Artificial Inteligence feed for Wednesday, August 12, 2026

• Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
• Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out
• AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
• As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
• OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise
• Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
• Mesh, Automattic’s CRM for everyone, comes to Android
• Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
• Why Stream ring-maker Sandbar says the future of AI wearables is voice
• Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
• Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M
• Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
• How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures
• Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard
• Everything announced at Made by Google ’26: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and tons of Gemini features
• Putting sign language AI into users’ hands
• LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
• Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health
• Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup
• Grok is now an AI ‘teammate’ you can assign work
• AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year
• From assistance to execution: How enterprises put AI to work
• Saber denies replacing Rideshare Stimulator’s writers with ChatGPT
• How RingCentral builds AI-native work from engineering to ops