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Curated by Gaurav · August 5, 2026
Meta released Muse Code, its first coding agent, a terminal tool that installs with a single command and can plan changes, write code, and validate results across a full software engineering task.
Hark, the startup founded this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, unveiled Handoff, a computer use agent that navigates the open web on a user's behalf to do things like order dinner or compare and book flights.
Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind to become its chairman, and takes a newly created role as chief scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead the drug discovery company Isomorphic Labs.
Nvidia open sourced the storage stack and programming interfaces that let GPUs pull data straight from drives without routing every request through the CPU, under a framework it calls SCADA, short for Scaled Accelerated Data Access.
The Munich Regional Court ruled that AI music company Suno infringed copyrights held by the German collecting society GEMA, rejecting Suno's argument that training a model on protected works requires no license.
Amazon's Zoox will start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10, its first commercial market after nearly a year of free public rides there and in San Francisco. The launch follows the first commercial exemption the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has granted to a purpose built robotaxi…
New Microsoft disclosures show the company booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI in the fiscal year that ended in June, covering cloud computing capacity, model development costs, and its share of OpenAI's revenue.
Google has set September 4 as the date it begins shutting down Assistant on Android and Wear OS, leaving Gemini as the only voice assistant on those devices. The change reaches phones, tablets, smartwatches, headphones, and cars running Android Auto, though Assistant survives for now in vehicles with Google built in.
Shopify said traffic and orders arriving from AI assistants tripled year over year in the second quarter, as overall revenue rose 36 percent to $3.6 billion and beat forecasts of $3.4 billion.
The Tech Transparency Project found more than 50 ads across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Messenger that carried AI generated child sexual abuse material paired with sexually suggestive text, most of them promoting nudify apps that digitally undress people.
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