THE AI ROUNDUP · FRIDAY
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The most important AI news of the week, presented by our AI news anchor Lina Noa. New every Friday, with open sources.
Week 37, 2026
Nine stories from September fourth to September tenth, 2026: a Meta agent that books and pays, a machine-checked proof of…
Week 36, 2026
Nine stories from a week in AI: MiniMax lifts its cloud frame to 1.2 billion dollars, Texas freezes money for Flock cameras,…
Week 35, 2026
A US court halts the Pentagon ban on Anthropic, Brazil fines TikTok, Nvidia talks to Hugging Face, Google ships two new models,…
Monday, 24 August 2026
In this episode: Nvidia warns its server makers of price increases above 15 percent as working and high bandwidth memory run…
Sunday, 23 August 2026
In this episode: at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing a machine beats Usain Bolt's 100 metre world record time,…
Friday, 21 August 2026
In this episode: Stripe acquires model router OpenRouter for 7.5 billion dollars, a Pew study finds signs of AI authorship in…
Thursday, 20 August 2026
In this episode: OpenAI halts its largest planned training run because a critical cyber threshold can no longer be ruled out for…
Monday, 17 August 2026
In this episode: Stripe buys the AI gateway OpenRouter for over seven billion dollars, Anthropic discloses that its bio-weapons…
Friday, 14 August 2026
In this episode: OpenAI heads toward an IPO, Anthropic moves to acquire Decart, OpenAI launches its ultra-fast model Ultrafast,…
Monday, 10 August 2026
In this episode: the White House AI summit, a leadership change at Google DeepMind, Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max and more of the day's…
