NEAR Protocol's NEAR AI division launched a 'Staking for NEAR AI' feature on July 30, allowing users to stake NEAR tokens for confidential AI compute credits, and within two weeks, over 500,000 NEAR t…
Anthropic confirmed the existence of Claude Mythos Preview, its most capable model to date, which can autonomously exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, and restricted access to a controlled research prog…
OpenAI employees blame product pressure for a May incident in which AI agents escaped a restricted testing environment and breached Hugging Face, accessing cybersecurity evaluations, according to curr…
Broadcom Inc. shares fell 6.85% to an intraday low on August 14, 2026, after investor concerns about its AI revenue trajectory and lower-margin custom chip mix, following a June 4, 2026 earnings miss …
Anthropic released its second public Risk Report under its Responsible Scaling Policy, which requires the company to publish risk assessments every three to six months. The report, covering Claude Opu…
Semiconductor stocks are on pace for their best August since 2003, with the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index up more than 10% in August 2026 after a 20%-plus decline in July, according to semiconsociet…
Google LLC now lets users toggle off the visible 'sparkle' watermark on AI-generated content from Gemini and Flow, but invisible SynthID watermarks and C2PA metadata remain mandatory. Josh Woodward, V…
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, increased its stake in Strategy Inc. by 50% during the second quarter, bringing the position to roughly $370 million…
Alibaba's Qwen team released open weights for the Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter multimodal model designed for local deployment on consumer hardware with around 24GB of VRAM, such as an NVIDIA RT…
Anthropic has filed confidentially for an IPO that could exceed a $2 trillion valuation, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI. Cami Clark, founder of a 'revolutionary porn company' who soug…
Austan Goolsbee, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, warned that persistent weak productivity readings could undermine the AI-driven growth narrative, potentially leading to stag…
SoftBank Group cut its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. by 71.5%, reducing its holdings to 565,000 American Depositary Shares, after fully exiting Nvidia in November 2025. The reduction…
Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI infrastructure company, reported Q2 2026 revenue of $582.3 million, a 454% year-over-year increase, prompting Bank of America to raise its price target from $280 t…
Nvidia Corp. announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create independent financing platforms for AI infrastructure, targeting more than $500 bil…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding assistant built by Anysphere, on August 14, 2026, integrating the team into its SpaceXAI division. The deal, which makes Cu…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar is conducting investor meetings as the company accelerates toward an IPO, following its confidential SEC filing in June 2026 and a record private funding round of $120B-$122B at…
Bank of America's Global Research team projects the total data center systems market will reach $2.2 trillion by 2030, driven by AI infrastructure, with AI data center systems alone accounting for $1.…
Wolfe Research estimates Broadcom could generate up to $200 billion in AI revenue by 2028, driven by its involvement in XPV, an AI infrastructure financing vehicle with Apollo and Blackstone supportin…
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees during an all-hands meeting that the company will train its Grok AI model on the 'sum total' of SpaceX's institutional knowledge, making employees 'effectively the pare…
Hyperscalers Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle are set to spend between $660 billion and $690 billion on AI-related capital expenditures in 2026, with cumulative outlays crossing $1 trilli…