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Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to 4/1M input tokens and 20/1M output tokens — OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the pr

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks — SAN FRANC

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition — Nvidia Corp. is i

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a 250M extension, at a 2.3B valuation, to its March 170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested 25M — Starcloud, a startup developing s

Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers — Every day t

Julia Hornstein / The Information: Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100+ staff after buying Fractional — A jo

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades — Binance, t

Marcela Ayres / Reuters: Brazil announces ~444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek — Brazil's government

William Langley / Financial Times: China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns — Co

Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others — Callosum, a startup that makes s

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more — Well, this seems interesting.

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 — Corporate expen

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from 100M to 500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at 150M-200M — The near-bottoml

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Anthropic plans a safety system this year that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud systems — Anthropic PBC pla

Bloomberg: Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise 60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies — Broadcom Inc. is in talks with a

Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules — Nvidia

Newcomer: Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive 6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a 1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers — EXCLUSIVE TO NEWCOMER: Poolsi

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia — Alphabet Inc.'

Alexander Martin / The Record: AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions — The compan

Mike Stone / Reuters: Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In — Smack Technologies, a def

Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: Google announces new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus student offers for Google AI plans — Head back to

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs — F

Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% — Kuaishou Technology earning

Ari Levy / CNBC: Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat — Nvidia's massive head star

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others — Expansion of th

The Information: Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter — Nvidia has discussed

Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~600M at a 6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~1B in May, and has an initial ~250M deal with Anthropic — Fractile, a startup developing

CNBC: Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told empl

Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed — Stripe Inc. has agreed to buy OpenRouter Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that helps developers access and switch betwe

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: AI inference chip startup Etched raised 700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a 21B valuation, up from 10.3B after raising 300M in July — Etched,

Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba G

Anthropic: Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists — Summary: In this post, we s

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday t

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails — The ar

Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a 20M Series A, following a 10M seed in January 2025 — Artificial inte

Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good ti

Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congression

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to 6.7B, while its losses deepened; Anthropic's Q2 revenue more than doubled to 11.6B, with a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker'

Pew Research Center: Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have becom

Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a 110M Series A at a 1B+ valuation — Velaura AI was

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Anthropic's text watermark alters word probabilities to embed a fingerprint, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality — When I wro

Bloomberg: Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to 105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests 1.5B in SB Energy — Nvidia Corp. has agreed to spe

Greg Brockman: Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses — The OpenAI-Hugging Face

Tobias Burns / CNBC: Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations — Recent Securitie

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center — A