Top AI & Tech News Stories — August 12, 2026
The top AI and tech news story of August 12, 2026 was “Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold Tries to Catch Samsung With Thinner Design and Tougher Build”, covered by 2 outlets (2 articles), according to Skillenai's news index. 20 stories ranked across 39 articles.
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Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold Tries to Catch Samsung With Thinner Design and Tougher Build
2 outlets · 2 articles · 14 total since August 4, 2026 · Google, Apple, Samsung, Google Pixel 11 series, Pixel 11 Pro XL
Google has finally delivered a foldable that feels less like an experiment and more like a product people might actually carry every day. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold, announced August 12 and now under review, sheds noticeable bulk from its predecessor while adding durability claims…
Read at daringfireball.net →First reported by webpronews.comMore coverage: cnbc.com
App Store Scam of the Week: ‘TabControl Extension’ for Safari
1 outlet · 1 article
Jeff Johnson: These purported reviews, all but one of which is 5 stars, are all in English. Yet none of them is in the US App Store. I also looked at other English-speaking countries such as Australia and Canada but found no reviews. Also suspicious is that the name of every…
NIST Moves to Modernize NVD as AI Reshapes Vulnerability Management
1 outlet · 1 article · 3 total since August 11, 2026 · National Vulnerability Database (NVD), machine-readable data, automation, transparency, United States
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking industry and government input on how to modernize the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) as artificial intelligence increasingly changes the way organizations identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity…
Read at stg-upload.executivegov.com →First reported by cyberscoop.comVatn Systems, NCSIST Partner on Naval Defense for Taiwan
1 outlet · 1 article · Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), acoustic sensing, signal processing, defense technology, Vatn Systems
Vatn Systems has partnered with Taiwan’s NCSIST to support naval modernization efforts The collaboration will focus on autonomous underwater vehicles and AI-enabled command-and-control technologies The agreement also aims to establish local sustainment and supply chain…
Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training for Streamers by Default, With an Opt-Out Setting
2 outlets · 3 articles · 9 total since August 12, 2026 · Twitch, Amazon, generative AI, Mike Minton, Twitch
Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training for Streamers by Default, With an Opt-Out Setting - Twitch says streams, stream chat, VODs, Clips, Highlights, and text or images on a channel may be used to train Amazon generative-AI models. [1] - The control is enabled by default, according…
More coverage: news.google.com
Anthropic’s Chrome extension is now a Cowork session
3 outlets · 3 articles · 5 total since August 8, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, Claude Cowork, Claude Code, Cowork
Anthropic announced a major update to its Chrome extension on Wednesday that turns Claude in Chrome from a useful but somewhat disconnected experience into a full Claude Cowork client in the browser with sessions that persist across Anthropic’s various apps The updated extension…
Read at 9to5mac.com →First reported by unite.aiMore coverage: thenewstack.io · engadget.com
Microsoft AI watermarks in Paint and Photos are linked to user IDs, researcher finds
5 outlets · 5 articles · 39 total since August 3, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, watermarking, OpenAI, Google
When Anthropic disclosed earlier this month that it would be applying a statistical word-choice watermark to its Claude text output, the company noted that at least 190 AI providers have agreed to abide by Europe's AI transparency rules. One such company is Microsoft, which has…
Read at tomshardware.com →First reported by artificialintelligence-news.comMore coverage: awesomeagents.ai · extremetech.com · somosarteria.es · wired.me
DeepSeek Unveils Vision Model to Challenge Anthropic, Pitching Low Cost Against Top Performance
1 outlet · 1 article · 13 total since August 3, 2026 · DeepSeek, Anthropic, OpenAI, China, Artificial Analysis
DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday, claiming its agent capabilities rival those of Anthropic’s supported Opus-4.8 system. The release marks the latest salvo from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firms seeking to close the gap with foreign rivals…
Read at decrypt.co →First reported by thenewstack.ioAn insight into Bitcoin’s safety: Coldcard firmware vulnerability exposed; $112 million in Bitcoin Stolen
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since August 12, 2026 · self-custody, cryptocurrency wallet security, Coldlar, CASA, Coldcard
As BTC, ETH, and XRP face heightened volatility, EX DeFi is attracting attention with a cloud mining model focused on long-term digital asset participation. The cryptocurrency market has recently been rocked by another shocking security incident. Attackers exploited a…
OpenAI Astra AI Model May Reach Critical Cyber Capability Threshold
2 outlets · 2 articles · 70 total since July 21, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, United Kingdom, incident response
OpenAI has temporarily slowed frontier AI training after internal testing indicated that its upcoming Astra model could approach a critical cybersecurity capability threshold. The decision highlights growing concern that increasingly capable AI systems may independently…
