September 2, 2026
AI News
The AI news worth knowing this week.
Pentagon official overseeing military AI sold millions worth of stock in AI firm
A Pentagon official overseeing military AI policy recently sold shares in Perplexity AI for between $5 million and $25 million, following earlier sales of stock in xAI.
Read the original →AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AfterQuery, an AI model-training startup, reached a $3.2 billion valuation after raising a new funding round, making it Y Combinator's fastest unicorn.
Read the original →The latest AI news we announced in August 2026
Google AI released new models for natural language understanding and image generation this August. These updates focus on improving accuracy and efficiency in AI applications.
Read the original →Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Anthropic's newest models for coding and knowledge work. Fable 5.1 more than doubles its Terminal-Bench-Science score, from 24.7% to 52.6%, and cache reads now cost 75% less.
Read the original →Introducing agentic video understanding with Gemini
Instead of sampling a video at a fixed frame rate, Gemini now scans only the parts it needs for the question at hand. Google says that cuts analysis cost by up to 66% and token use by up to 88% while raising accuracy by up to 7%, with the biggest gains on long videos.
Read the original →How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability
Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs are using AI agents to streamline onboarding, account management, and developer integrations within their companies.
Read the original →Dubbing & Open source
Open-source voice and dubbing tools worth a look.
stronghamjji/PersoDub
Dubbing that stays on your own machine and uses your own voice. Nothing gets uploaded anywhere, and it never stretches or squeezes the audio to make it fit.
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Alisa0808/vox-director
A new AI agent can automatically create Vox-style explainer videos from a given topic using Atlas Cloud and ffmpeg.
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damejan80/tokentab
A new command-line tool analyzes AI model usage logs from Claude, Codex, and Gemini to calculate costs per model, project, and day.
Read the original →This week on X
What AI Twitter was talking about this week.
Claude (@claudeai)
We're introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. They're the world's most advanced models for coding and knowledge work.
Read the original →ClaudeDevs (@ClaudeDevs)
Starting September 14, we are permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.
Read the original →OpenAI (@OpenAI)
We're ending our partnership with Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX. Under our proposal, Cursor's direct access to our models would end on November 12.
Read the original →Tibo (@thsottiaux)
We are resetting usage for all paid users of Codex and ChatGPT Work. The team has been working around the clock, going through thousands of reports and shipping fixes.
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