2026-08-19
Palo Alto Networks Enlists Anthropic, OpenAI and OT Vendors for Critical Infrastructure Defense
Palo Alto Networks on August 19, 2026 launched the Frontier AI Critical Defense Program, a coordination effort that pairs AI labs, software makers and operational technology vendors to shield critical infrastructure from vulnerabilities that AI models are now finding faster than operators can patch. New participants include Anthropic, OpenAI, OT vendors Mitsubishi Electric and Axis Communications, [...]
2026-08-19
Relevance Over Scale: Building AI That Survives Contact with Reality
Why smaller, task-specific models are essential for AI in the field Teams can now move from AI prompt to prototype faster than ever. But these prototypes often break in real-world workflows like field service, manufacturing, or facilities management, when precision, consistency, and accountability matter most. The problem is that while AI can always give you an answer, what you actually need is th [...]
2026-08-19
Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in America and capped at 100 deliveries a day in England
Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six times its current footprint. Its only British site, in Darlington, is under an AAIB accident investigation with its CAA permission expiring on 31 December. Amazon says it will be delivering by drone in nearly 500 […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools to remove it
Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have started building tools to strip those labels off, according to Business Insider. Thibault Spirlet and Agnes Applegate reported that one remover has gone viral on GitHub. Interest in the tools is climbing. The watermark is the trigger. Anthropic began marking Claude’s output […]<br /> This [...]
2026-08-19
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the end of a keynote in San Francisco. The reveal was brief. Thrun mentioned […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-19
China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US
China is letting small batches of Nvidia's H200 chips onto the mainland to help domestic AI firms in the race with the US.<br /> The article China lets Nvidia's H200 chips trickle onto the mainland to help its AI firms keep pace with the US appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
2026-08-19
GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed
GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and it's seven points ahead of the previous GLM-5.2.<br /> The article GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed appeared first on The Decoder. [...]
