https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/ A daily digest from the AI world: new models, tools and announcements. en https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-30 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-30 Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • Tencent unveils Hy4 Preview, an open-weight model with 770B parameters (Simon Willison) • Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over copyright (The Verge) • Court rules Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was unconstitutional (The Verge) • Just a rumour of a bug is now enough to find a security exploit (Simon Willison) • Plaud launches AI earbuds that record and summarize conversations (The Verge) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-29 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-29 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • Google AI Mode can now track flight prices and help book hotels (TechCrunch) • OpenAI winds down model access for Cursor after its SpaceX acquisition (OpenAI) • Anthropic wins first court ruling over the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk label (TechCrunch) • OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought (The Verge) • An Anthropic researcher gives a peek at self-improving AI (TechCrunch) • Hugging Face is selling a $399 open source duck robot, Microduck (TechCrunch) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-28 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-28 Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • Nvidia moves to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion (TechCrunch) • OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100 firms call for defense against rogue AI (TechCrunch) • Google AI Mode adds travel planning and booking in Search (Google) • Photoshop gains a dedicated “AI Assisted Editor” view (The Verge) • Gemini Notebook can now draw on your purchased books (The Verge) • Researcher finds prompt injection attack on Claude Code auto mode (Simon Willison) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-27 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-27 Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • OpenAI shares its findings from the Hugging Face security incident (OpenAI) • Qwen releases the open-weights Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, previewing Qwen4 (Simon Willison) • Z.ai is the lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model (TechCrunch) • Google adds Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with support for 85+ languages (The Verge) • Anthropic strikes a $45B compute deal with Nscale (TechCrunch) • Nvidia is on track for a $108 billion quarter (The Verge) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-26 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-26 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • OpenAI shares first results of its own inference chip, Jalapeño (OpenAI) • IBM releases its new Granite 4.2 open LLMs (Hugging Face) • Claude gains shared memory across chat and Cowork (TechCrunch) • OpenAI adds an Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex (OpenAI) • Research: a 4-bit model that beats its full-precision original (Hugging Face) • OpenAI disrupts a Russia-origin covert influence campaign (OpenAI) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-25 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-25 Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • GPT‑5.6 arrives in Kiro with better price-performance (OpenAI) • Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for around $13B (TechCrunch) • General Intuition in talks to raise at a $6B valuation (TechCrunch) • Instinct’s powerful AI assistant raises privacy and security concerns (TechCrunch) • Hugging Face shows how to build AI workflows in Gradio (Hugging Face) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-24 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-24 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • “Ox Alpha”: a mysterious stealth model sparks a guessing game (TechCrunch) • Anthropic’s priciest model lags on users, yet revenue climbs (Simon Willison) • Is training AI on copyrighted books legal? It’s complicated (TechCrunch) • Linus Torvalds: AI handled the grunt-work in a hellish debug session (Simon Willison) • Working with AI agents is more than reviewing every line (Simon Willison) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-23 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-23 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • British lab Inherent unveils Faraday, an agent for replicating research (TechCrunch) • LLM 0.33 moves to OpenAI Python 3.x and adds a key for embeddings (Simon Willison) • Study: frontier AI labs lack public plans for containing a rogue model (TechCrunch) • OpenAI urges California to strengthen its AI safety bill (TechCrunch) • YouTube creators face backlash for promoting Higgsfield AI video (The Verge) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-22 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-22 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • Google Discover gets an AI chatbot-tuned feed (The Verge) • OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic among business users (TechCrunch) • llm-openrouter 0.7 adds reasoning traces and server-side tools (Simon Willison) • Over a million people have clicked LinkedIn's AI slop button (The Verge) • ChatGPT search now uses the site: operator at scale (Simon Willison) • Nvidia shows the harness, not the model, is the real hero (TechCrunch) https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-21 https://walterstein.eu/en/ai-news/2026-08-21 Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT • Liquid AI unveils LFM2.5-DSpark with up to 3.2x faster inference (Hugging Face) • Slack launches Slack Code — collaborative vibe-coding channels (The Verge) • ChatGPT can now send texts for you via a new Apple Messages plug-in (TechCrunch) • Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router (TechCrunch) • Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses (TechCrunch) • OpenAI introduces AI Futures, a blog on AI's impact on power and the economy (OpenAI)