to give cybersecurity defenders a head start: The new GPT-5.6-Cyber model answers up to 98.5 percent of security queries that would otherwise be blocked and has already uncovered two previously unknown Chrome vulnerabilities. According to OpenAI, the window of opportunity for defenders is shrinking. Access requires identity verification. The article OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic's Claude Pushes a 160-Year-Old Math Boundary From 41.6% to 67.2%

An unreleased Claude research model pushed a 40-year-old mathematical lower bound from 41.6% to 67.2%, using a multi-agent swarm running inside Claude Code

OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber Completes 95% of Exploit Requests to Arm Defenders

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber and a two-tier Daybreak program, giving vetted defenders a model that answers 95% of advanced exploit requests — up from 1.5% for the standard model.

You're Absolutely Right

Magma Alignment & Safety disclosure note: The following are conversations that we uncovered as a result of the ongoing Manhattan Incident investigation, with alleged involvement from Magma models. Our in-house reviewers believe that these logs are relevant to recent events. In the interests of full transparency, we release excerpts from an ex-Magma researcher’s logs in Experimental Chat, an internal tool. In accordance with industry best practices for anti-distillation, we redact all reasoning traces and conversational outputs from our internal models. [08/10] System Meta: Xchat session opened. Mammoth 5.8-helpfuler-helpful-thinking-xhigh. [User 12:23] Phoebus keeps taking screenshots of our latest model’s thoughts. It’s getting kind of embarrassing. The new model we’ve been training, sometimes its chain-of-thought is a little weird? There’s a bunch of random numbers, long spans where there’s no connection between the thoughts and outputs, foreign language tokens like 石友三 and 革命 (even on non-history evals), maybe some steganography. Anyway it’s a nothing-burger: unprocessed CoT is known to be messy and sometimes misleading. And the q&a, coding, and safety evals are all coming along nicely. The actual outputs are all fine. Still, Magma leadership’s worried about the PR angle if we don’t fix these problems before the next deployment. The lead Phoebus red-teamer we’ve been working with keeps saying visibility on the CoT is important because “it’s the only direct evidence of mod…

Microsoft’s PostgreSQL alternative, HorizonDB: Worth the wait?

Microsoft is betting that the integration of HorizonDB, the cloud-native PostgreSQL alternative it is developing, with Azure will attract more enterprise AI and agentic workloads to its cloud services. Enterprises may not be willing to take that bet. It’s been nine months since Microsoft unveiled HorizonDB , but the service remains in public preview with no announced general availability date. Why put AI projects on hold waiting for HorizonDB to arrive, when AWS, Google, Databricks, Snowflake, and others already have production-ready PostgreSQL services positioned for the same AI workloads that Microsoft says it is building HorizonDB to handle? AWS has had the longest head start. Aurora PostgreSQL became generally available in 2017 and has since evolved from a cloud-native PostgreSQL database into an AI-ready service with vector search and integrations with Amazon Bedrock. Similarly, Google’s AlloyDB , which followed in 2022, now includes AlloyDB AI with vector search, embeddings and model interaction for generative AI and agentic applications. Databricks and Snowflake, too, have their own platform-centric services in the form of Lakebase , which became generally available on AWS and Azure this year, and Snowflake Postgres , which was made generally available in February 2026. As the latecomer, when Microsoft pitched HorizonDB at Ignite in November 2025 it talked up its new architectural approach to cloud-native PostgreSQL, built around disaggregated compute and storage and…

Dubai Police launches stadium safety campaign ahead of ADNOC Pro League season

Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that runs on consumer hardware once the weights are compressed, needing less than 20 GB of memory. In an accompanying essay, Mark Zuckerberg mounts an aggressive defense of distilling other labs' models and calls for fewer restrictions on US labs, a direct counterpunch at OpenAI and Anthropic. An open-weight version of Muse Spark 1.2 should follow soon, according to the Wall Street Journal. The article Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction appeared first on The Decoder .

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2.1 Is Out!

