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Stories covered on 2026-08-12
- How to Use LLMs for Powerful Automatic Evaluations
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
In this article, I discuss how you can perform automatic evaluations using LLM as a judge. LLMs are widely used today for a variety of…
- San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosion
The Guardian AI · 2026-08-12
New owner is said to be involved in AI industry, as new class of multimillionaires is entering the real estate race A luxury Lake Como-inspired estate in the San Francisco Bay Area
- The Rise of Cryptographically Attested AI
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
The development of cryptographically attested AI systems promises a verifiable record of model provenance and training data, addressing critical trust issues in AI deployment.
- CPI Relief & AI Earnings Push Stocks Toward Records | The Close 8/12/2026
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street.
- How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams
Engadget · 2026-08-12
And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in.
- Claude Cowork can now run in a Chrome sidebar
Engadget · 2026-08-12
Take your conversations with the chatbot into the Anthropic browser extension.
- Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
TechCrunch · 2026-08-12
Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.
- 10 Old Computer Science Ideas AI Agents are Bringing Back
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
AI agents look new. The infrastructure problems they create, concurrency, isolation, permissions, failure recovery, scheduling…
- Dan Ives Talks New Moves in the AI Revolution
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
After leaving Wedbush, Dan Ives has launched a new merchant bank that he says will deliver the same research he's known for
- The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
Ars Technica · 2026-08-12
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
- Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Ars Technica · 2026-08-12
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
- Cisco Books $4B in Quarterly AI Orders as Networking Supercycle Lifts FY2027 Outlook
Unite.AI · 2026-08-12
Cisco took $4 billion in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2026, the company reported on August 12, 2026
- What Claude’s New Text Watermark Does and Doesn’t Do
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks in Claude’s text and signed provenance metadata in its files. Here’s how the system works, and…
- Thousands of India Workers Are Helping AI Firms Train Robots to Replace Them
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Robotics companies are competing to collect videos of humans stitching shoes and welding steel to give their machines new skills.
- The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
WIRED · 2026-08-12
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it has tried not to
- A Deep Dive Into Vector Databases
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
Believe it or not, vector databases power most of the AI applications!
- CoreWeave Warns of Difficulty If It Must Shift From Nvidia Chips
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
CoreWeave Inc. is warning investors of the time and money it may take to shift from its exclusive use of Nvidia Corp. artificial intelligence chips.
- Pivotal Advisors CEO Affirms Long-Term Confidence in AI Amid Growing Investor Scrutiny
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Tiffany McGhee, CEO and CIO of Pivotal Advisors, expressed strong long-term confidence in the AI sector during a live financial news segment.
- Cisco’s AI Outlook Disappoints Investors Seeking Bigger Payoff
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Cisco Systems Inc. projected $7.5 billion in sales tied to the AI data center boom this fiscal year, disappointing investors who’ve seen the world’s largest networking gear
- Nvidia Taps Wall Street for $500B Funding
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
US investment giants including Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Brookfield are partnering with Nvidia to source $500 billion in financing for artificial intelligence
- Morgan Stanley’s Weaver Warns of Risks in AI-Compute Bottleneck
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Companies are seeing increasingly meaningful artificial intelligence adoption, but constraints on computing supply remain a bottleneck for growth
- How to Create Production-Ready Code with Claude Code
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
Coding agents can quickly generate a lot of code. Using the likes of Cursor or Claude Code, you’re able to rapidly develop powerful and…
- CoreWeave, Supermicro Lead Tech Stocks Higher on Results | Bloomberg Tech 8/12/2026
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down positive earnings results from CoreWeave and Supermicro, showing the booming AI market continues to bolster their sales.
- Foundation Capital Bets on AI’s ‘Great Reorg’
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
AI is driving enormous early-stage valuations, but Foundation Capital General Partner Joanne Chen says venture investors still need discipline when backing companies before they
- What If ... Was Your AI Agent? NVIDIA's NOOA Turns Python Methods Into LLM Calls
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
Most agent frameworks make you learn their vocabulary before you write a line of logic: register a tool, hand it a JSON schema, wire a…
- Silicon Data Raises $30.5M to Benchmark AI Compute
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
Silicon Data has raised $30.5 million to expand its pricing and performance benchmarks for the rapidly growing AI compute market.
- Why Open-Weight AI Models Won’t Kill the Closed Model
Bloomberg · 2026-08-12
AI demand continues to outstrip available computing capacity, and Morgan Stanley sees little risk of oversupply anytime soon.
- Pixel Buds Pro 2 and 2a are getting some upgrades, including deeper Gemini integration
Engadget · 2026-08-12
Google didn't have any new headphones this year, but some new features are coming to the Pixel Buds.
- Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please
WIRED · 2026-08-12
AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.
- I Built an AI Agent That Can Actually Do Things — Here’s the Full Working Code (Claude + Python +…
Towards AI · 2026-08-12
Stop asking your chatbot for answers. Start giving it tools — and watch it solve problems on its own.