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Anthropic reportedly in talks to buy video-model startup Decart for $6 billion
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli AI lab Decart, which builds real-time video and world models, for about $6 billion.
Aug 12, 2026
Twitch opts streamers into Amazon AI training by default, adds opt-out
Twitch added a setting letting streamers opt out of having their content train Amazon's generative AI models — but left it on by default.
Aug 12, 2026
Microsoft's MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model claims parity with Claude Opus 4.6 on coding
Microsoft AI released MAI-Thinking-1, a from-scratch reasoning model it says matches Claude Opus 4.6 on coding despite far fewer active parameters.
Aug 12, 2026
Cognition reportedly in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation
Devin maker Cognition is reportedly in early talks for a funding round that could value the AI coding startup at $40 billion or more.
Aug 12, 2026
Ryanair signs a five-year AI deal with Google Cloud for flight operations
Ryanair and Google Cloud announced a five-year data-and-AI partnership on August 12, 2026, rolling out Gemini Enterprise to roughly 35,000 employees.
Aug 12, 2026
xAI ships Grok 4.6, a post-training-only upgrade it says matches GPT-5.6 Sol
xAI released Grok 4.6 on August 12, 2026, a post-training-only upgrade whose Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score of 61 the company says matches rival GPT-5.6 Sol.
Aug 12, 2026
Google DeepMind brings on-device sign-language translation to the Pixel 11
Google DeepMind released SL2T, an on-device sign-language-to-text model, debuting with American Sign Language support in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11.
Aug 12, 2026
German group files a criminal complaint over Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses
German digital-rights group HateAid filed a criminal complaint over the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Gen 2 glasses on August 12, 2026, arguing they enable covert recording.
Aug 12, 2026
Lovable raises $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation
AI coding startup Lovable raised a $400 million Series C that doubles its valuation to $13.3 billion, up from $6.6 billion in December 2025.
Aug 12, 2026
Alibaba open-weights Qwen3.8, its first Max-class model released with open weights
Alibaba's Qwen team published open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on August 12, 2026, the first time it has open-weighted a model in its top Max class.
Aug 12, 2026
DeepSeek updates its V4 Pro API model and warns of a coming price increase
DeepSeek updated its flagship API model to DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on August 12, 2026, adding a 1-million-token context window while warning of a significant coming price hike.
Aug 12, 2026
Google launches Pixel 11 lineup centered on Gemini Intelligence and AI camera features
Google unveiled the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL on August 12, priced from $899 and built around new Gemini Intelligence features.
Aug 12, 2026