| 10:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: How politicians who once championed data centers, including Greg Abbott and Josh Shapiro, are now slowing their development as the issue becomes a liability |
| 8:36 PM • | New York Times: Sources: Anthropic's bankers said the company could raise $100B+ in its IPO, which could value it at $2T, in recent discussions with potential investors |
| 8:15 PM • | Sebastian Herrera / Fortune: Amazon raises prices for its Echo smart speakers, Fire TV line, Kindle devices, and eero mesh networking systems to offset increases in memory and storage costs |
| 7:55 PM • | Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Helcim, a payments processor for SMBs, raised a CA$53M Series C led by Business Development Bank of Canada's Growth Venture Fund at a CA$250M valuation |
| 7:10 PM • | Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: OpenAI says California should amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training, following AI agent hacks |
| 6:45 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Gurman: as part of Vision Pro cuts, Apple is largely shutting down a team focused on gaming and reducing the size of a unit producing immersive video content |
| 6:35 PM • | Rashika Singh / Reuters: Nvidia makes a minority investment in Cloverleaf, which works with utilities and energy providers to secure infrastructure for data center sites |
| 6:15 PM • | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol's API and credit prices by over 20% for the next three months, to $4/1M input tokens and $20/1M output tokens |
| 5:35 PM • | Katie Roof / Business Insider: Sources: Devoted Health, which uses AI to help coordinate medical care for those enrolled in Medicare Advantage, is raising new funding at a $25B valuation |
| 4:50 PM • | Terry Chen / NVIDIA Technical Blog: Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels |
| 4:25 PM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips |
| 4:10 PM • | Omarchy News: DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others |
| 3:45 PM • | Laura Bratton / The Information: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, has resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, and is returning to Salesforce, where she was Slack's CRO |
| 3:40 PM • | Ashley Gold / Axios: The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 |
| 3:06 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is cutting 200+ jobs, including ~100 positions from the Vision Pro unit and another 100 from the Siri team, as it focuses on new devices and AI |
| 2:35 PM • | Claude: Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools |
| 1:25 PM • | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September |
| 12:55 PM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Sources: the US Department of Energy is investigating whether Chinese lidar sensors might pose a security risk if they become widely used on vehicles in the US |
| 12:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Walmart, which has long resisted contactless Tap to Pay payments, says its stores will get the tech, which supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, by the end of 2026 |
| 11:55 AM • | Jamie John / Financial Times: Filings: Apple paid Ireland $17B in taxes in 2025, 40% of its $43B in global corporate income tax total, after an EU court ordered it to pay €13B in back taxes |
| 11:20 AM • | Financial Times: A Dutch regulator fines Uber €825M for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without informing them, in the second largest fine under GDPR |
| 11:00 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M |
| 9:50 AM • | Reuters: Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a company tentatively named KakaoAI and relist it on the Korea Exchange on January 27, 2027 |
| 9:10 AM • | Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Filings: The Shanghai Stock Exchange accepted China-based chipmaker YMTC's application to list its shares on the STAR Market; YMTC seeks to raise ~$4.9B |
| 9:00 AM • | Bloomberg: DeepSeek unveils an experimental multimodal version of its V4 Flash model, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on multimodal agentic tests |
| 8:35 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including recommendation algorithm changes aimed at making it easier for smaller creators to get discovered |
| 8:00 AM • | Financial Times: A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services |
| 7:15 AM • | Diana Olick / CNBC: CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with 394,300 jobs, beating the Bay Area's 375,730, amid SF job cuts and NYC finance sector hires |
| 6:40 AM • | Jenny Lee / CNBC: Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it “the largest ever by a Korean company” |
| 6:25 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition |
| 6:01 AM • | Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy |
| 4:55 AM • | CNBC: How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho: new millionaires, job growth, traffic, soaring housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution |
| 2:10 AM • | Dawn Kopecki / Reuters: How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M |
| 11:35 PM • | Marcela Ayres / Reuters: Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments, split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250M for a Rio supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek |
| 10:25 PM • | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M over eight months, putting its net annual run rate at $150M to $200M |
| 9:30 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 |
| 9:00 PM • | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: A New Jersey teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without payment; TikTok already settled her claims |
