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Francisco Partners to take healthcare AI firm Weave private in $650 million all-cash deal
Francisco Partners agreed on August 18, 2026 to buy healthcare AI patient-engagement platform Weave Communications for about $650 million in cash, a 34% premium at $7.40 a share.
Aug 19, 2026
Meta ships a native Mac app for its Meta AI assistant aimed at creators and advertisers
Meta launched a native Mac desktop app for its Meta AI assistant on August 19, 2026, adding on-screen reading and Ads Manager access for creators and small businesses.
Aug 19, 2026
Stripe agrees to buy AI model-router OpenRouter in mostly-stock deal above $7 billion
Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter, the AI model-routing marketplace, in a mostly-stock deal reported to top $7 billion, OpenRouter said August 19, 2026.
Aug 19, 2026
ChatGPT hit by roughly hour-long worldwide outage as logins and signups fail
ChatGPT went down worldwide for about an hour on August 19, blocking logins, signups and chat loading and disrupting Codex and roughly a dozen OpenAI API endpoints.
Aug 19, 2026
CISA warns hackers are using AI coding assistants to exploit Siemens S7 controllers
Five U.S. agencies warned on August 19 that threat actors are using AI coding assistants to build custom scripts exploiting internet-exposed Siemens S7 industrial controllers.
Aug 19, 2026
Ex-Nvidia researcher Sanja Fidler's startup Veeda AI raises more than $90 million
Toronto startup Veeda AI, founded by former Nvidia research VP Sanja Fidler, reportedly raised more than $90 million in seed funding to build AI 'world models' for robotics.
Aug 19, 2026
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention and previews a privacy-preserving misuse-detection system
OpenAI said it will keep offering Zero Data Retention to API customers and previewed Private Safety Processing, a system that detects misuse without exposing customer prompts.
Aug 19, 2026
Abnormal AI joins OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program
Abnormal AI joined OpenAI's Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to explore combining OpenAI's models with its Behavioral AI for monitoring AI-agent activity.
Aug 19, 2026
Nvidia H200 chips reportedly reach China as ByteDance and Tencent get 10,000 each
ByteDance and Tencent have each reportedly received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 AI chips, the first meaningful flow of export-approved H200s into mainland China since late 2025.
Aug 19, 2026
Murf AI launches Falcon 2, a sub-100ms real-time voice model for AI agents
India's Murf AI unveiled Falcon 2, a real-time text-to-speech model for voice agents delivering audio in under 100 milliseconds, with public API access opening Aug. 20.
Aug 19, 2026
Cerebras unveils CS-4 wafer-scale inference system, claiming up to 30x GPU speed
Cerebras unveiled the CS-4, a wafer-scale inference system combining three WSE-3T processors, and said it runs large-model inference up to 30 times faster than GPU-based systems.
Aug 19, 2026
Anthropic's quarterly revenue reportedly overtakes OpenAI's for the first time
Anthropic reportedly booked $11.6 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June, passing OpenAI's $6.7 billion, according to preliminary pre-IPO financials shared with investors.
Aug 19, 2026