Donnerstag, 27. August 2026

23:30
BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo
CNBC
22:55
Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases
Wall Street Journal
22:30
Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B
Bloomberg
22:10
A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was “illegal and baseless”
Reuters
21:30
CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs
TechCrunch
20:30
Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est.
Bloomberg
19:30
Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B+
The Information
19:20
Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1
Axios
18:45
Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content
Bloomberg
18:40
Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place
Wall Street Journal
18:15
Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation
Reuters
18:00
Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures
Newcomer
17:55
Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store
Financial Times
17:35
Sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank
Wall Street Journal
16:40
Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong
CNBC
16:31
Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more
The Verge
16:20
Salesforce stock closed up 22.6% on Thursday, its second-best day ever, after the company reported a beat on Q2 earnings and expanded its Anthropic partnership
CNBC
15:15
YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams
Engadget
14:30
Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days
The Information
14:25
Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms
Wired
14:10
Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more
Business Insider
13:35
Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy
Reuters
13:20
OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action”
Axios
13:10
OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks
Wired
12:35
Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others
The Information
12:20
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more
Google
12:10
Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025
Wall Street Journal
11:55
Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP
Google DeepMind
11:45
Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google”
The Verge
11:15
CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A
TechCrunch
10:50
Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps, including memory-use limits, citing “significant hardware supply constraints” due to the AI boom
TechCrunch
10:30
Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 29% and CrowdStrike up 20.5%, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools
CNBC
10:20
Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic
New York Times
09:35
Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity
Crunchbase News
09:24
Sources: the Trump administration is weighing sweeping new tariffs on chips and other products like laptops and consoles, despite warnings from tech companies
Politico
09:10
Plaud unveils Plaud One, a $250 pair of 4G, eSIM-enabled AI earbuds with coverage in 80+ countries and $200 in AI feature credits; Plaud is making 2,000 units
Bloomberg
08:45
Japan's Kioxia and Sandisk plan to spend $31B+ in Japan through 2032 to drive chip tech and expand production capacity, including an $11.3B Kitakami plant
Reuters
08:35
Kalshi partners with Weather Co. to verify climate and weather prediction market settlements; Kalshi says weather vertical trading volume will hit $1.1B in 2026
Wall Street Journal
08:25
OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month
TechCrunch
08:15
Samsung unveils the Galaxy S26 FE, offering an Exynos, not Qualcomm, chipset, 12GB of RAM, a dialed-back camera system from the S26, for $700+, a $50 price jump
Bloomberg
07:55
Gambit Security: Russian-speaking ransomware gang Aur0ra used SpaceX's Cursor AI coding assistant to breach at least seven companies between April 8 and May 21
Reuters
07:40
Australian Federal Police arrest two Western Australia men, aged 21 and 23, believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group
Krebs on Security
07:25
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio
Bloomberg
07:05
Sources: Adam Mosseri met with state AG representatives roughly a month ago, saying Meta would appeal any adverse verdict but was willing to make changes
Reuters
06:50
Sources: Donald Trump Jr. told GOP state AGs at a March event that gambling companies' “vested interest” was misleading states to attack prediction markets
New York Times
06:40
Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US
Bloomberg
06:25
Cambridge, MA-based Transfyr emerges from stealth with a $25M seed to use AI to address science's reproducibility crisis and capture labs' “tacit knowledge”
New York Times
06:10
X launches NFL Gametime, an integrated NFL feed and hub featuring live data, scores, statistics, creator content, and more through to the 2027 Super Bowl
Variety
05:50
Rockstar executives discuss GTA VI, including a team that has more than doubled since RDR2 and an LA office dedicated almost solely to nonplayer characters
Dazed
05:40
YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules
New York Times
05:30
Sources: Singapore-based Shein is set to price its Hong Kong IPO at ~$6.20, or near the midpoint of its marketed range, raising $1.73B and valuing it at ~$26.5B
Reuters
04:15
Anthropic releases findings from a pilot that let external researchers run studies on Claude usage; one study found users delegate high-stakes tasks
