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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on an earnings call that the company had achieved AGI for many tasks, but immediately afterward described the term as meaningless without a clear definition. He repeated a similar claim from March. OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies use their own, mutually inconsistent definitions.
OpenAI is introducing ads on the Free and Go plans of ChatGPT in India – initially for 50 brands through agencies WPP and Omnicom, with its own ad manager from September 2026 and a minimum budget of ₹725/day. The company reports over 100 million weekly active users in India.
Startup Instinct (the company Spear Street Technology) raised $250 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, reaching a valuation of $2.5 billion. Total funding is $350 million, and the AI agent from 23-year-old founder Noah Shinn is in private beta and faces privacy concerns.
Chinese company Moonshot AI is in talks with Microsoft, Amazon and Google about hosting the Kimi K3 model on Azure, AWS and Google Cloud in exchange for a share of up to 30 % of revenue. It would be the first such agreement between a Chinese AI company and a US cloud provider, but the talks are at an early stage.
According to the company, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar described how progress in chips, compute capacity, models and products jointly lowers costs and makes AI more useful. You can find details in the source article.
Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration worth hundreds of millions of euros to develop and deploy sovereign AI models (cybersecurity, voice, Arabic) for Saudi Arabia and the region.
Ode with Anthropic acquired Casper Studios, a company specializing in integrating Claude models into business processes. This is the first acquisition by Ode with Anthropic since its founding in May 2026; the financial terms were not disclosed.
A study by Villanova University found that readers cannot distinguish shorter AI-written texts from human-written ones and often rate them as more readable. Following the withdrawal of the novel by Jerry Falade (Macmillan) and the cancellation of the book by Mia Ballard (Hachette Book), publishers are introducing Human Authored certifications.
Following a wave of executive departures from April 2026 (including Fidji Simo, Brad Lightcap and Denise Dresser), OpenAI president Greg Brockman took over leadership of product and the entire commercial division, effectively becoming the second most powerful person at the company after Sam Altman, just before the planned IPO.
Ads are now running in the free version of ChatGPT in the Czech Republic as well. According to an analysis by Marketing Miner, they appeared alongside roughly 75 % of answers to consumer queries. For 89 % of queries, the answer did not mention the company featured in the accompanying ad.
New: Ads were indeed launched in the Czech Republic as well in late August.; The Marketing Miner analysis covered more than a thousand ChatGPT answers.; An ad appeared alongside approximately 75 % of answers to consumer queries.; For 89 % of queries, the answer did not mention the company featured in the accompanying ad.; The frequency with which ads appear varies significantly by query topic.
Startup Silicon Data closed a Series A round worth 30 million dollars and aims to become the reference price for GPU rentals. It plans to launch compute futures trading on the CME exchange on 5 October (subject to regulatory approval).
OpenAI has cut the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent, while Anthropic offers Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5. Prices at leading US labs have fallen by almost a quarter since mid-July due to pressure from cheaper Chinese models from Moonshot and DeepSeek.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is in talks with publishers about paid access to their content for the new Siri AI. It is proposing payments based on actual content usage instead of a fixed licensing fee, and the budget is expected to reach a nine-digit figure. Siri AI is expected to launch later this year.
Mistral presented a plan to build 1 GW of compute capacity in Europe by 2030. It includes a choice of inference location (Regional Endpoints), Priority Tier with an SLA and opening the infrastructure to the GLM-5.2 model from Z.ai. The funding coalition consists of ASML, CMA CGM and Amadeus.
A study using five years of data from publicly traded US companies shows that layoffs justified by AI investments damage employee morale and reduce the expected benefits of AI for productivity; the market reaction to such announcements is close to zero on average.
The startup River AI, founded by Igor Babuschkin, the founder of xAI, raised 1.1 billion dollars in a round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator and Temasek. It offers an API for RL and LoRA fine-tuning of open models.
According to Spotify, more than 50 million tracks identified as low-quality AI-generated content or spam were removed from recommendations over the past year. The company also reports a significant decline in listener complaints about this content in recommendations.
New: Spotify removed more than 50 million tracks, including AI slop and spam, from recommendations over the past year.; Spotify says listener complaints about this content fell significantly following changes to recommendations.
From 26 August 2026, OpenAI is expanding ad testing in ChatGPT to 31 European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy and others). Only users of the Free version and the Go plan at 200 Kč/month will see ads.
New: Expansion of testing to 31 European countries planned for 2026-08-26; Ads are shown only to users of the Free version and the Go plan (200 Kč/month); Plus, Pro and Enterprise users are protected from ads; 9 named countries included: Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria; Ad Manager (Ads Manager) for Europe will be available later in the summer
According to procurement documents, ICE will pay LexisNexis 6.7 million dollars for data (LexID, Accurint) linked to systems from Palantir, including AI identification of people and facial recognition for deportation operations.
According to The New York Times, Amazon is financing a gas-fired power plant in Texas for an AI data center that could become the largest source of climate pollution in the USA. This is raising concerns about community health and drawing criticism over the bypassing of environmental assessments.
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