AI Round-up: 24 August 2026

Nvidia was reported to be discussing an investment in Perplexity at a valuation above $30 billion. Alibaba's shares fell after its discounted $10.2 billion placement to fund AI expansion, while Taiwan indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of AI servers to China and Sonova introduced an AI-powered hearing-aid platform.

GitHub said Dependabot will wait three days before non-security update pull requests so scanners can catch poisoned releases, and Anthropic expanded Mythos 5 access while announcing a $35 million open-source security fund. OpenAI Developers previewed hands-free voice building in Codex, Together AI extended its GLM-5.3 cost comparison, and Databricks demonstrated central controls for models, agents and MCP tools.