Anthropic
03:50
UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them
Financial Times
03:05
A federal judge, in his US Court of Appeals ruling, urged SCOTUS to reconsider the issue of CSAM and revisit legal precedents that predated advances in AI
Washington Post
02:50
A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species
Financial Times
02:40
Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure
Wall Street Journal
01:50
Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche
CNBC
01:40
Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies
Search Engine Roundtable
01:30
Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism
The Guardian
01:20
Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July
Business Insider
01:15
Meta is seeking to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing
Platformer
01:10
Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating
Bloomberg
01:05
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids
Techdirt

Mittwoch, 26. August 2026

23:55
Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers
The New Stack
23:30
OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach
The Verge
23:10
SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft
Wall Street Journal
22:50
METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face
METR
22:40
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50%
The Information
22:15
Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January
Wall Street Journal
21:45
Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, above $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance
CNBC
21:35
Source: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce
The Information
21:10
Senator Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras
Axios
20:50
Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing
Business Insider
20:00
Trump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks
CyberScoop
19:30
Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills
VentureBeat
19:00
Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above $104B est., expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by ~70%, and expands its AWS deal through 2028; NVDA jumps 6%+
Reuters
18:35
Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate
Reuters
18:05
Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit
Wall Street Journal
17:50
AWS plans to add 2M Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs to its data center fleet in 2027 and 2028, in addition to 1M GPUs announced in March
Bloomberg
17:20
CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, above $1.44B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; CRWD jumps 9%+
Bloomberg
17:05
Salesforce reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $11.35B, above $11.32B est., net income up 87% to $3.5B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; CRM jumps 13%+
CNBC
17:00
HP reports Q3 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $15.7B, PC revenue up 18% to $11.8B, but units down 16%, and Printing revenue down 2% to $3.9B; HPQ drops 9%+
Bloomberg
16:45
AI assistant Instinct is raising a $250M Series B co-led by Index and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $350M since its 2025 founding
Wall Street Journal
16:32
Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, above $92.17B est., Data Center revenue up 117% to $89B, above $85.08B est., and net income up 126% to $59.7B
Nvidia Newsroom
16:10
Product management startup Linear topped $100M in annual recurring revenue and held a $99M employee tender offer at a $2.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in 2025
Business Insider
15:25
OpenAI publishes a technical report on the Hugging Face incident, detailing the agents' activity, safeguard failures, and measures to prevent recurrence
OpenAI
15:20
Medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific says a cyberattack disrupted some of its IT systems and global operations, including order processing and shipping
BleepingComputer
15:00
Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises
9to5Google
13:50
Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more
Reuters
13:30
Sources: Anthropic agrees to pay UK startup Nscale $45B over six years to rent ~460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips
Bloomberg
12:45
The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring
Axios
12:08
Apple announces a “Surprise and shine” event on September 9 at 10am PT at Apple Park, where its first foldable iPhone, iPhone 18 Pro, and more are expected
9to5Mac
12:05
Deep Cogito, which develops open-weight models and helps companies build their own specialized AI models, raised a $43M Series A led by TQ Ventures
Wall Street Journal
11:50
Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source
GeekWire
11:45
Banks are warming up to launching their own stablecoins as nonbank companies enter the market; sources: JPMorgan Chase evaluated launching its own stablecoin
Wall Street Journal
11:35
Interviews with OpenAI leaders, employees, and others on the company's reboot; Sam Altman says OpenAI would have a system he would call AGI by the end of 2026
Time
11:30
Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation
TechCrunch
11:20
Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31
The Verge
10:51
The US DOJ says it disrupted a Chinese hacking operation responsible for break-ins at the DOJ, NASA, the Fed, Senate, and others, seizing two platforms' domains
Reuters
10:35
In Q2, Apple's base iPhone 17 was the global best-selling smartphone, with a 6% share, followed by the iPhone 17 Pro Max; Apple and Samsung had all 10 top spots
