Artificial Inteligence feed for Tuesday, August 11, 2026

• Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
• ChatGPT and Gemini both just passed 1 billion users
• OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
• Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
• Another OpenAI executive takes off
• Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
• General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
• Made by Google 2026: all the Pixel news and announcements
• An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
• Apple could help you prove your iPhone photos aren’t deepfakes
• ‘Zoomsday’ hack uncovered using fewer than 20 AI prompts
• Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
• Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful
• Spotify says it won’t recommend music from ‘AI Personas’
• Spotify will label ‘AI Persona’ profiles and exclude their music from recommendations
• Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images
• Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
• The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
• Daybreak models are now available on AWS
• OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer