AI

Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-29 Microsoft AI Nvidia

Exponential growth across 2 dimensions, users and tokens per user, makes this AI era different from earlier buildouts, and allows AI labs' compute math to work (x.com)
2026-8-29 AI Mathematics

Sources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-29 China Thailand AI

a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-29 AI

AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up? (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-29 AI

A look at Beijing's AGI Bar, the unofficial clubhouse for China's AI industry where entrepreneurs trade gossip, recruit talent, and court investors over beers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 China AI Entrepreneur

South Korea unveils a project with KT, SK Telecom, and Kakao to provide premium AI tools to the public for free, a move that treats AI like a public utility (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 Korea AI

Tencent releases Hy4 Preview, a 770B-parameter foundational model with a 1M context window that it says outperforms Z.AI and Moonshot models in internal tests (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-28 AI Tencent

The world needs to take the AI bull by the horns – and fast (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-28 AI

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Uber AI Budget

AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 Android AI

Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-28 AI

OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent (features.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-28 Startup AI

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (www.newcomer.co)
2026-8-28 AI

Nvidia stock closed up 8.74% on Thursday, adding ~$440B to Nvidia's market cap, after its revenue guidance reassured investors that AI demand remains strong (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 AI Nvidia

Anthropic releases Model Hardware Standard, a framework to help AI agents use physical systems like microscopes, quantum computing hardware, and robot arms (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 AI Robot Quantum

Internal memo: Meta's AI agent Hatch “has its own computer” to perform tasks, works when the app is closed, can connect to email, Instagram, OpenTable, and more (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-8-28 AI Instagram

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Microsoft AI

OpenAI is testing a “Persistent mode” in Codex, designed to let AI agents “continue working until put to sleep” and proactively generate follow-up tasks (www.wired.com)
2026-8-28 AI

AI erodes our humanity while elites profit from war – Roger Waters (www.rt.com)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: some Trump administration officials circulated a draft EO to create a self-regulatory organization for AI, but it needs buy-in from Trump and others (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-28 Trump AI

Nvidia says its commitments to component suppliers for its AI chips and systems hit $279B in Q2, up from $119B in Q1, $95.2B in Q4 2025, and $50.3B in Q3 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-28 AI 4Q Nvidia

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (deepmind.google)
2026-8-28 Google AI

How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-28 AI

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Android Google AI

Cybersecurity stocks surge, with Okta up 20%+ and CrowdStrike up 15%+, after earnings showed that AI adoption is driving attacks and spending on security tools (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-28 AI

Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as $10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-28 AI Zuckerberg

Nevada-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup Socure raised $156M at a $5.2B valuation and acquires Austin-based agentic AI startup Fravity (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-8-27 Startup AI

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