Every story we've published, newest first.
Capital
Mistral and HUMAIN announced a sovereign-AI collaboration in Riyadh on August 24, sized in euros but carrying an exploratory compute leg and no binding contracts yet.
Chandni Melwani · Saudi Arabia · Aug 28, 2026
Platform Updates
The Additional Scripts field on the Thank you and Order status pages stopped executing for stores on non-Plus plans on August 26. Orders keep flowing, so nothing looks wrong.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Aug 28, 2026
Tools
OpenAI says it will wind down the contract that supplies its models to the AI code editor Cursor, proposing a shutoff on November 12, 2026, after SpaceX bought Cursor's maker. Teams standardised on Cursor now have a dated deadline.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 28, 2026
Models
A model called ox-alpha ran anonymously and free on OpenRouter from August 20, judged on its output alone before anyone knew who built it. Z.ai claimed it as GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26 and published the weights under an MIT licence.
Chandni Melwani · China · Aug 28, 2026
Legal
To defend banning Anthropic across the federal government, the Department of War produced four pages. It abandoned its backdoor-access theory in court, conceded Claude is no riskier than any other black box model, and rested the ban on one remaining factor it called trust.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 28, 2026
Enterprise
Growing a Gemini Enterprise Standard or Plus subscription past 25 seats now runs through a sales representative rather than the console. The invoiced-billing gate also sits in front of Google's AI coding tools.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 25, 2026
Tools
Slack launched Slack Code on August 20, giving coding agents their own channels where planning, diffs and approvals happen in front of the whole team.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 24, 2026
Money
OpenRouter sits between developers and 400-plus models, so it already knows which ones get picked and what they cost. That ledger now belongs to a payments company.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 24, 2026
Legal
The DOJ sided with xAI against Minnesota's HF 1606 nudification ban. Update: on Oct 2 the Eighth Circuit granted xAI an injunction pending appeal.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 23, 2026
Big Story
GitHub.com was degraded for 7 hours 47 minutes on August 17. Copilot stayed broken for four and a half of them, because a retry bug in VS Code kept hitting the service that had just come back.
Chandni Melwani · Aug 22, 2026
Jobs
The demand from 31 union locals is guardrails, disclosure and a say in how the tools arrive, which is what a bargaining unit asks for when it cannot stop a deployment.
Chandni Melwani · US · Aug 22, 2026
Marketing AI
Meta has the Ad Library, Google has the Ads Transparency Center, TikTok has a Commercial Content Library for Europe. The AI answer surfaces have nothing.
Chandni Melwani · Global · Aug 21, 2026