Anthropic, OpenAI, Databricks, Okta, AWS, and others are set to lead sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s AI Stage in San Francisco on October 13–15 covering enterprise deployment patterns for Claude, AI-native go-to-market roles, and enterprise/agent security requirements.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Nvidia’s Groq-3-based LPX racks and Cerebras’ next-gen CS-4 accelerators both reportedly hit about 3,400 tokens/second on a Gemma 4 31B-style single-batch test, but the article argues customers won’t be able to run that performance at scale because each rack is memory-limited to roughly a batch size of 12 at 100,000-token inputs.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Register
Anthropic’s new MHS hardware standard lets AI models like Claude control real-world devices by sequencing actions across instruments via API scripts, with MHS tags describing physical constraints (e.g., robot-arm weight and range) and safety limits so the model can operate hardware it hasn’t seen before.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
About a third of people (56% of AI enthusiasts) say they share secrets with AI chatbots they wouldn’t tell friends, family or medical professionals.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
CNET
Moderna and Merck’s Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial met its recurrence-free survival endpoint for intismeran (V940) combined with Keytruda, a program supported by Personalis since inception.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Moderna and Merck reported Phase 3 interim topline results for intismeran plus Keytruda in surgically removed high-risk melanoma that significantly improved recurrence-free survival and distant metastasis-free survival in a trial of 1,137 patients, lifting optimism about mRNA oncology’s effectiveness in large late-stage studies.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta says an update to its AI-powered smart glasses will stop the camera from working if the front-facing capture LED light is covered during a recording, closing a bypass that let wearers keep recording after covering the light.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Verge
Z.ai has officially released the previously anonymous “Ox Alpha” model as GLM-5.3-Flash, described as a “frontier model built for efficient coding, sustained agentic work, and real-world production use,” and offered with open-weight weights on Hugging Face.
Aug 27, 2026 ·CNET
Nvidia participated in $266 billion worth of deals as of mid-August this year and backed a startup once every five days, and it expects its frontier AI labs to contribute a quarter of its business next fiscal year.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
James Pond series creator Chris Sorrell said he was “in no way consulted or involved” with System 3’s upcoming James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Enough and called the project disrespectful for allegedly using AI-generated art.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Engadget
More than 100 companies including OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Oracle, Anthropic, and Hugging Face signed an open letter calling for “collective action on cyber defense” amid warnings that AI-enabled cyber attacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Engadget
BNP Paribas says OpenAI’s custom inference chip “Jalapeño” is a positive for Broadcom (AVGO), reinforcing Broadcom’s strength in custom silicon and high-performance AI networking as hyperscalers push for workload-specific chips.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Researchers at Australia’s University of Queensland say cyborg giant burrowing cockroaches (“paraborgs”) can be remote-controlled to deliver drug darts: the auto-injection mechanism succeeded 90% of the time, and paraborgs that got within 15 cm of a target injected drugs 95% of the time.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
A lawsuit filed by a plaintiff identified as “Jane Doe” alleges that xAI trained Grok models using both real and AI-generated child sexual abuse materials, including images hashed by NCMEC and identified by CCCP as AI-generated CSAM depicting her.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Gemini Notebook’s new “Expert Intelligence” feature lets you pull titles from Google Play Books into Notebook so you can ask questions and generate plans, infographics, and AI podcasts from a book’s contents.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Verge
Globant reported $614.4M in Q2 2026 revenue, up just 1.2% sequentially and essentially flat year over year, while Glob.AI ARR rose 61% to $52.8M and the company cut full-year revenue guidance to $2.428B–$2.462B.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI’s first homegrown inference chip, Jalapeño, delivers up to 1.9× more AI work per watt and 1.7× to 3.6× lower end-to-end latency than comparison Nvidia GB200/GB300 systems in OpenAI’s InferenceX tests, with sustained power at or below 550W versus a 700W rating.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic agreed to spend $45 billion over six years to rent Nvidia Vera Rubin compute capacity from Nscale’s planned 460-megawatt West Virginia campus, expected to begin operating in late 2027.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and 100+ other companies signed an open letter calling for tighter collaboration between private and public sectors to defend against increasingly widespread and sophisticated AI-enabled cyber attacks.
Aug 27, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The term “meat proxy” is used for people who copy-paste AI-generated text, code or other output “without reading, understanding or validating it,” acting as a relay between the chatbot and the intended recipient.
Aug 27, 2026 ·CNET
