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  • Meta Vice President Sandhya Devanathan Joins OpenAI to Lead Southeast Asia and Australia Expansion

    OpenAI has hired Sandhya Devanathan, Meta's Vice President for India and Southeast Asia, to lead its commercial and operational expansion across Southeast Asia and Australia. Devanathan, who spent nearly a decade in senior leadership roles at Meta, will be based out of Singapore and report to Kiran Mani, OpenAI's Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region. In her new role, she will oversee consumer product adoption, enterprise sales and partnerships, government and regulatory relations, and

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  • Chinese Humanoid Robot Maker Unitree Surges 629% in 04M Shanghai IPO Debut

    Chinese humanoid and quadruped robotics manufacturer Unitree Robotics made its public debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, with shares surging 629% in early morning trading. The listing marks the first pure-play embodied artificial intelligence and humanoid robotics IPO on China's mainland A-share exchange. Unitree priced its initial public offering at 150.80 yuan ($22.36) per share, issuing 40.4 million shares to raise approximately $904 million (4.2

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  • Hugging Face CEO Says China Is Winning the AI Race on Open Models

    Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told CNBC on Monday that China is winning the artificial intelligence race through open-weight models and predicted Chinese labs could overtake US frontier developers by the end of 2026 or in 2027. "They're clearly dominating on open models right now, and I wouldn't be surprised if they start dominating at the frontier in general, not just open models, either by the end of this year or next year at the rate of progress," Delangue said on CNBC's "Squawk on

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  • A Record Eight Pulitzer Awardees Disclosed AI Use This Year

    A record eight Pulitzer Prize awardees disclosed using AI tools in their work this year, including five winners and three finalists, signaling a shift in how the journalism industry's top honor defines acceptable automation. The disclosures, required by the Pulitzer board since 2024, were reported by Nieman Lab. This year's entrants used AI and large language models primarily to search and analyze large document sets faster, rather than for writing or editing the stories themselves. Th

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  • Anthropic's enterprise quiet quarter

    While the discourse focused on consumer chatbots and benchmark drama, the real story was hundreds of regulated workloads quietly migrating to Claude. Here's why.

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