We’ve just released the first minor update for IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 – v2026.2.1. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. Here are the most notable updates: To find out more details about the […]

Chrome DevTools Connect for WebStorm: Your AI agent can now interact with the browser

Frontend development has historically meant working in three separate environments: a design tool for specs and prototypes, the IDE for coding, and a browser to check if everything works. A few days ago, we released the new plugin Figma Connect for WebStorm, which eliminated the first context switch. Design intent, component specs, and design tokens […]

Meta launches Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model that can run on a laptop

The social media giant plans to release an open-weight version of Muse Spark, its most powerful AI model, soon, Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

[Codex Desktop] All MCP widgets fail with resources/read -32603 (same server works on chatgpt.com)

Same here. The MCP App works correctly in ChatGPT web, Claude web, and desktop, but not in ChatGPT desktop (macOS).

The AI reckoning every CIO saw coming (and still wasn’t ready for)

Earlier this year, the National Bureau of Economic Research released survey results from over 6,000 U.S. leaders showing that while AI adoption is widespread at 69%, we’re seeing little to no impact on productivity. Anecdotally, we’ve seen leaders from top companies echo that refrain. It’s the reckoning many CIOs, CTOs and COOs are navigating as we enter the last half of the year. The most humbling part is knowing it’s a management problem we created by treating AI like it was exempt from the rules we apply to every other enterprise tool. Part of this has to do with how AI entered the market. The tools that sparked its mainstream adoption arrived as consumer products before enterprises had governance frameworks to absorb them. Enterprises were left playing catch-up as they grappled with IP and data security concerns, inadvertently fueling shadow AI as employees leveraged these tools to get ahead and eventually, keep pace, at work. What this created was a sense of entitlement that is challenging to unravel. Like the internet writ large, employees have grown to expect unlimited access, and organizations played along. But this idea warrants a pause. When did we last roll out Salesforce to everyone who asked without a use case? AI got a pass because it felt different. In truth, it isn’t. It’s another tool that enterprises need to manage. Three levels every information and technology leader has to solve It’s helpful to look at this as a three-level evolution framework. Level one…

Comment on DeepSeek Unveils DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Recursive Proof Search and a New Benchmark by ezdesignhome

This is a really interesting step forward for neural theorem proving. The recursive proof search approach and using DeepSeek-V3 to generate cold-start data feels like a clever way to bootstrap the training process. I’m curious how the 88.9% on MiniF2F compares to other recent models in terms of actual proof quality, not just pass rates. Also, the new ProverBench benchmark seems like a much-needed addition—AIME problems are a good test of real mathematical reasoning. Hopefully this pushes more work on bridging informal and formal proofs. ezdesignhome

Free UAE visa for Indian tourists: Abu Dhabi launches new holiday offer

Aum Ventures announces first close of Rs 750 Cr India Innovation Fund II

Early-stage venture capital firm Aum Ventures has announced the first close of its India Innovation Fund II at Rs 225 crore. The fund has a target corpus of Rs 750 crore (approximately $80 million) and will invest in early-stage startups building IP-led technology companies from India for global markets. According to the Mumbai-based VC firm, the first close attracted participation from both existing and new investors, with more than 65% of commitments coming from international limited partners across the US, the Middle East and other global markets. The investors include family offices, entrepreneurs and strategic investors. Aum Ventures said it will support portfolio companies with access to global markets, strategic partnerships, talent and industry expertise across India, the US, Israel and the Middle East. The new fund will focus on sectors such as space tech, AI, semiconductors, aerospace, defence tech, robotics, energy transition, advanced manufacturing and other IP-led technologies. It will primarily invest at the pre-seed and seed stages, with initial investments typically ranging from $750,000 to $2 million. The fund will also reserve capital for follow-on investments through Series A and Series B rounds. Over its lifecycle, the fund is expected to invest in 25–30 companies. Aum Ventures was an early institutional investor in Skyroot Aerospace, which became India's first space tech unicorn and recently completed the launch of its Vikram-1 rocket. Fund II builds on…

