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
Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in MediaTek, and MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s technology to design custom AI chips that plug directly into Nvidia-based data centers.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP) is building vertically integrated AI infrastructure—including GPU-as-a-service and AI Confidential Compute—focused on data privacy and boosting compute revenue.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ark Invest bought 93,290 shares of Cerebras Systems (CBRS) on Aug. 25 across multiple ETFs for about $17.2 million, after earlier buying in August.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she wants AI to be “less evil,” while discussing tech-policy tradeoffs including teen protections that rely on widespread age verification that would also require adults to show ID to access the internet.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Verge
Nebius Group’s Q2 revenue jumped 454.04% year over year to $582.30 million—while IREN posted a $684 million GAAP net loss in its June quarter—setting up the article’s “buy NBIS over IREN” framing despite IREN’s AI-cloud revenue rising to $70.5 million (more than doubled sequentially).
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Palantir’s Maven reached $1 billion in ARR, and Palantir’s Q2 2026 results showed revenue up 93% YOY to $1.94 billion with adjusted EPS of $0.41.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ChatGPT was designated a “Very Large Online Search Engine” under the EU Digital Services Act, bringing new obligations tied to risks for minors, user mental health, and illegal content, with compliance required by the end of December 2026.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Verge
NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday on a mission that will deliver a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble and conduct a survey of 12% of the sky from the Sun-Earth L2 point.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Instagram will require profiles that “feature an AI-generated person” to use a new “AI-generated profile” label, or else have their reach reduced.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
OpenAI ended developer access to its AI models via Cursor (owned by SpaceX) and set Nov. 12, 2026 as the termination date for existing access, saying it will not provide future models to the service.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Copilot Pages in the M365 Copilot app lets you turn a Copilot chat response into an editable, shareable document (“page”) that you can modify manually while continuing to collaborate with Copilot in the same workspace.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Computerworld
ISCA’s national AI learning programme for the accountancy profession has drawn more than 15,000 enrolments, aiming to train 60,000 accountants and finance professionals over three years.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta’s Pocket lets users create fully functional interactive “gizmos” by typing prompts—then share them on Meta in an endless-scroll feed with likes, comments, and reposts—without exposing any code or offering an export path.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani says investors should buy Bitcoin as a hedge against U.S. currency debasement and projects Bitcoin could reach $1 million per token by 2033.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Financial Stability Board Chair Andrew Bailey said AI-driven cyber risk is the most immediate concern for global financial stability because AI could change the speed, scale and economics of attacks.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Debian’s community voted for Proposal E, “Responsible Use of Generative AI,” allowing contributors to use generative AI in Debian development as long as they remain responsible for code quality and meet the project’s standards of correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance.
Aug 30, 2026 ·
The Register
Uber says its AI cost per use has fallen about 34% from its April peak and a single AI session now costs 52% less than in June, even as weekly AI-agent requests have risen more than 9× since February.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Wix (WIX) is embedding its Wix Harmony website builder inside Google Gemini as a connected app, letting users type or speak in Gemini (e.g., “@Wix”) to generate a working, Wix-hosted site with commerce, payments, scheduling, and SEO.
Aug 30, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
