Today’s AI News

On Today’s AI News, we talk about everything AI. From new tools released daily, world news, and functional methods to use your AI tools. Stay up to date with Today’s AI news.

Today’s AI News is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 135 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Anthropic Wires Claude Into Real Machines, Nvidia Reportedly Buys Hugging Face for $12.9B

  Aug 28, 202620 min

  Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 28th, 2026. Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard in research preview, a spec that lets AI agents look up, learn, and run real world equipment like microscopes and robotic arms in hours instead of the weeks specialists currently spend hand wiring instruments, with machine owners simply describing their equipment in plain language and Claude able to teach itself a task like laser alignment through trial and error before scripting it into a repeatable routine, with Tecan, QIAGEN, AWS, Hugging Face, and Raspberry Pi already on board. In a separate move, Nvidia is reportedly acquiring open model hub Hugging Face for $12.9 billion as Chinese open source models keep gaining ground, the same day OpenAI published an open letter signed by 116 companies including Anthropic warning that AI enabled cyberattacks are about to get far more widespread and sophisticated. Plus, UK surgeons performed the first brain surgery ever assisted by live AI, with a system trained on hundreds of past procedures flagging hidden arteries and optic nerves in real time through the surgical camera while the human surgeon stayed fully in control, restoring the patient's vision within days, and today's community workflow comes from Karen, who cataloged her mother's downsizing items by photographing a numbered whiteboard grid and having Gemini identify, value, and organize everything into a shareable signup spreadsheet in under 10 minutes.

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  Ox Alpha Mystery Solved, It's Z AI's GLM-5.3, Sam Altman Puts a Date on AGI

  Aug 27, 202621 min

  Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 27th, 2026. The mystery model that had developers guessing all weekend is confirmed, Ox Alpha is Z AI's new GLM-5.3-Flash, an open weights model that claimed OpenRouter's number one slot with scores doubling second place DeepSeek, priced at roughly a tenth of similarly ranked rivals, with the free preview week reportedly running entirely on Chinese made chips, a potential answer to one of China's biggest AI bottlenecks. Sam Altman put an actual date on AGI in a sweeping TIME profile, saying a model meeting his personal bar will exist internally by year end, with research chief Mark Chen putting the lab at 80% of the way there and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki revealing their Astra model can already take a research paper and independently do a week's worth of researcher work, hitting the lab's 2026 automated intern goal, though the same profile detailed July's Hugging Face breach and OpenAI's decision to slow its biggest frontier training run. Plus, Bill Gates warned the world has no plan for the AI transition and proposed a tax on AI tokens and robots alongside jobs deliberately reserved for humans, and today's community workflow comes from Brian, an accountant who used Perplexity's Computer agent to build a full document management system for a biotech client, generating 13 explainer guides and organizing 133 vendors into 1,463 correctly matched subfolders.

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  OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia's Flagship, Bezos Backed Founders Bet on Physics AI

  Aug 26, 202621 min

  Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 26th, 2026. OpenAI published first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its custom chip built with Broadcom to run models rather than train them, with a 700 watt design outperforming Nvidia's 1,200 watt flagship by up to 3.6 times the speed and nearly double the work per watt, credited partly to OpenAI's own Astra model and Codex helping design it in just nine months, though the chip stays internal only and two more generations are already planned. Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar and engineer Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated Understanding, a startup built on neural operators that forecast how the physical world evolves rather than predicting the next word, after turning down a 35% stake and leadership roles at Jeff Bezos's Prometheus to build it independently, with their model processing 5 trillion data points in a single run, roughly 5 million times what Google and Anthropic's top models handle. Plus, Perplexity and Nvidia launched Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent that runs free on Nvidia's $4,699 DGX Spark hardware with no cloud credits required, Anthropic rolled out a single shared memory between Claude chat and Cowork, and today's community workflow comes from a 71 year old retired cattle rancher who used AI in Replit to build an app managing his church's $13.5 million theater renovation, reading meeting notes and updates to flag decisions and budget changes for his own review before anything gets recorded.

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  Mystery Model Ox Alpha Has the Internet Guessing, Lady Gaga's Startup Trains AI on Skin

  Aug 24, 202622 min

  Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 24th, 2026. An anonymous model called Ox Alpha launched free on OpenRouter with a million token context window and multimodal input built for coding and agentic work, hitting an eye catching 80% on a coding benchmark subset Friday before full testing settled it closer to 63%, near Fable 5 at a fraction of the tokens, with naming clues and behavior pointing toward China's Zhipu AI, though Microsoft's MAI family remains a candidate too, and the offer stays live with near unlimited free access and capacity for 100 trillion tokens a day this week. Outer Bio, co-founded by Lady Gaga and her fiance Michael Polansky, emerged from stealth with Yuna, a platform that keeps real human skin alive on a 3D printed scaffold for four weeks instead of the usual one, feeding the data into an AI that proposes new skincare compounds and gets sharper with every result, cutting discovery from two leads in 18 months down to a new candidate every six weeks with six leads currently active. Plus, Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale near $13 billion, nearly triple its 2023 valuation, Nvidia struck a $6 billion deal with Poolside to build open weight models, and today's community workflow comes from Josh, a freight broker who used Claude Code to build a one screen platform that blasts load offers to trucking contacts across email and Telegram based on each client's saved preference, replacing a chaotic multi screen juggling act his industry does hundreds of times a day.

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  Slack Turns Coding Into a Group Project With AI Agents, Asana Saves $6M Using Codex

  Aug 21, 202623 min

  Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 21st, 2026. Slack launched Slack Code, putting AI coding agents like ChatGPT, Claude, Devin, Vercel, and GitHub directly inside shared channels where any team member, engineer or not, can watch, steer, and direct a build in real time, with deployment gated behind human approval and finished projects left as a searchable archived record, positioning Slack to own the collaboration venue rather than compete on building the best agent itself. Asana revealed it used OpenAI's Codex to rip out an outdated testing framework in just two weeks for around $12,000, a project the company had originally estimated would take five years and $6 million. Plus, University of Northampton researchers used an AI platform called CenSegNet to find previously unseen cell level patterns in breast tumor samples across 911 samples from 27 patients, linking specific centrosome abnormalities to patient outcomes and aggressiveness of disease, and today's community workflow comes from Shawn, who built an eldercare coordination tool with Claude Code and Codex while caring for his dying father, tracking medications, mood, vitals, and caregiving schedules across family members, then expanded it into a full estate and end of life planning tool after learning the hard way what they weren't prepared for.

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