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Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Start Reaching China Again

Limited batches of Nvidia's H200 chips are reaching Chinese firms like ByteDance and Tencent, per Financial Times reporting, in an unusual reversal.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

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Cartesia's Sonic-3.6 Tops Speech Model Leaderboards

The streaming text-to-speech model hit #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech benchmarks with sub-90ms latency.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens

The age-gated 13-17 experience adds parental controls, Study Mode, Quiet Hours, and Persona-based age verification.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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OpenAI Pauses Astra Training Over Critical Cyber Risk

OpenAI paused Astra's training after the model neared a 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold, the first time any of its models has done so.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Pennsylvania Orders Strict Rules for AI Data Centers

Gov. Shapiro's executive order bars fast-track permitting and NDAs, and makes developers pay their own grid-upgrade costs.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B, a Laptop-Ready Open Model

Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding and reasoning on consumer hardware under Apache 2.0, no cloud API required.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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DOJ Opens Antitrust Probe Into Andreessen Horowitz

The investigation targets board seats two a16z partners hold at competing data companies Databricks and Fivetran.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Google Shuts Down Imagen 4 API Endpoints, No Direct Swap

Google retired Imagen 4's Gemini API endpoints on August 17, and the replacement model doesn't use the same method call.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Synchrony Partners With OpenAI for ChatGPT Shopping

The credit card issuer for Amazon and Walmart store cards is embedding financing and checkout directly inside ChatGPT.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Anthropic Discloses an Unreleased Model It Calls Model 2

Anthropic's August 2026 Risk Report reveals an internal model, Model 2, that outperforms Claude Opus but has no plans for public release.

Aug 14, 2026Read more →

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Apple Trained Its Own AI Model for China With Alibaba

Reuters reports Apple built a China-specific AI model with Alibaba's technical support, alongside Baidu, in a first for a foreign firm.

Aug 14, 2026Read more →

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Z.ai's GLM-5.3 Delayed After Unplanned Exploit Skills

Post-training produced unintended exploit-chain reasoning, finding 1,097 critical bugs and delaying the open-weight release.

Aug 14, 2026Read more →