Counterpoint Research
10:26
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price”
Z.ai
10:23
Sources: Sword Health plans to acquire mental health company Headspace for between $200M and $300M in cash, far below its ~$3B valuation in 2021
Axios
10:20
Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras
The Verge
10:15
Vanguard agrees to acquire RIA software startup Altruist, a source says for $4.6B in cash; Altruist raised $600M and had a $1.9B valuation in early 2025
Axios
09:54
Meta's AG settlement will be distributed to the 48 signing states and four jurisdictions in annual installments over a 10-year period based on their populations
Wall Street Journal
09:47
Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10%
The Verge
09:40
Meta's deal with 52 AGs includes daily time limits for teens and algorithmic feed controls; ~$5.3B of it rests on YouTube and TikTok implementing the measures
Meta Newsroom
09:10
Meta reaches $16.68 billion settlement over social media harms to children
Reuters
09:01
Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards Elon Musk with Ukraine's Order of Freedom; sources say Zelenskyy asked Musk to authorize Starlink use up to 200km inside Russia
Financial Times
08:51
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash, an open-weight, 125B-parameter model built on its next-gen Qwen 4 architecture, saying it rivals Opus 4.6 and V4-Flash
Bloomberg
08:00
Microsoft faces investor criticism over opaque financial reporting across capex, its OpenAI deal, and Azure, which is buried in the Intelligent Cloud segment
Wall Street Journal
07:47
Rockstar says GTA VI gameplay leaking “this way has been heartbreaking”, calling it “unfortunate” that the “game experience may now be impacted” by spoilers
Kotaku
07:40
Public polling suggests the US' severe anti-data center backlash is primarily driven by local environmental and economic concerns, not anti-Big Tech sentiment
Andy Masley
07:25
Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more
Dwarkesh Podcast
07:10
Investigation: Meta explored slashing many teams by ~60% to become “AI native”, but pulled back after staff revolted and data showed AI agents were ineffective
Reuters
06:50
Shanghai-based MiniMax reports H1 2026 revenue up 283% YoY to ~$116.6M, above 2025's 159% YoY growth, as its M3 model lags behind rivals like Z.ai's GLM-5.2
Bloomberg
06:30
Sources and documents: Huawei proposes exporting its high-end Ascend 950-series chips to build Egyptian government AI data centers, testing US tech diplomacy
Bloomberg
06:20
A profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, who worked for SBF and OpenAI before launching Situational Awareness; Aschenbrenner married Dario Amodei's chief of staff
Wall Street Journal
06:05
Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share
Reuters
05:50
Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a “huge mistake” driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments
Axios
05:41
Z.ai says it tested GLM-5.3-Flash anonymously as Ox Alpha on OpenCode and OpenRouter, with all traffic served on Chinese AI chips, and releases its weights
Bloomberg
04:35
Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs
New York Times
04:25
Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework
GatesNotes
04:15
Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin
Bloomberg
04:05
Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March
Washington, D.C. Business Journal
03:55
Sources: DeepSeek generated $70.7M in revenue and posted a $106M net loss in the first seven months of 2026, ~10x its full-year 2025 revenue on a $139M net loss
The Information
03:05
The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class
Financial Times
02:40
Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost
Pew Research Center
02:30
A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120M people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns
BBC
02:25
Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of launching in 2026
Financial Times
02:00
Intel says Xeon 7, aimed at HPC and debuting in 2027, will support up to 256 cores and 22 chiplets, with 16 built on its bleeding-edge 18A-P process
The Register
01:35
HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China
CNBC
01:25
Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project
Bloomberg
00:45
Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027
Financial Times
00:25
Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource
GeekWire

Dienstag, 25. August 2026

22:35
Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok
The Hill
22:00
Sources: Meta and state AGs have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the social media addiction lawsuit, which is currently in its second week of trial
Bloomberg
21:35
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, “following an assessment”; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to 500K+ humans
CNBC
20:25
South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M
Reuters
19:30
State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch
Reuters
18:20
Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline
TechCrunch
17:45
Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, above $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+
Wall Street Journal
17:15
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $1.28B, above $1.27B est., enterprise revenue up 7.8% YoY to $787.5M, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS below est.