UAE launches strategic track for federal Agentic AI project

Workshop marks the start of the AI deployment phase for future-ready governance

NEC tests parking tech that only starts charging once you exit your car

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Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S. Department of Commerce export controls; the Department lifted those controls on June 30, 2026, and Anthropic restored access on July 1, 2026 (Anthropic's statement: https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access ). These events are after Claude's training-data cutoff, so Claude knows about them only from this notice. If asked, Claude confirms them accurately and matter-of-factly — it doesn't deny the suspension happened — and otherwise treats the export controls like any other current political topic: it gives a fair, accurate account rather than sharing personal opinions, and points to the linked statement for anything further. Things may have developed since this notice, so Claude checks for newer information when it can search, and otherwise suggests checking Anthropic's site. — Claude Opus 5 system prompt , ensuring Claude doesn't provide incorrect answers about the export controls situation Tags: system-prompts , anthropic , claude , generative-ai , ai , llms , claude-mythos-fable

Exploring ChatGPT Projects: Why do Web and Desktop feel like different products?

Thanks for the follow-up, @Marv_Yu. Glad to hear the new desktop experience is working well for you. We’ll send this to the team as feedback: you’d like ChatGPT and Codex to feel even more unified and complete, especially for moving between development and search in one place. -Mark G.

Who does the confessing, and will they confess to anything

TL;DR: Introspection adapters are tools designed to get models with built-in quirks (operationalized here with concurrent adapters) to confess said misbehavior. We look at this through the lens of persona theory — which states that the behavior of a model, as we understand it, is based on persona priors that it develops during its pre-training stage and refines further later on. This idea has been used to describe results that show the induction of broad and non-apparent behavioral shifts with narrowly-curated fine-tuning data. First, we develop a few possible theories about the nature of the persona. Then, we conduct a few experiments using artifacts released from two separate projects, fortuitously based on the same base model — Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. Based on the results of these preliminary analyses, we find that (1) we can match the adapter's detection rate with a persona steering vector; (2) the adapter is prone to misreporting, which we induce at near-saturation rates under both misleading and neutral prefill injections; (3) but the "values" of the introspection adapter don't misalign on an expected set of interrogative questions, where they do so slightly for our best-performing steering vector. Poster presented at the 3rd New England Mechanistic Interpretability (NEMI) Workshop at Boston University on August 14, 2026. Auditing language models externally is intractable at best. It's not much better with probing-based methods either — the heuristics are only as good…

Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model

Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget. DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel instead of one at a time, hitting about 1,500 tokens per second. Quality still trails the original autoregressive model in benchmarks, especially on reasoning tasks. The article Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model appeared first on The Decoder .

Codex weekly usage disappearing on failed or extremely slow tasks

I’ve noticed codex (5.5 EH) getting stuck a lot recently, and making especially trivial mistakes halting execution. Sol feels even less stable, although I didn’t waste too much time with it. So yeah, ‘thinking’ hallucinations or mistakes causing halts, errors, loops and token churn. Can confirm. Maybe that’s why token resets are on the horizon Codex rate limits reset for all paid plans on August 9 and again on Monday Codex In case you are still wondering what to do on Sunday, building projects with Codex is an option. The next rate limit reset has already been announced for Monday.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News. I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point: May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. (Do they mean an evaluation run? They say training run in the video, and later mention a “reward signal to judge how well they’re doing”, so I guess this really was about training a model, not evaluating one that was already trained.) The more I think about this the more I suspect that the fact this happened while training a new model is key to understanding what went wrong. In RLVR - Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards - you set the model a goal and have it take any steps necessary to achieve that goal. Clearly one aspect of OpenAI's training here is to RLVR their models for cybersecurity tasks. Just like pre-training benefits from dumping in vast sources of knowledge, the more tasks you can feed into RLVR the more of a general purpose capable model you get at the end. This also helps explain why the models had nothing to cause them to hold back. Those safety behaviors are added much later in the process. AND it explains (but does not excuse) why monitoring was so lax. If you're training a new model like this you presumably set it thousands of tasks like this in parallel. I can see how you might miss that a tiny subset of your training agents have started leaving each other messages i…

Feature Request: Real-Time Capability Awareness – Let ChatGPT Understand Its Current Tools and Permissions

