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Curated by Gaurav · August 16, 2026
Now that Anthropic started watermarking Claude AI output, this has spurred interest in watermark removal apps. Be very wary! An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
Executive exits and safety team changes unsettle staff as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a blockbuster listing.
Nvidia's stake in SpaceX, which came through an investment in xAI, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter.
Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter Inc., a startup that helps companies switch between artificial intelligence models, for more than $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Nvidia has scaled back how much of OpenAI's data-center financing it may guarantee, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of the capital pressures surrounding the ChatGPT maker's infrastructure build-out.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged that the public doesn't trust AI and said AI companies have overpromised and undersold. He argued the industry must deliver concrete breakthroughs such as curing cancer to rebuild confidence.
The jump in revenue underscores the rapid growth of the Claude chatbot maker as it prepares for a potential blockbuster initial public offering.
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The team assessed whether models posed serious risks and developed ways to mitigate those risks.
Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded to 'effective giving'.
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done.
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