Artificial Inteligence feed for Monday, August 17, 2026

• Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
• AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
• Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
• Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens
• Same Cluster, 33 Points More Utilization: What Changed Was the Order
• What Flock’s defenders are missing
• Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
• Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
• Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
• Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation
• Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies
• Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
• What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies?
• The Defender’s Window
• OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project
• New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age