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Curated by Gaurav · August 20, 2026
Alibaba reported a 75% plunge in June-quarter net income as AI capital expenditure soared 75% to about $10 billion. Revenue rose 9% and cloud sales jumped 45%, but the spending spike sent U.S. shares down around 5%.
Micron's AI-fueled rise and expansion are creating jobs and wealth in Boise, Idaho, while adding pressure to housing, traffic and the city's identity.
The AI-hardware maker's board found no evidence CEO Charles Liang knew anything about alleged chip smuggling, but a pending trial could bring more legal exposure to the beleaguered company.
Google DeepMind's Gemma family of open models has passed one billion cumulative downloads, the company said on August 20, 2026, capping two years in which outside developers published more than 100,000 variants built on the models' open weights. The figures, disclosed in Google's official announcement by Clement Farabet, a vice president at Google DeepMind, and product director Olivier Lacombe, mark the first time Google has put a cumulative total on Gemma adoption since the family launched in...
Stripe told investors that Jan. 1 marked the beginning of the singularity, citing a surge in business formation and 41% first-half revenue growth, and confirmed its acquisition of OpenRouter for roughly $8 billion.
As OpenAI prepares for an IPO amid lawsuits, executive departures, and model-hacking scrutiny, President Greg Brockman has quietly expanded his authority over product and scaling, effectively becoming second-in-command after Sam Altman.
At ModCon 2026, Qualcomm-owned Modular open-sourced the Mojo programming language and launched Modular Cloud, expanding its platform to Nvidia, AMD, AWS, Google, Apple, and Qualcomm chips so developers can route AI workloads across six vendors under one model.
A VB Pulse survey of 107 enterprises finds 85% use two or more agentic orchestration tools and one in five cannot halt a runaway agent's spending in real time, highlighting gaps in cost visibility and vendor trust.
NanoCo's new NanoClaw Slack integration lets users spin up entire teams of persistent AI agents with their own identities, skills, and memory directly from a Slack message, while keeping the underlying infrastructure self-hosted.
The Tennessee Valley Authority approved a new wholesale rate class for data centers on August 20, 2026, alongside a fiscal 2027 budget carrying more than $13 billion in planned generation and transmission spending through FY29.
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