AI News — Thursday, August 13, 2026
30 headlines from 8 outlets, deduped.
Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Scientists just created female clones of male mice
Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please
AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation
As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open
Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data
Introducing OlmoEarth embeddings: Custom embedding exports from OlmoEarth Studio for downstream analysis
Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI
LFM2.5-VL-3B for Better and Faster Vision Capabilities for the Edge
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health
4 New Camera Tricks on Google’s Latest Pixel 11 Smartphones
The Download: our 35 young innovators and the “censorship-industrial complex”
Of course the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine spawned a startup
Pakistani Judges Give Their Verdict on JudgeGPT
The Job-Interview Tattoo Guy Everyone Got Mad at Finally Explains Himself
How we picked 35 of the world’s top young scientists and engineers
Thinking of ACE? We Can Do It with Fewer Tokens
Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS
AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
IEEE Course Teaches How to Use AI to Modernize Power Grids
Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.
Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews