2026-08-14
Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup’s app was never built
Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startup Wondermind was a hollow promise dressed up as a movement. The complaint, filed against the singer and her mother and co-founder Mandy Teefey, alleges securities fraud and breach of contract. All of the claims are, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” built to do something the industry has been curiously reluctant to promise: spend fewer tokens. The model is a post-training variation on Z.ai’s open-source GLM-5.2, and it is available to Writer’s clients from today. The pitch arrives at […]<br /> This story continue [...]
2026-08-14
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.3 With Frontier Coding and a Cyber Capability That Outgrew Its Training
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, an update the company says keeps the same base model as GLM-5.2 and derives every capability gain from scaled-up post-training. The headline results are in coding, where Z.ai reports the model is the strongest open-weights system it has measured, and in cybersecurity, where the company says capability grew faster than it anticipated as training scaled. The [...]
2026-08-14
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would value it at roughly $43bn, according to a Reuters report. If it comes off, it would rank among the largest software buyouts ever struck, and a rare vote of confidence in a corner of […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba
Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the company’s usual habit of leaning on other people’s models. According to a Reuters report, Apple is the first foreign firm Beijing has approved to offer a proprietary AI model in mainland China, a rare concession […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips
OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by the wafer-scale chipmaker Cerebras. Ultrafast is not a new model […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-14
This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early
Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
