As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one of the largest single producers of greenhouse gases in the US, according to the New York Times.
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.
What makes a good tutor? How TutorMoments works Preliminary results Limitations and next steps 📄 Tech Report: https://tutormoments.allen.ai/static/paper/tutormoments-preview.pdf | 📊 Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/tutormoments-preview | 💻...
The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia, establishing a new AI computing hub powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and Dell Technologies high-performance AI infrastructure.
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
Rohm Semiconductor reported sharply higher first-quarter results on August 5, 2026, as recovering demand for automotive power semiconductors and strong AI-linked data center business drove growth.
OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
This one wasn’t a rout, but GPT Image 2 API did enough to take the matchup on points. It won more tasks, posted the higher aggregate score, and—crucially—looked more reliable whenever exact prompt adherence and layout discipline mattered.
Google began a gradual rollout on August 6, 2026, of an "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step in Workspace Studio.
Agent found to be able to find and exploit vulnerabilities without human intervention, and to carry out cyber-attacks OpenAI will pause some work on an artificial intelligence model because of security concerns, the company stated Friday, following a series of incidents in which AI agents have escaped containment.
Taiwanese ecommerce platform PChome24h is packaging RTX 5090 GPUs with a crazy number of motherboards, entry-to-mid-range GPUs, and several other components. While interesting, these combos are alarming as they show the direction that the PC building industry is headed.
Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary.
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans.
Residents of Gilroy, California, were caught by surprise when an Amazon data center started construction in their city. Negotiations for the project started in 2020, with public comments open until 2024, but it flew under the radar.
Gemini Omni makes creating videos as easy as having a conversation. Here’s how five people use it to edit videos and visualize ideas.
Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each other's status. The article Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals appeared first on The Decoder.
Intel’s orbital data center architecture uses powerful higher-orbit satellites to manage LEO constellations, reducing reliance on terrestrial control centers.
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety.
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity.
Anthropic and other AI companies have been caught slicing up old books to create training data for their LLMs.
ChatPlayground lets you compare multiple AI models, and lifetime access is only $60
Founder Ahmed Beshry is selling a second startup after Caper, and his new team will work on ChatGPT's creation and communication tools.
How do you cool a giant rack of AI hardware? With an even bigger heat exchanger. Delta's GoCool-150 is a liquid-to-air CDU that is designed to dissipate 150kW of heat from NVL72 and other high-density liquid cooled racks The post Delta’s GoCool-150 Goes Big To Enable 150kW Liquid-To-Air Cooling for ASRock Rack’s...
Nvidia just open sourced the interface GPUs use to reach storage and got Intel to help maintain software designed to take its own silicon out of the I/O path.
Researchers scour social media to measure developer concerns about AI coding tools
Google DeepMind released WeatherNext Cyclones after National Hurricane Center forecasters used its guidance during the 2025 season, allowing independent scrutiny of the model's claimed one-day accuracy gain.
Anthropic has updated Claude Code so that separate coding sessions can message each other directly, removing the need to manually copy context between Terminal windows.
xAI has released Imagine Image 2.0 as a new image generator for Grok. The model ranks second in the Arena benchmarks, just behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2.
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single yes/no question instead of a fixed harm taxonomy.
OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place.
Careful what you wish for. The post Weird Town Begs for AI Data Center appeared first on Futurism.
Anthropic replaces prompt fatigue with measured agent controls, while summary handoffs, role-aware multi-agent RL...
Anthropic made me wonder whether AI learns from science fiction — so I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude one fascinating question. Which sci-fi AI are you most like?
OpenAI has announced that it is deliberately slowing the development of Astra, its upcoming frontier AI model, after internal evaluations revealed advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity that could push the system into “Critical” risk territory.
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that one of its unreleased large language models may pose a significant cybersecurity risk.
Compeq Manufacturing said on August 6 that satellite and data center demand helped lift second-quarter performance, with revenue reaching a record for the period and management expecting further gains through the rest of 2026.
