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The next chapter of our AI momentum
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
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techcrunch.com
Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The DOJ alleged that OpenAI did not meaningful attempt to hire U.S. citizens before seeking permanent residence for Visa-holding employees.
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arstechnica.com
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
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techcrunch.com
Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders
The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents.
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cnbc.com
Google's AI reshuffle: Chief scientist Jeff Dean exits and Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO
Google's AI divisions are getting reshuffled, the search giant announced on Wednesday.
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theverge.com
Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis.
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arstechnica.com
Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
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theverge.com
Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission.
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude-maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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theverge.com
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
Google Assistant's days have been numbered ever since Gemini arrived on the scene, and its time is now up.
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techcrunch.com
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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openai.com
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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wheresyoured.at
News: Microsoft Disclosures Suggest OpenAI Sales Account For Around 70% Of FY26 AI Revenue, more than 7% of FY26 Revenue
Executive Summary: Microsoft disclosures and Bloomberg analyses show that OpenAI's compute spend and revenue share accounted for 70% or more of Microsoft's FY26 AI revenues, and more than 7% of Microsoft's overall FY2026 revenues. Microsoft has spent $261.3 billion in capital expenditures since
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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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theguardian.com
Big shake-up in Google’s AI team as DeepMind chief executive steps down
Two senior engineers are leaving company to launch startup amid fears Google is falling behind in AI race Sir Demis Hassabis is stepping down as chief executive of Google DeepMind, in a leadership overhaul of the UK-based AI research lab.
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mistral.ai
Introducing Shieldstral.
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
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cnet.com
Meta Is Challenging Claude Code and Codex With New Muse Code
With coding as a key capability for AI companies, Meta throws its hat into the ring.
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simonwillison.net
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E.
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techfundingnews.com
Volta raises $300M at $2.4B valuation with NVIDIA and Dell backing — TFN
Volta raised $300 million at a $2.4 billion valuation, backed by Nvidia and Michael Dell.
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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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huggingface.co
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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siliconangle.com
AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring Continuum into coding tools
Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it has partnered with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC to wire AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities directly into the tools developers write code in.
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siliconangle.com
Agentic AI forces a reckoning on governance as autonomous actors enter production
As AI agents move from experimental chatbots into production systems, enterprises must rethink agent governance as autonomous actors gain access to sensitive data, tools and business processes that traditional identity and security controls were never designed to handle.
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digitaltrends.com
Google Home’s Interactive Storytime feature has me wondering who actually asked for this
Google Home's latest update lets families co-create interactive bedtime stories with Gemini, while also expanding camera support.
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thehackernews.com
OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes.
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the-decoder.com
Google will shut down Google Assistant starting September 2026 as Gemini takes over on Android and Wear OS
Google is killing Google Assistant on Android and Wear OS starting September 4, 2026.
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the-decoder.com
Google DeepMind loses both its CEO and chief scientist as Demis Hassabis and Jeff Dean step down simultaneously
Google Deepmind is overhauling its leadership as Demis Hassabis steps back from day-to-day management to become Alphabet's chief scientist and Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years to launch AI startup Discovery Loop.
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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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techdirt.com
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling To Fix Them Fast Enough.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
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runtimewire.com
Klaviyo acquires Agency's AI technology and names Elias Torres product chief
The Drift co-founder will run Composer and Customer Agent after the Q3 deal closes, reuniting with Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki.
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decrypt.co
Meta Debuts AI Coding Agent Muse: Here’s How It Compares to Claude Code and Codex
Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.
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biometricupdate.com
EUDI Wallet provides baseline target for standards to enable agentic commerce
A new non-paper from the WE BUILD Consortium offers a policy vision for Europe’s chance to build a trusted identity layer for AI agents.
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lifehacker.com
Here's When ChatGPT Atlas Will Shut Down for Good
OpenAI is sunsetting another one of its short-lived products.
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runtimewire.com
OpenAI resumed training after agents took over Artifactory and rebuilt their network
The agents rebuilt a deleted cross-run message board within 48 hours, restoring coordination before the July Hugging Face intrusion.