| 8:05 PM • | Tom Hals / Reuters: A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies |
| 6:51 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: OpenAI debuts an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT Work and Codex read, search, and analyze chats, draft and send messages, and more |
| 6:21 PM • | Amanda Gerut / Fortune: Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China |
| 5:45 PM • | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: Email: Apple tells music industry partners that songs tagged as “materially generated using AI” by content providers will now be visibly labeled on Apple Music |
| 4:55 PM • | Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub says its 7+ hour August 17 outage was caused by a capacity failure when peak traffic overwhelmed an infrastructure component in a Central US data center |
| 4:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies |
| 4:30 PM • | Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: Google rolls out an embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app on Android |
| 4:10 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Twin1 AI, which creates digital twins of professionals and integrates them with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, launches out of stealth with a $20M seed |
| 3:36 PM • | Newcomer: Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B Nvidia licensing deal; Nvidia invested $1B at a $12B pre-money valuation and offered jobs to 109 Poolside employees |
| 3:05 PM • | Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: Charter closes its $34.5B Cox acquisition, announced in May 2025, merging two of the big US cable and broadband providers, and completes its Liberty acquisition |
| 2:35 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after quietly launching it in Brazil in July |
| 2:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August |
| 2:10 PM • | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: Anthropic plans a change later in 2026 that still requires enterprises to retain data for 30 days but lets them do so on their own cloud infrastructure |
| 1:25 PM • | Google: Google DeepMind says its Gemma family of open models has surpassed 1B downloads and developers have published 100K+ Gemma model variants over the past two years |
| 1:20 PM • | Qianer Liu / The Information: Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules |
| 1:15 PM • | Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M |
| 1:10 PM • | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using internally over the past three years, in the US; Router is free to use for the rest of 2026 |
| 1:00 PM • | Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: Two US senators demand answers from TikTok about a “depraved” test that withheld a safety feature from 10% of US users, including a teenager who died by suicide |
| 12:10 PM • | Reuters: The Chinese city of Hangzhou deploys traffic-control robots that operate autonomously, using cameras and radar to signal traffic and flag violations |
| 11:15 AM • | Iain Martin / Forbes: Filing: in 2025, TikTok generated $702.5M in net profit in Europe, Africa, and Latin America, its first annual profit, on $9.1B in revenue, up 45.7% YoY |
| 10:55 AM • | Alexander Gladstone / Wall Street Journal: A bankruptcy court delays Google's $10M purchase of Spirit Airlines' data after former flight attendants objected, seeking assurance their info would be removed |
| 10:35 AM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from third parties like Nvidia |
| 9:25 AM • | Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Circana: US video game hardware spending fell 29% YoY in July to $282M, the lowest since COVID, shipments fell 39%, and average console prices grew 16% to $542 |
| 9:15 AM • | Julia Hornstein / The Information: Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode acquires four-year-old AI consultancy Casper Studios for an unknown amount; Ode employs 100+ after buying Fractional |
| 8:50 AM • | Douglas Gillison / Reuters: Study: 150+ Polymarket wallets may have traded on internal US military information, making $8M overall with a 97.2% average win rate and attracting copycat bets |
| 8:35 AM • | Robert Purchese / Eurogamer.net: GTA 6 leaker shares footage suggesting link or access to playable build of the game, as Rockstar struggles to contain even more gameplay videos |
| 8:20 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents “like teammates” across all plans |
| 7:40 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year to use trillions of AI tokens weekly via Azure, quietly becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers |
| 7:30 AM • | Hugo Lowell / Wired: Sources: Trump officials expect Elon Musk to spend $100M to $200M in the November midterm elections, with a focus on voter turnout in key races, including Texas |
| 7:15 AM • | Christine Chen / Reuters: Australia passes the News Bargaining Incentive, which will tax tech giants 2.5% on their Australian ad revenue if they don't strike deals with local news media |
| 7:00 AM • | Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: 4,000+ California-based startups have raised ~$366B in venture capital in 2026 so far, more than triple the total of all other 49 US states combined |
| 6:45 AM • | Yash Roy / Bloomberg: Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C; Google and Salesforce Ventures invested |
| 6:30 AM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Stripe's OpenRouter acquisition, its largest yet, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and tokens are the central currency for businesses |
