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US data-center construction spending hit $45.1 billion per month by December 2025, an 85% jump from two years prior, driven by AI compute demand. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Orac…

Google is developing a new 'Map' option for Ask Photos in the Google Photos app (v7.89.0.966319819) that will display search results overlaid on a map when photos have geolocation metadata, according …

Basis, a free crypto terminal, launched on Hacker News with an AI agent that operates 67 tools directly in the terminal, allowing users to load data, compute indicators, draw on charts, screen markets…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Muse Glimmer, a new AI model released under an open source licence, on Aug. 10 and said the weights of Meta's flagship model, Muse Spark, would follow. The move exten…

A Gallup poll found that 70% of Americans oppose AI data center construction in their local area, with 39% of Republicans strongly opposed, creating a political liability for GOP incumbents ahead of t…

Big Tech companies, including Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI, are scrambling to address a growing public and regulatory backlash against artificial intelligence, according to a Wall Street Journal repo…

Google's Mandiant disclosed that its internal Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH), which uses chains of AI agents to hunt for source code vulnerabilities, found over 100 verified high-sever…

A Pew Research Center survey found that for the first time since 2021, a majority of U.S. adults under 30 are more concerned than excited about AI, signaling a potential challenge for companies bettin…

Silicon Valley is losing the public fight over AI data centers, with local opposition blocking or delaying $64 billion in projects between May 2024 and March 2025, according to a Gallup poll showing 7…

A new study by Futurum finds that 22% of enterprises now prioritize revenue growth and profitability as the primary ROI metrics for AI projects, ahead of productivity at 18%, as boards scrutinize AI s…

Chinese AI video-generation models now dominate the global leaderboard, occupying nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analysis, with ByteDance, MiniMax Group, Alibaba Group Holding,…

OpenAI is rolling out new safety features for teen users of ChatGPT, including the ability to switch off the human voice response, regular reminders that ChatGPT is AI, and quiet times when the tool i…

Google has bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' data, raising questions about dynamic pricing and potential AI applications. The bid could enable Google to use the data in services like Google Flights…

In 2026, the top AI platforms like Chat GPT have evolved into agentic workflow engines capable of managing entire marketing funnels, according to a blog post from Marketing So High. The post advises B…

AI News Digest for Aug 19 covers 30 stories, including Galbot preparing a new humanoid for August robot showcases, Leopold Aschenbrenner losing $30 billion by betting too heavily, and State Farm lawye…

AI pioneer Rich Sutton said on Sequoia's podcast that using synthetic data to train large language models is 'a big mistake,' arguing that manufactured data cannot capture the complexity of the real w…

Hims & Hers CEO Andrew Dudum said companies with large datasets can cut AI costs by 70% to 80% by using open-weight models instead of big proprietary AI models, citing his company's patient data as a …

A developer's comparison of Chinese and US AI APIs in 2026 reveals that Chinese models like DeepSeek V4 Flash offer comparable performance to GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost, with output tokens price…

A Pew Research Center survey of 3,488 U.S. adults conducted June 22-28, 2026, found that 55% of adults under 30 are more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence, up from 39% in 2024, and …

Anthropic reported Q2 revenue of $11.6 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. The company's growth has boosted market confidence, with prediction markets showing a 98.2% probability of Anthrop…