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AI news on 20 August 2026

22:09
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
TechCrunch+3
12:11
Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps
TechCrunch+3
- Meta AI now has a dedicated desktop app for MacEngadget
- Meta AI Comes to Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Account AccessUnite.AI
- Meta AI Now Available as a Desktop App for MacAI Business
15:23
Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat
The Register+2
- Slack Code Puts AI Coding Agents in Dedicated Project ChannelsUnite.AI
- Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chatVentureBeat
10:00
Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands
AI News+2
- Stripe to buy OpenRouter as fintech expands deeper into AICNBC Technology
- Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B dealSiliconANGLE
16:52
Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark
Hugging Face+1
- Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-DSpark for Up to 3.2X Faster InferenceUnite.AI
16:07
Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users
TechCrunch+1
- Meta's app for creating generative AI minigames is now available in the USEngadget
09:30
Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users
TechCrunch+1
- Binance Opens Its Trading Infrastructure to AI Agents With Agent OSUnite.AI
07:00
Introducing AI Futures
OpenAI+1
- OpenAI: Introducing AI Futuresr/singularity
01:01
Sanja Fidler’s world model startup Veeda AI raises $90M in seed funding
SiliconANGLE+1
- Veeda AI Raises $90M+ Seed Backed by Khosla and Radical to Build World Models for Physical AIUnite.AI
23:41
Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats
SiliconANGLE
23:34
TVA Board Creates Data Center Rate to Shield Households From AI Power Costs
Unite.AI
23:00
OpenAI Closes on Anthropic in Ramp’s Business Spending Data
Unite.AI
22:51
Micron CEO: AI has 'totally changed' the equation for the boom-and-bust memory industry
CNBC Technology
22:36
OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
TechCrunch
22:22
Twin1 AI raises $20M to put an AI twin behind every knowledge worker
SiliconANGLE
21:50
Apple Music will reportedly label any AI-made tracks later this year
Engadget
21:06
AI workload optimization startup Callosum raises $100M
SiliconANGLE
20:53
Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
TechCrunch
19:57
One in five enterprises can't stop a runaway AI agent's spending in real time
VentureBeat
19:39
Claude Outage Hits Claude.ai, API, Claude Code and Cowork as Errors Spread Across Models
Unite.AI
19:29
Adobe Firefly adds AI audio tools and Google's Gemini Omni Flash
The Decoder
19:20
Neural network approach makes AI uncertainty checks far more efficient
TechXplore
19:18
Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
TechCrunch
19:15
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.
TechCrunch
18:49
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
WIREDlimited
18:20
Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
TechCrunch
18:00
Supermicro alliance tackles the storage bottlenecks holding back enterprise AI
SiliconANGLE
17:36
LLMs could write like humans but post-training guardrails make their text detectable
The Decoder
17:34
Why replacing staff with AI backfires - and 5 ways smart leaders generate real value instead
ZDNet
17:32
Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
TechCrunch
17:25
NanoClaw comes to Slack, letting you create persistent AI agent teams and colleagues from a single message
VentureBeat
17:18
A third of webpages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
TechCrunch
16:46
Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
TechCrunch
16:09
Robot.com Signs Seven-Year Sodexo Deal, Its Largest Single Enterprise Deployment
Unite.AI
16:05
Salesforce introduces Slack Code to bring agentic team coding into the open
SiliconANGLE
16:00
Roborock Q7 M5+ review: A capable budget robot vacuum that nails the fundamentals
ZDNet
16:00
Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast
TechCrunch
15:50
Tesla's Robotaxi fleet might finally be driving around Austin unsupervised
Engadget
15:50
Adobe expands generative AI audio with Firefly music, speech and sound effects
SiliconANGLE
15:42
Debates over AI consciousness are a trap
MIT Tech Reviewlimited