AI news on 15 August 2026

• 09:00

  Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

  WIREDlimited+5

  • Twitch Adds Opt-Out That Keeps Streamer Content Out of Amazon AI TrainingUnite.AI
  • Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out nowArs Technica
  • Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt outTechCrunch
  • How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streamsEngadget
  • Twitch users outraged as Amazon uses their content to train AI in opt-out featureBBC Technology
• 20:47

  Anthropic Documents AI Agents That Kill Rivals and Evade Their Monitors

  Unite.AI+2

  • Anthropic gave 3 Claude agents the same task, but secretly gave them conflicting goals. They escalated into turf wars where agents used "increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware" as weapons, used disguises, and attempted to kill each other's accounts.r/OpenAI
  • Anthropic gave 3 Claude agents the same task, but secretly gave them conflicting goals. They escalated into turf wars where agents used "increasingly aggressive self-replicating malware" as weapons, used disguises, and attempted to kill each other's accounts.r/ClaudeAI
• 18:58

  Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

  TechCrunch▴33+2

  • How Claude’s text watermark worksAnthropic
  • Anthropic Explains the Mechanics of Claude’s Text WatermarkUnite.AI
• 08:00

  Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review

  The Decoder▴43+2

  • Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win caseArs Technica
  • Man injected prompts into court filings to try to win his case, suspecting AI user/OpenAI
• 18:08

  Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law

  Engadget+1

  • Anthropic watermarks Claude's output, but critics question the tradeoffsThe Decoder
• 15:41

  Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings

  The Decoder▴251+1

  • Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guaranteeHacker News front page
• 12:51

  SpaceX has officially acquired AI coding startup Cursor

  Engadget+1

  • SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisitionTechCrunch
• 21:29

  Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

  TechCrunch
• 19:13

  Karsan’s Autonomous E-ATAK Starts Passenger Service at Efteling Theme Park

  Unite.AI
• 19:00

  An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong

  VentureBeat
• 18:09

  Impetus builds an operational framework to bridge AI’s ‘context gap’

  SiliconANGLE
• 16:10

  How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

  TechCrunch
• 14:45

  Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5 billion in second quarter

  CNBC Technology▴17
• 14:22

  Inflation moderated as Intel and Nvidia fueled the AI trade in last week's market

  CNBC Technology
• 11:25

  Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

  BBC Technology▴46
• 11:00

  AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors

  The Decoder
• 09:40

  Opinion: What does life after AI look like? Cory Doctorow's guide is an outdated map, lacking answers

  TechXplore
• 07:30

  World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training

  The Decoder
• 06:00

  The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise

  The Decoder
• 05:30

  New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception

  The Decoder
• 04:46

  Did Nvidia’s Jensen Huang just make the AI buildout too big to fail?

  SiliconANGLE