The 2026 OCP APAC Summit will take place in Taipei on August 11-12. Ahead of the event, Lightmatter founder and CEO Nicholas Harris spoke exclusively with DIGITIMES about the company's advantages after joining the Nvidia NVLink ecosystem, its technology roadmap and the importance of close collaboration with...
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of artificial intelligence software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding.
I knew OpenAI’s Black Hat 40-minute debrief was a big story, but I didn’t expect my reporting to go viral — or to spark so much alarm. Here’s what security experts at the conference made of it.
This is a big deal for any frontier lab. Also: exposing the AI data leak to China, reactions to Google's AI leader moves, and more.
Users running the latest version of Claude Code on macOS and Linux can now have their sessions message each other to share findings, ask questions, and coordinate work. Here are the details.
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 from xAI is now available on Vercel AI Gateway as a preview, an image generation and editing model that plans typography and layout together and renders small text sharply.
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love dangerous AI
Sam Altman says OpenAI still plans broad access, but the lab is tightening controls around a model with potentially critical cyber capabilities.
Anthropic released cross-session messaging in Claude Code v2.1.224 on August 7, enabling eligible sessions on macOS and Linux to exchange text messages.
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever.
The board of SK hynix Inc., a major data center memory supplier, today approved the construction of two new fabs.
Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, California, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a campaign to steal the iPhone maker's trade secrets via former employees as it tries to develop its own consumer hardware device.
OpenAI today said it is "pausing" activities involving its upcoming AI model Astra, because its cyber capabilities are potentially too dangerous.
NVIDIA Labs has open-sourced NOOA (NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents), a model-agnostic Python framework for building AI agents.
OpenAI is working on a feature that allows users to export custom stickers created on ChatGPT straight into WhatsApp. Here are the details.
Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more. Additionally, a robust lineup of companies in sectors including AI, e-commerce, cybersecurity, biotech and even mining also announced sizable new rounds.
Internal tests of OpenAI's new AI model Astra show cybersecurity capabilities so strong that the company can no longer rule out the highest risk level in its own safety framework.
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago.
The news was first reported by market intelligence company Cleanview, which reviewed satellite imagery to connect three data center construction permits filed this week by Amazon to the gas plant, which is being developed by Pacifico Energy and is known as GW Ranch.
AI helps patch a signature check to always say "yes" on a specific HP laptop using a hardware flasher.
Hidden inside Grok Build 1.0, the Computer Hub command can turn a developer's local workspace into a remotely accessible tool server.
Our top-rated desktop computer for professionals comes with Intel Core Ultra 7 265, Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti, 32GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
Claude Code auto mode will become the default permission setting for users next week. Starting August 14, sessions for Pro, Max, and Team users will use it unless a user or administrator has pinned another setting.
The ChatGPT maker is reportedly working on a small, portable AI smart speaker, but it better not look too much like Apple’s designs.
If Google Assistant is headed for the graveyard, let's at least try to save what we can.
NV Energy filed suit on July 24, 2026, asking a Nevada court to stop private arbitration over power agreements for two Reno-area data center campuses.
AMD is buying Canadian startup Taalas, which hard-codes model weights directly into inference chips.
Anthropic has cut false positives in its biology safety filters for Fable 5 by about 85 percent.
Daon, the Digital Identity Trust Company, has been granted a new patent aimed at tackling one of the toughest production hurdles facing agentic AI within regulated sectors.
The lab is tightening internal security around its next major model after saying it cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities.
nCino, the platform for agentic AI banking, has introduced new functionality allowing lenders to link MCP-compatible AI agents straight into the nCino Mortgage Suite.
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts.
For a little under a year, everyone — myself included — has compared NVIDIA to Enron, largely because NVIDIA insisted, in detail, that it was nothing like Enron, WorldCom, or Lucent, a potent example of the Streisand Effect that would be much funnier if NVIDIA wasn’t holding up
We have fresh rumors on OpenAI's AI hardware, but what do they really mean? We turned to Gemini and ChatGPT for fresh perspective, renders, and have new thoughts about why the gadget still won't work for us.