The wire, in full
tuesday, august 18, 2026· 13 briefs
23:15 Higgsfield raises $400M at $5.4B valuation 23:10 OpenAI disputes report it cut risk team 23:00 Modular open-sources the Mojo language 22:25 Etched's valuation doubles again to $21B 22:20 Warp launches Factories for AI dev teams 22:15 OpenAI tightens safeguards after HF breach 22:10 OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens 22:05 Cursor launches Origin, its own code host 22:00 Anthropic's revenue run rate hits $65B 22:00 Copilot's own error messages leaked a hack 21:00 n8n 2.36 adds agent sandboxes, MCP folders 19:00 Firefox's Smart Window adds AI web search 18:00 AWS lets agents pay for things on their own monday, august 17, 2026· 4 briefs
22:00 Wispr raises $280M, moves past dictation 21:55 Groq raises $350M, pivots to neocloud 21:50 Anthropic's risk report reveals Model 2 21:45 NVIDIA backs $105B OpenAI Ohio data center sunday, august 16, 2026· 3 briefs
22:45 Apple built a China AI model with Alibaba 22:25 ChatGPT's Computer History tracks your Mac 22:05 Flue v2 brings React-style hooks to agents