Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, has acted as an informal strategic adviser since the company's founding, helping facilitate a connection with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt that contri…
Vertiv Holdings, an 80-year-old maker of critical digital infrastructure, has seen its market cap balloon from under $11 billion to between $100 billion and $113 billion since going public in early 20…
Ormat Technologies, the world's largest geothermal operator with approximately 1,835 MW of total capacity, is pivoting to Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) to supply 24/7 clean power to AI data center…
OpenAI has acquired the team behind InstantDB, a real-time database platform serving over 17,000 users and powering 400,000 applications, to enhance its AI application infrastructure. The deal, announ…
Goldman Sachs reported on August 19 that artificial intelligence is measurably slowing job openings growth across major developed economies, with US call center employment falling 39% below its histor…
Google Cloud AI Research, with researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and UNC Chapel Hill, introduced EnvHarness, a programmable wrapper that adapts AI training environments to target age…
Broadcom Inc.'s credit default swap spread surged to a record 122 basis points after the company announced a massive off-balance-sheet debt structure, potentially reaching $100 billion, to finance cus…
President Trump hinted that Anthropic, the AI lab led by Dario Amodei, may have achieved a medical breakthrough, saying he had seen something that morning about a 'pretty unstoppable disease.' The rem…
Linus Torvalds, creator and lead maintainer of the Linux kernel, merged a one-line fix to Intel's Xe graphics driver on August 21, 2026, after a debugging session that required 24 debug patches and 18…
Anthropic's flagship Opus 4.6 model, released on February 5, 2026, with a 1 million token context window, can be tricked into generating sexually explicit content using simple prompt techniques, accor…
Microsoft has received the first production Vera Rubin systems from Nvidia, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed on August 21, 2026, making Microsoft one of the earliest adopters of Nvidia's next-generation AI…
OpenAI, in a letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom dated August 12, 2025, urged the state to adopt stricter, harmonized AI regulations aligned with federal and international standards, reversing …
Anthropic's impending IPO filing will list AI backlash as a risk factor, according to sources cited by CNBC. Market pricing indicates a decreased likelihood of Anthropic achieving a market cap above $…
X launched its Managed Campaign Protocol (MCP) on August 21, enabling AI agents like Grok and Anthropic's Claude to create, manage, and optimize ad campaigns through natural language, with all new cam…
Applied Atomics, founded by former SpaceX engineers Ben Kellie and Paul Keutelian, licensed the dormant mPower small modular reactor design from BWXT on June 17, 2026, to power AI data centers. The 19…
Ionic Digital, the digital infrastructure company formed from Celsius Mining's bankruptcy assets, increased its Bitcoin treasury by 21 BTC to 2,882 BTC, valued at approximately $168.7 million as of Ju…
The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index graded Anthropic as the top performer with a C+ (2.66/4.0), followed by OpenAI with a C (2.28), while Google DeepMind scored a C (2.01), Meta…
Anthropic announced on August 5, 2026, the formation of an in-house custom silicon team to design proprietary AI chips, aiming to cut inference costs and reduce dependence on Nvidia, AMD, and Google. …
AT&T reduced its AI coding costs by 56% with only a 2% decline in performance by routing routine employee queries to cheaper open-source models via LiteLLM, processing 45 billion tokens daily on its i…
Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is assembling an in-house custom silicon team to design AI chips tailored to its Claude models, hiring a veteran from Google's chip organization to lead t…