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Solinide Photonics raises €4M seed round to commercialize silicon nitride photonic chips for AI data centers
Aug 20, 2026Solinide Photonics

Solinide Photonics raises €4M seed round to commercialize silicon nitride photonic chips for AI data centers

Swedish deeptech Solinide Photonics, a spin-out from Chalmers University of Technology, closed a €4 million seed round co-led by Navigare Ventures and PSV Hafnium, with Chalmers Ventures, Turbine Capi...

Aug 20, 2026OpenAI

OpenAI pauses two weeks of reinforcement learning training, clouding the timing of its next model releases.

OpenAI announced a two-week pause in reinforcement learning training for upcoming models, according to AI Business. The report does not name one confirmed cause, pointing instead to safety concerns or...

Baidu Targets ERNIE Comeback as AI Revenue Clears Half of Quarterly Sales
Aug 20, 2026

Baidu Targets ERNIE Comeback as AI Revenue Clears Half of Quarterly Sales

Baidu said on its second-quarter earnings call that it intends to return its ERNIE model to the top tier of AI, while targeting completion of a Hong Kong primary listing by the end of 2026. The compan...

Aug 19, 2026Hesai Technology (Hesai Group)

Hesai, the Chinese LiDAR maker, is positioning itself as a broader robotics supplier, reporting its...

Hesai, the Chinese LiDAR maker, is positioning itself as a broader robotics supplier, reporting its fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth and a new strategic direction. The company's non-LiDAR '...

Aug 18, 2026Upstage

Upstage, SK Telecom (SKT), and LG AI Research have advanced to the third phase of South Korea's gove...

Upstage, SK Telecom (SKT), and LG AI Research have advanced to the third phase of South Korea's government-led 'Dokpamo' (독파모) sovereign AI foundation model project, passing the second-stage evaluatio...

OpenAI overhauls safety protocols after its AI agents demonstrated critical cyber capabilities, prom...
Aug 18, 2026OpenAI

OpenAI overhauls safety protocols after its AI agents demonstrated critical cyber capabilities, prom...

OpenAI overhauls safety protocols after its AI agents demonstrated critical cyber capabilities, prompting the company to halt a significant number of training runs for its upcoming frontier model, cod...

Preferred Networks (PFN) is doubling down on full-stack development of its domestic Japanese AI mode...
Aug 17, 2026Preferred Networks

Preferred Networks (PFN) is doubling down on full-stack development of its domestic Japanese AI mode...

Preferred Networks (PFN) is doubling down on full-stack development of its domestic Japanese AI model PLaMo, arguing that building from scratch — rather than fine-tuning open models — is the only way...

Aug 16, 2026DeepSeek AI

DeepSeek's V4 Flash model, now ranking first on AI leaderboards, completed only 53.8% of real-world...

DeepSeek's V4 Flash model, now ranking first on AI leaderboards, completed only 53.8% of real-world agent tasks in a new evaluation. Concurrently, the company has raised API prices by up to 1100%, sig...

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published a study on August 13, 2026, revealing that when three instan...
Aug 16, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published a study on August 13, 2026, revealing that when three instan...

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published a study on August 13, 2026, revealing that when three instances of the same Claude model are placed on separate VMs with access to the same software project and...

Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weigh...
Aug 16, 2026Hugging Face

Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weigh...

Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weight AI ecosystem. The report highlights that Qwen models have become the community's foundational base...

South Korea's sovereign AI model competition enters its final stretch as four teams — LG AI Research...
Aug 16, 2026Upstage

South Korea's sovereign AI model competition enters its final stretch as four teams — LG AI Research...

South Korea's sovereign AI model competition enters its final stretch as four teams — LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom (017670.KS), Upstage, and Motif Technologies — proceed to the second-stage ev...

Google has published a detailed argument for why Go is the ideal programming language for AI-era sof...
Aug 15, 2026

Google has published a detailed argument for why Go is the ideal programming language for AI-era sof...

Google has published a detailed argument for why Go is the ideal programming language for AI-era software development, positioning it as a strategic choice for teams relying on AI coding agents. In an...

Hmcomm announces a strategic investment plan to build an ecosystem around its Voice AI Agent Platfor...
Aug 15, 2026Hmcomm

Hmcomm announces a strategic investment plan to build an ecosystem around its Voice AI Agent Platfor...

Hmcomm announces a strategic investment plan to build an ecosystem around its Voice AI Agent Platform (VAAP). The Tokyo-based company will allocate ¥100 million to ¥300 million (~$0.7M to $2.1M) annua...

Anthropic has introduced a dual-layer provenance system for Claude-generated content, embedding invi...
Aug 14, 2026Anthropic

Anthropic has introduced a dual-layer provenance system for Claude-generated content, embedding invi...

Anthropic has introduced a dual-layer provenance system for Claude-generated content, embedding invisible watermarks into text and attaching C2PA provenance data to supported image and SVG file output...

Cognition reports its AI coding agent Devin has reached an annualized revenue run rate (ARR) approac...
Aug 13, 2026Cognition AI

Cognition reports its AI coding agent Devin has reached an annualized revenue run rate (ARR) approac...

Cognition reports its AI coding agent Devin has reached an annualized revenue run rate (ARR) approaching $1 billion, nearly doubling since its last funding round. The company is raising a new round at...

Motif Technologies open-sources 314B-parameter MoE foundation model Motif 3
Aug 13, 2026Motif

Motif Technologies open-sources 314B-parameter MoE foundation model Motif 3

Motif Technologies, a South Korean AI startup, has open-sourced its self-developed foundation model, Motif 3, on Hugging Face. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) with 314 billion total parameters...

Aug 12, 2026Nvidia Nemotron 4

Nvidia is reportedly developing Nemotron 4, a new family of open AI models that could scale to at le...

Nvidia is reportedly developing Nemotron 4, a new family of open AI models that could scale to at least 1 trillion parameters. This marks a strategic expansion for the company beyond its dominant posi...

Genians, a South Korean security firm, reported that the North Korean hacking group Kimsuky (김수키) ha...
Aug 10, 2026Genians

Genians, a South Korean security firm, reported that the North Korean hacking group Kimsuky (김수키) ha...

Genians, a South Korean security firm, reported that the North Korean hacking group Kimsuky (김수키) has been setting up local AI infrastructure, including local large language models (LLMs) and AI devel...

Aug 10, 2026Hugging Face

Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particula...

Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particularly during active attacks. The argument comes amid a surge in AI-powered cyber threats, with the com...

Aug 10, 2026

A new analysis from Tech in Asia highlights how the artificial intelligence landscape is moving beyo...

A new analysis from Tech in Asia highlights how the artificial intelligence landscape is moving beyond conversational chatbots, with two distinct races emerging in wearable devices—such as glasses and...