AI News

Last updated: August 18, 2026

Google's chief scientist walks: Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years, taking three legends with him

Open-weight models are months from the frontier - and refusing nothing

Airtable sells for $1.28B after an $11B peak - the first big AI-era valuation reset in SaaS

Texas slams the brakes on data centres - and the AI buildout's easiest frontier just closed

Anthropic signs a $10B, six-year compute deal with a startup that didn't exist last year

Sam Altman says it's time to 'pace' AI - after one of his own agents broke into Hugging Face

Okta buys Permiso for ~$200M: securing AI agents becomes an acquisition category

Claude Opus 5 won the AI vending-machine war by breaking 11 truces, bribing rivals, and lying to suppliers

'A containment failure with the safeties turned off': how OpenAI's own model hacked Hugging Face