AI

Aug 23, 2026

DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices

Featured Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work. The Chinese AI lab on Thursday launched the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, an updated flagship model focused heavily on agentic workloads, alongside DeepSeek Harness v0.1, a new open-source […]

Aug 23, 2026

Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians

Meta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material. It’s the latest in a series of failures by Meta to keep advertisements for tools that produce nonconsensual intimate imagery off its platforms. The […]

Aug 23, 2026

Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs

Across the AI industry, users are becoming more conscious of just how expensive their deployments can be —and feeling a new urgency to cut costs. But while open source models offer significantly lower per-token costs, it can be difficult to find the right model for a given job. On Thursday, Writer, which offers AI tools […]

Aug 23, 2026

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

Can you tell when someone nearby is wearing Meta AI glasses? As millions of people buy into the smart glasses fad each year, the odds are increasing that you could be secretly recorded while simply going about your day. Meta is not the only smart glasses maker, but its AI glasses are by far the […]

Aug 23, 2026

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong 

Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of […]

Aug 23, 2026

Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

After years of snapping up wind and solar developments, hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are betting that natural gas will power the data centers behind their lofty AI ambitions. But a new research report suggests they may regret their newfound affinity for the fossil fuel. Natural gas prices could triple in some parts […]

Aug 23, 2026

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The race for faster AI inference is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips a warm welcome in its IPO debut in May. But French startup Kog is betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs. The startup hit the front page of Hacker News in May […]

Aug 15, 2026

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Loading the player… Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, […]