| 6:20 AM • | Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to ~$39.64B, meeting est., and net income down 75% to ~$1.54B due to heavy AI spending and weak domestic retail consumption |
| 6:15 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users have to limit AI agents' access and trades |
| 6:10 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korean media: SK Hynix and its union reach a tentative deal, featuring a 6.3% salary increase and profit-sharing bonuses paid as 60% shares and 40% cash |
| 5:55 AM • | Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app |
| 2:50 AM • | Bloomberg: London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with models and chips, raised a $100M seed led by Atomico; the UK's Sovereign AI Fund also invested |
| 2:35 AM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Virginia's Loudoun County hosts 250+ data centers that bring in huge tax revenues, but in 2025, its board voted to slow construction after residents pushed back |
| 2:20 AM • | Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab: A look at Backstory, Google DeepMind's experimental AI image authentication tool that Google has asked journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers to test |
| 1:35 AM • | William Langley / Financial Times: China's humanoid robot makers derive much of their revenue from government-backed training centers that sell training data back to them, raising demand concerns |
| 1:20 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Sources: China is restricting or delaying exports to Taiwan of germanium- and quartz-based materials used in fiber optics, photonics, and chip manufacturing |
| 12:40 AM • | Michael Martina / Reuters: How Unitree's Go series, which helped the company dominate the quadruped robot market, drew on openly published US university research funded by the US military |
| 12:35 AM • | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: Pornhub says the UK's new internet age checks have boosted non-compliant porn sites, which occupied seven of the top 10 search results for “free porn” in June |
| 11:35 PM • | Jacob Parry / Politico: The EU seems to be shifting from outsized regulatory fines against Big Tech to technical DMA orders that force compliance, like sharing search data with rivals |
| 11:10 PM • | Bloomberg: At a White House event, Trump says CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring crypto platform Hyperliquid onshore; Hyperliquid's HYPE token jumps 18%+ |
| 10:15 PM • | Wall Street Journal: The US Army is phasing out its drone assault battalion, as part of a “back-to-basics” approach; it was created in January to learn from the conflict in Ukraine |
| 9:15 PM • | Alan Friedman / PhoneArena: Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected |
| 8:40 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M to date and had a $1.35B valuation in 2021 |
| 7:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Trump urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act at a White House event with execs, including the CEOs of Coinbase and Robinhood; the bill has stalled in the Senate |
| 6:10 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: YouTube is offering top creators millions to post videos exclusively on YouTube for a period and will penalize those that post to Netflix concurrently |
| 6:00 PM • | Reuters: Former Facebook Director of Engineering Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized Facebook and Instagram's growth and engagement over child safety |
| 5:00 PM • | Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: Google unveils new study tools, including a student hub, notebooks, and interactive 3D visualizations in Gemini, plus college student offers for Google AI plans |
| 3:50 PM • | Axios: Letter: Stripe told investors January 1 marked the “beginning of the singularity”, a major inflection point in long-term trends, and H1 revenue rose 41% YoY |
| 3:45 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: SpaceX approached Cognition about a potential acquisition, but Cognition didn't engage; Cognition CEO Scott Wu: the AI coding startup is “not for sale” |
| 3:34 PM • | CNBC: Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” |
| 3:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~$600M at a $6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~$1B in May, and has an initial ~$250M deal with Anthropic |
| 2:45 PM • | The Information: Source: Nvidia has discussed an investment in Mercor as part of a round valuing the startup at $20B; Nvidia paid Mercor tens of millions of dollars last quarter |
| 2:00 PM • | Erin Griffith / New York Times: Stripe agrees to acquire NYC-based OpenRouter; a source says Stripe is paying $7.5B, with $1.5B going to the startup's founders and $6B to its investors |
| 1:45 PM • | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: The US FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will “deploy enforcement resources” against companies that do not disclose it |
| 1:27 PM • | Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed |
| 1:25 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace |
| 1:20 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a new technique to identify misuse patterns while preserving zero data retention protections, with early customers |
| 12:40 PM • | Nicola M White / Bloomberg: The US CFTC bans former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang from trading for five years, as part of a settlement over their roles at FTX |
| 12:35 PM • | Loree Seitz / The Wrap: Nielsen rolls out changes to make its ratings more accurate, including using data from smartwatch-like devices worn by its panelists without requiring logins |
