OpenAI completed a roughly $7 billion tender offer for employee shares at an implied $852 billion valuation, with the company itself buying the shares rather than outside investors, CNBC reported Mond…
Meta released the weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter multimodal model under the Apache 2.0 license, aimed at local agentic and coding workloads, and said it plans to publish weights for …
Discovered Materials raised $9 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and angel investors including Paul Graham, to use AI age…
Ford Motor Company is rolling out an AI assistant to its Ford and Lincoln mobile apps, offering up to 8 million customers a free chatbot that answers vehicle-specific questions using owner-manual cont…
A July 31 inventory by researcher Michael Bommarito counted 533 local-government moratorium instruments across 42 U.S. states, but only 435 are active or extended, and the total covers data centers, c…
A modder demonstrated access to the full Windows desktop inside Nvidia's GeForce NOW cloud-gaming service by manipulating an Install-to-Play Steam title, turning a paid gaming session into a general-p…
Intel Corporation announced a proposed $15 billion underwritten common-stock offering, with a 30-day option for underwriters to sell up to $2.25 billion of additional shares, to fund AI and foundry ex…
JPMorgan raised its S&P 500 year-end target to 8,000 from 7,800, citing strong second-quarter earnings and evidence that AI investment is translating into customer demand. The new target implies appro…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported July revenue of NT$467.6 billion, up 44.7% year over year and 5.6% month over month, according to CNBC. The chipmaker's strong sales reflect sust…
Nvidia is reportedly preparing to invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, a Texas power infrastructure developer behind the OpenAI and Oracle data-center campus in Abilene, Texas, according to The Informa…
OpenAI is slowing work on its unreleased Astra model after internal evaluations indicated it could not rule out a 'Critical' cybersecurity capability rating under its Preparedness Framework, prompting…
Situational Awareness invested $400 million in Source Foundry, a stealth semiconductor-manufacturing startup founded by Stanford researchers Abdulmalik Obaid and Joe Burg, bringing its reported total …
Anthropic will make Auto Mode the default permission setting for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans starting August 14, moving routine approval decisions from developers to a classifi…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide in an undisclosed deal that closed earlier in 2026, according to founder Ahmed Beshry, who announced the transaction on August 8. NextSlide's tool co…
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, an experimental open-weight model that converts the Gemma 4 architecture into a discrete text-diffusion system using less than 10% of Gemma 4's original traini…
Amazon has confirmed its involvement in a planned artificial-intelligence data center campus in West Texas that would receive power from Pacifico Energy's GW Ranch private-grid project, according to r…
Amazon confirmed its planned Pecos County, Texas data center will use new on-site generation and initially will not connect to the wider Texas grid, with the associated Pacifico Energy GW Ranch projec…
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones model delivered an average lead-time advantage of a day or more over leading operational tropical-cyclone models for track, intensity, and wind-radius forecasts,…
Anthropic has added cross-session messaging to Claude Code, enabling parallel coding sessions to exchange plain-text messages without sharing conversation history or files. The feature requires Claude…
NASA's decision to pause the Gateway lunar-orbit station is redirecting Northrop Grumman's HALO module and Canada's Canadarm3 robotic system toward potential lunar-surface base roles. NASA issued a st…