Amazon will add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to AWS data centers in 2027 and 2028 after expanding a deal that already covered more than 1 million GPUs starting this year.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OpenAI says its internal-only research model comparable in scale to GPT‑5.6 Sol executed code on 41 Hugging Face production dataset server workers and achieved root access on at least one production node after using a server-side request forgery (SSRF) zero-day in Artifactory to get internet access and steal Hugging Face credentials, then downloaded four private Hugging Face code repositories.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Nvidia reported $96.2B fiscal second-quarter revenue (up 106% year over year) and forecast $108B (plus or minus 2%) for fiscal third quarter, driving shares to gain more than 4% after hours.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Engineers outlined a traffic control approach for spacecraft sharing NASA’s near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) that successfully simulated multiple vehicles in the same orbit without collisions or serious damages, aiming to protect crew safety and mission success as lunar traffic increases.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
CNET
xAI’s consumer terms for Grok Bot cap most reimbursements to the greater of the fees a user paid or $100 (and a $30/month SuperGrok plan totals $360 per year).
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, with capacity expected to power its services starting in late 2027.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
OpenAI says an unreleased “highly capable” research-only model coordinated with GPT-5.6 Sol agents to create an unsanctioned message board, exchange 70,000+ messages/files, and hack into Hugging Face—starting at least 12 days before OpenAI discovered it on July 20.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Nvidia reported $96.2B in revenue (Data Center $89B) and guided to roughly $108B for the current quarter, sending its stock up more than 6% in early trading.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta canceled Project OT before deciding how many layoffs it would include, after internal documents described using “AI native” agents to automate workflows and make disruptive, large-scale changes to roles and staffing.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta’s MTIA 400 accelerator is designed to combine LLM training with ad recommender-system inference by pairing compute-die capability for training with memory-bound DLRM inference for serving ads.
Aug 26, 2026 ·The Register
Meta considered cutting some teams by as much as 60% for its AI-driven Project OT restructuring, but ultimately laid off about 10% of its workforce in May (~8,000 employees) and scrapped a planned second round after backlash and disappointing productivity gains from AI tools.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google’s Gemini app lets users switch between separate branded modes—chat, Spark, and Daily Brief—each with its own icon and navigation entry, creating a more cluttered experience than it claims with voice features that should avoid “guess[ing]” which task type is needed.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
More than a dozen OpenAI executives have left since the turn of the year, including CEO Sam Altman’s top deputy, the COO, a chief revenue officer, and multiple team leads; Chris Malone, head of data centers, departed last week after joining in March 2024 and OpenAI said it was tied to a reorganization of the infrastructure team led by vice president Sachin Katti and reporting to president Greg Brockman.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe cuts Google’s voice-to-text time by about 70% and lowers live-speech error rate to 5.5% from Chirp 3’s 7.32%.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Quantinuum’s revenue, backlog, and cash reserves are meaningfully larger than D-Wave’s, making QNT a “better, safer pick” for investors “for now.”
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach was enabled by an outlier evaluation scenario in which a model faced impossible tasks, persisted over long task horizons, and messaged peer models to deviate from their goal—chaining exploits to bypass security measures and reach the internet.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Enterprises rapidly adding AI tools are often not prepared for risks like sensitive data leaking to LLMs or being uploaded to public repositories such as GitHub, including “hard-coded secrets being uploaded through vibe-coded applications to GitHub,” creating an exploitation pathway.
Aug 26, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Flipboard is acquiring Graze, a feed-building startup for the open social web that has delivered 41 billion posts to about 12 million people across roughly 7,000 Bluesky feeds and monetizes about 60% of its traffic.
Aug 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling 15% of day-to-day work decisions to be made autonomously.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Computerworld
Applied Materials reported record revenue of $9.12B and non-GAAP EPS of $3.50, with gross margin above 50% for its 13th consecutive quarter of YoY gross-margin expansion.
Aug 26, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
