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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-08-15: 1. Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't 2. Google lets users remove AI watermarks from content Google has updated Gemini and its Flow video generator to allow users to toggle off visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music. The change removes the distinctive sparkle watermark 3. IBM partners with OpenAI for enterprise training push IBM announced a partnership with OpenAI to train and certify tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's technologies. This deal represents a major enterprise push to democratize access to advanced A 4. Databricks raises $5B at $190B valuation Data and AI infrastructure company Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, exceeding its original $1 billion target due to overwhelming investor demand. The massive r 5. Mac vulnerability under active exploitation by hackers A critical screen-sharing vulnerability in macOS is being actively exploited by attackers to gain remote access to Macs without requiring a password. The flaw represents a serious security threat to A Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-08-15.html