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August 22, 2026, 2:45 PM
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Rohail Saleem / Wccftech:
Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter  —  When an unknown AI lab drops an anonymous model - Ox Alpha - for free, while declaring that they have the capacity …
Financial Times:
Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come  —  Beijing policymakers have made robotics a ‘strategic priority’  —  At the World Robot Conference in Beijing this week …
New York Times:
Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors  —  The offering could value the five-year-old A.I. start-up at $2 trillion, its bankers have told potential investors, which would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX.
Wall Street Journal:
How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability  —  State governors, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, slowing development of the facilities as anger over AI spreads
Emmett Lindner / New York Times:
Carrier Pidge hit 75K users and Roost 650K downloads, as slow messaging apps delivering texts at pigeon speeds attract users tired of constant notifications  —  Apps that let users send digital messages at ultraslow speeds have taken off, with users reveling in a slower pace of life.
Anzar Mehraj / Reuters:
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens  —  OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months …
Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico:
OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks  —  SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI urged its home state of California on Friday to “strengthen” its landmark AI law following recent autonomous hacks …

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From Mediagazer

Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Sources: Paramount reps are expected to meet Monday with the California AG's office to discuss a possible settlement of the antitrust suit blocking the WBD deal

Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Sources: the Pentagon fired Stars and Stripes' publisher, EIC, and a Middle East reporter for insubordination; the publisher earlier announced his retirement

Richard Rushfield / The Ankler:
A look at Human Generative Workflows, a framework developed by a group led by Kathleen Kennedy, in which AI use in Hollywood stays under human creative control

More News

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content
Rashika Singh / Reuters:
Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites

Earlier Picks

Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog:
Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels
Financial Times:
A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR
Diana Olick / CNBC:
CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires
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