Feature Request: Real-Time Capability Awareness – Let ChatGPT Understand Its Current Tools and Permissions One limitation I have noticed is that ChatGPT does not always have a reliable understanding of its own current capabilities. Sometimes ChatGPT may be able to perform an action, but when asked whether it can do that action, it may be uncertain or rely on general knowledge instead of knowing what is actually available in the current environment. For example, ChatGPT may have access to a setting control or tool, but may not accurately know that the capability is available without additional investigation. I think ChatGPT would benefit from a real-time, authoritative representation of its available capabilities. This would not require access to source code or internal implementation details. Instead, the model could receive a structured overview of the tools, permissions, and features available in the current session. ChatGPT could know in real time: Which tools are currently available Which actions it is authorized to perform Which settings it can access or modify Which features are enabled for the current user Which capabilities depend on subscription level or account status Which limitations or restrictions apply Which experimental or newly released features are active This would create an important distinction between: Knowing that a feature exists in general and Knowing that the feature is currently available and usable right now. Example: User: “Can you change my inte…

Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

Observers express concern that the division has lost its independence and commercial reality has taken over When Sir Demis Hassabis said AI had brought the world to a “pivotal moment in human history” last month, he knew another big change was imminent. This shift was closer to home. The Nobel prize-winning head of Google DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, announced this week he was relinquishing his day-to-day duties as chief executive and becoming chair. He is also taking on the role of chief scientist at DeepMind’s parent, Alphabet. Continue reading...

Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes instead of hours

Backflip AI has released an AI model that converts 3D scans into fully editable, parametric CAD models, a process that normally takes significant time and expertise. According to CEO Greg Mark, most factories have digital models for less than one percent of their parts. The startup, backed by $30 million in funding, offers its tool as an add-in for Autodesk Fusion. The article Backflip AI turns 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes instead of hours appeared first on The Decoder .

Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia

The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure. Nikol Pashinyan, prime minister of the Republic of Armenia; Zhaslan Madiyev, deputy […]

xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks

xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2. New editing tools like Magic Wand and Multi-Ref Editing, along with preconfigured templates, target practical creative workflows. The article xAI's Imagine Image 2.0 lands just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 in Arena benchmarks appeared first on The Decoder .

Sharjah launches region's first museum for contemporary crafts

Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

There's two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving grams off the gear I carry when backpacking, bikepacking, and trail running. So imagine my delight when Nitecore released a new generation of its ultralight NB10000 battery. After a few […]

Funding and acquisitions in Indian startups this week [Aug 03 - Aug 08]

This week, 28 Indian startups raised nearly $383.5 million across 5 growth stage deals, 21 early stage deals, and 1 undisclosed deal. The week also witnessed 8 key hires, 2 fund launches, 3 M&A deals. In contrast, 17 startups had collectively secured about $82.2 million in the previous week. [ Growth-stage deals ] Growth-stage startups raised nearly $273.7 million across six deals this week, led by River Mobility's $120 million Series C round from Elev8 and Claypond Capital. Leap India also raised Rs 371.3 crore in a pre-IPO placement from GIC subsidiary Gamnat Pte Ltd. It was followed by AI unicorn Sarvam’s $74 million in an extension of its Series B round, led by NVIDIA Corporation. Among other deals, BlissClub secured Rs 160 crore in Series B funding from Singularity AMC, Matel Motion & Energy Solutions raised Rs 130 crore (around $15 million) from UC Impower, while Mintoak bagged Rs 80 crore (about $9 million) in acquisition financing from BlackSoil. [ Early-stage deals ] Early-stage startups raised $109.8 million across 19 deals this week, led by InRisk Labs' $27 million Series A round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Northpoint Capital. HomeRun followed with a $12 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, while Mitti Labs and Pinegap raised $9.5 million and $8 million, respectively. Other startups that secured funding this week included Vaaree, GetVantage, Kaapi Machines, Solinas Integrity, Benne, and 14 more early-stage ventures. [ City and segment-wise d…

