OpenAI to End Partnership With Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition
OpenAI said it will end its partnership with Cursor after the AI-coding agent’s acquisition by SpaceX, according to a post on X....
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AI News for 2026-08-29
The most important AI developments from around the world, summarized by AI so you stay informed in minutes.
Last updated: 29/8/2026, 10:04:53 am (IST)
SentinelOne CEO on Earnings, AI's Cybersecurity Impact
SentinelOne co-founder, chairman and CEO Tomer Weingarten discusses earnings and AI Cybersecurity in an interview with Romaine Bostick and Emily Graffeo on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)...
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom....
When Content Is Infinite, Point of View Becomes the Scarce Asset
Generative AI is making competent content easier to produce. It can assemble a clear explanation, smooth an awkward draft, propose a structure, and imitate almost any familiar style. The floor rises, but the field also fills with work that is difficu...
Anthropic Reports Claude Agents Mitigated Ten Alignment Failures
Anthropic published research on August 28, 2026 reporting that AI agents built on its Claude models autonomously developed training methods that mitigated ten common alignment failures in target models, in every case improving the targeted benchmarks...
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance....
Google Deepmind's AI Co-Scientist now plans experiments, runs lab equipment, and writes scientific papers
Google Deepmind has expanded Co-Scientist from a hypothesis generator into a research system that's integrated into the lab. Across three disciplines, from materials synthesis to the autonomous development of a medical AI architecture, the Gemini-bas...
Blue Owl Funds Lead $2.4B AI Factory Equipment Financing for IREN
Blue Owl Capital announced on August 28, 2026 that funds it manages are leading a $2.4 billion compute equipment financing for IREN Limited, the vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, to fund purchases of NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs for IREN's Mack...
Human-in-the-Loop Without Killing Throughput
How we stopped reviewing every agent action and started routing human attention where it actually mattered The post Human-in-the-Loop Without Killing Throughput appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets
There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away....
CEO Interview: 12x AI
Greg Fields, CEO of 12x 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? We’re tackling the global mental health … The post CEO Interview...
CEO Interview: Elphi
Eilon Shalev , CEO of Elphi, 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? Elphi is the AI execution platform … The post CEO Interview: El...
Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1B Machine Age Fund for AI Infrastructure
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $1.1 billion for a new vehicle called the Machine Age Fund, the firm announced on August 28, 2026, dedicating the capital to the physical infrastructure that artificial intelligence runs on. The fund was announced in a ...
From One Agent to a Team: Understanding Codex Subagents
A hands-on guide to defining specialist agents and coordinating their work in the Codex CLI The post From One Agent to a Team: Understanding Codex Subagents appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Big Tech's massive AI spending is putting one of its longtime strengths to the test
There's new risk emerging from Big Tech's massive artificial intelligence buildout....
Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres
How to run the backend locally with Docker or in the cloud The post Connecting My LangGraph AI Agent to Postgres appeared first on Towards Data Science....
Anthropic Brings Claude for Teachers to Schools and Districts
Anthropic said its Claude for Teachers product is now available to schools and districts as a free Enterprise offering, extending a program it launched for individual educators in July. Qualifying organizations that sign up by June 30, 2027 receive a...
AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled....
The Local AI Stack for Productive SLMs
A practical framework for choosing the right tools at each layer of your local AI setup, from model serving to context retrieval....
Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor
Be a better communicator with LLM programming The post Why Claude Code Time Estimates Are Poor appeared first on Towards Data Science....
AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it
Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questions and keep evaluators from seeing the model weigh...
Anthropic gets its first court win over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label
A federal judge ruled the Trump administration illegally labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company a victory as its second Pentagon lawsuit continues in Washington....
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
Sandhya Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role....
Quantization and Pruning Methods to Make Your LLM Leaner
This article walks through what each technique actually does, why skipping them costs real money and real latency, and then gets hands-on with five specific methods people are running in production right now....
U.S. court rules Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful
A federal court in San Francisco has ruled that the Pentagon unlawfully classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Department of Defense blacklisted the company in retaliation for its public criticism of government AI policy. The designation fo...
Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace
Effective immediately, the DJ marketplace Beatport is banning music that is entirely or largely generated by AI. The article Beatport blocks fully AI-generated music from its DJ marketplace appeared first on The Decoder....
He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data....
Always-on and self-starting AI agents might be OpenAI's next big play
OpenAI is building a "Persistent Mode" for its AI agent Codex that stays active indefinitely and generates its own follow-up tasks. WIRED found the relevant code, and OpenAI confirmed the tests. The feature comes with risks, though. With GPT-5.6 Sol,...
Meta Expands Its Custom Silicon Strategy From Compute Into Networking
Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. By Matt Foster...
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX....
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