Texas halts data center grid connections amid demand surge
Texas governor Greg Abbott has paused new power grid connections for data centers, citing risks to grid reliability as demand exceeds five times the state's peak electricity usage.
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Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance Shows Early Progress
Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance, now including over 120 companies, has formed a working group to share AI cybersecurity findings, according to TechCrunch.
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Wrinkles App Uses AI to Share Hidden Stories of Places
Wrinkles, an AI-powered app, has built a global database of 1.3 million points of interest across 177 countries, offering users local histories and experiences.
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Anthropic Signs $10 Billion Deal With AI Cloud Startup Volta
Anthropic has agreed to a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta for six years of cloud compute services, according to Bloomberg.
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GLM-5.2 Closes Gap With Frontier Models, Safety Concerns Remain
China's GLM-5.2 open-weight model is now only months behind OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 in cyber and bio capabilities, according to SaferAI.
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Google Shifts TPU Risk to Balance Sheet via Anthropic Deal
Google has structured a $35 billion financing deal with Broadcom and Morgan Stanley to lease AI chips to Anthropic, offloading hardware risk from its balance sheet.
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Pulitzer Winners Disclose AI Use in Record Eight Cases
Eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed using AI this year, including five winners and three finalists, according to Nieman Lab.
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AMD Introduces Reverse-Engineering Method for hipBLASLt TensileLite Kernels
AMD details a method to reverse-engineer existing kernels into tuning configurations, ensuring generated kernels match or exceed current best performance.
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AMD Introduces VSA for Faster Video Diffusion Inference
AMD's VSA sparse attention mechanism achieves 3.31× speedup over FlashAttention on MI308X GPUs at 70% sparsity.
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Amazon Bedrock Adds Web Search for Model Grounding
Amazon Bedrock now includes built-in web search to help models access current information, reducing hallucinations and improving accuracy in responses.
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OpenAI Launches New Education Plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex
OpenAI announced three new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, designed to help K–12 educators, college educators, and students leverage AI in learning and teaching.
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Anthropic Appoints Tino Cuéllar as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic announced on August 4, 2026, that Tino Cuéllar will join as Chief Global Affairs Officer, focusing on policy and international engagement.