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Google Buys All of Spirit Airlines' Data to Feed Its AI Models (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19 Google AI

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 2025 (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 AI Robot

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 (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Russia threatens Britain and says London 'will pay for giving Ukraine drones' (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-18 Russia U.K. Drone Ukraine London

Ukraine hits Moscow region with another huge wave of drones - after Putin warned 'Britain will pay' for arming Kyiv (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-18 Putin U.K. Drone Ukraine

UK will ‘pay the price' for giving Kiev drones to attack Russia – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Russia U.K. Drone

Sainsbury's Store Pauses Facial Recognition After False Shoplifting Claim (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Facial Recognition

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-18 Android IOS AI Reddit

Alibaba's Alipay launches a new “all-in-one” platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 Alibaba AI Alipay

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 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-18 Startup AI

Google unveils Operation Blue Skies, a £5M trial to re-route North Atlantic aircraft to reduce contrail-induced warming using Google's AI atmospheric forecasts (www.newscientist.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Solar Power and Batteries Have Been Keeping Europe's Grid Stable (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Europe Solar

Could Putin really fire long-range drones into Nato territory? Experts warn dictator 'clearly' has the means - but alliance response would overwhelm Russian military (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-8-18 Russia Putin Drone

Rogue Studio, which calls itself a “playground for creative ethical mischief”, launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (www.wired.com)
2026-8-18 AI

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 (www.politico.com)
2026-8-18 AI

China Aims to Spoil the AI Party (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-8-18 China AI

How cheap, simple building materials can protect strike drones from lasers (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-8-18 Drone

Wearable sensors and AI could monitor blood pressure in ICU (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-8-18 AI

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 (x.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Construction Inflation for Nonresidential Buildings Soars amid AI Investment Mania (wolfstreet.com)
2026-8-18 Inflation AI

Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $7B+; founded in 2023, OpenRouter reportedly had a $1.3B valuation in May (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 AI

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI

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 (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-8-18 Google AI

Ukrainian drone strike in Russian region kills married couple – governor (www.rt.com)
2026-8-18 Russia Drone Ukraine

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-18 AI Nvidia

Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 AI

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 (www.404media.co)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI Vegas

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