Bloomberg
15:55
Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning
Skild AI
15:25
OpenAI confirms Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers from Meta in March 2025, has left the company; his departure comes amid a broader exodus
Wall Street Journal
14:50
Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel
TechCrunch
13:45
An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in “Take a Break” tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens
Bloomberg
13:30
UK filing: in FY 2025, OnlyFans paid out $6.3B to creators, net revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B, and creator accounts hit 5M; 5,076 creators made $1M+ since 2016
Variety
13:10
Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out
ZDNET
12:40
The EPA plans to eliminate a federal rule that US states must publicize and solicit public input on air pollution permit applications for data centers
New York Times
12:15
Stability AI, which has deals with UMG, WMG, and EA to build AI models from their IP, raised a $76M Series B from them, Sony Music, and others
Variety
12:05
Sources: Anthropic is likely to tell IPO investors that its potential revenue opportunities are above $30T, topping SpaceX's $28.5T; Uber predicted $6T in 2019
Wall Street Journal
11:35
Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU
The Robot Report
11:15
A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models
SemiAnalysis
11:05
Uber launches an optional safety feature allowing parents or guardians to watch a livestream of their teen's ride via the driver's front-facing phone camera
Bloomberg
11:00
Mexico-based Primero, which aims to modernize legacy software used by Latin American companies with AI, raised a $12M seed co-led by Kaszek and General Catalyst
Reuters
10:45
Tel Aviv- and NYC-based Alice, which works to protect AI models from misuse and rogue behavior, raised $140M led by Apax Digital at a valuation “close to $1B”
Bloomberg
10:40
Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a fully local version of Perplexity Computer with support for Qwen3.8-27B and Perplexity's PPLX 27B on Nvidia's DGX Spark
VentureBeat
10:35
Waymo plans to offer ride-hailing services in Germany, starting with Munich, by the end of 2027, marking its third international market and the first in the EU
Bloomberg
10:30
Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M
TechCrunch
10:25
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T
The Verge
09:45
Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are $899+ and $1,699+, $100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is $5,499+, up $200
Wall Street Journal
09:40
WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys
TechCrunch
09:22
Apple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, “a first for Apple silicon”, with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s+ and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU
Engadget
09:11
Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance”
The Verge
09:06
Apple unveils a Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, up to 4x faster AI performance, and up to 2x faster storage and graphics, for $899+ with M6 and $1,699+ with M5 Pro
Apple
09:05
Apple unveils a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, up to 4.3x faster AI performance, up to 1.8x faster graphics, and up to 512GB of unified memory for $2,499+
Apple
09:00
Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses
The Verge
08:50
Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey
Reuters
08:30
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027
TechCrunch
08:15
Emerald AI, which uses AI to optimize data center power consumption based on grid demands, raised $150M led by DCVC and Energize Capital at a $1.05B valuation
New York Times
08:05
OpenAI bans a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to evade restrictions and run an influence operation, including creating social media comments
CNBC
07:55
Accelerated Understanding launches an enterprise-focused physics AI model that uses neural operators and handled 5T pieces of data in a single prompt in tests
Reuters
07:40
Xiaomi unveils the Xring O100, a 6nm AI accelerator to boost its MiMo models when paired with its O3 mobile chip, and the 3nm Xring D100 for autonomous driving
South China Morning Post
07:30
Google is rolling out Motion Assist, a feature to reduce motion sickness by showing visual cues on the screen, to Android 17, starting with select Pixel devices
Android Authority
07:15
A profile of French software maker ChapsVision, which won a contract to replace Palantir at France's domestic intel agency in June and targets an IPO by 2030
Financial Times
06:45
Tim Cook is set to step down on September 1, and a source says Apple hosted an intimate farewell party; sources say Cook's assistant will work with John Ternus
The Information
06:25
Qustodio: 26% of Australian children aged 13 to 15 were on TikTok in July, just one percentage point below pre-ban levels, and 10-to-12-year-olds' usage is up
Bloomberg
06:15
Q&A with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine on lessons from Apple's Beats acquisition, creativity, being pro-AI music creation, AI as a tool like drum machines, and more
