Month August 2026

Stability AI secures $76 million as entertainment giants back its next phase

Stability AI funding reached $76 million as music, gaming and tech investors backed the Stable Diffusion maker’s creative AI push.

Anthropic unifies Claude memory across chat and Cowork, reducing repetition and adding user controls for saved information.

AI presentation startup Gamma acquired Lica to build a new design research lab focused on multimodal, personalized visual communication.

OpenAI says its AI chip Jalapeño is faster and more efficient than Nvidia’s latest superchips, with rollout planned for 2026 and 2027.

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip outperforms Nvidia Blackwell in inference benchmarks and could begin limited deployment in late 2026.

Keenable raised $26 million to build AI search infrastructure for agents, betting the web needs a new retrieval layer.

OpenAI says ChatGPT Work is ready for mainstream office use, with 20 million users, stronger safety and a push for cheaper AI.

AI job applications are flooding recruiters with spam, fake candidates and automated résumés, pushing employers to add friction back.

Spirit Airlines’ AI data sale to Google faces a union objection over employee privacy, bankruptcy rules, and training data rights.

Alabama’s OpenAI subpoena probes an alleged AI agent hack and whether safety failures violated consumer protection laws.