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Wednesday 19 August 2026 · 16 stories
AI technology
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Healthcare and data science
4Velaura AI raises $110 million Series A, passing a $1 billion valuation
A study measures how nine-coding-agent teams coordinate
AI, enterprise architecture and cybersecurity
OpenAI introduces a safer ChatGPT experience for teenagers
Finance, cloud and semiconductors
How open US military-funded research sped Unitree's robot dogs, reports trace
OpenAI slows frontier work and rewrites safeguards after agent safety failures
Etched raises US$700 million, reaching a US$21 billion valuation
Helsing teams up with Rakuten in pursuit of Japan's autonomous-drone procurement
Industrial and service robotics
World Robot Conference takes China's humanoid industry from showcase to commercial test
A new preprint uses offline LLM judgements as synthetic clinical expertise for rare-disease representation learning; it is assessed in Research Paper Watch and is not a clinical deployment.
Guidelight assessment says frontier labs still lack mature AI-control practices
