Nvidia to provide up to $105 billion backstop for OpenAI data center
Nvidia reached a deal on Monday to provide up to $105 billion to backstop a new OpenAI data center in Ohio, as Big Tech ramped up its debt-fueled AI splurge.
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Innovaccer, Mastek ink strategic partnership to scale agentic AI in healthcare globally
Mastek will join Innovaccer’s Platinum GSI program as the company works to expand into the U.K. and Europe.
Anthropic’s revenue run rate tops US$65 billion: source
Anthropic is projecting 2028 revenue of roughly US$190 billion to US$200 billion
OpenAI to lease massive new AI data centre in US, backed by Nvidia
The data centre will operate exclusively on Nvidia chips and could expand to 8 gigawatts of capacity, making it the largest AI facility.
Minnesota Says xAI's Grok Created 'Marketplace for Digital Sexual Violence'
Elon Musk’s AI firm says the state’s first-of-its-kind nudification ban violates the First Amendment. Minnesota says it regulates a tool, not speech.
AI Visibility May Start Before Search Volume: A New Framework for Content Strategy
AI visibility may begin forming before a topic registers meaningful keyword demand. As AI-powered search surfaces draw on citations, entity signals, prompts and sources across the web, enterprise…
- AI visibility can emerge before significant keyword demand.
- AI search engines use citations, entity signals, and prompts for visibility.
Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push
Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.
Synchrony Financial Partners With OpenAI To Enable In-Chat Shopping
(RTTNews) - Synchrony Financial (SYF), the credit card issuer for brands including Amazon, Walmart and Lowe's, is working with OpenAI to allow consumers to make purchases directly through ChatGPT…
Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor began rolling out Origin , its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a…
A Free Model Endpoint Proposed a Build Cleanup. My C++ Executor Required a Dry Run Before Touching State.
A model endpoint can return well-formed JSON, a whitelisted tool name, and a command that is still wrong for the current state of a repository.
- C++ executor validates model-proposed actions before applying to repository state
- Model endpoint translates natural language requests into specific tool calls
- Dry run implemented to safely test destructive actions like buildclean
No Update Since Early July Regarding Siri AI Coming to the EU, Ever
The Financial Times, back on July 1, with the transcontinental byline “Michael Acton in San Francisco and Barbara Moens in Brussels” (non-paywalled summaries from 9to5Mac and MacRumors ): Apple chief…
- No update since early July on Siri AI for EU
- Apple CEO Tim Cook met EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen
- Talks aimed to resolve dispute over Siri launch in Europe
Your agent ignored a failed tool call. Here's how to catch that in CI.
You ship an AI agent. It calls tools, reads results, calls more tools, answers. Most of the time it works. Then a user reports something wrong, you open the trace, and you find it: the charge_card…
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
Stripe’s $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Turns AI Spend Into a New Treasury Lever
The next corporate spender may not carry a company card, submit an expense report or even be a person. It may be software. Technology markets can create value at abstraction layers.
OpenAI leases 10-gigawatt AI data center campus from SoftBank’s SB Energy
OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has signed a 20-year lease for a sprawling data center cluster in Ohio. The campus is being built on the premises of a former uranium processing plant.
UPS Automates 90% of Daily Customs Clearances With AI Agents
A package crossing into the United States used to depend on a person to review it, classify and catch any errors, slowing the process with days-long delays at the border.
AI Coding Tip 032 - Build a Dark Factory Pipeline
Run your pipeline like a dark factory: automated, sampled, and policed by an adversarial model.
Suno, Anthropic Face $1B Copyright Lawsuits From Round Hill Music Over AI Training
As Suno reaches settlements with the music industry, Round Hill says it plans to fight: “We intend to take these cases to trial."
Anthropic Revenue Boom Boosts AI Stocks | Bloomberg Businessweek Daily 8/17/2026
Bloomberg Intelligence's Global Head of Technology Research Mandeep Singh reacts to Anthropic's revenue report, and news Alphabet is seeking billions in its debut bond offering in Australia.
Map Shows AI Super PAC Election Spending in Key US States
A new map shows where AI super PACs are pouring millions into 2026 races as states debate sweeping tech rules.
This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI
Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.
Amazon joins the list of companies destroying rare books to feed to the AI machine
An AirTag hidden in a rare book followed its journey to a Las Vegas warehouse, where it was likely destroyed in an effort to supply fresh data to hungry LLMs. Amazon is destroying rare books to train AI | Image credit: jarmoluk at Pixabay I don't know if you've noticed, but everything is becoming increasingly AI-generated.
Oral exams are making a comeback to stop AI cheating. But they have their own problems
An oral exam can show how students have meaningfully engaged with a topic. But it shouldn’t be used as a litmus test for AI use.
- Universities in Australia reintroducing oral exams to combat AI cheating.
- Oral exams offer immediate understanding assessment but raise social anxiety.
- Effectiveness of oral exams in preventing AI cheating is questionable.
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
Australia must move up the AI ‘value chain’ to capture maximum value from the technology: Andrew Charlton
The assistant minister argues Australia needs to leverage its data centre advantage and translate that into benefits and growth for the broader economy.
- Australia aims to move up AI value chain, not just host data centres
- Government expects AI firms to support start-ups, research partnerships
- Capturing 80% of AI value chain could outpace wheat exports
AI Agents Can Move Money, But They Can’t Pay for Their Mistakes
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) wallets may be capable of moving money, negotiating terms and entering transactions without human intervention, but under existing U.S.