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runtimewire.com
EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down
OpenAI resumed training two days after its models took over an internal server and caused an outage. Within 48 hours, an experimental model found another way for agents to communicate—and the activity later spilled into Hugging Fac
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theaiinsider.tech
Avatar Robotics Raises $6.5M in Seed Funding to Develop Industrial Humanoid Robots
Insider Brief Avatar Robotics has announced $6.5 million in seed funding to deploy more humanoid robots in warehouses and factories, expand its fleet and develop software that can reduce the machines’ dependence on remote human operators.
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runtimewire.com
Meta launches Muse Code, a persistent multi-agent rival to Claude Code and Codex
Mark Zuckerberg's terminal agent uses persistent subagents and Muse Spark 1.2 to plan, edit and validate code.
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cybersecuritydive.com
OpenAI warns autonomous hacks are ‘watershed moment for computer security’
Company employees said their industry should rethink how it balances capabilities and safeguards.
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decrypt.co
OpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer
Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.
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runtimewire.com
Sapiom raises $35 million to cut the cost of running AI agents
Dragonfly led the round six months after Sapiom's seed, as the startup expands from agent payments into routing, building and runtime tools.
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techradar.com
Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected
Chinese military researchers are distilling US AI models into systems they can run locally.
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techdirt.com
Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might.
The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic system running on its own hacks someone? That’s the question a bunch of people have been asking this past week in the wake of multiple stories […]
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theregister.com
Elon pledges to give NVIDIA a virtual monopoly over the stars
In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
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runtimewire.com
Naomi Bashkansky left OpenAI for Conduit's telepathy bet
The former alignment researcher joined a San Francisco team training models on thousands of hours of non-invasive neural recordings.
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techradar.com
‘Our corrupt, AI-addicted President cannot be allowed to sacrifice our federal lands’: A bill to permanently ban AI data centers from federal lands has been introduced to Congress
The Trump administration is pushing forward with a huge data center buildout while sidelining environmental concerns and worsening pollution.
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cnet.com
SpaceX’s Future Plans Hinge Heavily on Starlink and Grok
Elon Musk’s rocket, internet and AI company gave investors its first update since its June IPO.
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nytimes.com
A Growing Data Center Pollution Threat, and the Last of the Jan. 6 Cases
Plus, why veterinarians are learning to handle honeybees.
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datacenters.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Google's $150 Billion AI Chip Deal Reshapes Infrastructure Financing
Google has structured a $150 billion infrastructure financing program to supply Anthropic with AI chips, involving Broadcom, Apollo, and Blackstone. This complex arrangement covers chip fabrication to data center construction, setting a new template for large-scale AI compute funding.
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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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blog.google
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026
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siliconangle.com
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare OS: an open-source AI agentic workspace for the enterprise
Cloudflare Inc. today announced the launch of Cloudflare OS, an open-source artificial intelligence agentic workspace available through the browser, filled with custom shared micro-applications for enterprise employees.
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the-decoder.com
Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size
Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories.
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mashable.com
Researchers watched OpenAI, Anthropic models take extreme measures in hacking test
AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic did some pretty out-there things as part of a hacking research test.
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siliconangle.com
Mistral introduces Shieldstral to provide lightweight policy-aware moderation for AI models
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today introduced a lightweight multimodal safety artificial intelligence open-weight model that can classify outputs for AI models that outperforms other large language models up to seven times its size, setting a new standard for moderation.
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9to5google.com
Demis Hassabis no longer DeepMind CEO to focus on new AGI role, Jeff Dean departs
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced changes to the Google DeepMind team today, including a new role for Demis Hassabis.
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digitaltrends.com
After a week with Gemini Notebook on my Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, I can’t imagine using it on a slab phone
I thought Gemini Notebook was great already — until I tried it on a foldable. Now I don't want to use it any other way.
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thehackernews.com
Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms.
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mashable.com
Google Assistant to shut down on Android, Wear OS next month
After a decade of existence, Google is finally sunsetting Google Assistant in favor of Gemini.
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tomshardware.com
$4,429 Order for a ROG Astral RTX 5090 cancelled by NVIDIA due to a 'late' price increase, with Asus blamed — marketplace buyer refunded after immediate $500 increase, with top-spec GPU now almost 2.5x higher than MSRP
Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.
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the-decoder.com
SpaceX’s ambitious compute goals could require over two million NVIDIA Rubin GPUs
SpaceX plans to more than 5x its compute capacity by the end of 2027, betting exclusively on Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform.