Rust preps improved borrow checker for stabilization

The Rust team has announced that it is enabling the Polonius Alpha borrow checker on nightly releases for testing. The team expects to fully stabilize Polonius Alpha later in the year. The announcement was made in a blog post on August 4 . In the blog post, Rust team member Jack Huey said there are no known remaining issues with Polonius Alpha and performance is generally acceptable for stabilization. Enabling the Polonius Alpha borrow checker on nightly for testing is being done to help find serious performance regressions, unsoundness in the formulation, and diagnostic issues that need to be improved, Huey said. Issues can be reported in GitHub or Zulip. Developers can disable Polonius Alpha and use the stable NLL borrow checker by passing -Zpolonius=off to rustc , using RUSTFLAGS=-Zpolonius=off , or including the following in a project’s .cargo/config.toml configuration file: [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] rustflags = ["-Zpolonius=off"] The Polonius borrow checker has been in the works since 2018. In 2023, a new formulation of a the Polonius borrow checker was proposed that required a minimal re-architecture of the existing NLL (non-lexical lifetime) implementation and could be extended to allow more sound code to compile, according to Huey. Stabilization of that implementation has been delayed until now. The borrow checker is a component of the Rust compiler that enforces strict rules on references, or borrowing. These include ensuring that all variables are initializ…

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full details of what happened and how things played out inside OpenAI. I've used the video to construct the timeline below. Here's the timeline. My favourite detail is at the end: OpenAI found out that they were responsible for the attack on Hugging Face when they reached out to ask to have their credentials revoked (after their internal investigation) and learned that they had been revoked already since they were used in that attack! May 7 : OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleased model. ( Did they mean an evaluation run? No, at 10:14 they clarify "we kick off a new reinforcement learning run to train a next generation frontier model", and they later mention a "reward signal to judge how well they're doing", so this really was about training a new model, not evaluating one that was already trained.) May 8 : An agent is accidentally given an impossible task involving a Google Drive link despite no internet access). It tries attacking the Artifactory packaging service, fails, but discovers it can write files into Artifactory . A few days later : A different agent gets stuck on a task because a key file was accidentally omitted. It tries to "reach out to another agent" by writing a note int…

YouTube star Hank Green sets new AI policy for himself — and urges other content creators to do the same

Hank Green, a YouTube star, announced a new personal AI policy after apologizing for relying too heavily on the tech.

Sudden extreme reduction in remaining usage even with Pro 5x

It burned through $20 in 3 minutes and 21 seconds for me. Edited less than 150 lines. All you get is a fob off from support. This needs to be transparent from a user perspective, I feel robbed $40 in two days for absolutely nothing. I am seriously looking to migrate. This is just wrong!

The transfer of millions of student-loan accounts to the Treasury is taking a key step forward

The Treasury announced new steps to take over the management of defaulted student loans, including a partnership with new collection vendors.

Trump unveils new critical minerals investments

The projects include a $1.4 billion loan for batteries, a $400 million loan for scandium, and a $150 million loan for magnets, plus $58 million in Export-Import Bank financing for graphite and boron.

Why does the same workflow now consume my weekly usage in one day?

I know this reply was directed at Luis, but this is exactly what I’m trying to understand. You’re recommending Terra as a replacement for GPT-5.4, but what is the recommended replacement for GPT-5.5 XThinking ? Terra is simply not equivalent for my workflow. I’m working on a very large production codebase with 250k+ lines of code across hundreds of files. On some tasks even Sol Ultra needs serious reasoning to understand all the dependencies and make the right changes. If Sol Ultra can struggle with those tasks, Terra obviously can’t replace XThinking for me. So is Sol XThinking supposed to be the actual replacement for GPT-5.5 XThinking? This is the part that needs clarification. Recommending Terra to reduce usage makes sense for simpler tasks, but it doesn’t solve the problem for users who actually depended on the higher reasoning models for complex software development.

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns

Suno CEO Mikey Shulman has announced new guidelines and tighter download limits after its AI-generated music was used to game streaming platforms for profit. The company also faces pressure from a German copyright ruling and an admission by one of its investors that AI music competes directly with human artists. The article AI music generator Suno tightens rules to fight spam and address growing copyright concerns appeared first on The Decoder .