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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.

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Yesterday

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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.

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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.

Sep 1, 2026

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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.

Aug 31, 2026

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Last week

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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.

Aug 25, 2026

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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.

Aug 24, 2026

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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.

Aug 24, 2026

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August 2026

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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.

Aug 23, 2026

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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.

Aug 22, 2026

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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.

Aug 22, 2026

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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.

Aug 22, 2026

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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.

Aug 18, 2026

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