Read at transformernews.ai →First reported by machine.newsMore coverage: theguardian.com
Elon Musk says Grok can earn users money
4 outlets · 4 articles · 13 total since August 12, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, reinforcement learning, SpaceXAI, Grok 4.5
Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok can “earn you money,” putting a new focus on how users could turn the AI tool into a source of income. Musk made the claim on X on August 20 without providing details about how much money users could make or whether xAI…
Read at thenewstack.io →First reported by officechai.comMore coverage: officechai.com · blockchain.news · iclarified.com
CoreWeave Q2 FY 2026: AI Demand Drives Pricing and Capacity Growth
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since August 12, 2026 · CoreWeave, Network Build, cluster deployment, AI inference, post-training
The post CoreWeave Q2 FY 2026: AI Demand Drives Pricing and Capacity Growth appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Futurum Research Publication Date: August 13, 2026 CoreWeave’s Q2 FY 2026 earnings show demand for purpose-built AI cloud capacity continuing to exceed available…
Cisco’s AI Orders Hit $9.3 Billion as Chuck Robbins Bets on a Multi-Year Networking Boom
1 outlet · 1 article · 3 total since August 12, 2026 · AI infrastructure, observability, Cisco, networking, agentic AI
Cisco Systems delivered record revenue and accelerating growth in its fiscal year that ended in July. Fourth-quarter sales climbed 18% to $17.3 billion. The full year reached $63.3 billion, up 12%. Orders told an even stronger story. Total product orders jumped 35% in the fourth…
‘Unlocking’ the Evidence Act: Ex-feds’ AI tool aims to bring policy docs to life
1 outlet · 1 article · Artificial intelligence, natural language processing, knowledge graph, data extraction, data accessibility
Let’s say you’re a researcher interested in the federal government’s data on educational outcomes for at-risk youth. You may start your search at the Department of Education’s website before realizing that the Department of Labor and the Social Security Administration and lord…
Meta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play?
1 outlet · 1 article · 15 total since August 10, 2026 · Meta, Muse Glimmer, Mark Zuckerberg, speculative decoding, Hugging Face
The post Meta Reopens Its Models. Is This a PC Play or a Policy Play? appeared first on Futurum . Analyst(s): Nick Patience Publication Date: August 10, 2026 Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model, under an Apache 2.0 license, and committed to…
Read at thenewstack.io →First reported by www.artificialintelligence-news.comGemini and ChatGPT Both Hit 1 Billion Users
2 outlets · 3 articles · 4 total since August 11, 2026 · Google, Gemini app, Gemini, image generation, OpenAI
Within just under two weeks, Google and OpenAI have each reported that their AI assistants now reach more than one billion users. The way they announced it could hardly be more different – and the numbers are only partly comparable. Google CEO Sundar Pichai made an event of it…
Read at iafrica.com →First reported by techcrunch.comMore coverage: trendingtopics.eu
AI was supposed to destroy jobs. Where’s the carnage?
1 outlet · 1 article · Artificial intelligence, economics, Anthropic, OpenAI, Dario Amodei
The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Still, jobs are changing and economists expect more to come The prediction was stark: artificial intelligence advancements would wipe out jobs en masse. “Half” of all entry-level white collar jobs would vanish, Anthropic’s CEO, Dario…
SpaceXAI Wants Grok Bot to Do Your Job—But It Needs Access to Your Accounts
1 outlet · 1 article · AI agent, Security, Access control, SpaceXAI, Grok bot
The AI agent can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other bots, raising questions about security and control.
Mixture of Experts and Disaggregated Architectures Are Rewriting the Rules of Network Infrastructure
3 outlets · 3 articles · 13 total since August 11, 2026 · NVIDIA, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, NeMo Switchyard, fine-tuning, CodeRabbit
IntroductionGPU performance from 2025 through the end of the decade is growing exponentially, but the more fundamental driver of infrastructure change is what is happening to the models themselves. The shift from dense transformer architectures to Mixture of Experts designs, now…
Read at techwireasia.com →First reported by thenewstack.ioMore coverage: awesomeagents.ai · theregister.com
AI Startup River AI Raises $1.1B to Build Personally Trainable AI Agents - AI Insider
3 outlets · 3 articles · 4 total since August 11, 2026 · River AI, reinforcement learning, xAI, General Catalyst, AMP PBC
AI Startup River AI Raises $1.1B to Build Personally Trainable AI Agents AI Insider
Read at webpronews.com →First reported by nytimes.comMore coverage: awesomeagents.ai · news.google.com
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How this was computed
Articles in the Skillenai news index are grouped into event clusters at enrichment time (hybrid embedding/BM25/entity candidate search plus an LLM join-vs-new judge). Stories are ranked by the authority of the articles published on 2026-08-12 (UTC) — the sum of their outlet and author authority — so a multi-day story only ranks on the strength of that day's coverage. Article and outlet counts are likewise scoped to the day. The highlighted link is the day's highest-authority article in each cluster.