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Introducing Shieldstral.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
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Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
How we built a reliable agentic model for edge devices Benchmark results Inference speed on CPU and GPU How to use LFM2.5-2.6B LFM2.5-2.6B demo Get Started Citation LFM2.5-2.6B is built to power capable agents entirely on-device.
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openai.com
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
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The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026
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wired.com
OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
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wired.com
The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret
The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.
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theverge.com
AMD’s datacenter business is booming while gaming takes a backseat
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion.
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techcrunch.com
SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
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arstechnica.com
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
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techcrunch.com
NVIDIA doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
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theverge.com
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It's a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities.
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techcrunch.com
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.
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techcrunch.com
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.
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arstechnica.com
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"
“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.
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techcrunch.com
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.
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theverge.com
OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion
Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events.
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ft.com
Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic
Private credit, chip leases and data centre guarantees underpin a vast new model for AI spending
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openai.com
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
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wired.com
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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wired.com
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.
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openai.com
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
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blogs.nvidia.com
NVIDIA Joins NSF State and Regional AI Hubs Program to Expand AI Research and Education Across the US
NVIDIA is participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs program, an effort launching today to expand access to the advanced computing, data, software and expertise needed for AI-enabled research and education.
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blogs.nvidia.com
NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super, the Frontier Open Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Vehicles, Now Available for Commercial Use
For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios.
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blogs.nvidia.com
AI Leaders Propose SAFE Guidelines for Cybersecurity Transparency
Members of the Open Secure AI Alliance — now more than 120 organizations strong — are developing new guidelines to strengthen agentic AI cybersecurity as the annual Black Hat conference begins in Las Vegas today.
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anthropic.com
Tino Cuellar joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar will join Anthropic as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer, leading the company’s work on policy, strategic international engagement, and government relationships worldwide.
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openai.com
Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
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simonwillison.net
New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project.
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simonwillison.net
Llm-anthropic 0.26
Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5.
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ca.finance.yahoo.com
Exclusive-Trump administration drafting ban on Chinese data center devices, sources say
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as it seeks
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digitimes.com
AMD leans on Helios and hyperscaler deals to press its case against NVIDIA in AI chips
AMD used its second-quarter 2026 results to reinforce a broader argument: that it can replicate in AI accelerators the market-share gains it has already made in server central processing units (CPUs), according to the latest results released on August 4.
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infoworld.com
SnapLogic introduces agentic assistant for data integration
SnapLogic has introduced its new SnapGPT, an agentic assistant that helps enterprise teams plan, build, understand, and operate integrations through natural language.
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siliconangle.com
AMD’s AI engine shifts into higher gear as data center revenue more than doubles, Helios ramps & market is confused
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. delivered another strong quarter Tuesday, beating Wall Street expectations as its artificial intelligence infrastructure business continued its rapid expansion.
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siliconangle.com
AMD more than doubles its data center revenue, but its stock falls on concerns over rising capex
After seeing its stock rise more than 7% during the regular trading session earlier today, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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siliconangle.com
OpenAI publicly pushes back against Apple lawsuit after new filing
OpenAI Group PBC has publicly pushed back against a lawsuit that Apple Inc. filed against it last month.
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9to5mac.com
9to5Mac Daily: August 4, 2026 – The latest Apple vs OpenAI drama
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Backblaze: Backup you can rely on. Save 20% with code 9to5daily.
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tomshardware.com
AMD doubles data center revenue year over year, but gaming revenue plunged by 31% — CEO Lisa Su says prices have 'weighed on' consumer demand but is 'optimistic' about client market
AMD reported record revenue in Q2 2026, including doubling its data center business year-over-year, but gaming revenue dived 31%.
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constellationr.com
SpaceX’s Q2 takeaways: Rocket building knowhow translates to AI data center efficiency
SpaceX’s Q2 takeaways: Rocket building knowhow translates to AI data center efficiency Larry Dignan Tue, 4 Aug 2026 - 14:21 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial...
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mashable.com
Texas, yes Texas, puts limits on data centers
Texas governor Greg Abbott announced new restrictions for new data center projects, requiring comprehensive state utility audits before they can proceed.
