Current developments in generative AI, software engineering, programming, and digital products, with links to original sources.
Why Children Learn Language from Far Less Data Than AI — 30B-Class Open Models Heat Up, Nvidia in Talks to Invest in Perplexity at Over $30B Valuation ‖ AI News, August 24
Hugging Face Reportedly Up for Sale in a $13B-Scale Deal — Xiaomi's AI Cube Prototype, a Claude Outage, and a 150M Model Designed Backward from CPU Inference ‖ AI News, August 24
Sakana AI to Support Japan's Ministry of Defense with AI-Powered Intelligence Analysis — A Homemade LLM That Runs in 60MB, a World Model Trained for $150, and Therapy Bots' 'Missed Risks' ‖ AI News, August 24
SoftBank to Back OpenAI With Japan's Largest-Ever ¥1 Trillion Bond — Mystery "Ox Alpha" Released Free, CLEAR Balances Safety and Usefulness ‖ AI News, August 24
OpenClaw, Built in One Hour, Becomes the Fastest-Growing Project Ever — Only 13% of Japanese Companies See AI Results, and an Attempt to Verify Agent "Completion"
GUI agent MAI-UI sets new AndroidWorld SOTA — real-world reports on Qwen 3.8 27B roll in, backlash over Flock surveillance cameras grows
OpenAI Executive Warns of 'Persistent' AI Cyberattacks — 2.5x Faster Coding with a Qwen Template, and a Lossless 141GiB DeepSeek V4 Flash on M2 Ultra
AI Becomes AI's Biggest Customer — Agent Token Consumption Up 14x on OpenRouter, and AI Boss 'Luna' Makes Its First Firing Decision
Theoretical Study: AI Grows the Quantity of Science While Lowering Its Quality — Claude Tokens Resold at 10% of List Price, and a Real-World Test Running Kimi K3 2.8T on 8x B300 ‖ AI News for August 23
Humanoid Robot Runs 100m in 9.39 Seconds to Beat Bolt's Record — Alibaba Raises About $10.2 Billion for AI, DeepSeek Scraps Weekend Peak Pricing ‖ AI News, August 23
