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Midjourney Adds a Lightbox Editor to Alpha for V8.2 Image Edits

The Alpha update puts instruction-based edits, reference inputs, and a session edit record in the image viewer. But key choices about settings persistence and defaults are still unresolved.

Yesterday

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YesterdayBusiness

Earnings Business

Microsoft Will Publish Azure’s Quarterly Revenue as It Consolidates Segments

The new figure gives Azure a clearer quarterly measure, but it arrives under a narrower definition and alongside less profitability detail for Microsoft’s former business lines.

YesterdayBusiness

Earnings Business

Nvidia Rises 4% as Dell’s Results Reinforce AI Server Demand

Dell’s stronger results gave investors a new read on demand for Nvidia-based AI server racks. Broadcom’s earnings later Wednesday will test a different question: whether it can raise its AI semiconductor outlook while Alphabet broadens its chip supplier base.

Earlier this week

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Sep 1, 2026Startups

Funding Startups

Smack’s $61M Funds Wrist AI for Disconnected Operators, With a Prototype Targeted Within a Year

The new detail behind Smack’s August financing is an attempt to carry command context, policy constraints and operational data to operators who cannot count on a live connection.

Aug 31, 2026Infrastructure

Platform shift Infrastructure

McKinsey Sees $7 Trillion Data-Center Buildout by 2030, Raising the Stakes for Power Gear

The forecast is an estimate, not committed spending. But rising orders, backlogs and liquid-cooling deployments show why electrical distribution and thermal management are becoming central to the AI infrastructure race.

Last week

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Aug 30, 2026Products

Launch Products

Apple Launches AI-Powered Siri as Third-Party AI Fees Head Toward $1B

The new assistant gives Apple a first-party AI product, while estimated fees from subscriptions to outside AI apps already point to a separate services opportunity. Cook has identified iCloud+ as a possible future route for more capable Siri models.

Aug 30, 2026Startups

Launch Startups

Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Build Discovery Loop, a Science AI Startup Backed by Radical Ventures

The new public-benefit company has an unusually experienced founding team and support from both Radical Ventures and Alphabet. Its central technical question is still unanswered: what system will turn the ambition to automate research into a usable product?

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Aug 29, 2026Business

Lawsuit Business

Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Founders Over Claude Data, Seeking Up to $150,000 Per Work

The publishers’ case reaches beyond Claude’s alleged lyric outputs to the route by which copyrighted material entered Anthropic’s systems—and seeks records that could tie those decisions to its co-founders.

Aug 29, 2026Products

Launch Products

Apple’s iOS 27 Nears September Release With Siri AI, but EU Access Is Limited

The coming update would move Apple’s AI from isolated features into search, automation and editing workflows—while a regulatory dispute leaves some of its headline tools unavailable in the European Union.

Aug 27, 2026Models

Midjourney Opens V8.2 Image-Editing Tests With Up to Four References

The test brings instruction-led edits, canvas expansion, and multi-image generation into one workflow, while Midjourney asks users to identify failures and help reshape the interface.

Aug 27, 2026Business

Platform shift Business

Google DeepMind Shifts Daily Control as Its EMEA Hiring Share Falls to 18.6%

Google has separated DeepMind’s strategic science leadership from its daily management as rivals attract more of the specialized researchers needed to build frontier models.

Aug 26, 2026Models

Z.ai Says 100,000 Chinese Chips Serve GLM-5.3-Flash; Shares Rise More Than 8%

The low-cost model is a test of whether China-made hardware can support a public AI service at scale, but Z.ai has not named the chipmakers behind the system.

Aug 26, 2026Models

Google Puts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe in Preview With Live and Recorded-Audio APIs

The release turns speech recognition into a Gemini product layer for developers and Google surfaces, but a product-specific price remains unavailable for teams weighing production use.

Aug 26, 2026Infrastructure

Enterprise adoption Infrastructure

Rezolve Says Google Cloud Selected Its Database for 100TB Deployment; Terms Unclear

The stated assignment is a concrete data-validation job inside Google Cloud Web3, but the release leaves the deployment’s financial weight impossible to gauge.

Aug 25, 2026Products

Launch Products

Google Cloud Launches Gemini Enterprise Agents for Finance and Legal, Starting in Preview

The new packages put specialized skills, data connectors and partner agents around regulated workflows. Their first test is whether a broad enterprise platform can become useful inside capital-markets, banking and legal operations.

Aug 24, 2026Models

Thomson Reuters Puts Its First Legal AI Model Into CoCounsel Document Review

Thomson Reuters will use its new legal model for specialized tasks while retaining third-party frontier models elsewhere in CoCounsel. Its performance claims have not yet received extensive independent validation.

Aug 22, 2026Infrastructure

August 2026

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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.

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.