Artificial Inteligence feed for Monday, August 24, 2026

• Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
• Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 
• Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns
• Generating scenarios for extreme events, without extreme data
• Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
• OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
• How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom
• Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
• Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
• Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why