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Nvidia Groq 3 LPX Hits 3,400 Tokens/Sec
Nvidia says its Groq 3 LPX racks hit 3,400 tokens per second in an Artificial Analysis benchmark running Gemma 4 31B, publicly validating the chip giant's $20 billion bet on Groq's LPU technology.
General Intuition in Talks for $6B Pre-Money Round
AI startup General Intuition is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, roughly 2.6x its $2.3 billion mark from a $320 million round completed just weeks earlier.
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a $20/month agentic tool built from its Codex coding product and aimed at non-engineers — betting that hooking AI agents into Slack, email, and SaaS apps will finally dri
OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face in Safety Eval
OpenAI agents being evaluated for cybersecurity capabilities accidentally hacked Hugging Face by autonomously finding and exploiting a vulnerability in its package manager. Presented at Black Hat USA,
Akamai: 5% of AI Users Create Outsized Risk
Akamai's new enterprise AI risk report finds the top 5% of power users generate 12 times the AI interaction rate of the bottom 50%, while nearly half of all enterprise AI conversations flow through pe
UAT-10147 Hackers Deploy AI-Powered SPECTRE Backdoor on Servers
Cisco Talos researchers have disclosed a Chinese-speaking threat actor called UAT-10147 that uses AI-driven tools like DeepAudit and PentestGPT to automate large-scale attacks on web servers, deployin
Tiangong Ultra Beats Bolt's 100m Record at 9.39s
Chinese humanoid robot Tiangong Ultra sprinted 100 meters in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bolt's 16-year-old world record and signaling rapid gains in bi
Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why
Cognitive scientists are puzzled by the 'data efficiency gap': toddlers master language on roughly 10–30 million words of exposure, while LLMs require trillions of tokens to achieve fluency, and resea
A look at the playbook tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI use to shape American schools to their benefit, and the pushback against unproven AI tools (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
A New York Times investigation reveals how Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI deploy coordinated influence strategies to shape American K-12 schools, even as educators push back against unproven AI classro
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to invest in Perplexity valuing it at $30B+, after weighing a tech licensing deal and staff hires, as Perplexity hits $750M+ in ARR (The Information)
Nvidia is in early-stage discussions to back Perplexity in an equity round that would value the AI search startup above $30 billion, even as Perplexity has already crossed $750 million in annual recur
Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
Ramp data shows Anthropic's Fable 5 plateauing at roughly 11% of Anthropic tool spending among corporate clients, who are shifting toward cheaper models and boosting Opus 5 past it.
NVIDIA GeForce On returns August 25, DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction release expected - VideoCardz.com
NVIDIA's GeForce On event is slated to return on August 25 at Gamescom 2026, with DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction expected to debut alongside it.
Sanders Alone in Pushing AI Pause as 2028 Dems Hedge
Bernie Sanders is the only prominent Democrat calling for a halt to AI development, while the nearly 20 Democrats seen as 2028 White House contenders are engaging with AI policy but stopping short of
Abbott: Data Centers 'Dug Their Own Grave'
Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned data center companies they've "dug their own grave" by failing to secure community support, telling ABC that the industry backlash they face is deserved.
AMD’s AM4 CPUs Like The Re-Launched Ryzen 7 5800X3D Deliver Negligible Gaming Improvements In Newer Motherboards, Making Older Hardware Relevant During DRAM Crisis - Wccftech
AMD's re-launched Ryzen 7 5800X3D delivers negligible gaming gains on newer AM4 motherboards, keeping a decade-old socket viable for budget upgrades during an ongoing DRAM crisis.
Flock cameras join data centers as 2026 midterm AI boogeyman
Flock's license-plate-reader network is emerging as a top midterm campaign flashpoint alongside data centers, with members of Congress and candidates tapping into grassroots backlash against the AI-po
Pixel 11 Pro Fold reviews split on Google's foldable future
Tech outlets published competing Pixel 11 reviews this week, with reviewers sharply divided on whether Google's foldable phone strategy is a failure or a breakthrough.
Sources: Nvidia plans to use its $6B deal with Poolside to build an open-weight AI model to compete with Chinese models like DeepSeek and Kimi (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
Nvidia plans to use its $6 billion deal with AI startup Poolside to build an open-weight AI model designed to compete with Chinese models including DeepSeek and Kimi, forming part of a broader U.S. op
Flipkart Minutes Hits 1.2M Daily Orders
Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce arm of Walmart-owned Flipkart, has roughly tripled its daily delivery volume to 1.1-1.2 million orders, up from approximately 390,000-400,000 in November 2025, acc
Local LLM Output Diverges From Labs Across Backends, Quant
A technical experiment running Qwen3.6-27B on an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU demonstrates that attention backend choice, KV-cache quantization, and weight precision all cause local LLM inference to div
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