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Sources: Moonshot AI is in early talks over revenue-sharing agreements with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to host Kimi K3, and is seeking up to a 30% share (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Bill Gates says his Jeffrey Epstein association was a “huge mistake” driven by a desire to raise funds, and hopes the ties will not undermine his AI arguments (www.axios.com)
2026-8-26 AI Bill Gates

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new iteration of its GLM series and says it will release the weights for it tonight; Ox Alpha topped OpenRouter's leaderboard (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-26 IPO AI Bill Gates

Bill Gates says “the AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history” and “we are not preparing adequately”, calling for a regulatory framework (www.gatesnotes.com)
2026-8-26 AI Bill Gates

Navitas Semiconductor agrees to buy Claros, which develops data center power management hardware and software, for ~$232.8M; Claros raised a $30M seed in March (www.bizjournals.com)
2026-8-26

Revolut rolls out its euro-pegged stablecoin EURR, initially to eligible customers in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal; Stripe-owned Bridge issues the stablecoin (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 Poland Portugal

Sources: DeepSeek generated $70.7M in revenue and posted a $106M net loss in the first seven months of 2026, ~10x its full-year 2025 revenue on a $139M net loss (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-26

The US AI data center buildout is posing complex challenges to major lenders as they stretch themselves to finance, insure, and underwrite a novel asset class (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 AI Asset

SpaceX Plans to Build a $100 Billion Spaceport In Louisiana (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26 SpaceX

Survey: 28% of Americans use AI chatbots to get health information quickly, 25% to figure out symptom causes, and 22% to get health information at no cost (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-8-26 U.S. AI chatbot

Source: Transport for London's delay in producing robotaxi guidance has frustrated some prospective operators, who play down the chances of starting this year (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 London

A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120 million people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns (www.bbc.com)
2026-8-26 China Manufacturing

Intel reveals that Xeon 7, aimed at HPC and debuting in 2027, will support up to 256 cores and 22 chiplets, with 16 built on its bleeding-edge 18A-P process (www.theregister.com)
2026-8-26 Intel

HP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-26 China

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence orders 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems and plans to offer 1GW of computing capacity as part of an $8B project (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26 India AI Nvidia Intelligence

Lab Supply Companies Have Been Selling Antibodies Using Manipulated Images (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26

Sources: YMTC, which seeks to raise $5B in an IPO, told investors in IPO prep meetings that it aims to become the largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-26 IPO

Digs, which is building AI software for residential construction, raised a $25.3M Series A led by building materials giant Builders FirstSource (www.geekwire.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Pennsylvania's AG sues Snap, alleging Snapchat fails to protect teens from compulsively using the app, two weeks after filing a similar lawsuit against TikTok (thehill.com)
2026-8-26 Snapchat

Sources: Meta and state AGs have discussed a possible mid-trial settlement of the social media addiction lawsuit, which is currently in its second week of trial (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-26

AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-26

Chris Malone, who joined OpenAI as head of data centers in March 2025, has left the company amid a broader exodus (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-26

South Korean AI services platform Wrtn raised a ~$72.2M Series C at a $722M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to ~$166M (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Korea AI

State AGs' trial: Adam Mosseri denies Instagram stalled by not making its “Take a Break” teen safety feature the default until nearly three years after launch (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-26 Instagram

Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26

New Zealand Introduces Under-16 Social Media, AI Companion Ban (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-26 AI New Zealand Ban Social Media

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26

LACMA data breach last year exposed social security and medical data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-26

Intuit reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $4.35B, vs. $4.27B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue growth of 9% to 10%, below ~11% est.; INTU drops 8%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-26 4Q

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