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Ten finalists from Runway AIF 2026, seen in Seoul. This is a record of the moment when editing, performance, and camera language — not character consistency — became the next question.
Microsoft has officially launched Fireworks AI open-model inference service on Azure Foundry. Members of the Microsoft for Startups program can apply up to $150,000 in startup credits toward Fireworks model deployments.
Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman published his AI music creation principles on August 6, 2026, previewing the introduction of audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology along with a new download policy that limits mass distribution.
SK Telecom posted operating profit of 566 billion won in Q2 2026, up 67.3% year-on-year, while AI data center revenue jumped 92.5% to 136.2 billion won.
Lovable is teaming up with Cerebras to build infrastructure that will dramatically cut response latency by 2027. Since launching in November 2024, the platform has surpassed 50 million cumulative projects.
Amazon announced it is providing AWS Trainium computing credits to 34 research teams at 30 universities through its "Build on Trainium" program. This round's recipients submitted proposals on the theme of Responsible AI.
Microsoft announced on August 4, 2026 that it added AI-specific checks to its Zero Trust Assessment tool and introduced a new DevSecOps pillar—15 control groups and 91 tasks—to its Zero Trust Workshop.
Pichai announced the shake-up in an internal letter. The company's notice named two departures, but the real number is four. DeepMind's talent exodus has now run for half a year, following Shazeer and Jumper in June.
AWS has published a WebSocket- and native-messaging-based MCP bridge architecture that lets AI agents running on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore access users' local Excel files and local MCP servers. In an internal operational use case, it handled more than 41,000 conversations in the year since launch.
Autonomous-driving chipmaker Mobileye has deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to cut support ticket response times from hours to about one minute, automating 66% of all tickets.
Cloudflare unveiled a system where AI agents pay for API calls directly. Account wallets set the limits; virtual wallets spend within them. But for now, the only thing actually live is handle reservation.
Approval-gated early access was lifted on August 4. One endpoint, three modes, starting at $0.17 per second. The same backbone is driving robots on Audi's production line.
