Tech

A look at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Merlin Bird ID app, which has been downloaded 42M times since launching in 2014 and can identify 11,000 bird species (www.ft.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: DeepSeek is set to soon raise $7.4B at a $74B valuation from existing and new investors to fund R&D and its expansion into computing infrastructure (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (www.seroundtable.com)
2026-8-27 Google AI

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-27 India AI

Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (www.techdirt.com)
2026-8-27

Sources: the US is probing Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling servers with Nvidia AI chips to China; Apex says it is cooperating (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 China AI Singapore Nvidia Logistics

Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (www.platformer.news)
2026-8-27

Filing: Nvidia says it has $18B committed to equity investments for the rest of the fiscal year and held $47.9B in private companies as of late July (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia Equity

Arturo Béjar, a key witness in state AGs' trial against Meta, says terms of the settlement are insufficient to protect young users; Meta rejects the criticism (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-27

Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27 AI Bill Gates

Anthropic gives Claude Cowork its own built-in browser on the desktop app separate from users' day-to-day browser, rolling out to paying subscribers (thenewstack.io)
2026-8-27 Browser

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft Startup

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-27 AI

METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face (metr.org)
2026-8-27

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a $6B valuation; 1X sought $1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-27 Robot

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Google

Okta reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $805M, vs. $795M est., net income up 73% YoY to $116M, and raises its full-year guidance; OKTA surges 20% after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-27

Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-27 Microsoft Nvidia

Trump signs an EO banning the use of certain foreign-made bulk-power equipment, including associated critical software, deemed to pose national security risks (cyberscoop.com)
2026-8-27 Trump

Salesforce and Anthropic unveil Claudeforce, which brings Salesforce data and workflows into Claude, starting with a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-27 Salesforce

OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27

Nvidia forecasts Q3 revenue of $108B, above a $104B estimate, and expects FY 2028 revenue to grow by about 70%; NVDA jumps 4%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia

Brazil's government sues Discord for $97M, accusing it of failing to comply with laws protecting children and teens; Discord calls the lawsuit disproportionate (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-27 Brazil

Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-27 WordPress

Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-27 Google AI

AWS plans to add 2M Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs to its data center fleet in 2027 and 2028, in addition to 1M GPUs announced in March (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27 Nvidia

China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-27 China Google Amazon Microsoft

CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, vs. $1.44B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; CRWD jumps 9%+ after hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-27

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