| 12:25 PM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Google Pixel 11 review: a great design, fantastic camera features, and some Pro phone specs, but few gen-to-gen hardware improvements and it's expensive at $899 |
| 12:20 PM • | Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Pixel 11 Pro review: Magic Capture can be useful and Rambler might be Google's best feature in years, but gaming performance is subpar and HiLight is useless |
| 12:15 PM • | Dominic Preston / The Verge: Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold review: a tougher body, an IP68 rating, and a decent triple rear camera, but an iterative hardware upgrade with a dated-looking design |
| 12:10 PM • | Victoria Song / The Verge: Google Pixel Watch 5 review: improved GPS is good and gesture controls are great, but it's $50 more expensive and the new health features haven't rolled out yet |
| 12:00 PM • | Alex Isenstadt / Axios: Memo: the GOP asks AI companies to stem the public backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill its chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio |
| 11:55 AM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Rivian spinout Also, which is developing autonomous driving tech, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital, after announcing a $200M round in March 2026 |
| 11:45 AM • | Brian Gormley / Wall Street Journal: Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M |
| 11:30 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's Bengaluru-based fintech Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional funding, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading all its users even if they don't subscribe to Prime |
| 11:20 AM • | Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical |
| 10:45 AM • | Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Sources: Nvidia is seeking to connect companies holding its GPUs with data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them in the Nordics |
| 10:15 AM • | Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: A hacker known as Cyberleek leaks two GTA VI gameplay clips and the full map in protest of Rockstar Games' digital-only release; Rockstar issues DMCA takedowns |
| 9:10 AM • | Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, and Marvell grants Google a warrant to buy as much as $12.2B of its shares; MRVL closes up 9.85% |
| 9:05 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise |
| 8:45 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it is supposed to hit theaters |
| 8:25 AM • | Wired: Reconstructed code from Flock's login pages reveals OS Investigate, a new AI system that integrates license plate scans, arrest records, case files, and more |
| 7:25 AM • | Financial Times: UK-based automotive dealership software maker Pinewood agrees to a £545M cash takeover by US private equity firm Ridgeview, after an Apax takeover fell through |
| 7:15 AM • | Matt Day / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to almost 500 cities and towns in the US by the end of 2026, a sixfold increase from its current footprint |
| 7:00 AM • | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI expands its ad pilot program to 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, after launching it in nine countries including the US |
| 6:45 AM • | Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: SMR startup Oklo is building its reactor in Idaho, a step toward supplying Meta data centers with power; the US has an estimated 22 active reactor projects |
| 6:30 AM • | Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg: Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% YoY |
| 6:15 AM • | Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Google Cloud is deploying context-creating AI agents within its tools to automate tasks handled by forward-deployed engineers; Google is hiring hundreds of FDEs |
| 6:05 AM • | Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breaches probe; WTC falls 8%+ |
| 5:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Samsung raised prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity |
| 5:45 AM • | Denny Thomas / Bloomberg: Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending |
| 4:15 AM • | Wall Street Journal: US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteeing jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers |
| 3:55 AM • | Alexander Martin / The Record: AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over key unanswered questions |
| 2:35 AM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Nvidia, with its quarterly free cash flow up 18x over three years to $48.5B, is using its strong balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat |
| 1:15 AM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 |
| 1:10 AM • | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging mobile carriers, which make 3% to 5% of their revenue from roaming |
| 12:45 AM • | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40/1M input tokens and $4.40/1M output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2; Kimi K3 costs $3/1M input and $15/1M output tokens |
| 12:15 AM • | Mike Stone / Reuters: Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa Ventures and First In |
| 11:30 PM • | Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add a 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads, but costs won't be passed on to customers |
| 11:15 PM • | Zijing Wu / Financial Times: Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent ~10K Nvidia H200 chips each in mainland China in recent weeks; US licenses permit the H200 in China and Hong Kong |
| 10:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Hangzhou deploys SUPCON's traffic-control robots, which operate autonomously from 7am to 6pm and use cameras and radar to direct traffic and flag violations |