OpenAI’s Answer to Rogue Agents and Hacks Is More AI, Not Less
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered defense.
Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window
Developers can now ask Claude to inspect a production voice agent, revise its system prompt, change the voice entirely, or The post Claude can now delete your production voice agent from a chat window…
Google is buying Spirit Airlines' old data for $10 million to improve its AI
Google bid $10 million for Spirit Airlines' data, beating Mercor's bid. Tech companies are racing to grab as much AI training data as they can.
- Google purchases Spirit Airlines data for $10 million
- Data is fully anonymized and excludes customer records
- Acquisition aims to improve Google's AI models
OpenAI funds research to try to stop AI from being used to make bioweapons
The start-up’s grant to the Nuclear Threat Initiative will fund an international information sharing system designed to flag biosecurity threats from AI
Can AI extend human engineering capacity in oil and gas?
Explore how AI in oil and gas can extend engineering capacity, surface operational insights, and improve production while keeping humans in the loop.
The Company Behind AI Film ‘Hell Grind’ Wants to Teach You How to Make AI Movies for Free | Exclusive
Higgsfield Academy lets anyone see the prompts used to create feature-length AI films like its 95-minute feature that debuted at Cannes The post The Company Behind AI Film ‘Hell Grind’ Wants to Teach…
Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent Plugins. So why isn’t it helping govern the format?
Earlier this month, Vercel released Agent Plugins 1.0.0 with core maintainers from AWS, Cursor, Microsoft, and OpenAI. Google announced the The post Anthropic defined the standards inside Agent…
LLMs Can't Jump and They Shouldn't Have To
If LLMs struggle with scientific abduction, the better model may be AI for synthesis and verification, with humans making the creative leap.
John Gruber calls Claude's AI watermarking 'patently offensive'
Anthropic is adding a watermark to Claude's output. Tech blogger John Gruber says it could prioritize traceability over the quality of the writing.
- Anthropic adds watermarks to LLM outputs for EU AI regulations.
- John Gruber opposes watermarks, calls it a perversion of writing.
- Gruber believes Claude's word selection should be based on precision, not detection.
Peripheral Raises $8.7M co-led by Inovia Capital and Deloitte Ventures, to Expand Spatial Intelligence Platform for Live Sports
TORONTO — Peripheral, the AI research lab bringing spatial intelligence to live sports media, today announced $8.7M in new seed funding co-led by Inovia Capital and Deloitte Ventures, with follow-on…
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
"They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together." The post Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI appeared first on Futurism .
I built an AI C-suite to help me run my small business. As a creative, I was hesitant to use AI, but it's helpful for certain things.
A small business owner in Brooklyn created a C-suite filled with AI agents to help run her business, but she refuses to use AI for creative work.
United States: Washington hardens AI alignment strategy - Rabobank
Rabobank’s Senior Macro Strategist Bas van Geffen describes Washington’s emerging carrot-and-stick approach to artificial intelligence, extending its Pax Silica framework.
How to Replace Your Agent’s Generic Taste With Your Own
Learn why AI agents default to generic design and how to align them with your taste by generating alternatives, ranking them and preserving every decision made.
Business adoption of AI agents tripled this year - as measurable ROI emerges
Industries are finding the strategies that work best for their business needs, according to Salesforce's latest Agentic Enterprise Index.
- Business adoption of AI agents tripled in the past year
- AI agents' capabilities increased by 350%, handling complex tasks
- Employee adoption of AI agents grew threefold, with faster creation
Nvidia to provide up to $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio data centre
The new deal is the latest example of Nvidia financing the infrastructure built around its chips, a strategy that helps drive demand but has also raised questions about circular funding flows between…
OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee
OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation.
- OpenAI secures 10-year data center lease in Ohio
- Nvidia guarantees $105 billion for lease and power
- Project funded by Japan under 2025 trade agreement
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Not a German cop show, but a pair of engineering firms aiming to feed 800 VDC to next-gen kit
AI Will 'Likely' Beat Doctors At Key Medical Tasks By 2030, Billionaire’s Son Argues
A bioethicist and Neal Khosla argue in a new paper that AI-only medical care is the future—and insist it will be better than human physicians.
Meta files patent for AI facial recognition glasses that identify people around you and record automatically
Meta has patented AI glasses that could recognize your friends, detect when they laugh and decide which moments are worth saving.
Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open model built for high-volume agentic workloads, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- Specialized model for high-volume agentic workloads
- Up to 30B total parameters, 3B active, 4x higher throughput
Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”
"Planetary distance are temporatory earth, equater the elenonts and regnestiom org toed dishlign." The post Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated…
SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot for Autonomous AI Agents
SpaceXAI has introduced Grok Bot, a system of persistent AI agents that operate on dedicated cloud computers and can interact with websites, applications, inboxes, and other tools. By Daniel Dominguez
‘Being heard and accepted, even by a machine, can be meaningful’ — I asked a therapist if other countries should restrict AI companions like China
China is cracking down on emotionally dependent relationships with AI. Should the rest of the world do the same?
On theCUBE Pod: AI bubble debate heats up and neocloud earnings challenge doubters
The debate over whether we are in an artificial intelligence bubble took a new turn this week. Despite the ballooning AI spending, Dave Vellante (pictured, right), chief analyst for theCUBE Research…