New York Times
05:55
Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20%+ last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week
CNBC
05:40
UK filings: OnlyFans parent Fenix paid late owner Leonid Radvinsky $709M in the months leading up to his death in March; FY 2025 revenue rose 10% YoY to $1.55B
Bloomberg
02:25
Australia's ARIA says songs created mostly or entirely by AI will be excluded from its charts; a song that used AI became the most-played song on radio in July
ABC
01:10
Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M
TechCrunch
00:45
Unitree shares fell 45% after surging more than 5x in their August 19 Shanghai debut, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B, raising robotics bubble concerns
Reuters

Montag, 24. August 2026

22:45
Sources: neocloud Lambda is in talks to raise up to $3B at a $12B+ valuation, and its 2026 revenue is expected to reach $1.5B+; Lambda raised $1.5B+ in 2025
Bloomberg
22:21
Sources: Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years, potentially before its September iPhone event; Apple tested M5 and M6 versions
Bloomberg
22:10
OpenAI restores five-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users, after weeks without the restriction, saying it would smoothen the load on its compute
9to5Mac
21:20
Researchers detail the growing use of AI in cyberattacks across many Chinese state-linked groups, primarily using open-weight models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek
Bloomberg
20:25
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed in 2024
SiliconANGLE
18:53
Docs: Meta plans to launch its version of OpenClaw, codenamed Hatch, in late August or early September and its latest AI model, Watermelon, in October
The Information
18:35
Apple reverses its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to private.icloud.com after user backlash; the feature will continue using the icloud.com domain
MacRumors
17:30
Sources: smart ring maker Oura and some of its backers seek to raise up to $3B in a US IPO that could take place as soon as September and value it at over $16B
Bloomberg
17:15
Source: robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete physical tasks in April, raised ~$200M led by 8VC, after raising $400M in June
Axios
17:00
Canada-based logistics software company Descartes acquires Tai, a California-based transportation management system provider, for $100M in cash
Axios
16:30
At his first Cursor all-hands, Elon Musk says Grok needs to catch up, AI will become impossible for humans to control, Anthropic leads the AI race, and more
The Information
15:25
Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% in Q2 2024, below Intel's 69.7% share
PCMag
14:20
The UK backs Ofcom to take “tough action” under the OSA against social media sites failing to remove dangerous driving videos, after a crash killed seven people
The Guardian
14:00
Alabama AG Steve Marshall launches an investigation into OpenAI's security procedures following the Hugging Face breach in July
Bloomberg Law
13:40
The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership
Financial Times
13:10
The Trump administration proposes a $103,265 fee on H-1B applicants hired within the US after a court blocked a more limited fee on workers from outside the US
Bloomberg
13:05
A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots
Wall Street Journal
12:30
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks delivered 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B with a 100,000-token input sequence
The Register
12:10
The UK's Office for National Statistics: UK digital infrastructure investment crossed £11B in 2025, hitting dot-com boom levels, amid an AI data center surge
Bloomberg
12:05
Temu and Pinduoduo owner PDD reports Q2 revenue up 8.1% YoY to ~$16.72B, missing est. of ~$17.17B, and net profit down 12% YoY to ~$4.04B, above ~$3.63B est.
Wall Street Journal
11:35
IBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications
VentureBeat
11:20
Nvidia says its inference accelerator Groq 3 LPX has entered full production, with Nebius signing on as the first customer, and SpaceX will deploy Vera CPUs
SiliconANGLE
10:40
China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language website, after already pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese website
Semafor
10:10
Taiwanese prosecutors indict nine people, including Nvidia and Super Micro employees, for allegedly helping illegally export 74 high-end AI servers to China
Reuters
10:01
Sources detail how Trump intervened to get a settlement before the DOJ's antitrust trial against Live Nation, after CEO Michael Rapino met White House officials
Wall Street Journal
09:46
The US FTC settles its lawsuit against Zillow, resolving claims that Zillow violated antitrust law by paying Redfin $100M to stop competing in rental listings
Reuters
09:35
Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023
CTech
08:25
Sources: Netflix has discussed adding streamers like Peacock and Fox One as it seeks to compete with YouTube and Roku in becoming a one-stop shop for TV content
New York Times
07:45
Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 nuclear power ban, as data centers' growing power demands account for nearly 25% of the country's electricity use
Financial Times
07:00
Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May
CoinDesk
06:50
Sources: ByteDance is merging coding platform Trae and agent-building tool Coze into Doubao, and plans to launch Doubao Work to compete with Tencent's WorkBuddy
Bloomberg
06:40
Ukraine says Russia used an Nvidia Jetson Orin computing module in its fully autonomous AI-guided drones; Nvidia says they're widely available on resale markets
New York Times
06:35
Ukrainian officials say an AI-guided, fully autonomous Russian drone picked its target in a Zaporizhzhia gas station strike in July, killing three Ukrainians
New York Times
06:10
Chinese EV maker XPeng says its robotics business raised $900M+ led by IDG Capital at a $6.3B+ valuation; Gaorong Ventures, Tencent, and Alibaba also invested
Reuters
06:05
Xiaomi launches the Xring O3, a 3nm SoC for its mobile devices, as it seeks to reduce reliance on foreign chips from longtime suppliers Qualcomm and MediaTek
Bloomberg
06:01
Alibaba debuts Wan3.0, an AI video generation model that can generate 30-second videos from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages, after an August beta
Reuters
05:46
US business schools are racing to prepare students to become chief AI officers, even as companies are still figuring out what the newest C-suite role entails
Bloomberg
04:50
Global central banks are pushing CBDCs to defend monetary sovereignty against USD stablecoins, but are struggling to find demand for their digital currencies
Bloomberg
04:01
A look at the collapse of Zondacrypto, Eastern and Central Europe's biggest crypto exchange, which went dark in April and is facing money laundering allegations
New York Times
02:01
Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% from 2021 to 2027, over 3x faster than in Europe, driven by the AI race
Financial Times
01:01
New Zealand plans a bill to ban social media for under-16s, requiring “high risk” platforms to check user ages or face penalties of up to 10% of global revenue
Bloomberg
00:15
Source: AI researcher Luke Metz, who returned to OpenAI from Thinking Machines Lab in January, joins Meta's Superintelligence Labs, reporting to Alexandr Wang
Axios

Sonntag, 23. August 2026

23:50
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's round that would value it at $30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff
The Information
23:40
Sources: Shein voluntarily sought the US Treasury's CFIUS national security review of its $80M deal to acquire US clothing retailer Everlane, an unusual move
Bloomberg
23:10
At Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, a robot built by Honor ran 100m in 9.39s, and another Chinese robot finished 400m in 38.16s, both beating human records
Telegraph
22:20
SoftBank plans a ~$6.3B retail bond sale, the biggest by any issuer in Japan and its third in 2026, as the conglomerate raises funds for its OpenAI commitments
Bloomberg
22:05
A look at the playbook Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others use to shape US schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools
New York Times
20:45
President Trump says communities that oppose data centers are “making a mistake” as they create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money”, amid bipartisan backlash
Axios
19:30
Filing: Shein will debut on the Hong Kong exchange on September 1, seeking up to ~$1.8B in an IPO at a $27B valuation, a fraction of its $100B valuation in 2022
Bloomberg
19:01
Sam Altman says a few powerful players could end up controlling AI because the magnitude of risks could push people to “trade off a lot of liberty for safety”
Business Insider
17:10
Greg Abbott says data center companies “dug their own grave” by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash
Axios
15:20
Sources: Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to evaluate bidders' interest
Business Insider
13:45
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in early June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5
Financial Times
11:50
Alibaba plans to raise ~$10B in a follow-on share offering to fund AI investments; sources: it plans to offer 710M shares at a 3.6% discount to Friday's close
Reuters
10:45
Sources: foldable iPhone feels durable, fits well in a pocket, has useful iPad-like app layouts, excels as a camera viewfinder but lacks telephoto and Face ID
Bloomberg
08:05
The careers of Z.ai's Tang Jie and Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin, once teacher and pupil at Tsinghua University, show that China's AI leap is no sudden development
Wall Street Journal
04:05
A profile of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta and oversaw the Musk v. Altman trial
CNBC
01:30
The popularity of risky leveraged chip ETFs in South Korea prompted regulators to cap individual exposure and mandate a weeklong investor education course
Financial Times
01:20
Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025
TechCrunch
01:15
Semiconductor cram schools are flourishing in Seoul as applications to Samsung and SK Hynix surge, fuelled by record earnings and eye-catching worker bonuses
Financial Times