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1 hour agoPolicy

Partnership Policy

Character.AI Adds Creator Appeals as It Refines Self-Harm Detection

The company is pairing crisis-resource referrals and moderation explanations with age-based access controls, but it has not published performance data for its distress or age-estimation systems.

2 min

Yesterday

1 story

YesterdayPolicy

Security risk Policy

OWASP Publishes 2026 LLM Risk List and Adds a Standard for Controlling AI Agents

The new materials draw a practical line between identifying AI risks and enforcing limits on systems that can act, while linking both jobs to security and compliance programs teams already use.

2 min

Earlier this week

2 stories

Sep 1, 2026Business

Acquisition Business

Skipio Acquires RapidTalk to Bring AI Inquiry Handling Into Its Engagement Platform

The purchase puts conversational AI at the front of Skipio’s customer-engagement pitch: answering questions and qualifying leads before a business carries the relationship into later outreach.

2 min

Aug 31, 2026Infrastructure

Acquisition Infrastructure

OpenAI Reportedly Buys Tens of Thousands of Macs for Computer-Use Agent Training

The reported purchase points to dedicated capacity for agent training alongside GPU systems, while its cost and performance tradeoffs remain unclear.

2 min

Last week

3 stories

Aug 25, 2026Products

Launch Products

Perplexity’s Portable Computer Runs Agents Locally—but Needs a 24GB Nvidia GPU

The product turns a difficult DIY local-AI setup into one application, but its hardware floor and Linux-only launch keep it aimed at well-equipped paid users.

3 min

Aug 24, 2026Business

Acquisition Business

WildBrain Buys Personality AI, With US$56 Million Tied to Future Revenue

The family-entertainment company is buying a maker of licensed conversational characters with a Peppa Pig product already on Amazon Kids+, while most potential cash payments depend on growth through 2029.

3 min

Aug 24, 2026Business

Enterprise adoption Business

Goldman Deploys Claude Agents as Lloyds Targets £100M in Value From 2026 AI Plan

Financial deployments are making multi-step AI workflows more concrete, while raising the need for systems that can identify, coordinate and constrain software acting across services.

2 min

August 2026

5 stories

Aug 23, 2026Tools

Open release Tools

Georgia Tech’s IPO-Mine Organizes IPO Filings; Models Can Disagree With Experts on Charts

The accompanying preprint finds IPO prose is becoming more uniform while charts and infographics grow more varied, making visual review a rising constraint on automated disclosure analysis.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Benchmark Models

AI Safety Scores Can Reward Models for Refusing Too Much

A study involving the UK AI Security Institute argues that combined benchmark scores can hide a direct trade-off between blocking harmful requests and answering harmless ones. Its proposed fixes are cheaper tests and anomaly checks, but its sandbagging evidence comes from models directly told to act cautious.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Products

AgentFlo’s Sales Agents Put Rules and Data Above the Model

The AWS architecture draws a hard line between an agent’s conversational reasoning and the systems that authorize discounts, retrieve prices, and complete transactions. Its early performance figures come from a 90-day control-group comparison.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Benchmark Models

AWS’s RAG Cost Cut Comes With a 19% Latency Bill

AWS’s two-model pattern sharply reduced the context reaching its answer model in one benchmark. The tradeoff is another inference step, a modest quality decline, and results that may not transfer to a company’s own documents.

3 min

Aug 18, 2026Models

Research Models

MIT Finds AI Image Outputs Can Become Untraceable to Individual Training Sources

The finding could limit one way of assessing whether a generated image resembles protected work because of copying or coincidence, while leaving its applicability to language models unresolved.

4 min