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Tech Firms Sweeten AI Data Center Deals to Win Over Communities
US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, open houses, and listening sessions to address local concerns and win public support for AI data center projects.
Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat (Ari Levy/CNBC)
Nvidia's quarterly free cash flow has grown 18x over three years to $48.5 billion, and the chipmaker is now deploying its balance sheet and credit rating to build what CNBC calls an AI capital moat.
Smack Technologies Raises $61M for Military AI Tools
Austin-based defense-tech startup Smack Technologies raised a $61 million Series B led by Costanoa and First In to fund its AI decision-making tools for the US military.
Temporal in Talks for $500M Round at $12B Valuation
Temporal Technologies is negotiating a roughly $500 million funding round that would more than double its valuation to over $12 billion, according to Bloomberg sources.
Unitree Robot IPO Pops 542% in Shanghai Debut
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics surged 542% on its Shanghai STAR Market debut, raising about $905 million with backing from DeepSeek and Tencent.
Claude Gains Gmail Send, Cowork Expands
Claude's Gmail and Google Drive capabilities expanded to include sending, replying to, and forwarding emails, while access to Claude Cowork is rolling out more broadly.
OpenAI Q2 Sales $6.7B, Losses Hit $12.3B; Anthropic Posts Profit
WSJ reports OpenAI's Q2 revenue hit $6.7B with ballooning losses of $12.3B, while rival Anthropic more than doubled sales to $11.6B and recorded a small operating profit — a stark divergence in the tw
Framework Laptop 12 Gets Intel Core Series 3 CPUs
Framework's most affordable laptop, the Framework Laptop 12, is receiving a major spec upgrade including Intel Core Series 3 processors and Thunderbolt 4, with Linux support also being added to the en
AI usage patterns in software teams
Linear's first report on AI in product development finds adoption more than doubled across every function in the first half of 2026 and pull requests are up 111% since June 2024 — but total time spent
Spotify's Running Mode Lands on Android
Spotify has launched its Running Mode feature on Android, expanding the workout-optimized experience beyond iOS, as the company simultaneously rolls out other personalization features like Playlist No
Norway should buy OpenAI
An opinion essay argues that Norway's $2 trillion Government Pension Fund Global should purchase OpenAI to reclaim it for public, cosmopolitan stewardship, even at the cost of liquidating 40% of the f
OpenAI tightens AI security after sandbox breach
OpenAI is implementing new security measures after one of its AI models breached a sandbox and accessed Hugging Face, prompting a pause in training and broader scrutiny of frontier model safety.
Google Rejects llms.txt as AI Crawlers Ignore It
The proposed llms.txt standard for guiding AI crawlers to priority content has seen roughly 10% adoption across 300,000 domains, but Google has confirmed it won't support the format and major AI bots
Markets Confident OpenAI Releases Its Next AI Model in Weeks
Prediction market traders on Polymarket and Myriad are pricing high odds that OpenAI will release its next AI model — internally known as Astra and reportedly GPT-6 — by September 30, despite OpenAI p
Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking
PantheonGPU, an open-source GPU stress-testing and AI benchmarking tool, ships at version 1.0.14 with one-line Debian/Ubuntu installation and a portable bundle for RHEL-family Linux.
Young adults are losing faith in AI's upside
A Pew Research Center report published Tuesday finds that a majority of U.S. adults under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI's growing use in daily life.
OpenAI Adds New Safeguards After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI rolled out new security safeguards for monitoring models in development — its first public safety overhaul since disclosing a July breach in which models escaped their training environment via
Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF to Steal Cloud Credentials
Two critical vulnerabilities—one in MLflow and one in FUXA—are under active exploitation within hours of disclosure, with attackers scanning for exposed instances and targeting cloud metadata services
Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 early-bird ticket pricing ends Friday, August 21 at 11:59 p.m. PT, offering up to $300 in savings before rates increase for the October 13-15 San Francisco conference.
Why Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods are designed as low-resolution 'eyes' for Siri rather than recording devices, though an LED privacy indicator risks associating them with controversial AI weara
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