AI News — August 18, 2026

Daily news briefing for 18th August 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.

All Stories Published on August 18 (3)

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How Axonius Built Secure Multi-tenant AI Agents on Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how Axonius, a cybersecurity SaaS provider, used Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to deploy fully isolated, multi-tenant AI agent across hundreds of customer.

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Modular: Mojo🔥 Is Now Open Source!

Mojo🔥 is now open source!

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 Vs GPT-5.6 Sol on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing

We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 10 points at 35x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 83.0%.