The wire, in full
tuesday, august 25, 2026· 5 briefs
22:30 GPT-5.6 lands in AWS's Kiro coding agent 22:15 OpenAI bans a fake Russian think tank 22:00 Mistral bets big on Saudi sovereign AI 21:45 IBM's Granite 4.2 adds real reasoning 21:30 Apple's new Macs are built for local AI monday, august 24, 2026· 9 briefs
23:50 Nvidia in talks to back Perplexity at $30B+ 23:35 XPeng's robot unit raises $900M for IRON 23:20 Nvidia Taiwan manager indicted in chip case 23:05 MCP publishes its next roadmap 22:50 Nvidia's Groq inference chip hits production 22:35 Instinct assistant draws privacy backlash 22:20 Mystery model Ox Alpha traced to Z.ai 22:05 General Intuition raises at $6B for robots 21:50 Nvidia signs deal to buy Hugging Face sunday, august 23, 2026· 2 briefs
21:45 27B model beats Opus and GPT at research 21:40 Nvidia pays Poolside $6B in licensing deal saturday, august 22, 2026· 4 briefs
21:20 Grok Bot expands to more Cursor plans 21:10 Glitch cuts vetted researchers off OpenAI 21:00 OpenAI now backs a stronger SB 53 20:50 Most AI labs lack a rogue-model plan