AI news brief: As scammers increasingly run into AI-powered defense tech, Australian startup Apate trains AI bots to pose as victims and fight back against scam operations. Founder Professor Kaafar says the company’s bots handled 600,000 scam calls for a single telco, TPG, in just six weeks before the end of 2025, wasting scammers an estimated 500+ days and saving roughly $13 million in potential losses. Beyond burning scammers’ time, …
AI News Flash: OpenAI reaffirmed it will maintain a Zero Data Retention policy for eligible API customers, ensuring data sent through the API by these customers won’t be stored, while previewing a new mechanism called ‘Private Safety Processing’ aimed at strengthening advanced safety and monitoring for frontier AI models without sacrificing user data privacy.
AI News Brief: The GitHub Copilot app has launched a ‘My Work’ panel designed to help users manage multiple Copilot sessions running at the same time. When users have several conversations or tasks running with Copilot in parallel, this panel centralizes the status of each job, including what’s in flight, what’s done, and…
AI news brief: Replit launches ‘Free Mode’, powered by the GPT-5.6 Luna model, letting anyone turn ideas into working software without worrying about token usage costs. See the original article for full details.
AI News Brief: OpenAI has reaffirmed that it will continue offering ‘Zero Data Retention’ policies for eligible API customers, and previewed an upcoming ‘Private Safety Processing’ mechanism. The zero data retention policy ensures that for qualifying enterprise API customers, neither the input nor output content from model calls gets stored by OpenAI, meeting the data privacy needs of businesses and institutions with strict privacy requirements.
AI News Brief: This story doesn’t need external verification, so here’s the direct translated summary. Cursor (now officially part of SpaceX) launched a brand-new code hosting platform called Origin this week, aiming squarely at GitHub’s core features — collaborative development, browsing and editing code, handling pull requests, and repo management. It’s seen as a natural next step for Cursor beyond its AI code editor business.
AI News Brief: The World Robot Conference kicked off in Beijing on August 19, drawing a wave of Chinese AI and robotics startups eager to showcase their products and boost investor confidence amid a wave of IPO races. Shenzhen-based startup AI2 Robotics showed off its AlphaBot, powered by the company’s own foundation AI model…
AI News Flash: Arthur Hayes has announced he’s taking over as CEO of AI inference protocol Flop Labs, and previewed a ’large-scale airdrop’ set for Q4 2026, ahead of the mainnet genesis launch planned for early 2027. Hayes posted on X on Tuesday saying ‘I’m coming out of retirement to lead @flop_labs,’ and has already updated his X bio to reflect his new role as the company’s CEO.
AI news brief: Gaianixx, a chip materials startup spun off from the University of Tokyo, is preparing to scale up production after securing commitments from major customers, betting that its technology can meet the growing demand fueled by the AI boom. Co-founder and CEO Kento Nakao says the company expects to start trial mass production as early as the end of this year. See the original article for full details.
AI news brief: China’s DeepSeek released its open-weight V4 Pro model last week, free for anyone to download, once again stirring debate across US tech and policy circles. It’s the latest move from DeepSeek following several previous shockwaves it sent through the Western tech world, and reporting out of Palo Alto and Hong Kong notes that V4 Pro’s release has intensified the debate between Washington and Silicon Valley over whether and how to respond to China’s rising AI capabilities more than ever before.