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Last updated: 18/8/2026, 6:02:53 am (IST)
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate topped $65 billion at the end of July 2026, Bloomberg reported on August 17, 2026 — a figure Reuters separately attributed to a person familiar with the matter. The number is up from $47 billion in May and $9 b...
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months....
Alphabet Inc. started marketing its debut Australian debt offering as the US tech giant targets its latest multi-billion dollar fundraising, with AI spending skyrocketing....
title basically covers it. project #2 from my paternity leave. My partner & I got frustrated with hearing Brahm's Lullaby and Wheels On The Bus repeatedly. I also stand by that babies can enjoy adult music just as easily as they can enjoy "kids music...
The Lanarkshire AI Growth Zone has secured a £300 million financing package to expand its data center capacity, with the UK's National Wealth Fund providing a £202 million guarantee to unlock the lending, the Cabinet Office announced on August 18, 20...
Anthropic's revenue run rate is up about sevenfold from a year earlier....
CNBC's Jim Cramer said the AI boom has transformed the historically cyclical memory industry, as demand and greater supply discipline support stronger profits....
"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....
Technology giants are shelling out billions to scale capacity to meet massive data center demand....
Peter Bershatsky, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Lightning AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Lightning is … The post Ex...
The leading AI chipmaker has rebounded since late July....
In his latest book, Professor Eugene Fitzgerald examines the forces that turn breakthroughs into value — and why innovation resists simple formulas....
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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...
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online....
For years, web agents have worked one click at a time—and often fallen apart on long tasks. Microsoft Research’s Webwright makes a different bet: give the model a terminal and let it write the program instead. On long-horizon tasks, the same GPT-5.4 ...
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint....
Chat is great for intent, but agent work gets lost in the scroll. Here is how I use canvases with my agentic workflows—and why your workflow also deserves a canvas. The post How canvases make agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient a...
A security fix written by GitHub's Copilot Autofix and merged into a Snowflake repository on June 18, 2026 stripped out a sanitized input pattern and left the company's CI/CD pipeline open to command injection, and five days later, an autonomous AI r...
These essays were supposed to be about architecture. Read them back and notice what they actually did: they kept issuing rules. Approvals are not data; verifications are. Govern by consequence. Do not promote the model; promote the workflow. A conseq...
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center....
How autonomous agents broke two decades of capacity planning — and what to build instead The post Three Generations of Autoscaling — And Why Agentic Traffic Breaks All of Them appeared first on Towards Data Science....
The AI industry has a model design problem. Enterprises are starting to feel it in cost, performance, and reliability. AI can talk – but can it listen? Listening is far more than simply processing words; it’s about interpreting signals and understand...
Amazon buys large quantities of printed books, scans them as AI training data, and destroys them in the process. The article AirTag reveals how Amazon destroys rare books for AI training appeared first on The Decoder....
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becomes the exclusive chip supplier. According to the Wall Street Journal, nine tech compa...
But by keeping these limits in mind, and planning for them, we can effectively use these small, local models for the following broad operations scenarios....
Grab is using AI agents to automate analytics workflows, cutting mechanical analyst work from 44% in February to 30% in June. Its approach combines agent autonomy, certified data, context management and human oversight, with self service analytics in...
Become a more productive software engineer with LLMs The post How to Perform Effective Project Management with AI appeared first on Towards Data Science....
AI production companies like Promise are setting up shop around Hollywood's historic studios, using real-time backgrounds and other AI tools to cut film costs. Netflix already uses AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles, and the startup Higgsfield now carries...
AI factories are the defining infrastructure of the AI era — where compute transforms energy and data into intelligence that powers every business, industry and country. In the AI economy, compute is revenue. AI factories require a full stack of crit...
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