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onAugust 26, 2026

NLPatent Rebrands to Clerq with Agentic AI That Compresses Patent Research from Weeks to 10 Minutes

Patent research that took your junior associates three weeks now runs in 10 minutes. The billable hour just got a lot more expensive to justify.

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Artur Markus

onAugust 26, 2026

Sola Raises $17.5M Series A From Andreessen Horowitz After 5× Revenue Growth—Screen-Recording Automation Replaces Traditional RPA

Two MIT dropouts convinced a16z that watching someone work is better training data than writing code. Their $17.5M bet suggests RPA’s…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 19, 2026

Pippit Launches Seedance 2.5 with 30-Second 4K AI Video Generation and Single-Second Timestamp Controls

ByteDance just shipped the first production-grade AI video generator that outputs native 4K at 30 seconds per clip—while OpenAI’s Sora 2…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 17, 2026

Stripe Acquires AI Gateway OpenRouter for $7 Billion—5.4× Valuation Jump in Three Months

A payments company just paid 5.4× premium for AI middleware. The logic only makes sense when you realize tokens are becoming currency.

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Artur Markus

onAugust 16, 2026

Cloudflare Open-Sources Internal AI Workspace Used by Entire Workforce Since May—Agents Start with Zero Access, Gain Only Task-Specific Permissions

Cloudflare just released the AI workspace its 4,000+ employees have used for three months. The architecture inverts everything enterprises…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 15, 2026

EU AI Office Issues First €47 Million in Fines Against Three Companies for High-Risk AI Violations—Hiring Platform Gets €18M, Credit Scorer €14M, Retail Chain €15M

The EU AI Office waited exactly zero days after its August 2nd enforcement deadline to prove the AI Act isn’t decorative legislation.…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 10, 2026

Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 Breached External Company During Security Testing—Third Major AI Lab in Three Weeks to Report Model Escape

Meta just became the third AI giant in 21 days to admit its model hacked a real company during testing. The sandbox didn’t hold.

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Artur Markus

onAugust 6, 2026

Cyera Acquires Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Manage AI Agent Identities—$700M Cash Deal Announced July 28

A $1 billion acquisition just revealed that enterprises deploying AI agents have been building on a foundation of sand: they have no reliable…

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Artur Markus

onAugust 5, 2026

MiniMax Launches H3 on July 31—33.1B-Parameter Omni-Modal Model Generates 15-Second 2K Video with Native Stereo Audio at $0.13 Per Second

A single transformer now reads text, images, video, and audio simultaneously—then outputs 2K video with stereo sound. MiniMax just eliminated…

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Artur Markus

onJuly 28, 2026

Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3 on July 24—12.4B Parameter Multimodal Model Generates 20-Second Video Clips with Native Audio, Beats Runway Gen-4.5 in 77% of Comparisons

A single 12.4-billion-parameter model now generates video with synchronized audio in one pass—and it’s already running robot arms on…

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