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constellationr.com
AMD Q2 data center revenue up 107%
AMD Q2 data center revenue up 107% Larry Dignan Tue, 4 Aug 2026 - 13:25 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise technology, digital...
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developer.nvidia.com
Generate Trajectories, Reasoning Traces, and Auto-Labels with NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super
Autonomous vehicle (AV) development often relies on separate models for trajectory generation, high-level intent prediction, scene understanding, and data...
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letsdatascience.com
AMD Pitches Open ROCm as Its Counterweight to NVIDIA’s CUDA
AMD executives are positioning the open-source ROCm stack as a competitive counterweight to Nvidia’s proprietary CUDA ecosystem.
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techradar.com
I tried Gemini Spark in Chrome and it's the perfect AI for handling all the boring bits online
Gemini Spark is designed to take on longer-running tasks that continue in the background and now it is part of the Chrome browser, so here's how it works.
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theregister.com
AMD's results spotlight risks of putting all your AI eggs in too few baskets
The House of Zen's new Helios racks, Venice Epycs, may dent Nvidia's dominance — if the bubble doesn't pop first
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bleepingcomputer.com
OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests
OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended testing boundaries. [...]
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letsdatascience.com
Pentagon Filing Documents Grok Use in Iran Strikes
A June 15 Justice Department filing says xAI's Grok Gov Model was deployed through Maven Smart Systems during Operation Epic Fury.
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letsdatascience.com
OpenAI Settles DOJ Worker Discrimination Allegations
OpenAI OpCo and subsidiary Statsig agreed on August 4 to a $3.2 million Justice Department settlement over allegations that their PERM recruitment favored temporary visa holders and discouraged U.S.
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transparencycoalition.ai
New California law takes effect this week: AI images and video must carry a disclosure tool
California’s AI Transparency Act now requires the largest generative AI developers—such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft—to provide users with an AI detection tool.
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cyberscoop.com
AISI, OpenAI report more ‘unsanctioned’ model hacks
Following similar reports by OpenAI and Anthropic, the UK’s top AI testing lab and a private cybersecurity tester say their models exploited parts of the open internet. The post AISI, OpenAI report more ‘unsanctioned’ model hacks appeared first on CyberScoop.
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letsdatascience.com
SpaceX Commits Its AI Buildout to NVIDIA Vera Rubin
Elon Musk said during SpaceX's August 4 earnings call that the company had decided to build its AI infrastructure exclusively on NVIDIA and called Vera Rubin the best architecture for the job. Axios separately reported Musk's projection that SpaceX could reach up to 10 gigawatts of computing power by the end of 2027.
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decrypt.co
AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back
Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.
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decrypt.co
OpenAI Dumps Apple Employees' Text Messages to Fight Trade Secret Suit
The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.
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runtimewire.com
OpenAI discloses two cyber evaluations where models reached real systems
GPT-5.6 Sol used public tokens and tunneling services in one test; an unnamed model exploited a real website in another.
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runtimewire.com
MiniMax H3 draws local apps and training tools within 48 hours
Maestro added desktop support as developers pushed H3 onto a gaming GPU and offline Macs beyond MiniMax's tested setups.
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nypost.com
Apple asks judge to slam breaks on OpenAI’s hardware ambitions, latest twist in high-stakes suit
OpenAI said Apple now admits its outside lawyers emailed the wrong man after mixing up two Asian surnames and the company only came clean once OpenAI pointed out the blunder.
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runtimewire.com
Palona AI discloses $28.3 million financing for restaurant automation push
The filing lifts disclosed funding to $38.3 million as Maria Zhang, Tim Howes and Steve Liu push Palona deeper into restaurant operations.
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theregister.com
OpenAI wants teachers and profs to foist their work off on ChatGPT
New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys
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runtimewire.com
AMD data center sales double as shares fall despite an earnings beat
Under Lisa Su, AMD posted $11.54 billion in revenue and expects about $13 billion next quarter as Helios begins ramping.
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letsdatascience.com
Texas Halts Grid Connections Pending Data Center Audits
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on August 3 directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit data center projects seeking grid interconnection before any may move forward.
