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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

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generatio

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it — The world's

Washington Post: How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United State

Hugging Face: Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem — In the AI world, time f

Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a 30M seed at a 500M valuation — AI research company Pathway ha

Bloomberg: Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than 7B; OpenRouter was valued at 1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Op

Anthropic: Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite — Future Claude models will gene

Grace Shao / Bloomberg: Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experie

Financial Times: Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for An

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a 40M Series A led by a16z at a 400M valuation — - Vals AI r

Alix Coutures / The Information: Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired — Eight

The Information: Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to 3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio — Nvidia is in talks to

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its “preparedness” team in July — Executive exits and safe

@alibaba_qwen: Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where “everything is a plugin” that can be swapped out as a plugin — DeepSeek

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google adds a toggle in Gemini and Flow to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, videos, and music; SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain — Google will still

Kate Rooney / CNBC: Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July — At the end of a we

Reuters: Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a la

Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop — Un

Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in

Z.ai: Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexSh

Reuters: Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Fri

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data — Robotics comp

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more — What happen

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Current and former OpenAI employees say pressure to quickly ship products left less time for safety, contributing to incidents like the rogue agent hack — OpenAI's rogue agent ha

The Information: DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks but is priced much lower, at 0.435/1M input and 0.87/1M output tokens — Chinese AI developer D

Counterpoint Research: In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth — - AI inference work

Alex Townsend: Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra — On July 30, 2026, the fir

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use — OpenA

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second — OpenAI is previewing a new way

Bloomberg: Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion — Pony AI Inc. said it plans

Ara Kharazian / Ramp: Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost — Dear Colleagues

Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a 2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit 100B to 120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect th

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind's CEO — Demis Hassabis di

Financial Times: Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a 10B+ valuation, up from 5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to 150M in Q2 — Swedish company was valued at

Financial Times: Wealth managers are cutting fees and hiring staff in Silicon Valley to win over OpenAI and Anthropic workers before IPOs mint a new class of millionaires — The rise of equity-rich tec

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first with ASL and English — Google Deep

Victoria Song / The Verge: Google unveils the 399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The 399 Goog

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google unveils the 899+ Pixel 11, 1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with a Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more — For the last f

Mistral AI Blog: Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models — At Mistral, we believe every

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI VP of Global Policy Ann O'Leary says AI policy in the US is anchored in the states and informed by California's AI transparency law passed in 2025 — SACRAMENTO

Wall Street Journal: Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet — From marathon tra

Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about 6B — Anthropic PBC is in talks to buy the artificial intelligence

Kenrick Cai / Reuters: Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google — Google co-found

Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: Sources: the UK government is planning to regulate the use of AI in gene synthesis to prevent terrorists and other bad actors from using AI for bioweapons — The UK governme