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Aug 22, 2026Business

Earnings Business

Alibaba’s AI Cloud Is Growing Fast. Its AI Bill Is Growing Faster.

The company’s expanding AI cloud business is producing real revenue, but capital spending, narrower margins and a missed earnings target show how expensive the next phase remains.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Broadcom Gives Its vDefend AI Assistant Power to Push Security Rules

The new split is the important constraint: one assistant can explain firewall conditions, while the other can create and apply Distributed Firewall and IDS/IPS rules against detected attacks. The documentation leaves the approval path for those changes unclear.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Government action Infrastructure

GOP Senate Arm Tells AI Companies to Fix Data Centers’ Ohio Problem

A private Republican memo ties public concerns over costs and local benefits to an Ohio Senate contest—and warns that a loss blamed on data centers could make future projects harder to sell elsewhere.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Enterprise adoption Business

Meta Is a Major Microsoft AI Customer—and a Potential Foundry Rival

The reported arrangement shows a major model developer can also be a major buyer of outside models. Microsoft gains high-volume demand now, while Meta’s planned API service could eventually overlap with the marketplace it uses.

4 min

Aug 22, 2026Tools

Launch Tools

Every Built an AI Copy Editor From Its Editor in Chief’s 30,000 Edits

The internal tool is meant to extend Kate Lee’s editorial judgment across a growing company, not remove the need for expert judgment on difficult work.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

Vertex AI Adds Grok 4.6 Preview With a Lower Listed Cache Rate

Google Cloud gives buyers another route to Grok 4.6, but the model remains a Preview offering and the lower cached-input rate is specific to Vertex AI rather than a universal price cut.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

DeepSeek Gives V4-Flash a Separate Vision API With a 384-Token Image Cap

The experimental model gives developers several familiar ways to submit images and a fixed upper bound on image-token use. It leaves the harder questions—visual accuracy, latency and reliability—for users to test.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

Nvidia Reportedly Connects GPU Customers With Nordic Data Centers

The reported introductions put Nvidia closer to the bottleneck after a chip sale: finding powered sites where customers can install and run AI systems. The test is whether those conversations become commitments to buy or lease capacity.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Adobe Makes Firefly’s AI Audio Tools Generally Available

Adobe is combining soundtrack, voiceover and effects generation in one creative suite. Its claim that generated music is commercially safe is central to the pitch—and remains Adobe’s characterization.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Google Lets Publishers Add a Preferred Sources Button to Their Sites

The embed can turn a site visit into a reader’s stated preference across Google surfaces, but Google’s own click-through figure is a past study—not a promise of referrals.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Infrastructure

Government action Infrastructure

MAHA Activists Break With Trump Over Coal for AI Data Centers

The letter turns data-center power into a fresh test of whether the administration can keep a health-focused political coalition aligned with its AI and energy agenda.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Startups

Startups

Outer Biosciences Uses Discarded Surgical Skin to Hunt Cosmetic Ingredients

The company’s bet is that keeping donated skin viable for weeks can reveal slower changes that short toxicity tests miss. The commercial proof will come when partners turn its leads into finished ingredients.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Business

Funding Business

Nscale’s Reported $3 Billion IPO Would Put AI Data-Center Contracts to a Public Test

Nscale’s prospective listing centers on a physical AI-cloud business: secure power and hardware, turn them into usable computing capacity, and deliver against large customer commitments.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Products

Launch Products

OzBrain Puts a Review Gate Between AI Agents and Shared Knowledge

The new hosted service is built for teams that want agents to share project context without letting a newly generated update silently replace the accepted record.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Infrastructure

Infrastructure

China’s New AI Hub Has 12.5 Gigawatts Planned—and a Water Problem

Cold weather, cheap electricity and faster fiber have made Ulanqab viable for both AI training and user-facing inference. Its growth now depends on whether the region can manage water pressure and reduce its reliance on coal.

3 min

Aug 21, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Rillet Raises $100 Million to Challenge Accounting’s Legacy Stack

The company is betting that finance teams will replace systems built around human data entry with agent-led workflows—but the controls around sensitive financial work remain central to that pitch.

4 min

Aug 21, 2026Business

Funding Business

Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Faces Two Tests: Compute Growth and Enterprise Data Control

A reported offering that could rival SpaceX’s record would fund a business dependent on data-center expansion. But the company’s enterprise challenge is more specific: give customers more control over sensitive data without ending its reported retention policy.

4 min

Aug 21, 2026Models

Research Models

Grok Reversed a China-Influence Finding After an Audit of Its Sources

The recorded exchange is not a benchmark of model reliability. It is a concrete warning for research agents: a large source count can conceal a weak chain of independent evidence on a politically charged question.

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August 2026

Alibaba’s AI Cloud Is Growing Fast. Its AI Bill Is Growing Faster.

Broadcom Gives Its vDefend AI Assistant Power to Push Security Rules

GOP Senate Arm Tells AI Companies to Fix Data Centers’ Ohio Problem

Meta Is a Major Microsoft AI Customer—and a Potential Foundry Rival

Every Built an AI Copy Editor From Its Editor in Chief’s 30,000 Edits

Vertex AI Adds Grok 4.6 Preview With a Lower Listed Cache Rate

DeepSeek Gives V4-Flash a Separate Vision API With a 384-Token Image Cap

Nvidia Reportedly Connects GPU Customers With Nordic Data Centers

Adobe Makes Firefly’s AI Audio Tools Generally Available

Google Lets Publishers Add a Preferred Sources Button to Their Sites

MAHA Activists Break With Trump Over Coal for AI Data Centers

Outer Biosciences Uses Discarded Surgical Skin to Hunt Cosmetic Ingredients

Nscale’s Reported $3 Billion IPO Would Put AI Data-Center Contracts to a Public Test

OzBrain Puts a Review Gate Between AI Agents and Shared Knowledge

China’s New AI Hub Has 12.5 Gigawatts Planned—and a Water Problem

Rillet Raises $100 Million to Challenge Accounting’s Legacy Stack

Anthropic’s IPO Pitch Faces Two Tests: Compute Growth and Enterprise Data Control

Grok Reversed a China-Influence Finding After an Audit of Its Sources