Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."...
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AI News for 2026-08-25
The most important AI developments from around the world, summarized by AI so you stay informed in minutes.
Last updated: 25/8/2026, 6:05:19 am (IST)
SCX.ai Partners With DDN to Scale Australia’s Sovereign AI Inference Cloud
Australian sovereign AI infrastructure company SCX.ai and data intelligence vendor DDN announced a partnership on August 24, 2026, to expand what the companies describe as Australia's largest sovereign AI inferencing cloud. The deal pairs SCX's ASIC-...
AI Cloud Provider Lambda in Talks for $3 Billion Pre-IPO Round
Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee it up to go public next year, according to people familiar with the efforts....
CEO Interview : Borderless AI
Willson Cross, the CEO of Borderless AI tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Hiring internationally has traditionally been … The ...
OpenAI Brings GPT-5.6 Model Family to AWS’s Kiro
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family is now available inside Kiro, the spec-driven development environment built by Amazon Web Services. The August 24, 2026 announcement puts all three members of OpenAI's current flagship series — Sol, Terra, and Luna — int...
Mistral and HUMAIN Team on Sovereign AI for Saudi Arabia and the Region
Mistral and HUMAIN on August 24, 2026 announced a strategic collaboration spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of AI solutions in Saudi Arabia and across the region, a partnership the companies value in the hundr...
Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch
The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million English-language web pages for AI-generated content. More than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of machine-written text, and commercial .com sites are ten times more l...
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs....
Put Your Own Logic Inside the Codex Agentic Loop
Understanding Codex hooks The post Put Your Own Logic Inside the Codex Agentic Loop appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
A new algorithm learns to anticipate the unprecedented scenarios that critical infrastructure and global supply chains are least prepared for....
Nvidia says Groq racks will be online this year following $20 billion purchase
Nvidia's race to manufacture Groq chips and make them available to customers highlight the growing importance in AI of low-latency inference....
AWS Backs Agentic Resource Discovery as Federation Layer for Agent Registry
Amazon Web Services has put its weight behind the Agentic Resource Discovery specification, publishing a detailed account on August 24, 2026 of how the open standard is meant to work alongside AWS Agent Registry, its managed catalog for AI agents, to...
Oana Jinga, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial and Product Officer of Dexory – Interview Series
Oana Jinga, Co-Founder, Chief Commercial and Product Officer of Dexory, is an experienced technology and commercial leader with a background spanning robotics, retail technology, strategic partnerships, and product development. She co-founded the bus...
10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #M3] - The ten positions the series argues from, and the map of every article that argues them The post 10 Positions for Enterprise RAG That Mainstream Tutorials Get Wrong appeared first on Towards Data Science...
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agr...
Goldman Sachs partner warns of 'huge danger' in letting AI replace bankers' reasoning skills
Goldman Sachs is embracing AI, but one of its senior tech leaders warns that it comes with an unintended risk: weakening the reasoning skills of future bankers....
Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
Alibaba's video generation model Wan3.0 creates clips up to 30 seconds long from text, PDFs, and PowerPoint files. A 30-second 1080p clip costs $6. Alibaba's quarterly profit dropped 75 percent year-over-year as the company ramps up AI spending. The ...
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, a...
How XPUs Meet a World-Class AI Factory
To generate intelligence at scale, AI factories run continuously, and their economics are defined by delivered output: tokens per second, tokens per watt, cost per token, utilization and uptime. That requires AI infrastructure designed and built as ...
With Groq 3 LPX in Full Production, NVIDIA Extends Vera Rubin Inference for Agents
The next era of AI inference won’t be defined by a single breakthrough chip, network or system. It’ll be defined by how every layer of the AI factory works together. That’s why NVIDIA is extending Vera Rubin NVL72 with fast token generation for agent...
Up to 30x More Work Per Watt: NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Sets a New Efficiency Standard for AI Agents
According to OpenRouter data, agentic AI workloads consume 15x more tokens than a simple chat request. Why? Consider what happens when an AI agent researches a company for an investment decision. The agent queries financial databases, searches news ...
Can an LLM Forget the Right Things?
Most LLM inference runtimes have no idea a physical deadline exists. This one refuses admission rather than miss a 33ms robot control cycle, evicts KV cache by meaning instead of age, and is written entirely in hand-written CUDA — no cuBLAS, no libto...
Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request. The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project appeared first o...
How to Leverage Local Small Language Models for Your Projects
A practical guide to running compact, privacy-preserving language models on your own hardware for faster, cheaper, and more controllable AI-powered applications....
Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement
Microsoft has outlined an AI governance architecture spanning nine governance domains and four functions: policy, control, visibility, and proof. The approach connects policies with runtime enforcement, continuous evaluation, observability, identity,...
Speculative Decoding on CPUs: Nearly 4x Faster Token Generation with DFlash
Speculative decoding can turn underused CPU compute into faster token generation, without changing the model's output. In our vLLM tests, DFlash delivered 3.92x the autoregressive throughput with Qwen3.5-9B on Intel Xeon 6 at concurrency 1. We break ...
Thomson Reuters bets $40M on owning its AI instead of renting from OpenAI or Anthropic
Thomson Reuters is launching "Thomson," its own language model built on Alibaba's Qwen, at a cost of about $40 million over two years. But the benchmarks only show top marks when the model can tap into the company's own content, like Westlaw. CTO Joe...
Build an End-to-End Data Science Project with Grok Build and Grok 4.6
Use Grok Build to create a production-ready data science workflow with EDA, scikit-learn, model training, FastAPI, API testing, and cloud deployment....
AI Agents Don’t Need More Context — They Need Typed Context
AI agents don’t just have a context problem—they have a context typing problem. When instructions, memory, retrieved evidence, and tool outputs are flattened into one string, their semantic boundaries can disappear. I built a lightweight, zero-depend...
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
GPT‑5.6 is now available in Kiro, helping developers plan, build, review, and test software with better price-performance....
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