OpenAI is previewing “Private Safety Processing” for select customers, an automated monitoring system designed to watch for misuse while retaining none of the customer’s data.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Intismeran, Moderna’s personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine, met its main goal of reducing melanoma recurrence and also showed benefit in preventing the cancer from spreading when used with Merck’s Keytruda.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied a Bloomberg report that SpaceX tried to acquire Cognition, saying Cognition “is not for sale” and the two companies “haven’t been in talks.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Atoms, a robotics company co-founded by Travis Kalanick, raised $1.7 billion in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz joining its board.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Marvell expanded its Google AI custom-chip partnership covering Google Tensor Processing Unit ecosystem areas including AI inference accelerators, storage and networking products, memory interface controllers, and near-memory computing.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter for around $8B (formal price undisclosed) extends its payments-infrastructure model to AI inference by positioning Stripe between developers and AI model providers to monetize AI usage.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Trane Technologies (TT) and Eaton (ETN) teamed up on a reference design for Nvidia’s DSX AI Factory architecture that they estimate could improve energy efficiency by ~15%, cut installation costs by up to ~30%, and reduce copper use by as much as ~80% while also aiming to shorten project timelines by standardizing power and cooling engineering.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rillet raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by Iconiq, two years after emerging from stealth in 2024.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Gwyneth Paltrow is reportedly sending invites for a “private, off-the-record” dinner honoring Sam Altman on August 29 at her home in the Hamptons, according to Puck.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Marvell disclosed in an SEC filing that Google is pursuing custom silicon programs that attach to the TPU ecosystem, including AI inference accelerators, storage controllers, network interface controllers, memory interface controllers, and near-memory compute.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
A developer published an open-source MIT GitHub repo for a macOS printer driver that lets an HP Laser 1008a—unsupported on macOS because it lacks AirPrint/PostScript/PCL drivers—print by patching the SpliX driver for SPL3/SPL2-family printers.
Aug 19, 2026 ·The Register
52% of Americans now say they are “more concerned than excited” about AI—up from 37% in 2021—while a Pew study and other polls also show broad distrust of AI leaders and concern that AI is advancing too quickly.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Google is adding AI study features across Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals and 3D simulations, customized practice quizzes, and new study document generation from uploaded files.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Eligible US college students can get a year of Google’s AI Pro subscription for free, after the usual $200/year price, with 4× Gemini usage limits, Spark agent access, and Gemini integrations in Workspace apps like Gmail and Docs.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
Google is launching a dedicated Gemini student hub that includes a study notebook with graphs and images plus tools like flashcards, practice quizzes, and adding test dates and deadlines to Google Calendar from a syllabus.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Verge
OpenAI revoked some security researchers’ access to its TAC (Trusted Access for Cyber) program and said the problem was caused by an error, requiring affected users to re-verify to regain access to the Daybreak Blue tier it launched on August 10.
Aug 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
WhiteFiber’s shares fell 25% on Wednesday after it priced a $270 million offering of convertible debt.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cerebras expects its manufacturing capacity to increase by more than 10x in 2026 and its delivered data center capacity (live and under contract) to exceed 600 MW by the end of 2027.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The U.S. CFTC is seeking public comment on compute derivatives contracts, including compute cash markets, oversight and manipulation concerns, customer protection, and perpetual compute futures, as AI demand for computing power rises.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Stripe agreed to buy OpenRouter in a deal valued at slightly more than $8 billion, and the purchase deepens Stripe’s push into the AI industry.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
