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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadAnthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

TechCrunch AI· Marina Temkin· 2 min· 7d agoSource →

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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Trending on Hacker News with 639 points and 398 comments.

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

Trending on Hacker News with 262 points and 161 comments.

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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3. 5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

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Anthropic explains how Claudes invisible text watermarks will work

Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This watermarking feature, alongside C2PA support for Claude-processed images, is being introduced to meet Anthropic's obligations under the European Union's AI Act, which requires synthetic audio, image, video, and text to include machine-readable marks … Read the full story at The Verge.

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On AI regulation and messaging

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PERSPECTIVE A

“No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most human disease” in five to ten years”

— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — No, Dario Amodei, we will not be curing cancer and “most hum...

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PERSPECTIVE B

“GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released”

— Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 307 points and 154 comments.

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Import AI 469: Science AI; RSI simulator; and Zuck's technological pessimism

The new frontier of AI is developing capable autonomous researchers

Import AI· Jack Clark· 3 min· 7d agoSource →

React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to his Meta-Harness, Flue

Flue 2 takes its inspiration from React. Creator Fred Schott, of Astro fame, tells Latent Space why he added hooks and why agents are defined by their harnesses.