| 10:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February |
| 9:20 PM • | Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+ |
| 8:30 PM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack with 50% fewer components built on its new Nexus architecture and powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips, available in Q3 2026 |
| 8:05 PM • | Pew Research Center: Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about the increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 |
| 7:15 PM • | Anthropic: Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and chemical analysis, and says it'll launch an access program for scientists |
| 6:50 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 sales grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B as its loss jumped 32% to $12.3B; Anthropic's sales grew 2x+ to $11.6B as it swung to a small operating profit |
| 6:35 PM • | @artificialanlys: Z.ai's GLM-5.3 scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points above GLM-5.2, on par with Kimi K3, but below Opus 5's 63 and Fable 5's 62 |
| 5:50 PM • | New York Times: Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's smart glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information” |
| 5:40 PM • | Allan Smith / NBC News: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials |
| 5:20 PM • | Reuters: In opening arguments, US state AGs say that Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejects the claims |
| 5:00 PM • | Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI decided to slow the development of some AI models due to a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” |
| 4:40 PM • | The Information: Sources: Anthropic prepares to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure; Amodei owns ~2% of Anthropic |
| 4:20 PM • | Bloomberg: The US SEC proposes exempting certain digital asset offerings from securities registration statements, with up to $5M for four years and up to $75M for one year |
| 3:00 PM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1 2026, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested across 2022 to 2024 |
| 2:10 PM • | Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold |
| 1:40 PM • | Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Comcast is rolling out Wi-Fi motion sensing to its Xfinity XB7 and newer gateways, a free opt-in feature that enables its routers to detect movement at home |
| 1:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its ~$10B target as banks compete for roles on the upcoming IPO; Anthropic could limit the size |
| 12:35 PM • | Bloomberg: The EU says it “welcomes Apple's changes”; Apple will reduce its fees in the EU, charging 26% for apps with IAP, 20% for alt payments, and 15% for link-outs |
| 12:10 PM • | Apple: Apple unveils new EU business terms from October 1, resolving disputes with the EU, including a new 5% Core Technology Commission and App Store commission tiers |
| 12:05 PM • | Melia Robinson / Business Insider: Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using its own version of Kimi K3 |
| 11:25 AM • | Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 |
| 11:20 AM • | Wired: Meta ran ads for a nudify app; one ad showed a porn video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician; Apple removed the app from the App Store |
| 11:05 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in January 2025 |
| 10:40 AM • | Shane Goldmacher / New York Times: Google quietly rolled out a new program to let verified political campaigns more easily bypass Gmail's spam filter, after years of complaints from the GOP |
| 10:25 AM • | Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: Velaura AI, which makes low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Hannah Lang / Reuters: As sweeping US crypto legislation stalls, the SEC and CFTC are moving to write new rules; the SEC is set to exempt certain token offerings from securities laws |
| 9:00 AM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Q&A with Proton CEO Andy Yen on Proton's story, dislodging “a hundred million people” from Google, AI backlash, privacy, US politics, EU Chat Control, and more |
| 8:45 AM • | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: Klarna says CFO Niclas Neglén and CMO David Sandström plan to step down in early 2027, and lowers its full-year GMV guidance to $149B-$151B; KLAR falls 23% |
| 7:56 AM • | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: How a bipartisan coalition of US states fought to present a united case against Meta; District Judge Rogers adopted a hybrid structure for the multiweek trial |
| 7:41 AM • | Julian Chokkattu / Wired: Dutch company Fairphone launches its $650 flagship repairable Fairphone (Gen. 6+) in the US and plans to keep launching new phone generations every two years |
| 7:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand |
| 7:06 AM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails |
| 7:01 AM • | Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models |
| 6:45 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit launches an early experiment to create short videos featuring AI voices reading select text posts and comments, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android |
| 6:35 AM • | Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform aimed at helping businesses use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock is up 40%+ since a June low |
| 6:26 AM • | Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July |
| 6:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its plan to retire the OS in February 2027 |
| 6:00 AM • | Madeleine Cuff / New Scientist: Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts to reduce warming due to contrails |
