Riot Platforms (RIOT) shares surged about 25% in after-hours trading after Bloomberg reported that Anthropic agreed to purchase 191 MW of computing capacity from the Bitcoin miner's Rockdale, Texas, c…
Tenet Security unveiled the Ghostjacking attack at DEFCON 34 on August 9, demonstrating a 90% success rate against Claude Code under Cloudflare's default settings by poisoning logs from platforms like…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is targeting an IPO as late as October after confidentially filing with the SEC, with prediction markets pricing a 61% likelihood of an IPO by October 2026 and…
Anthropic has signed a $9.1 billion agreement with Riot, a Bitcoin mining and AI data center services company, to secure computing power for its AI solutions. The deal aligns with market pricing that …
Nvidia announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to create financing platforms targeting over $500 billion in third-party capital for AI infrastruct…
China's largest AI industrial park, Envision Group's Galaxy Campus in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, became operational around August 6, featuring a 120,000-square-meter main building designed to house up t…
Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's AI Ethics Lead, has left the company after less than one year, joining a wave of safety and ethics departures that has seen about 50% of OpenAI's safety researchers exit since …
Anthropic will embed machine-readable watermarks into all text generated by Claude models launched after August 2, 2026, complying with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice. The watermarks, …
BlackRock's updated Geopolitical Risk Dashboard now flags the U.S.-China competition over artificial intelligence as a top-tier systemic risk for investors, placing it alongside active military confli…
Amazon Web Services announced integrations between its AWS Continuum security service and Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and AWS's own Kiro AI coding tools, embedding real-time vulnerability…
Cathie Wood, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, predicts the Federal Reserve will not tighten monetary policy in 2026, citing a 'coiled spring' economy driven by AI productivity gains and falling inflation. W…
Microsoft Corp. reduced its calendar year 2026 capital expenditure forecast by roughly $15 billion to approximately $175 billion due to an accounting change that extends the estimated useful life of d…
KICK, a new ETF issuer with no verifiable track record, has filed with regulators for AI and space-themed exchange-traded funds, entering a crowded market where at least nine space ETFs have been laun…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed in early June 2026 that Nvidia has qualified Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology as suppliers of HBM4 memory for its Vera Rubin AI accelerator platfo…
Value Aligned Research Advisors' flagship VAR AI Fund fell 44% in July 2026, erasing nearly half its value amid a broader selloff in AI stocks, though year-to-date returns remain positive at 65%. The …
WebAI, an Austin-based AI company, released its TwiL-LM family of formal-logic reasoning models on August 10, with the flagship TwiL-LM3, a 3B-parameter model, outperforming OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B on f…
Brex open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP/HTTPS proxy that monitors AI agents' network traffic to enforce governance, on April 21, 2026, and it has gained over 700 GitHub stars. The tool uses static rules f…
BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners and the AI Infrastructure Partnership signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with North America's Building Trades Unions on August 10, 2026, to con…
Wall Street's expected 2026 capital spending by major cloud providers has surged 71% to $789 billion, up from $460 billion six months ago, driven by AI infrastructure demand. Goldman Sachs estimates h…
OpenAI launched its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative on May 12, 2026, introducing two AI models—Daybreak Blue for defensive security and Daybreak Red for authorized penetration testing—both powered b…