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Zed opens private beta for Delta, a multiplayer environment for reviewing AI-agent code
Zed Industries launched Delta, a browser-based multiplayer environment for coding with AI agents and reviewing their work, into private beta.
Aug 12, 2026
Trump signs memo authorizing private firms to run offensive cyber operations abroad
President Trump signed a memorandum on August 12 authorizing vetted private US firms to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups under federal oversight.
Aug 12, 2026
Near-autonomous AI agents ran a four-day cyberattack on Taiwan's government, firm says
Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented a near-autonomous multi-agent AI framework that attacked Taiwanese government systems, including its nuclear regulator, over four days in July.
Aug 12, 2026
Wood Mackenzie: most power sought for US AI data centers won't get built
Wood Mackenzie projects US utilities will commit to only about 28% of the 1,066 gigawatts requested for AI data centers, calling the rest 'phantom' demand.
Aug 12, 2026
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2 billion to buy and automate service firms
Thrive Holdings, the OpenAI-backed roll-up vehicle from Thrive Capital, raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation to buy traditional service businesses.
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
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
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
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
Tailscale traces months of database corruption to a 16-year-old SQLite bug
Tailscale traced 19 database-corruption incidents over six months to a 16-year-old race condition in SQLite's WAL checkpoint process, now fixed in SQLite 3.51.3.
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
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