Bill Gates says society needs time to prepare for “social, political, and economic upheaval” from AI—specifically warning that $20-an-hour workers could be replaced by $10-an-hour robots that perform the same jobs.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Tesla shares rose more than 5% on Monday, putting the stock at the top of the S&P 500, despite no immediate catalyst reported at the time.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AMD announced a live AI infrastructure platform in Saudi Arabia with Cisco and HUMAIN that pairs AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs and EPYC CPUs with Cisco’s Silicon One AI networking to deliver GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS) starting with 250 megawatts of AI deployment in 2027 and scaling to 1 gigawatt by the end of the decade.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The Pentagon launched tailored versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok for 3 million civilian and military personnel via the secure GenAI.mil portal, reaching 1.7 million unique users so far.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Nvidia’s Q2 revenue grew 106% year-over-year to $96.2 billion, with data center sales up 117% to $89 billion and EPS up 120% year-over-year to $2.22, while Nvidia expects revenue to increase 70% in its upcoming fiscal year.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenClaw released version 2.0 of its self-hosted AI agent harness, focusing on simpler installation, a redesigned “first-class” browser interface, and shared cloud sessions—while multiple security fixes are positioned as insufficient for strong isolation needs.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Register
Blue Voice, a Boston AI startup providing real-time police policy guidance, is emerging from stealth with $6M in funding and says its tool is used daily by officers at 225 county agencies across 25 states.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenClaw 2.0 is the “largest update” to the open-source, device-running AI agent, with changes spanning installation, messaging, memory, skills, browser, plugins, security, and numerous fixes.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Music publishers, including Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell, sued Anthropic alleging it admitted to pirating more than 7 million books and later paid authors a $1.5 billion settlement—while they argue the damages are too small to stop ongoing infringement tied to Claude AI and music-rights markets.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google Gemini Notebook can now use selected Google Play Books you purchased as sources, so you can ask questions and get responses grounded in those books and generate Infographics, Audio Overviews, Quizzes, or other materials from them.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
ZDNet
OpenAI says AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months, and urges “cyber defense at local, national, and international levels.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·ZDNet
Nvidia reported a latest blockbuster quarter and is trading at about 24.3 times forward earnings with a PEG ratio near 0.6, with gross margin at 75% in the latest quarter and management expecting some margin pressure as newer AI systems ramp.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech AI supply and demand to not balance until the first half of 2028, implying “more capex” and ongoing supply-chain constraints through then.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Perplexity’s agentic “Personal Computer” feature, now available for Windows 11 and Windows 10, completed five multi-step tasks including summarizing PDFs from a local Downloads folder, summarizing OneDrive Word documents into a new Word file, drafting replies for six unanswered emails over the past six months, setting up a recurring daily (9 a.m. ET) Doctor Who news check, and converting legacy .doc/.xls files with minor permission/workaround hurdles.
Aug 31, 2026 ·ZDNet
SLB will acquire Kelvion for $4.1 billion, expanding its data center cooling systems and services business.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
El Niño’s eastern Pacific events have reached the highest intensity in the Galápagos region in at least the past 1,000 years, with temperature variability since 1984 running 36.5% higher than during 1000–1850 CE (preindustrial) and 16.2% higher than during 1851–1982 CE, and with warmer events showing a positive skew that indicates they strengthened disproportionately.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Clipto raised $15 million in an all-equity round at a $250 million post-money valuation while indexing videos, audio, images, meetings and other files on users’ computers for AI search, with 30 million users since launch and “hundreds of thousands” of paying subscribers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Hot Chips highlighted a shift toward cheaper, lower-power AI inference and token generation as companies diversify beyond Nvidia GPUs—pushing more AI compute onto CPUs, PCs, edge platforms, and specialized chips.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Palantir CEO Alex Karp used his Q2 shareholder letter to criticize the “Token Industrial Complex” and argue that closed-weight AI models can add enterprise cost while risking enterprise intellectual property, pointing to Nvidia’s compute layer and Palantir’s application layer as the two layers set to stand out.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AI models that can find security vulnerabilities at scale could make software so secure that governments struggle to lawfully hack targets anymore, potentially reviving pressure for backdoors—reducing everyone’s security by design.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
