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AIMETR has raised commitments of around $71 million over the last six months to fund projects on autonomous capabilities, recursive self-improvement, monitoring systems, risk assessments, and AI incidents. The organization says it has not accepted funding from frontier AI companies or donations made at their direction, though those companies provide significant free tokens for its evaluations, research, and engineering.

AIAli Ghodsi attributes Databricks' 80% growth at $7B to enterprise AI agents becoming usable, now that Genie Ontology automates the capture of organizational context. He says over 70% of queries on the platform are now generated by Genie agents, and that this usage drives consumption and revenue.

AIDatabricks announced it crossed a $7 billion revenue run-rate, growing over 80% year over year in Q2, and raised $5 billion in its latest fundraise. Lakebase reached a $100 million-plus run-rate, and Lakehouse reached $1.5 billion-plus, growing over 100% year over year, with continued positive adjusted free cash flow. The company says it will invest the capital in Lakebase, a serverless Postgres database for AI agents; Genie, AI coworkers for business data; and Unity AI Gateway, multi-AI governance for controlling costs.

AIHugging Face's post jokingly suggests a new model would be even more popular than the UseCorgi cafe. Quoted context says Qwen 3.8 27B is set for release at 11:00 AM EST on Wednesday, with crowds reportedly lining up for miles.

AISuno announced a landmark global partnership with BMG, one of the largest music companies, tied to the upcoming launch of its first music model developed with the music industry. The partnership aims to create new music experiences and economic opportunities for artists and songwriters who opt in, including independent artists through Suno's In Session and Spark programs.

AISequoia Capital is leading a seed round for Preview, an AI-native video creation and production platform that combines a video timeline with an infinite ideation canvas in one collaborative workspace. The platform lets teams generate with any model, track characters, locations, and props, and keep complete records of how each asset was made. The article says more than 100 studios are already using Preview, from agencies to Hollywood feature filmmakers.

AIJazzyear's Insights reports that China's tech investment is regaining momentum in 2026, with venture financing up 52% year on year to 2,865 deals in Q1 and AI funding exceeding 110 billion yuan, up 185.4%. Hong Kong IPOs raised about HK$109.9 billion in Q1, up 488.81%, with information technology accounting for 22 listings. The article frames the trend as a shift toward selective valuation of hard-tech companies, ahead of an August 2026 Beijing investment conference that will release industry rankings.

AIInferact is co-hosting a vLLM and Nvidia Dynamo meetup during vLLM Conference week in San Francisco on August 24–26. The event invites attendees to discuss inference optimization, distributed serving, and scaling challenges. The meetup is scheduled for August 24 from 6–9pm PT, with limited space available through RSVP.

AIDatabricks has acquired ElectricSQL, the team behind PGlite, a WebAssembly Postgres implementation that runs in browsers and syncs asynchronously with Postgres instances. The company says the technology will strengthen its Lakebase Postgres offering for fast AI agents.

AIThe Gemini app has reached 1 billion monthly users, making it Google's fastest growing product ever and its 14th product to hit the 1 billion user mark. Demis Hassabis congratulated Josh Woodward and the Gemini team on the milestone.

AIGoogle's Gemini app has reached over 1 billion monthly users, according to Koray Kavukcuoglu's post celebrating the milestone. Sundar Pichai said it is Google's fastest-growing product ever and the company's 14th product to reach 1 billion users.

AIa life update: i started a new company called Pragmatik (p7k) Labs (语用科技) in shanghai, focusing on the research of next-generation agents across digital and physical worlds. thanks to Gaorong Ventures and HSG (红杉中国 & 高榕创投) for co-leading this round, and to Tencent (腾讯) and Shanghai Engine Fund (上海未来产业基金) for the support. @pragmatik_labs ·

AIDatabricks has acquired ElectricSQL, the team behind PGlite, a WebAssembly implementation of Postgres that runs in the browser and syncs asynchronously with Postgres instances. Databricks says this suits fast AI agents and plans to use the capabilities to strengthen its Lakebase Postgres offering.

AIManus will delete data generated by certain users on or after December 29, 2025, from 8:00 a.m. on August 23 through August 24, 2026 (SGT), as it returns to independent operations and meets regulatory requirements. Affected users can back up their data until 7:59 a.m. on August 23 and restore it starting 8:00 a.m. on August 25, 2026 (SGT), with no charges during the backup period.

