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Updated Aug 18, 2026, 8:29 PM UTC

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Claude & Anthropic

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

D.A.D.: What To Make Of Anthropic's Staggering Revenue Claims — 8/18 - buttondown.com

D.A.D.: What To Make Of Anthropic's Staggering Revenue Claims — 8/18 buttondown.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic Just Gave This Bitcoin Miner a Contract Bigger Than the Whole Company - Barchart.com

Anthropic Just Gave This Bitcoin Miner a Contract Bigger Than the Whole Company Barchart.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

The push for AI watermarks is spawning a new wave of tools to remove them - Business Insider

The push for AI watermarks is spawning a new wave of tools to remove them Business Insider

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Breakingviews - Anthropic’s deceleration has some IPO upside - Reuters

Breakingviews - Anthropic’s deceleration has some IPO upside Reuters

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic’s deceleration has some IPO upside - TradingView

Anthropic’s deceleration has some IPO upside TradingView

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

IPO News - IPO Winners & Losers: Anthropic’s $2T Bid, CoreWeave’s Comeback, and the Fall IPO Setup - renaissancecapital.com

IPO News - IPO Winners & Losers: Anthropic’s $2T Bid, CoreWeave’s Comeback, and the Fall IPO Setup renaissancecapital.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic tells investors annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July - cnbc.com

Anthropic tells investors annualized revenue run rate climbed to $65 billion in July cnbc.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages - Variety

Round Hill Music Sues Suno, Anthropic for Copyright Infringement, Seeking Up to $1 Billion in Damages Variety

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Techs Stocks Fall On War, Macro Woes. Is Anthropic Revenue Projection Also A Factor? - Investor's Business Daily

Techs Stocks Fall On War, Macro Woes. Is Anthropic Revenue Projection Also A Factor? Investor's Business Daily

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Hits $65 Billion. The Claude Maker Is Outpacing OpenAI Ahead of Its IPO. - International Business Times

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Hits $65 Billion. The Claude Maker Is Outpacing OpenAI Ahead of Its IPO. International Business Times

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question - The New Stack

A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question The New Stack

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Claude Down: Anthropic Investigates Multi-Model Errors - sqmagazine.co.uk

Claude Down: Anthropic Investigates Multi-Model Errors sqmagazine.co.uk

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic says Claude Cowork is now available on mobile for all paid plans - 9to5Mac

Anthropic says Claude Cowork is now available on mobile for all paid plans 9to5Mac

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic targets $10B+ credit facility ahead of planned public debut - Bloomberg - Investing.com

Anthropic targets $10B+ credit facility ahead of planned public debut - Bloomberg Investing.com

Claude Code (Google News) Aug 18

Anthropic’s A.I. Boom Rockets Revenue Run Rate Past $65 Billion - cheddar.com

Anthropic’s A.I. Boom Rockets Revenue Run Rate Past $65 Billion cheddar.com

Other LLMs

OpenAI Blog Aug 18

Strengthening Democratic Oversight in National Security

OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

Meta AI Incognito Chat: What It Hides and What to Verify - TechRepublic

Meta AI Incognito Chat: What It Hides and What to Verify TechRepublic

Hugging Face Blog Aug 18

How Much Memory Does Your Agent Actually Need?

Mistral AI (Google News) Aug 18

French government to hire French AI providers such as Mistral, Mi - Global Banking & Finance Review

French government to hire French AI providers such as Mistral, Mi Global Banking & Finance Review

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

Thousands of innocent Australians locked out by Meta's artificial intelligence safety bots - 7NEWS

Thousands of innocent Australians locked out by Meta's artificial intelligence safety bots 7NEWS

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

Meta’s AI Spending Math Is 'Astonishing,' Steve Eisman Says: Why Are Expenses Up 55%? - Yahoo Finance

Meta’s AI Spending Math Is 'Astonishing,' Steve Eisman Says: Why Are Expenses Up 55%? Yahoo Finance

OpenAI Blog Aug 18

Partnering with CodeAI to prepare the first AI generation

OpenAI and CodeAI are partnering to help students build AI literacy, think critically about AI, and develop the skills to use and shape it responsibly.

OpenAI Blog Aug 18

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.

OpenAI Blog Aug 18

Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections

ChatGPT for Teens helps teens learn, think critically, and use AI with confidence, with stronger built-in protections, healthy-use features, and additional controls for parents.

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

OKLO Stock Price Prediction 2026–2030: Aurora, Meta, AI Power Demand and OKLOON Outlook - MEXC

OKLO Stock Price Prediction 2026–2030: Aurora, Meta, AI Power Demand and OKLOON Outlook MEXC

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

I make over $250k as a Meta AI researcher. Publishing research helped me land the job. - Business Insider

I make over $250k as a Meta AI researcher. Publishing research helped me land the job. Business Insider

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

Meta's AI bots wrongly ban thousands of Australians - 7NEWS

Meta's AI bots wrongly ban thousands of Australians 7NEWS

OpenAI Blog Aug 18

Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Asana used OpenAI Codex to replace an outdated testing system in two weeks, completing work expected to take five years for about $12K.

Mistral AI (Google News) Aug 18

Mistral AI’s strategy pivot and Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions - Moneycontrol.com

Mistral AI’s strategy pivot and Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions Moneycontrol.com

Meta AI (Google News) Aug 18

Meta Taps Disability Groups To Explore Uses For AI Glasses - Disability Scoop

Meta Taps Disability Groups To Explore Uses For AI Glasses Disability Scoop

Industry AI News

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Anthropic extending the 50% increase to weekly Claude Code limits till August 31

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2089798442306711646 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351995 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Blind Egyptian entrepreneur's AI app helps others 'see' the world

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/blind-egyptian-entrepreneurs-ai-app-helps-others-see-world-2026-08-18/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351844 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The Verge AI Aug 18

Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’

Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor's Instagram profile…

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

OpenAI Is Slowing Down Its AI Training

Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351580 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-worst-ive-ever-seen-cargo-thieves-are-turning-violent-in-pursuit-of-ai-hardware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351570 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

The Verge AI Aug 18

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes…

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

200B Tokens Later: A Month of Letting AI Agents Decompile MW2

Article URL: https://momo5502.com/posts/2026-08-17-mw2-decompilation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351299 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

llms.txt: a proposed standard no major AI platform has confirmed it uses

Article URL: https://geojacker.com/llms-txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351232 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Palantir Leads AI Data Deal with USA Today Sparking a Newsroom Revolt

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/15/palantir-leads-ai-data-deal-with-usa-today-sparking-a-newsroom-revolt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351223 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Pace Layers and AI Integration

Article URL: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3maob46kbz22v Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351201 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

VCs Pour Billions into Physical AI as the Next Wave of AI Investing Takes Shape

Article URL: https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups-robotics-aerospace-h1-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351184 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

AI;dr – AI wrote it, you shouldn't have to read it

Article URL: https://ronreiter.github.io/aidr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351138 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Security checks for apps built with AI coding tools

Article URL: https://lukatasolutions.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351074 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/us-to-tell-allies-they-must-pick-sides-in-ai-race-with-china-reuters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351005 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

Hacker News (AI) Aug 18

Africa Is Not Waiting for AI. We're Building the Infrastructure to Use It

Article URL: https://medium.com/@SamuelMbugua254/africa-is-not-waiting-for-ai-were-building-the-infrastructure-to-use-it-dc5e92e3ca1c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350978 Points: 3 # Comments: 0