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7 Can’t-miss updates from our Pixel 11 launch

The new Pixel 11 lineup offers the best of Gemini Intelligence and brings our biggest camera upgrades in years.

Why it matters

Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.

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NVIDIA doubles RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell's MSRP to a staggering $16,000 — 96GB card started pre-orders below $8,000 last year

A data center GPU has become more expensive because of the AI boom enabled by unprecedented data center buildouts — shocking. Nvidia's RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell is now twice as costly as it was last year at the time of its launch, and 20% more expensive than even a couple of months ago.
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AI data center developers begin suing local jurisdictions behind bans and moratoriums — claims range from officials exceeding authority to violations of due process and equal protection laws

Some data center developers are suing local governments for passing temporary bans and moratorium, saying that they such moves violated their rights to due process and equal protection. This move has gotten one county to reverse their decision, while others are still fighting the cases in court.
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‘New models will mark AI-generated content from day one’: Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words — here’s how that’s even possible, and how EU rules could push OpenAI and Google to follow suit

Anthropic has announced that new Claude models will hide an invisible watermark inside any generated text — here’s how that’s even possible, and how OpenAI and Google might have to follow suit.
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Sector Snapshot: Fitness Startup Funding Is Rebounding, But Investors Want AI And Data, Not Treadmills

Venture investors seem to be more upbeat than they have been in years about the future of fitness and wellness. Startup investment in those categories totaled more than $3.6 billion in the first half of this year, putting 2026 on pace to come in about a third higher than 2025.
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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router

NVIDIA's open 30B MoE targets the agent execution layer, with Switchyard routing each step to the cheapest capable model. The post NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: A 30B Open MoE with 3B Active Parameters, and NeMo Switchyard Model Router appeared first on MarkTechPost.
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Signal clusters

Capital and consolidation +5.4

Venture capital targets agent platforms and AI security tools while acquisitions and stake sales reshape partnership maps.
Frontier model releases -0.9

Labs ship open and API model checkpoints while specialized multimodal systems for vision and sign language expand the release slate.
Robotics and embodied AI -2.2

Personal humanoid products launch for homes and classrooms as investors exit delivery robotics partnerships.
AI infrastructure and compute -9.9

New accelerators, rising GPU prices, scarce colocation capacity, and power limits keep data center expansion and serving economics tight.

Quick takes

Both Gemini and ChatGPT have crossed the one-billion monthly-user mark, turning consumer AI apps into mass-market infrastructure rather than niche tools.
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Enterprise AI is moving from assistance toward execution, as OpenAI research and deployments apply ChatGPT, Codex, and realtime agents across telco, retail, and finance work.
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OpenAI is expanding Daybreak cybersecurity, adding a cyber-specialized model and Amazon Bedrock availability as AI-enabled attacks increase enterprise security demand.
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Frontier chat platforms are widening free-model access while testing ads and premium business seats to fund continued scale.
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On-device AI is shifting from demos to shippable products as compact vision-language and agent models target local CPU and GPU inference.
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Enterprises are converting agentic AI from pilot assistance into production execution across telco personalization, retail support, and finance deliverables.
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Cybersecurity is spinning out as a distinct model product line, with specialized defense systems landing on enterprise cloud platforms.
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Google is bundling Gemini intelligence into the Pixel 11 hardware stack, pairing new Tensor silicon with camera and wearable AI features.
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Market Pulse

AI Pulse
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bullish

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +17.6%, Oracle +4.85%, NVIDIA +2.98% leading the tracked basket.

SMCI +17.6%
Super Micro Computer cloud
ORCL +4.85%
Oracle cloud
NVDA +2.98%
NVIDIA chips
META -2.87%
Meta Platforms labs

Recurring Movers

ORCL 10 hits · -3.69%
GOOGL 8 hits · -3.84%
AMZN 8 hits · -2.09%
AVGO 8 hits · -1.50%

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7 Can’t-miss updates from our Pixel 11 launch

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In-region inference, open models, and new European infrastructure for sovereign AI.

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NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to Establish AI Compute Infrastructure Financing Platforms to Mobilize Over $500 Billion of Third-Party Capital

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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

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 Fri, Aug 7
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

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