2026-08-24

A mystery AI model is drawing developers with free access — and nobody knows who built it

The model, billed as a reasoning tool for coding and software engineering, was released Aug. 20 by an anonymous third-party provider [...]

2026-08-24

Treasury could tap its near-$1 trillion cash account to fund bond buybacks

Two senior Treasury officials say the TGA is considered available for off-the-run securities purchases, though no amount or timing has been set [...]

2026-08-24

Nvidia is paying $6 billion to license AI model software from startup Poolside

The chip designer will also invest $1 billion in Poolside and hire more than 100 of its engineers to work on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron models [...]

2026-08-24

California AG scraps Paramount settlement talks, accusing company of bad faith

Attorney General Rob Bonta accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting details of a Friday meeting between the two sides [...]

2026-08-24

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag update lets its Slack agent read the full conversation — and jump in unprompted

Anthropic is making a calculated bet that the biggest bottleneck in enterprise AI isn't model intelligence — it's the fact that most people still use AI alone.In an exclusive interview with VentureBeat, Scott White, Anthropic's head of product for enterprise, laid out the company's thesis for what it calls "multiplayer AI": a shift away from the single-user chatbot [...]

2026-08-24

The best way to test your Dolby Atmos sound system

When you're testing your Dolby Atmos system, pick a good benchmark video and stick with it. [...]

2026-08-24

What's the difference between Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Digital Plus?

Is one better than the other? Will your equipment support both? Here's what you need to know and how it might affect your setup. [...]

2026-08-24

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience. [...]

2026-08-24

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 Joel Hron makes the point that what matters isn't intelligence itself, but knowing which intelligence you need to own.<br /&g [...]