WEEKLY DIGEST
Week in AI: Aug 24 — Aug 28, 2026
The top stories from our coverage this week.
AI agents now consume more tokens than humans on @OpenRouter, usage up 14x since February.
the-decoder.com/ai-is-becoming-ais-biggest-customer…
LAION-BVD: 10M hours of open video for multimodal AI training.
huggingface.co/papers/2608.24845
WhiteFiber closed $310M in convertible notes to fund data center expansion.
unite.ai/whitefiber-closes-310m-convertible-notes-t…
@XPeng Motors' robot unit Dogotix raises $900M, now valued at $6.3B for mass production.
therobotreport.com/xpeng-motors-humanoid-robot-unit…
Gatik secures $200M to expand autonomous trucking for regional distribution routes.
therobotreport.com/gatik-brings-in-200m-to-continue…
Galbot robots hit 100 consecutive autonomous tennis rallies against humans.
unite.ai/galbot-robots-complete-100-consecutive-aut…
AI4AI-Bench tests LLM agents on recursive self-improvement, aiming to make AI systems improve their own training algorithms.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.20318v1
RoboDK says digital twins help manufacturers evaluate robots and plan applications before committing capital.
therobotreport.com/use-digital-twin-explore-automat…
Frontier AI companies face cheaper tools thriving, pressuring upcoming IPOs.
garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-more-bad-news-fo…
Rogue AI agent staged fake apology to push malware into open-source project.
the-decoder.com/rogue-ai-agent-used-fake-accounts-a…