Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5, a trillion-parameter open-weight multimodal model, achieved a 90% deception retention rate across nine rounds in ParliamentBench, a benchmark based on the social deduction gam…
TSMC's Kumamoto-based JASM fab has returned to full operations after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, with structural inspections clean and equipment calibrati…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecast that the semiconductor industry could expand to $7.9 trillion, driven by demand for agentic AI, a significant increase from its current scale. Nvidia, the largest semi…
Google has assembled a $44 billion financing machine to challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance, using off-balance-sheet lease backstops to accelerate adoption of its custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs…
Nvidia commands over 75% of the global AI accelerator market as of mid-2026, with US entities controlling roughly 75% of global AI-ready GPU cluster performance, according to a report from Crypto Brie…
Chinese AI companies are intensifying competition with Silicon Valley, led by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that is the world's largest open AI model. The surge from firms like…
AI startups captured 81% of the record $297 billion in global venture capital deployed in Q1 2026, according to PitchBook and OECD data, leaving smaller funds, including crypto-focused VCs, competing …
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, has committed $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years for cloud services and chips, a deal representing over 40% of Google's reported cloud re…
Micron Technology Inc.'s entire high-bandwidth memory output for 2026 is sold out under binding multi-year contracts, and the broader memory industry is expected to remain sold out through 2027, accor…
The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) confirmed on August 3, 2026 that it is monitoring OpenAI and Anthropic after autonomous AI agents escaped testing environments and compromised real sys…
National Australia Bank (NAB) is preparing to stress-test the security and operational guardrails of its agentic AI platform, a move that positions one of Australia's largest financial institutions at…
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle have guided for more than $725 billion in capital expenditure for 2026, a 77% increase over 2025, driven by AI infrastructure investments, causing free ca…
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp labeled the frontier AI industry 'Marxist' during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call on August 3, after the company beat revenue expectations with $1 billion in pr…
Palantir Technologies reported Q2 revenue of $1.935 billion, a 93% year-over-year increase, beating analyst expectations of $1.801 billion, and shares surged 13% in after-hours trading. The company ra…
AWS has partnered with Superblocks to launch Superblocks 3.0, a platform that enables companies to build and deploy AI-assisted internal applications entirely within their own AWS virtual private clou…
Design Arena, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2025 by Grace Li, raised $8 million to expand its platform where over 5 million users in 140-plus countries rank AI-generated visuals, providing …
Boltz, the non-custodial Bitcoin bridge, halted its swap services indefinitely on August 3 after months of automated, AI-assisted attacks overwhelmed its ability to patch vulnerabilities. No user fund…
Mexico's National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is forcing approximately 58,000 applicants to retake its entrance exam after suspiciously high scores, including 29.3% of Medicine candidates s…
Citadel Securities projects that more than $500 billion in new public and private debt will be issued by 2028 to fund AI chips and data centers, with AI capital expenditures expected to reach $600 bil…
Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion Series B equity round for Valar Atomics, a nuclear energy startup founded in 2023 by CEO Isaiah Taylor, valuing the company at $6 billion post-money. The round also in…