A2A Agent Protocol Joins AAIF, Landing Alongside Anthropic's MCP
Google's Agent2Agent protocol has become a hosted project of the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, placing it under the same governance as Anthropic's MCP standard.
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Inherent Labs' Faraday Beats Claude, GPT-5.5 at Research Replication
Inherent Labs, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its 27-billion-parameter agent Faraday outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at replicating published research.
Read more →Google Adds AI Chat Personalization to Search, Discover and News
Google is rolling out an AI chatbot that lets users type what they want to see more or less of in their Discover feed, part of a wider personalization push across Search and Google News.
Read more →Anthropic Hires Amir Salek, Founder of Google's TPU Program
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, who built and led Google's Tensor Processing Unit program for nearly a decade, to help run its own in-house chip effort, Bloomberg reported.
Read more →Chinese Humanoid Robot Beats Usain Bolt's 100-Meter Time
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot called Tiangong Ultra ran the 100 meters in 9.39 seconds, edging out Usain Bolt's 9.58-second world record, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Read more →Anthropic Eyes IPO That Could Top SpaceX's Record Size
Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65 billion in July, and the Claude maker is preparing an initial public offering that could match or exceed SpaceX's record $86 billion debut.
Read more →Georgian Businesses Cite AI Skills Gap as Top Barrier, Survey Finds
A Georgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry survey finds 62% of local businesses already use AI tools, but 72% call a lack of skills the biggest barrier to wider adoption.
Read more →OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to 31 European Markets
OpenAI began showing ads to free ChatGPT users across the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein on August 24 — its largest advertising expansion since launching ads in the US.
Read more →Anthropic Says Claude AI Designed Working Protein Binders in Lab Tests
Anthropic says its Claude models autonomously designed protein binders that worked against 14 of 15 lab-tested targets, beating typical industry hit rates two to three times over.
Read more →SK Hynix Approves Record $28.6B Buyback After AI Stock Slide
SK Hynix will buy back and cancel $28.6 billion in shares, the largest such program in Korean corporate history, after its stock fell more than 50% in two months despite record AI memory demand.
Read more →Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis for Tesla, Uber and Waymo
Nevada regulators unanimously cleared Tesla, Uber and Waymo to run paid robotaxi service across the Las Vegas area, authorizing up to 8,000 self-driving vehicles over the next year.
Read more →Binance Launches Agent OS to Let AI Agents Trade Crypto
Binance opened its exchange to AI agents on August 20 with Agent OS, letting tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Codex trade, check balances, and manage wallets under permissions the user sets.
Read more →US Agencies Warn AI Is Writing Exploits for Siemens PLCs
US cybersecurity and energy agencies say hackers are using AI to write exploit code for internet-exposed Siemens S7 industrial controllers that run water, energy and factory systems.
Read more →Anthropic Launches Claude Academy, a Free AI Skills Platform
Anthropic opened Claude Academy on Aug. 20, a free hub of courses that teaches people and teams how to work with Claude, built around the framework the company uses to train its own staff.
Read more →AI Models Recover Only 3–15% of Research Ideas, Study Finds
A new benchmark testing seven frontier AI models found they could reconstruct a scientific paper's core idea from its pre-publication bibliography alone only 3-15% of the time.
Read more →Google Wins Right to Buy $12.2B Marvell Stake in Chip Deal
Marvell issued Google a warrant worth up to $12.2 billion in stock, tied to an expanded deal for custom AI chips in Google's TPU ecosystem, an SEC filing shows.
Read more →Robot-Safety Startup FORT Robotics to List on Nasdaq for $556M
FORT Robotics, whose safety systems certify robots for Google DeepMind and Zoox, is going public through a SPAC merger valuing it at $556.6 million.
Read more →Cerebras Launches CS-4, Claims 30x Faster AI Inference Than GPUs
Cerebras unveiled its CS-4 rack-scale AI system on August 18, pairing three new wafer-scale chips to push inference speeds it says beat GPU-based servers by up to 30 times.
Read more →OpenAI Funds 14 Think Tanks to Study AI's Economic Fallout
OpenAI is funding 14 independent research groups across five regions to study how AI could reshape jobs, safety and public policy, with findings due in 2027.
Read more →Google Gives Students Free AI Pro, Adds Study Tools to Search
Google is offering eligible college students a free year of its AI Pro or AI Plus plan and adding practice quizzes, study notebooks and other AI tools to Search and Gemini.
Read more →Unitree Unveils 'Superman' Robot, Claims Record Speed and Jump
Chinese robotics maker Unitree unveiled an experimental humanoid, Superman, claiming a 2-meter jump and a sprint speed that would top Usain Bolt's peak pace — figures the company has not independently verified.
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