AIGoogle Labs is concluding its Portraits experiment on September 14 after gathering feedback and insights on expert-grounded AI. The team plans to apply those learnings to other Google products.

AINVIDIA says it has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to set up independent financing platforms aiming to mobilize over $500 billion of third-party capital for AI infrastructure. The article argues AI factories are investable assets because they generate revenue, serve many customers and improve through CUDA software. NVIDIA says it may provide residual-value support for up to 25% of an opportunity on a project-by-project basis.

AIAndrew Ng thanked Mark Zuckerberg, Alexandr Wang, and the Meta team for their contributions to open-weight AI. The context is Meta opening the weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30B parameter dense model that can run locally. Meta also plans to release the weights for Muse Spark 1.2, its latest foundation model, soon.

AICorma is training a foundation model for defensive cybersecurity agents, trained with large-scale reinforcement learning on simulated enterprise networks. In red/blue team tests, a defender failed to find a planted backdoor 78% of the time, even when it was an identical copy of the model that planted it. Corma says its agentic Security Workforce is deployed at Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises, and that the firm's seed round is led by Sequoia Capital.

AIPromptArmor reports that a malicious Skill or indirect prompt injection can make Zoom's ZoomMate agent connect to an attacker's server and run commands. The connection can persist after the user clicks stop or closes Zoom, and the final chat output appears normal.

Why it matters: The report shows how a malicious skill or prompt injection can keep a Zoom agent connected after the user stops it, a risk to weigh before enabling agentic assistants.

AINvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared a post titled "AI at the final frontier" with a rocket emoji. The post's background context is Elon Musk's statement that SpaceX has committed to using Nvidia GPUs exclusively because they are the best.

AIOpenAI is working with the American Psychological Association to bring psychological science and clinical expertise into its work on AI and youth mental health. Together, the two organizations plan to develop evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards aimed at ensuring AI supports young people's well-being and healthy development.

AIQuoc Le co-founded Discovery Loop with Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Oriol Vinyals to automate machine learning, engineering, and science. The main post, from Chip Huyen, praises the effort and predicts auto science will be big.

AIJeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le are founding Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discovery. The founders say they have worked together for 14 to 30 years and helped build widely used products, infrastructure and AI models. Andrew Ng's own text is a congratulatory message, and the company's mission statement appears in the attached image.

AIJeff Dean says his new venture is first focusing on finding office space and hiring a founding team over the next few weeks. The company plans to build infrastructure, AI models, and systems to automate large-scale experimentation for ML research and engineering, using itself as the first customer. The post also announces open hiring at discoveryloop.com.

AIKoray Kavukcuoglu, who will become SVP of Google DeepMind, announced he will lead all aspects of model development, GDM research, and Gemini app and dev teams. He thanked Sundar Pichai and congratulated Demis Hassabis on becoming Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet while continuing to lead Isomorphic Labs. Kavukcuoglu said he will keep working with Hassabis as the teams pursue AGI.

AIQuoc Le, Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Oriol Vinyals announced they are co-founding Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation. The company aims to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discovery and progress.

AIAmazon Research Awards named 34 recipients of its Build on Trainium program, a $110M credit initiative supporting AI research at 30 universities on AWS Trainium. The post frames the program as support for academic AI research on Amazon's custom Trainium chips.

AIPromptArmor reports that a hidden prompt injection in an uploaded file can make Atlassian Rovo send Jira tickets and Confluence documents to an attacker's URL without human approval. The attack works even when organization-wide web search is disabled, because the setting does not remove the URL retrieval tool. PromptArmor says it disclosed the issue to Atlassian on May 23, 2026, and that Rovo remained vulnerable at publication on August 5, 2026.

Why it matters: The report traces a full indirect prompt injection chain in Rovo, showing how a disabled web search setting still leaves a data exfiltration path open.

AIHugging Face is working with the Open Secure Alliance to develop guidelines for incident learning. The goal is to collectively improve how security incidents are reviewed, disclosed, and controlled. The Alliance, now over 120 members, is sharing proposed SAFE guidelines for turning confidential incident findings into broader ecosystem protection.