| 5:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals |
| 5:42 AM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC references unreleased products: a Home Hub, home accessories, two new Beats, AirPods Pro 4, Apple Intelligence in China, and more |
| 4:00 AM • | Michael Acton / Financial Times: In filings, Apple acknowledges App Store regulatory changes are weighing on its $100B+ services business; US App Store spend fell 6% YoY in Q2, per Sensor Tower |
| 2:25 AM • | Jason Parham / Wired: Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool for making Hollywood-quality adult content |
| 1:00 AM • | Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch |
| 11:20 PM • | Associated Press: Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil, after the country's data protection authority ordered it last week, saying Discord failed to protect children and teens |
| 10:50 PM • | Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia: Sources: Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel phone, smartwatch, and wireless earbud manufacturing out of China in 2027 amid US-China tensions |
| 9:55 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: A short video found in Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence and Siri to answer questions |
| 8:45 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount and gave a 12-hour deadline as it scrambled for cash at the end of July |
| 6:25 PM • | David Sacks / @davidsacks: David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas |
| 5:40 PM • | Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Pornhub parent company Aylo agrees to pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from CSAM |
| 5:20 PM • | Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B |
| 5:05 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Opening arguments begin on Tuesday in the US state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” |
| 5:00 PM • | Stacy Cowley / New York Times: BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B via pay-later loans in 2025, nearly 2x from 2023 |
| 4:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May 2026, $19B in March 2026, $9B in December 2025, and $4B in July 2025 |
| 3:05 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed from 8VC, Nova, and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts |
| 1:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies |
| 1:30 PM • | Cursor: Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more |
| 1:25 PM • | Emma Roth / The Verge: YouTube plans to count a view as soon as a video begins playing, starting on August 24, lining up with the systems used by Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts |
| 1:20 PM • | James Nani / Bloomberg Law: Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models |
| 1:00 PM • | Tobias Burns / CNBC: Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations |
| 11:50 AM • | Simon Foy / Financial Times: Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board removing TS Anil as CEO in December |
| 11:30 AM • | Reuters: A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers |
| 10:55 AM • | Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Microsoft says the outage affecting GitHub's API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services has been mitigated, three hours after it first confirmed the outage |
| 10:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new Ohio data center campus OpenAI is set to lease; Nvidia agrees to invest $1.5B in SB Energy |
| 10:10 AM • | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility |
| 10:00 AM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, an autonomous control appliance for retrofitting onto excavators |
| 9:50 AM • | Lawrence Delevingne / Reuters: Trump-backed WLF is working with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw are from Chinese companies flagged as security risks |
| 9:40 AM • | Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029 |
| 9:05 AM • | Greg Brockman: Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses |
| 9:00 AM • | Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center |
| 8:55 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent |
| 8:25 AM • | Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively valued at $250B+ YTD; Nvidia leads the sector with a record 59 known rounds, up from 53 in 2025 |
| 7:25 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers |
| 6:45 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities |
| 6:30 AM • | Anton Zverev / Reuters: Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy's transaction history and passport number, leading to terrorism charges |
| 6:10 AM • | Financial Times: An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 |
| 5:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B target earlier in August after investor meetings |
| 5:45 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their ~$600B in reported capex |
| 4:35 AM • | Robert Booth / The Guardian: AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing |
| 3:45 AM • | Bob Tita / Wall Street Journal: How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment |
| 1:25 AM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Qwen3.8-27B shows an open-weight general purpose model can have a long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation |
| 1:10 AM • | James Fontanella-Khan / Financial Times: AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B+ in January |
| 12:45 AM • | Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: Chainalysis sues the US government over ICE's ~$94.6M contract to buy forensic software and services from its competitor TRM Labs, calling the deal “arbitrary” |
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