AI News for August 13, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Grok 4.6 ties GPT-5.6 Sol on intelligence index at a third of the price: SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, scoring 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
[NEWS] Anthropic in talks to buy world-model startup Decart for $6B: Anthropic is negotiating to acquire Decart AI for roughly $6 billion, which would be by far the largest acquisition in the company's history.
[NEWS] LiteLLM supply-chain attack leaks credentials from 2,500 organizations: Compromised versions of LiteLLM on PyPI harvested secrets from more than 2,500 organizations during a 40-minute window in March.
[NEWS] Cognition's Devin revenue run rate hits $1B, up from $492M in May: The $40B valuation talks for Devin-maker Cognition reportedly track a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, up from $492 million in May.
[NEWS] Amazon trains AI on Twitch streams by default, opt-out added after backlash: Twitch confirmed Amazon has been training generative AI on user streams, VODs, clips, chats, and channel images, and added a "Training for Generative AI" toggle under Security and Privacy.
[NEWS] Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B, doubling its valuation in seven months: Lovable closed a $400 million round at a $13.3 billion valuation led by Menlo Ventures and the EQT-managed Scaleup Europe Fund.
[NEWS] Taiwan hit by autonomous AI hacking tool that stole 2,500 personnel records: Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs detected an AI-assisted attack on government agencies starting July 20.
[NEWS] Jeff Dean seeks $1B at a $10B valuation for Discovery Loop: Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop is raising $1 billion at roughly a $10 billion valuation, according to people familiar with the talks.
[NEWS] DeepSeek staffs up an agent team to take on Claude Code: DeepSeek opened an official social media account and posted job listings for a team dedicated to AI agents built to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code.
[NEWS] UK plans binding rules on AI in gene synthesis over bioweapon fears: The UK government is drafting safeguards to regulate AI use in gene synthesis, driven by concern that the absence of global guardrails makes it easier to design biological weapons with model assistance.

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