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Michael, in a discussion on designing memory systems for long-running AI agents, advises that the runtime, not the model, should serve as the memory system, with applications making final decisions on durable memory. He …
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, on August 11, 2026, as part of a strategy to give away AI models for free to boost GPU sales. The chipmaker also provides free hosted i…
Io.github.primeline-ai/kairn, a local-first knowledge engine for AI agents providing memory, graph, and recall over MCP, released version 0.2.1 to the official MCP registry on 2026-08-24. The package, filed under Memory …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton proposed a four-point federal legislative platform on August 24 that would ban Chinese-linked technology in U.S. data centers and impose criminal liability on data center operators whose…
Cloudflare released Kitesurf, a browser engine for AI agents with zero Chromium code, during its Agents Week 2026 event. The engine runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers, uses up to 7x less memory than headless Chrom…
Meta has released MetaRoCE, a new RDMA transport protocol designed for AI workloads on commodity Ethernet, through the Open Compute Project (OCP), including a specification, reference software implementation, and complia…
On August 18, 2026, stablecoin infrastructure company Rain launched the Agentic Payments Alliance, a 26-member coalition including Visa, Mastercard, Circle, the Solana Foundation, Uniswap Labs, Fiserv, Fireblocks, Chaina…
Parallel, founded in 2023 by Parag Agrawal, launched Index, a platform that pays content creators when AI agents use their work, with compensation based on the Shapley value of contribution. The service, backed by Sequoi…
OneTriangle, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company, launched hosted DeepSeek V4 Flash inference on August 24 at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with CEO Hannah Chung claiming it is the "f…
MobileX announced a strategic investment from CONX Corporation (OTC: CNXX), giving CONX a controlling interest and injecting new capital to accelerate growth. Charlie Ergen, EchoStar Founder, CEO, and Chairman, and CONX …
Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, the engineer who founded Google's custom-chip program and ran its Tensor Processing Unit business, to lead its in-house silicon effort as the Claude maker builds its own hardware. Salek, w…
Apple Inc. is developing AirPods with integrated cameras for 'Visual Intelligence,' according to code references in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC build, with the cameras capturing low-resolution images (640×640 in active mode,…
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform that raised $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation in August 2023, is reportedly exploring a sale at a price around $13 billion, nearly triple its previous valuation. The platfor…
NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy its Vera CPUs to accelerate agentic AI applications and power orbital AI data centers with the Starmind satellite. The Vera CPU, featuring 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and u…
Data centers have become the largest driver of surging electricity demand straining US power grids, but the AI boom has accelerated investment in solid-state power transformers that replace 1880s-era technology with mode…
Ars Technica reports that solid-state transformers are emerging as a key technology for data centers, driven by the energy demands of AI, with potential applications in EV charging and residential power. The technology p…
Apple is expected to raise iPhone prices by at least $100 on the iPhone 18 Pro and other products at its September event, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, potentially making the iPhone 18 Pro start at $1,200, up fro…
SpaceX's Starlink has deployed xAI's Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 customer support calls daily, resolving 70% of issues autonomously and converting 20% of inbound inquiries into orders, according to a report fro…
Rocketable founder and CEO Alan Wells predicted on August 24th that CEOs will be offered a one-click system for installing advanced AI across their businesses within six months, by February 24th, 2027. Wells described th…
NVent Electric has agreed to acquire Maverick Power, a North American manufacturer of engineered power distribution equipment, for a base price of $1.75 billion plus up to $550 million in earn-outs tied to 2027 and 2028 …