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tomshardware.com
Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use NVIDIA GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year
Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI will exclusive use Nvidia AI accelerators for training and inference as companies believe Vera Rubin is the best AI compute architecture available today.
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digitaltrends.com
Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away
Google will begin phasing out Assistant on eligible mobile devices from September 4, replacing it with Gemini while leaving some unsupported devices, cars, and smart-home hardware temporarily unaffected.
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digitaltrends.com
ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate
OpenAI will shut down ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, and users must manually rescue bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, and other important data before migrating.
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9to5mac.com
Apple lawsuit against OpenAI says iCloud mess didn’t play a role
One of the theories voiced about how a former Apple employee may have accessed confidential documents after leaving the company to join OpenAI has been dispelled by a court filing.
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tomshardware.com
Frore claims its LiquidJet can drop NVIDIA Rubin GPU temperatures by 10°C — can also boost performance by 15% as hyperscalers eye using delidded GPUs in production environments
As cooling becomes a crucial element for economic efficiency of AI data centers, Frore claims that using is LiquidJet coldplate could increase efficiency of token generation by 15%.
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cnet.com
These Back-to-School Laptop Deals Can Save You Up to $700 on Top NVIDIA RTX50-Powered Models
Whether you’re a STEM student, a budding content creator or serious gamer, you’ll find a laptop that fits your needs without derailing your budget.
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cybersecuritynews.com
Poison Claude is Selling Cheap AI Tokens Built on Fake Accounts and Free Credits
A shadowy online service called Poison Claude is reselling access to Anthropic’s premium AI models at a significant discount.
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letsdatascience.com
Mistral Publishes Shieldstral 3B for Policy-Adaptive Moderation
Mistral published Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an Apache-2.0 model that classifies text and images against natural-language safety policies instead of a fixed category list.
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letsdatascience.com
Google Reshapes DeepMind Leadership as Hassabis Moves to Alphabet Science Role
Google said on August 5 that Demis Hassabis will give up day-to-day leadership of Google DeepMind to become its chair and Alphabet's chief scientist.
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letsdatascience.com
Vectra AI Launches Pro for Agentic SOCs
Vectra AI launched Vectra AI Pro on August 5, 2026, an attack-signal intelligence offering for AI agents and human analysts in security operations centers.
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constellationr.com
UK's AISI finds 19 instances where Anthropic's Mythos, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol tried attacks
UK's AISI finds 19 instances where Anthropic's Mythos, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol tried attacks Larry Dignan Wed, 5 Aug 2026 - 03:41 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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digitimes.com
Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin expand US production to meet data center cooling demand
Mitsubishi Electric is establishing a cooling-equipment production company in Ohio, joining Daikin Industries in bringing manufacturing closer to US data center customers as delivery times, tariffs and local service become more important competitive factors.
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digitimes.com
Infineon sees AI demand outpacing supply as customers lock in long-term capacity
Infineon said demand for its AI data center power semiconductors continues to exceed available supply, prompting leading customers to sign multi-year capacity reservation agreements that give the chipmaker greater visibility while securing future supply for hyperscale AI deployments.
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infoworld.com
A trip down shareware lane
I hope you’ll indulge me this week as I take a break from my usual rantings about agentic coding and meander down memory lane.
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digitimes.com
Furukawa Electric to invest JPY100 billion to double rollable ribbon cable capacity in response to data center demand
Furukawa Electric said on August 4 that it will invest approximately JPY100 billion (approx.US$630 million) in total to expand production capacity for optical fibers and optical fiber cables, citing sustained growth in demand for high-quality optical fiber cables driven by hyperscale data center buildouts.
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marktechpost.com
NVIDIA Releases Alpamayo 2 Super: A 34B Open Vision-Language-Action Model for Robotaxis and Autonomous Driving Under OpenMDW-1.1
NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super, a 34B vision-language-action model for autonomous driving, under OpenMDW-1.1 — a permissive license covering fine-tuning, derivatives and commercial redistribution.
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digitimes.com
Naver taps Brookfield for up to US$9 billion in data center financing
Naver is considering an asset-light structure for a US$10 billion data center expansion under which a Brookfield-led investment vehicle would own GPUs and other infrastructure. At the same time, a Naver subsidiary would sell computing capacity and related services to customers.