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Ox Alpha stealth model appears on OpenRouter, developer identity unconfirmed
Ox Alpha stealth model appears on OpenRouter, developer identity unconfirmed A new AI model called Ox Alpha was released for free on OpenRouter, listed only as a reasoning model built for coding, sust...
Outer Biosciences opens up on funding, tissue-sourcing partners, and its FDA-focused AI drug-discovery strategy
Outer Biosciences opens up on funding, tissue-sourcing partners, and its FDA-focused AI drug-discovery strategy Outer Biosciences, the dermatology-focused startup founded in 2022, has raised approxima...
MiniMax H3 community unlocks Context Loop for open-weight local video
MiniMax H3 community unlocks Context Loop for open-weight local video An August 17 ASCII.jp hands-on reports that MiniMax H3, the open-weight video generation model released August 2, is already stret...
Nvidia notifies customers of AI chip price increases above 15%, tied to Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems
Nvidia notifies customers of AI chip price increases above 15%, tied to Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems Some of Nvidia's largest customers have been told that servers built around its AI chips...
UBTech Details Three-Tier Embodied AI Stack Behind Its WRC 2026 Production-Line Demo
UBTech Details Three-Tier Embodied AI Stack Behind Its WRC 2026 Production-Line Demo At the World Robot Conference 2026, UBTech (优必选) ran a full-scale replica of a customer's production line rather th...
Zhipu AI's Anonymous Ox Alpha Model Exposed as GLM-5.3 Through OpenRouter Serving Forensics
Zhipu AI's Anonymous Ox Alpha Model Exposed as GLM-5.3 Through OpenRouter Serving Forensics Ox Alpha, a free coding model with a 1,048,576-token context window, appeared on OpenRouter on August 20, 20...
Google Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data Trove
Google Wins Bankruptcy Auction for Spirit Airlines' Internal Data Trove Google was the winning bidder in a bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines' internal corporate data, paying $10 million for a tro...
OhpiNeuro Develops Ultra-Low-Power Neuromorphic AI Chip for Edge Devices
OhpiNeuro Develops Ultra-Low-Power Neuromorphic AI Chip for Edge Devices OhpiNeuro, a South Korean AI semiconductor startup, is developing a neuromorphic AI processor line called N260 built on spiking...
Outer Biosciences trains AI skincare models on living human tissue kept alive for weeks, not days
Outer Biosciences trains AI skincare models on living human tissue kept alive for weeks, not days Outer Biosciences, the four-year-old startup led by Michael Polansky, has built a support system that...
Anthropic hires Google TPU veteran Amir Salek to accelerate in-house AI chip development
Anthropic hires Google TPU veteran Amir Salek to accelerate in-house AI chip development Anthropic is accelerating custom AI silicon after hiring Amir Salek, who led Google's Tensor Processing Unit pr...
UBTech showcases a 1:1 replica of a customer's production line at WRC 2026, running industrial humanoids unattended for a full show day.
UBTech showcases a 1:1 replica of a customer's production line at WRC 2026, running industrial humanoids unattended for a full show day. UBTech (优必选) used WRC 2026 to run what it describes as a full,...
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard target enterprise agentic AI costs
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard target enterprise agentic AI costs On August 11, 2026, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open Mixture-of-Experts model...
Supabase says AI agents, not humans, now launch most of its databases as developer count hits 10 million.
Supabase says AI agents, not humans, now launch most of its databases as developer count hits 10 million. Supabase co-founder and CEO Paul Copplestone said in a YC Root Access interview that the open-...
Nvidia Research Puts Agent Harness Design Ahead of Base-Model Quality
Nvidia Research Puts Agent Harness Design Ahead of Base-Model Quality Nvidia researchers reported that a custom agent harness, rather than a change in the underlying model, lifted Claude Opus 5 from a...
OpenAI Proposes Four-Metric 'Useful Intelligence per Dollar' Framework to Measure Enterprise AI ROI
OpenAI Proposes Four-Metric 'Useful Intelligence per Dollar' Framework to Measure Enterprise AI ROI OpenAI on July 17, 2026 published a framework it calls Useful Intelligence per Dollar, arguing that...
Alibaba's Second-Generation T-Head AI Chip to Tape Out in H2 2026
Alibaba's Second-Generation T-Head AI Chip to Tape Out in H2 2026 Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said on August 20 that the company's second-generation T-Head AI chip is expected to tape out and enter productio...
Waymo opens its robotaxi compute stack to scrutiny
Waymo opens its robotaxi compute stack to scrutiny Waymo has disclosed new details about the in-vehicle compute system powering its robotaxi fleet, including a custom silicon chip, processor specifica...
SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova U1.5 Lite With Native 4K Image Output
SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova U1.5 Lite With Native 4K Image Output SenseTime has released SenseNova U1.5 Lite as open source, an 8-billion-parameter multimodal model that combines visual understan...
Ramp Launches Router, a Multi-Model Gateway for Enterprise AI Spend
Ramp Launches Router, a Multi-Model Gateway for Enterprise AI Spend Ramp has launched Router.com, a U.S.-only API gateway that lets businesses access and switch among models from OpenAI, Anthropic, De...
Nitto Kogyo's Direct-Liquid-Cooled OCP ORV3 Rack Adopted at MC Digital Realty's AI Test Facility DRIL
Nitto Kogyo's Direct-Liquid-Cooled OCP ORV3 Rack Adopted at MC Digital Realty's AI Test Facility DRIL Nitto Kogyo, an electrical enclosure and cabinet manufacturer based in Nagakute, Aichi, Japan, ann...