AI News — 2026-08-24
- A mystery “stealth” AI model called Ox Alpha is drawing developers with free access. Appeared on OpenRouter with a roughly 1M-token context window handling text, image, and video, and no confirmed creator. — Bloomberg
- Alibaba is seeking $10 billion from a share sale to fund AI expansion. The roughly HK$80 billion raise deepens its bid for global AI leadership. — Bloomberg
- Whether training AI on copyrighted books is legal remains unsettled despite recent rulings. Anthropic and Meta won narrow fair-use decisions, but judges stressed those rulings don’t cover all AI training, and the UK’s rules are far stricter. — TechCrunch
- AI-polished resumes are flooding employers, pushing hiring back toward live tests and referrals. Over a third of headhunters now spend half their week filtering AI-generated “spam” applications. — Bloomberg