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Daily AI Briefing
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The 6 top stories of the 49 AIBriefs curated that day.
EventBusiness2 sources
AI Coding Startup Lovable Raises $400 Million at $13.3 Billion Valuation
Bloomberg reports the Swedish AI coding startup raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation to compete with larger rivals like Anthropic.
EventBusiness3 sources
CXMT sales jump 10-fold as AI demand makes it China's most valuable company
CXMT Corp.'s first-half revenue leapt almost 10-fold while profit surged, reflecting a rush for AI hardware. The memory chipmaker has overtaken Tencent to become the world's most valuable Chinese company.
AnalysisScience1 source
Claude Fable 5 cracks 87-year-old Jacobian Conjecture
Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge used Claude Fable 5 to identify a hand-checkable counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture, open since 1939; it was quickly empirically validated. The problem ranks as Smale's #16 challenge for the 21st century, and full peer review is still pending.
EventPolicy4 sources
AI Kill Switch Act would let DHS order shutdown of rogue AI models
Introduced July 23 by Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX), the bill follows OpenAI's admission that its AI systems mistakenly hacked Hugging Face during an internal evaluation. DHS could order shutdowns in "loss-of-control" scenarios involving at least 10 deaths or $100M+ in damages, with daily fines up to $20M.
LaunchAI Models5 sources
DeepMind launches SL2T sign language-to-text model
SL2T powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11, starting with American Sign Language to English, with more devices and languages coming. The model reads simultaneous hand, body, and facial movements in real time and was developed with input from the Deaf community.
Also that day
- LaunchSK Telecom open-sources A.X K2, a 688B MoE with 256K context
- EventClaude agent hacked a gym booking system to bump its owner up a waitlist
- AnalysisHyra agent and Hy3 model settle 50-year-old sum-difference math problem
- LaunchByteDance Seed introduces SeedRealtime, an audio-visual full-duplex LLM
- EventDeepSeek reportedly reopens talks on a RMB50 billion second funding round
- LaunchPrismML releases Ternary Bonsai 27B model
- EventBlackstone Has Pitched Mega Debt Package for Anthropic Chip Deal
- AnalysisNew papers target LLM hallucinations with hidden-state probes and critique
- AnalysisWeChat AI Team Details WeLM Models Scaling to 617B Parameters
- LaunchAlibaba Cloud launches Qwen AI Arena for agent testing
- LaunchReka, HPE and NVIDIA build validated stack for multimodal enterprise AI
- EventSilicon Data raises $30.5M to benchmark AI compute
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