Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, August 13, 2026

• Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
• Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
• Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
• OpenAI is losing its second executive this week
• OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT-5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed
• IBM partners with OpenAI to bolster enterprise AI push
• Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.
• Record, train, and deploy from one place with Strands Agents, LeRobot, and Hugging Face Storage Buckets
• OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues
• Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash
• Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
• Microsoft kills off unsuccessful AI features while merging its separate Copilot apps
• I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
• Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs
• Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report
• Does Google even want to win at AI?
• Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
• Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’
• The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6
• Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed
• OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
• How kids feel about AI, in their own words
• What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML