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August 2026

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Aug 22, 2026Models

Open release Models

MiniMax H3 Opens Its Video Weights, but Not Where Many Developers Work

The release gives smaller eligible organizations a route to self-hosted video generation, but the highest-resolution system and global access remain a hosted-service proposition.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Research Infrastructure

UBS Sees $4.1 Trillion AI Infrastructure Buildout Through 2028

The forecast suggests the AI race is becoming a long-duration infrastructure commitment, not a short server cycle. The financial test is whether demand, utilization and cash flow can catch up with the capacity now being planned.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Business

Chinese Chip Firms Spread Equity Across Their Workforces to Hold Engineers

The grants give companies a longer-term retention instrument while cash offers rise, but the disclosed plans offer no measure yet of whether they reduce engineer departures.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Platform shift Infrastructure

Europe’s AI Data Centers Are Moving Toward Power, Not Cities

Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Paris and Dublin remain vital for enterprise demand, but the next hyperscale sites are being selected around power availability, land and grid access.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Enterprise adoption Products

Google Bundles Antigravity Into Gemini Enterprise, Putting Agentic Coding Under IT Controls

The change removes a separate licensing step for eligible customers, but its practical value will depend on whether shared identity, controls and context hold up across mixed developer toolchains.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Benchmark Models

AI Safety Scores Can Reward Models for Refusing Too Much

A study involving the UK AI Security Institute argues that combined benchmark scores can hide a direct trade-off between blocking harmful requests and answering harmless ones. Its proposed fixes are cheaper tests and anomaly checks, but its sandbagging evidence comes from models directly told to act cautious.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Partnership Infrastructure

Ormat Bets AI Data Centers Will Make Geothermal Worth Drilling Deeper

The established geothermal operator sees a route to much larger projects for hyperscalers. First, it must show enhanced geothermal plants can compete economically with other power sources.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Cursor Gives Cloud Agents a Way to Come Back to the Job

The new workflow controls connect coding work to pull-request activity, Slack threads and schedules, while keeping subscriptions limited to cloud agents for now.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Policy

Lawsuit Policy

Nine Tech Companies Face Chicago Suits Over AI Voice Training Data

The proposed class actions are not copyright cases. They turn on whether Illinois biometric-privacy rules can reach recordings allegedly gathered online and used to train AI systems.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Generalist’s new model treats a demonstration as temporary instruction, potentially reducing task-specific training—but its reported one-shot results remain far from dependable execution.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Partnership Business

Palo Alto and NTT DATA Build a $1B Security Alliance Without Exclusivity

The deal gives Palo Alto Networks a deeper route into NTT DATA’s enterprise services operation, while NTT DATA retains the freedom to sell competing security products. Its $1 billion measure combines orders and contracts across both companies, making execution—not exclusivity—the central test.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Launch Infrastructure

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

The reference architecture uses models to draft data-engineering work, but makes human-reviewed code and policies—not live agent decisions—the default production layer.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Business

Business

Hollywood’s Downturn Is Turning Creative Know-How Into AI Training Data

The assignments provide paid work in a contracting production market, but turn experience in scheduling, development, and transcription into systems that may eventually perform pieces of that work.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Research Models

Mayo’s AI Searches Routine Ultrasound for HCM Obstruction

The research points to a screening aid for patients who may otherwise need specialized imaging, but its small external validation and need for prospective testing keep Doppler at the center of diagnosis.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Security risk Infrastructure

AI Agents Are Turning the Web Into an Infrastructure and Security Test

Autonomous systems are driving more model calls, more web activity and new shared-service risks—while the tools for proving who created online content remain incomplete.

4 min

Aug 22, 2026Products

Launch Products

Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

The new agent can turn recurring ticket problems into proposed automations, but Serval must still show it can manage the customization, governance and trust demands of large enterprises.

3 min

Aug 22, 2026Models

Launch Models

Ox Alpha Offers a Million Tokens, but Not a Name

The anonymous model exposes multimodal and agent-oriented features, but its architecture, benchmark record and price after the free preview remain unknown.

2 min

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

Infrastructure

AI’s Data-Center Bet Faces a $2.5T-to-$10T Revenue Hurdle

The two calculations use different financial assumptions, but each points to a monetization challenge far larger than the AI revenue levels described today.

2 min

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August 2026

MiniMax H3 Opens Its Video Weights, but Not Where Many Developers Work

UBS Sees $4.1 Trillion AI Infrastructure Buildout Through 2028

Chinese Chip Firms Spread Equity Across Their Workforces to Hold Engineers

Europe’s AI Data Centers Are Moving Toward Power, Not Cities

Google Bundles Antigravity Into Gemini Enterprise, Putting Agentic Coding Under IT Controls

AI Safety Scores Can Reward Models for Refusing Too Much

Ormat Bets AI Data Centers Will Make Geothermal Worth Drilling Deeper

Cursor Gives Cloud Agents a Way to Come Back to the Job

Nine Tech Companies Face Chicago Suits Over AI Voice Training Data

Generalist’s GEN-1.5 Lets Robots Try a Task After Watching Once

Palo Alto and NTT DATA Build a $1B Security Alliance Without Exclusivity

AWS Wants Data Agents to Write Pipelines, Then Stay Out of Production

Hollywood’s Downturn Is Turning Creative Know-How Into AI Training Data

Mayo’s AI Searches Routine Ultrasound for HCM Obstruction

AI Agents Are Turning the Web Into an Infrastructure and Security Test

Serval’s Catalyst Pitches AI-Built Workflows as a ServiceNow Replacement

Ox Alpha Offers a Million Tokens, but Not a Name

AI’s Data-Center Bet Faces a $2.5T-to-$10T Revenue Hurdle