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August 14, 2026, 12:12 PM
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Z.ai:
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, which uses the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding skills, and says it'll release weights in two weeks  —  With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for RL on long-horizon tasks …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship new AI models and products cut into safety time, leading to incidents like the rogue agent hack  —  OpenAI's rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity.  It also sparked internal questions about the culture that led to it.
Bloomberg:
Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025
Reuters:
Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China  —  Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a large language model specifically for the China market, three people familiar with the matter said …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “everything is a plugin” that can be swapped out as a plugin  —  DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.
Reuters:
France's top court blocks a bill banning social media for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression; Macron orders the PM to rework the bill  —  France's top court on Friday blocked a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of expression …
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The White House puts tariffs on drones and their components, including a 100% levy on “particularly sensitive” models, aiming to cut US reliance on Chinese tech  —  US to impose up to 100% levies on unmanned aircraft and their components  —  President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping …
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack:
OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns day-to-day computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use  —  OpenAI is launching a new feature for ChatGPT Work and Codex on macOS that sounds quite useful but may also make you feel a bit uneasy.
@alibaba_qwen:
Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding  —  We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M
J.J. McCorvey / Bloomberg:
A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction market contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws  —  Kalshi was told by a judge to stop offering most of its prediction market contracts in Washington state, after regulators …
The Information:
A profile of Camilla Clark, quiet adviser to husband Dario Amodei and behind-the-scenes player at Anthropic; she once pitched a porn startup to Jeffrey Epstein  —  Eric Schmidt had plenty of reasons to toast the success of Dario Amodei and Anthropic at a private event the former Google CEO hosted recently.
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Netflix closes game studios Los Angeles-based Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Helsinki-based Moonloot, founded in 2022, and cuts games jobs  —  Netflix is sticking with video games but once again reducing the number of studios it owns making games.
Veronica Irwin / Transformer:
A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First  —  “I didn't know anything about Amy.  I didn't know she helped organize January 6 — I just learned that today from a media person.

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: the US DOJ says states suing to block the WBD deal must post a “proper bond” to cover potential damages, backing Paramount's request for a $1.88B bond

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen: 60 Minutes' season premiere drew 7.94M viewers, down 21% from 10.02M for last season's premiere; viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 fell 33%

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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024
Bloomberg:
Pony AI plans to deploy 2,000+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber, add four more European cities after Zagreb, and expand to the Middle East later
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Epic v. Apple: Apple offers 15% commissions on US linked-out purchases for standard apps, 10% for partner programs and renewals, and 5% for Small Business apps

Earlier Picks

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit will join the S&P 500 on August 18, replacing AvalonBay and becoming the second pure-play social media company in the index, after Meta; RDDT jumps 10%+
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more
Milana Vinn / Reuters:
Sources: Private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire HR and financial management software maker Workday; WDAY jumped 15%+ to hit a ~$50B market cap
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Tether says KPMG completed Tether's first full audit and found its 2025 financial statements fairly presented its financial position in all material respects
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
US-based robot vacuum maker Matic rolls out a firmware update to add Matic Cues, which lets users control its $1,245 vacuum with voice commands in 70+ languages
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second
Patrick Howell O'Neill / Bloomberg:
President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private companies to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans
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