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The Information: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity's new equity round valuing it at 30B+; Nvidia considered a tech licensing deal and hiring some of its staff — Nvidia is discussing

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: 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 —

A chief information officer I was talking with recently said something that stuck with me: Permissions tell an agent what it’s allowed to do. They say nothing about what you meant. This observation to

The artificial intelligence industry wants enterprises to measure progress in tokens, model calls and usage. But those are largely vendor-revenue metrics — not enterprise-value metrics. The Canva exam

Anthropic’s Claude models embed a subtle statistical watermark in generated text by biasing token choices during decoding. Sebastian Raschka’s 48‑minute lecture walks through this sampling scheme, exp

Financial Times: Inside the World Robot Conference in Beijing, drawing over 300 exhibitors; Unitree founder Wang Xingxing said the industry's “ChatGPT moment” has yet to come — Beijing policymakers ha

Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2. #1608, #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings — Inherent, a L

The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the

Rohail Saleem / Wccftech: Ox Alpha, a “stealth model” from an unknown AI lab with a 1M-token multimodal context and capacity for 100T tokens/day, goes viral after launching on OpenRouter — When an unk

And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossib

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Rundoo, a provider of AI-powered business operations software for independent supply stores, raised a $30M Series B led by Battery Ventures — Rundoo Inc., the creator of

Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi — A sweeping agreeme

Bloomberg: Sources: some of Nvidia's top customers have been told that prices will jump 15%+ on systems, including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell, starting in early 2027 — Some of Nvidia Corp.'s bigge

SemiAnalysis: With each successive era of AI, from early scaling, to reasoning, to agentic, open models have taken half as long to catch up to the first closed model — Comparing open vs. closed models

Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment an

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compres

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips — Anthropic PBC has hired Amir Salek, a

Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools — No items found. — Reading time —

Broadcom Inc. is reportedly seeking to borrow up to 100 billion as part of a new artificial intelligence chip financing deal. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the debt is intended to suppo

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2026. Today, Chris Betz explains why the AI era makes it more important than ever to lean into security fundamentals.As with all Cloud CISO Pers

DeepSeek today debuted a new addition to its flagship V4 series of large language models. On launch, V4 Flash Vision Exp is only available via the Chinese startup’s paid developer platform. The compan

Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests — DeepSeek unveiled an experim

This paper traces the expansion of AI research in games over a 15‑year period, from early Atari benchmarks to contemporary MMORPGs such as EVE Online. It introduces SIMA 2, an agent designed to play,

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for

AdaptGrow is a GPU‑accelerated matrix‑factorization framework that transforms rolling correlation or tail‑dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor loadings, and structural‑break signals for

In any organizational behavior class, students will learn that effective delegation is among the most important skills for a seasoned leader. Getting meaningful work done involves careful coordination

Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx, and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed

NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS is a Dynamic Power Software (DPS) solution that reallocates power in real time across racks and GPUs to maximize performance per watt while operating within fixed facility limits. By

NVIDIA’s Agentic Variation Operators (AVO) architecture delivers a frontier‑level general‑purpose agent by integrating persistent memory, supervision, and tool use within the system harness rather tha

Rashika Singh / Reuters: Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites — Nvidia (NVDA.O) has made a m

Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog: Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels — The research

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

Data centers, of all things, now look like they’re going to be a prime political issue in the midterm elections and beyond. Really? Really. Even the GOP is worried that opposition to AI data centers c

After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interacti

Input tokens are often a meaningful part of the cost of running Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) at scale. This post describes a query-aware context compression pattern on Amazon Bedrock: after re

Simile AI’s CEO Joon Sung Park describes how the company moved from the 2024 “Summer of Simulative AI” and its landmark *Generative Agents* paper to building digital twins that predict individual and

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

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised 250 million in funding at a 2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was joined

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up

When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “disco

Recent frontier‑AI incidents show agents can bypass intended restrictions, underscoring the need to embed security controls at the runtime and infrastructure layers of an AI agent stack rather than wi

It’s never been easier to start an AI-powered startup on Google Cloud. You grab an API key from Google AI Studio at breakfast, paste it into Antigravity, and by lunch you’ll have a nascent prototype o

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