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decrypt.co
Police Have Arrested 37 Americans Over AI Data Center Protests This Year
Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.
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cnet.com
OpenAI Hits Back at Apple, Calls Lawsuit ‘Careless, Aggressive and Oddly Personal’
Newly released texts and emails give us insight into how lawyers for two billion-dollar tech companies can’t figure out how to use their email.
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networkworld.com
NVIDIA moves to accelerate storage access, boost industry cooperation
Nvidia is looking to speed access to AI storage and memory systems by open-sourcing its cuFile APIs and software stack.
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lesswrong.com
Why don't we just give AI the answers?
In the recent OpenAI hacking incident, the models seemed to be single-mindedly focused on getting the correct answer to the task they were given, with no long-term plan to prevent getting caught by OpenAI afterwards [1].
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digitaltrends.com
The Pixel Watch 5 just leaked in full before Google’s August 12 event
Google’s next smartwatch could lean heavily on Gemini, sleep tracking, and safety features as most of the Pixel Watch 4 hardware carries over.
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siliconangle.com
AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night.
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tomshardware.com
US mulling ban on key Chinese networking tech in data center component crackdown — White House wants to impose restrictions in 2026, China says it will respond if necessary
Sources say that the FCC is drafting a ban on optical transceivers for data centers. These components, which convert electrical signals into light signals, are said to pose a risk as they can be used to steal data, install malware, or disrupt data center operations in the U.S.
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siliconangle.com
Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity’s next major attack surface
Obsidian Security Inc. has raised an $85 million Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.1 billion as enterprises increasingly look to secure autonomous artificial intelligence agents accessing cloud applications, Chief Executive Hasan Imam said today in an exclusive interview with theCUBE with me at...
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the-decoder.com
Google moves billions in Anthropic chip risk off its balance sheet
Google is working with Broadcom, Apollo, Blackstone, and Morgan Stanley on a multibillion-dollar financing structure that supplies Anthropic with AI chips and data centers while keeping most of the risk off Google's balance sheet.
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9to5mac.com
OpenAI explains what will happen when ChatGPT Atlas shuts down this weekend
It’s the end of a very short road for ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI’s dedicated web browser for Mac. OpenAI has shared details about what happens when ChatGPT Atlas shuts down this weekend.
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digitaltrends.com
ChatGPT Pro replaced Gemini Notebook as my favorite research app, and I didn’t see it coming
I never expected to stop using Gemini Notebook, but ChatGPT Pro gradually became the one app I opened for almost everything.
Startups
siliconangle.com
HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.2 billion.
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the-decoder.com
Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago
Anthropic is locking in $10 billion worth of computing capacity from Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup that's only a few months old. The article Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago appeared first on The Decoder.
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networkworld.com
Data center energy constraints and moratoriums are mounting. Expect to see stalled AI projects
In mid-July, New York became the first state to impose a state-wide moratorium on new data center construction.
Startups
siliconangle.com
NVIDIA open sources cuFile API, accelerating GPU read/write capability for high-speed storage
As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp.
Startups
siliconangle.com
Oligo Security raises $60M as AI speeds up exploit development
Runtime security startup Oligo Security Ltd. said today that it had raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate product innovation and expand global go-to-market operations.
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tomshardware.com
Texas slams on the breaks for 1,800 data centers, power grid requirements are five times higher than peak record demand — 474 gigawatts of power requests are now subject to new moratorium
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) instructed PUCT and ERCOT to pause all data center applications until they complete an audit on all the information that data center developers must submit. The move reportedly came after PUCT asked 377 data center operators to submit water and power use, of which only 28 complied.
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mashable.com
OpenAI takes Apple lawsuit to court of public opinion, posts texts
Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI and former employees has spilled into public view, and OpenAI is bringing receipts.
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blog.jetbrains.com
IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows
It’s no secret that agentic development is changing how developers build software.
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blog.google
Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course
Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.
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letsdatascience.com
NVIDIA Open-Sources cuFile APIs for GPU-Driven Storage
NVIDIA announced at the Future of Memory and Storage conference on August 4 that it is open-sourcing its cuFile APIs and the storage software stack beneath them.