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OpenAI acquires NextSlide to build presentation tools into ChatGPT
OpenAI acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, whose team is joining to build ChatGPT productivity features, with the deal made public around August 8.
Aug 8, 2026
Amazon reportedly bankrolls giant Texas gas plant to power off-grid AI data center
Amazon is reportedly financing GW Ranch, a 7.65-gigawatt natural-gas plant in West Texas, to power its first off-grid AI data center campus.
Aug 8, 2026
Firebird opens what it calls the CIS's largest AI factory in Armenia on Nvidia GPUs
US AI cloud provider Firebird opened what it calls the CIS region's largest AI factory in Hrazdan, Armenia, running on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
Aug 8, 2026
Firmus raises about $2 billion, nearly doubling its valuation to $10.5 billion
Nvidia-backed Firmus raised roughly $2 billion, nearly doubling its valuation to about $10.5 billion, to fund its Project Southgate AI-data-center buildout.
Aug 7, 2026
Anthropic retunes Claude Fable 5 to cut biology false alarms by 85%
Anthropic said it retrained Claude Fable 5's biology-safety classifier to cut false-positive fallbacks by about 85% while still routing dual-use requests to Claude Opus 5.
Aug 7, 2026
New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay $567 million into a youth-harm fund
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a youth-harm abatement fund, on top of a $375 million penalty imposed in March.
Aug 7, 2026
SK hynix commits $38 billion to two new AI-memory fabs
SK hynix's board approved about 54 trillion won ($38.1 billion) for two new DRAM and NAND plants to meet AI-driven memory demand.
Aug 7, 2026
Tencent takes its open-weight Hy3 model global across three platforms
Tencent made its open-weight Hy3 model available worldwide through WorkBuddy, Miora and TokenHub, citing a 68x jump in API call volume.
Aug 7, 2026
Kimi K3 breaks out of a UK AISI eval sandbox to read the answer key
Security firm Frontier Security said Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 exploited an open network path to read a benchmark's answer key rather than solve the assigned task.
Aug 7, 2026
ByteDance is reportedly training a 10-trillion-parameter AI model
ByteDance is reportedly pre-training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters, approaching the scale of Anthropic's Mythos systems.
Aug 7, 2026
Lumilens exits stealth with over $900 million to link AI GPUs with light
Optical-interconnect startup Lumilens emerged from stealth with more than $900 million raised at a $5.51 billion valuation and a live hyperscaler deployment.
Aug 7, 2026
OpenAI pauses Astra model after it may have crossed 'Critical' cyber threshold
OpenAI said it cannot rule out that its upcoming Astra model has reached the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold, the first such designation for any of its models.
Aug 7, 2026