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AI news on 24 August 2026

02:55
Alibaba plunges after announcing $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI push
CNBC Technology+2
- Alibaba to issue US$10 billion in new shares for global AI pushr/singularity
- Alibaba Sells More Shares to Raise $10.2B to Spend on AIAI Business
21:45
AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Ars Technica▴145+1
- AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study findsr/singularity
18:22
Pew study confirms sharp rise of AI-written text on the web since ChatGPT's launch
The Decoder+1
- A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds.r/OpenAI
13:47
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
TechCrunch+1
- Report: AI model hub Hugging Face exploring sale at $13B valuationSiliconANGLE
13:09
Twitch and Amazon face legal action over using livestreams to train AI
BBC Technology+1
- Twitch and Amazon hit with lawsuit for training AI with streamers' contentEngadget
13:00
Thomson Reuters launches proprietary AI model for legal work
SiliconANGLE+1
- Thomson Reuters releases Thomson-1.0-Small. A law and tax focused modelr/LocalLLaMA
10:31
XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation
Unite.AI+1
- XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After InvestmentAI Business
10:02
Taiwan reportedly indicted NVIDIA employees for exporting prohibited AI servers to China
Engadget+1
- Taiwan Indicts Nine Over AI Server Exports to ChinaUnite.AI
08:44
Nvidia in talks to invest in Perplexity at $30 billion-plus valuation
The Decoder+1
- Nvidia reportedly eyes another investment in Perplexity AI at a $30B valuationSiliconANGLE
23:55
SCX.ai Partners With DDN to Scale Australia’s Sovereign AI Inference Cloud
Unite.AI
23:38
Quintessent bags $40M to develop lasers for AI clusters
SiliconANGLE
22:31
Jim Cramer says the data center trade is under attack. Here’s who could benefit
CNBC Technology
21:24
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
TechCrunch
20:52
Trump defends AI data center buildout amid pushback
SiliconANGLE
19:54
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch
19:40
From X-ray speckles to solar magnetic fields, AI shrinks data while keeping crucial details
TechXplore
19:26
OpenAI Brings GPT-5.6 Model Family to AWS’s Kiro
Unite.AI
19:22
Businesses must reinvent their processes and workforce to scale agentic AI adoption
ZDNet
19:09
Mistral and HUMAIN Team on Sovereign AI for Saudi Arabia and the Region
Unite.AI
19:00
Who does AI consider an expert? New benchmark shows bias across 22 LLMs
TechXplore
18:38
Mathematical Theories Could Be the Key to Explainable AI Systems
AI Business
18:03
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
TechCrunch
17:46
Physical AI’s moment has arrived – but moving from demo to deployment is the hard part. AWS wants to fix that
SiliconANGLE
17:30
How to cancel your ChatGPT subscription (and why you might want to)
Engadget
16:56
AWS Backs Agentic Resource Discovery as Federation Layer for Agent Registry
Unite.AI
16:41
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Ars Technica
16:34
Lancium and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories
Unite.AI
16:02
Mistral x HUMAIN
Mistral AI
15:53
XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding
AI News
15:51
Self-Driving Cars Could Someday Take Requests
IEEE Spectrum
15:35
Alibaba's Wan3.0 generates AI videos up to 30 seconds long from text, images, and documents
The Decoder
15:25
Waymo Develops Its Own Chip for Self-Driving
AI Business
15:24
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
TechCrunch
15:24
SpaceXAI Puts NVIDIA’s Vera CPU at the Center of Gigawatt-Scale Buildout
Unite.AI
15:00
Goldman Sachs partner warns of 'huge danger' in letting AI replace bankers' reasoning skills
CNBC Technology
15:00
Nvidia says Groq racks will be online this year following $20 billion purchase
CNBC Technology
15:00
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
TechCrunch
14:54
AI Fluency is the Workforce Skill Organizations Can’t Afford to Ignore
Unite.AI
14:29
Why AI Companies are Racing to Confess Security Flaws
Unite.AI
14:23
Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project
The Decoder