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Thursday, August 13, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadOpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

TechCrunch AI· Rebecca Bellan· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

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Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

Trending on Hacker News with 839 points and 157 comments.

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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

Trending on Hacker News with 749 points and 682 comments.

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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Trending on Hacker News with 240 points and 179 comments.

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Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes

Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.

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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

Trending on Hacker News with 241 points and 135 comments.

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03THE TENSION2▸

PERSPECTIVE A

“As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open”

— TechCrunch AI

At Ai4, three of the world's most respected AI experts — Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng — debated regulation, open source access, and how America can compete as China advances in Asia.

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PERSPECTIVE B

“Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health”

— The Verge AI

At least there’s no new proprietary charger this year. Huzzah!! | Photo: David Imel / The Verge The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware.

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04RESEARCH3▸

[AINews] How to steal a Reasoning Trace

Speculative Decoding by any other name would distil as sweet

Latent Space· 3 min· 13d agoSource →

🔬The BioAI Phase Shift - Matthew McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery

Pharma is suddenly paying for Bio × AI tools, and Chai is leading the pack with four deals closed this summer. Cofounder Matt McPartlon and Product leader Neil Patil explain why.

Latent Space· RJ Honicky· 3 min· 13d agoSource →

[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise

a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!

Latent Space· 3 min· 14d agoSource →

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★ Must ReadNew Series! Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP)

AI by Hand — New Series!

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

Heads

AI by Hand — Heads

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

Two-Tower MLP

AI by Hand — Two-Tower MLP

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 12d agoSource →

06GO DEEP1▸

★ Must Read[AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot

AI teammate category just had its most significant new entrant yet

Latent Space· 3 min· 12d agolong readSource →

07VOICES3▸

“OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise”

— Rebecca Bellan, TechCrunch AI