AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay will shut down access for paying customers on September 14, with free customers losing access on August 15.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Relay will shut down access for paying customers on September 14, with free customers losing access on August 15.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
1872, led by former SpaceX engineers, plans to build a prototype factory by 2027 that can automate most of the steel fabrication process, starting with manufacturing steel skids for AI data centers and small modular nuclear reactors.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Stripe is reportedly finalizing an at least $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, positioning Stripe to mediate AI token sales through an AI model-routing gateway.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Register
A constraint-aware GPU allocator improved GPU utilization by as much as 33 percentage points over a FIFO scheduler across seven scenarios, while also raising priority-weighted output by as much as 105.1%—with no hardware or workload changes beyond allocation order.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Cerebras (CBRS) surged as much as 19.2% to $261.08 after analyst optimism tied to its ongoing OpenAI deal, including powering OpenAI’s Ultrafast model of GPT-5.6 Sol.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
BTC is consolidating above $62,700 and needs to break above the $66,000 resistance level to have a path to $75,000.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Higgsfield raised a $400M Series B at a $5.4B valuation, quadrupling its valuation in 8 months after a $1.3B valuation round.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Dartwords is a new daily word game launching on the web where each day’s secret word can be found in 10 guesses using conversational, Clippy-like clues from a character named Darty.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
Humanoid robots are still early-stage prototypes and “humanoid theater,” and their biggest gap is merging physical dexterity with general-purpose intelligence driven by training data and large language models (with many still likely relying on remote human operation).
Aug 17, 2026 ·
CNET
Salesforce’s 2026 Agentic Enterprise Index says the average number of AI agents activated per organization nearly tripled from 5 in February 2025 to 13 in April 2026.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Siemens and Reinhausen are developing a modular solid-state transformer that converts up to 36 kV AC into directly distributed 800 VDC for AI datacenter racks.
Aug 17, 2026 ·The Register
Target developed Proxima, an internally built middle-mile inventory positioning system using digital twins that achieved approximately 98% accuracy in simulating inventory movement across its receive center in Houston and improved on-shelf availability by 2.5% in a pilot of 63 fresh food items.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Appaloosa Management cut its Micron (MU) stake by 41% in Q2 2026, even as it remains in its top 5 holdings and hedge funds including Citadel Advisors, Renaissance Technologies, Two Sigma Investments and Bridgewater Associates also trimmed their positions.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Duquesne Family Office boosted its Amazon stake over 1,000% in Q2, while David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management made Amazon its single largest position at $1.19 billion (+33%), and Peter Thiel’s Thiel Macro listed Amazon as its largest holding at $118 million (28%) in Q2 13F filings.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rothschild Redburn upgraded Apple (AAPL) from Neutral to “Buy” and raised its price target to $400 from $260, citing premium foldables (iPhone Ultra) and a strategic reset to the Apple Intelligence platform as catalysts.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google pitched “HiLight” for Pixel 11 Pro models as a way to reduce phone distraction by glowing on the camera bar when an important contact calls, with text-message notifications planned next.
Aug 17, 2026 ·ZDNet
Amazon used a Las Vegas facility (VGT3) to process rare books by cutting off their spines and scanning them for AI training, after a tracking device in a rare book was found to have arrived there.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) signed a memorandum of understanding with ByteDance to set a shared framework intended to protect MPA members’ copyrighted intellectual property from infringement by ByteDance AI models, including those used on TikTok, TikTok UDS Joint Venture, CapCut, and Dreamina.
Aug 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Groq raised $350 million and valued the company at $3.5 billion as it pivots from an AI chipmaker to a neocloud providing Nvidia-based GPU clusters for AI training and inference.
Aug 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Duolingo acquired London-based animation and motion design studio Animade to fold it into its Design Studio, aligning with its strategy to drive engagement through characters, streaks, and animations.
Aug 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
