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Startup news Meta has cut Manus off from its internal systems and told staff to sunset the AI platform Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Anthropic CEO calls for FAA-style regulation of powerful AI models: what enterprises should know Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news On-device AI agents hit a hard memory limit. Apple's new architecture routes around it. Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news OpenAI's Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news The Premise: The Lead User and the Machines That Build Machines Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi is cheaper to build, harder to break, and made in China Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Are designers the new SWEs? Figma Make's new two-way GitHub integration turns designs into live, production code — with built-in governance Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news MiniMax teases upcoming M3 model with new sparse attention mechanism and 15.6X long-context response speed boost Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news DeepSWE blows up the AI coding leaderboard, crowns GPT-5.5, and finds Claude Opus exploiting a benchmark loophole Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news How to Rule the World Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news China blocks NVIDIA’s RTX 5090D V2 imports while Jensen Huang was in Beijing Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK Aug 16, 2026
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Startup news Corti's new Symphony for Speech-to-Text model beats OpenAI at medical terminology accuracy, highlighting the value of specialized AI Aug 16, 2026