UAE Tycoon Al Ashram, MTN Agree to Build Africa AI Data Centers
MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, and Dubai-based tycoon Tarek Al Ashram will develop data centers to power artificial intelligence on the continent....
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AI News for 2026-08-27
The most important AI developments from around the world, summarized by AI so you stay informed in minutes.
Last updated: 27/8/2026, 10:57:37 am (IST)
Ask HN: Would you pay for an AI API that guarantees zero prompt retention?
i am just tired of looking for a reliable open-source model AI API with ZDR and don't even save my prompts. I'm thinking of a service for people like me who want to use it.idea is a simple OpenAI-compatible API:Access to open-weight modelszero retent...
Stripe: AI Now Accelerating Progress of Internet Economy
Sarita Singh, MD of Southeast Asia, Greater China and South Korea at financial infrastructure firm Stripe believes artificial intelligence is now accelerating the progress of the Internet economy. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslin...
US Probes Apex Logistics Over Alleged Nvidia AI Chip Smuggling
The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, people familiar with the matter said, in what may result in the first action against a transportation company for al...
Jensen Huang defends Nvidia's growing financial support for AI ecosystem, says 'the risk is low'
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the chipmaker’s growing role in financing AI companies, calling its investments a “once in a generation” opportunity....
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns....
Kioxia Plans New Chip Fab in Japan to Meet AI Memory Demand
Kioxia Holdings Corp. is building a new chipmaking plant in northern Japan, ratcheting up production capacity to meet climbing AI-related demand for storage....
CrowdStrike jumps 11% on record second quarter as 'Mythos moment' drives AI cyber wave
CrowdStrike shares have surged 61% this year to new highs as the threat from frontier AI has fueled demand for advanced security tools....
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak....
AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents....
NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory
The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream, the performance of AI infrastructure depends not only on compute, but on how compute, memory, storage, networking and soft...
NVIDIA Posts $96.2B Quarter as Data Center Revenue Hits $89B
NVIDIA reported revenue of $96.2 billion for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, ended July 26, 2026, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year earlier, according to the company's earnings release published August 26, 2026. GAAP and non...
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
Managing library updates can be tedious at times. Learn how the GitHub Copilot app can handle this type of repetitive task. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage appeared first on The GitHub Blog....
Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI
Deep Cogito has raised a $43 million Series A as the San Francisco AI lab looks to scale an increasingly important part of the artificial intelligence stack: what happens after a foundation model has already been pre-trained. The round was led by TQ ...
Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture....
Greenberg Traurig Rolls Out Agentic CoCounsel Legal Across Global Offices
Greenberg Traurig has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters' agentic AI for legal professionals, giving lawyers across the firm's global offices access to a system that plans, researches, and drafts through the stages of a ...
What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming....
Executive Interview: Genspark
Wen Sang, Chief Operating Officer at Genspark, 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? Genspark builds agentic AI for … The post Exe...
Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs – Interview Series
Nelson Chu, Founder and CEO of ARCOS Labs, is a repeat entrepreneur and technology executive with a background spanning financial infrastructure, investing, and digital platforms. Before founding ARCOS Labs, he spent eight years as Founder and CEO of...
Gemini Live Gains Agentic Spark Tasks, Daily Brief and Voice Inbox Control
Google is rolling out a productivity upgrade to Gemini Live that moves its voice assistant beyond conversation into executing multi-step tasks across a user's Google apps, the company announced on August 26, 2026. The update, detailed in a post on Th...
Sam Altman says OpenAI will have AGI by the end of 2026 if you accept his definition
OpenAI's leadership believes AGI is within reach, according to a TIME report. The company's upcoming model Astra already works as an automated research intern, according to chief scientist Jakub Pachocki. Altman expects it to be "the first model wher...
Candidates Are Signing a Pact Promising Action on Data Centers and AI Safety
More than 15 politicians from across the country have signed on to the AI Pact, vowing to regulate data centers and AI. “We’ve got to get this right,” says Senate candidate Dan Osborn of Nebraska....
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe....
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, targeting "ultimate cost efficiency"
Alibaba's Qwen team is previewing the Qwen4 architecture with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a mixture-of-experts model that activates just 6 out of 125 billion parameters per token. At one-ninth the training cost, it beats much larger competitors like DeepSeek...
Orchestration is the new challenge for CX in the age of AI agents
Presented by Tata Communications Enterprises are deploying AI agents, voice AI, and automation across messaging, voice, and digital channels faster than the architecture meant to support it. Most of that deployment has involved attaching conversation...
Understanding the Impact of AI on Job Markets
Explore five distinct ways AI is reshaping jobs, from automating routine tasks to thinning entry-level hiring....
Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to scrap its AI layoff plan
Meta wanted to replace far more of its workforce with AI than previously known, according to Reuters, but the plan collapsed under rebellious employees and agents that failed to deliver. The article Employee revolt and failing agents forced Meta to s...
Pro-Kremlin deepfakes put surrender rhetoric in the mouths of Ukrainian lawmakers
Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels are spreading AI-generated deepfake videos of two Ukrainian lawmakers who appear to call for peace talks. The clips racked up 130,000 views in two weeks, according to NewsGuard. Even when debunked, these fakes serve thei...
10 Rules for Getting Better Results from AI Coding Agents
Everyone's using AI coding agents. Here's how to make yours actually useful....
Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google
A Chinese AI company could land its model on major US cloud platforms for the first time, taking a cut of the revenue. The article Chinese Moonshot AI negotiates hosting deals with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google appeared first on The Decoder....
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