2026-08-17 · Source — CNBC
A securities filing disclosed Monday that Nvidia will backstop as much as $105 billion in financing for a new OpenAI data center in Pike County, Ohio. The credit supports an initial 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity, with an option for 3.75 gigawatts more, and the site is expected to come online in phases starting in 2028.
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2026-08-17 · Source — TechCrunch
Bloomberg reported that payments company Stripe has reached a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup that routes developer traffic to hundreds of AI models through a single API, for over $7 billion. The price is more than five times the $1.3 billion valuation OpenRouter carried after a funding round that closed only months earlier.
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2026-08-17 · Source — KrASIA
Chinese AI company Z.ai published benchmark results claiming its new open-source GLM-5.3 model slightly outperforms Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 at identifying software vulnerabilities. The company said it will delay the public release by about two weeks for additional safety work and will gate its most sensitive cybersecurity functions behind a verified-user program.
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2026-08-17 · Source — Google AI for Developers
Google retired three Imagen 4 model IDs from its Gemini Developer API on August 17, 2026, directing developers to its newer Gemini image models. The switch is not a drop-in replacement, and per-image pricing changes for several common workloads.
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2026-08-17 · Source — Yahoo Finance
Anthropic is reportedly negotiating to buy Decart, an Israeli startup known for real-time video and world-model AI, in a deal valued at roughly $6 billion. It would be Anthropic's largest acquisition to date and its fifth of the year, coming as the company prepares for a widely anticipated public listing.
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2026-08-15 · Source — Tech Startups
The AI model market has entered a price war phase. OpenAI has substantially cut pricing for GPT-5.6 Luna and Anthropic is positioning Claude Opus 5 at roughly half the price of its higher-end Fable 5 model, while Chinese competitors such as DeepSeek are raising theirs.
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2026-08-15 · Source — Tech Startups
Apple has reportedly trained an artificial intelligence model dedicated to the Chinese market, working with Alibaba. The localised approach illustrates the regulatory and technical constraints facing U.S. AI players in China.
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2026-08-15 · Source — Tech Startups
Uber and Chinese autonomous driving specialist Pony.ai are preparing to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads. The rollout would be one of the largest commercial autonomous vehicle operations on the continent.
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2026-08-15 · Source — Tech Startups
Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has surpassed one billion monthly active users. Google describes it as its fastest-growing product ever and the 14th to reach that milestone.
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2026-08-15 · Source — Tech Startups
Nvidia is pushing its open-weight Nemotron model family, a strategy that differs from the closed-model approach of OpenAI and Anthropic. The chipmaker can benefit from broad adoption even when the final application is built by someone else.
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2026-08-12 · Source — The Washington Post (Associated Press)
Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay defending an open approach to artificial intelligence development, timed with Meta's release of its newest model. The move comes amid intense competition between U.S. labs and an ongoing debate over releasing model weights.
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2026-08-12 · Source — Bloomberg
Anthropic has struck a roughly $9.1 billion agreement with Riot Platforms, a compute operator historically active in bitcoin mining, to secure data center capacity. Riot Platforms shares rose sharply following the August 11, 2026 announcement.
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