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Stories covered on 2026-08-13

  1. Unemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready

    The Guardian AI · 2026-08-13

    Pilot scheme will provide three weeks of training as part of UK government’s latest attempt to address Neets crisis Young people <a href="

  2. Cubic Roots Using ‘SOGAR’-‘Sum Of Gradients At Roots’

    Towards AI · 2026-08-13

    Simpler Root Calculations and Design Specified Gradients For RoboticsContinue reading on Towards AI »

  3. Easing Inflation and AI Rally Push Stocks Toward Records | The Close 8/13/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    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.

  4. Mico, Microsoft's weird lil' AI guy, has been demoted

    Engadget · 2026-08-13

    The amorphous corporate mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice.

  5. The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI

    WIRED · 2026-08-13

    OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.

  6. OpenAI’s Computer History Turns Mac Activity Into ChatGPT Memory

    Unite.AI · 2026-08-13

    OpenAI has launched Computer History, an opt-in feature in the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS that records what a user does across apps and websites and converts that activity into

  7. OpenAI’s Revenue Run Rate Tops $40 Billion Ahead of IPO

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $40 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar with the matter

  8. Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

    The Verge · 2026-08-13

    Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode.

  9. Massachusetts teen accused of killing mother and brother used ChatGPT

    The Guardian AI · 2026-08-13

    District attorney says Arjun Aravind, 17, used internet and AI to search for fantasy stories regarding killing of his family A Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his moth

  10. Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Says Anything

    WIRED · 2026-08-13

    AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with the top findings from Black Hat and Defcon

  11. Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-13

    Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.

  12. Applied Materials Forecast Gets Tepid Reaction After Rally

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    Applied Materials Inc. delivered an estimate-beating forecast that still got a lukewarm reaction from investors

  13. OpenAI, Anthropic Tout New Metric to Better Gauge AI’s Cost

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    The AI firms want customers to rethink the price of using their models.

  14. Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-13

    AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.

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

    The Decoder · 2026-08-13

    With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers.

  16. OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-13

    OpenAI is launching a preview of a sped up version of its latest, most powerful model, in an effort to court enterprise users.

  17. OpenAI is losing its second executive this week

    The Verge · 2026-08-13

    Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack

  18. Nvidia Credit Risk Eases, Still Elevated After $500B Plan

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    Bloomberg's James Crombie joins Emily Graffeo on "Real Yield." Bond traders dialed back measures of credit risk associated with Nvidia after the company said it would limit its

  19. IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-13

    IBM plans to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies as part of this deal.

  20. Cerebras Runs OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 Tokens Per Second in New Ultrafast Tier

    Unite.AI · 2026-08-13

    Cerebras is now running OpenAI's flagship model at a speed no GPU cloud has publicly matched.

  21. Lemma Raises $2.3M Pre-Seed to Tackle Silent AI Agent Failures in Production

    Unite.AI · 2026-08-13

    AI agent reliability startup Lemma has raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding to build monitoring infrastructure designed to catch a particularly difficult class of problem: AI

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

    The Decoder · 2026-08-13

    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

  23. Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-13

    Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude, and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of

  24. Google AI Just Released Gemini 3.7 Flash: A Coding and Agent Model at $0.75/1M Input Tokens

    MarkTechPost · 2026-08-13

    Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a refinement of Gemini 3.6 Flash with algorithmic improvements to its reasoning core.

  25. Anthropic in Talks for $6 Billion AI Infrastructure Bet | Bloomberg Tech 8/13/2026

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down what could be Anthropic's biggest acquisitions yet: a $6 billion deal for AI startup Decart to help it squeeze more performance out of its

  26. We're in a ‘Golden Age of Technology,’ Says IVP's Wilhelm

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    The AI boom could face a capital-markets adjustment without undermining the technology’s long-term potential, according to Cack Wilhelm, general partner at IVP.

  27. Exploring AI Investment Opportunities Beyond Mega-Cap Tech Giants

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    Lori Keith, Parnassus Investments portfolio manager and senior analyst, says megacaps are not the only way to play the AI boom.

  28. The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

    Ars Technica · 2026-08-13

    Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.

  29. Gemini voice calling on Android Auto keeps failing me - and Google has until September to fix it

    ZDNet · 2026-08-13

    With Google Assistant shutting down this fall, Android users will be left with inferior voice calling, thanks to Gemini.

  30. Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Startup Decart for $6 Billion

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-13

    Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI for about $6 billion, according to people familiar with the matter