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Stories covered on 2026-08-26

  1. Nvidia Predicts AI-fueled Sales Surge Will Extend Into 2028

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, gave a bullish sales outlook for fiscal 2028, easing concerns that AI spending is poised to lose momentum.

  2. Why AI Remembers Your Name for Fifty Messages Then Forgets You Completely, And What That Reveals…

    Towards AI · 2026-08-26

    It rem⁠embe‌r​s your name fifty messages l⁠ater, l⁠os​es thi⁠ngs‌ buried mid-documen‍t‌, and forgets you e⁠ntir⁠ely when‍ you open a new…

  3. Nvidia Steps Back Into China Market With First H200 Chip Sales

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Nvidia Corp. said it sold a small number of its H200 chips to customers in China during the most recent quarter

  4. London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumour

    The Guardian AI · 2026-08-26

    Surgeons aided by real-time analysis of camera footage that identified critical anatomy in brain to be avoided Neurosurgeons in London have performed the world’s first successful

  5. DataBank’s Incoming CEO on AI Buildout, Nvidia Earnings

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Kevin Ooley, the incoming CEO of DataBank and current CFO, joined the program to discuss critical issues surrounding the expansion of data centers.

  6. ‘Dean of Valuation’ Damodaran on Nvidia’s Multiple

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, discusses the evolving landscape of AI investments following Nvidia's latest earnings report.

  7. OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

    The Verge · 2026-08-26

    In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet

  8. Tech Billionaire Steve Case on AI Buildout, Nvidia Role

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Steve Case, Revolution Chair & CEO, & AOL Co-Founder, reflects on the evolution of community building from the early days of AOL's digital chat rooms to today's increasing demand

  9. Revolution CEO Steve Case Says AI Driving Shift to Durable Assets

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Revolution CEO Steve Case says AI will disrupt a wide range of industries and business models, advising investors to seek assets that have better durability.

  10. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.3-Flash: A 320B-A18B Natively Multimodal MoE With a 1M-Token Context

    MarkTechPost · 2026-08-26

    Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series — a 320B-total / 18B-active MoE with a 1,048,576-token context window

  11. Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-26

    The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

  12. AI Expert on Anthropic’s “Fantasy” Projections, Nvidia

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Gary Marcus, NYU Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, discusses the recently rumored total addressable market (TAM) figures presented by AI companies like

  13. Zoom’s Anthropic Stake Grows to $3 Billion in Value After Gains

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    The value of Zoom Communications Inc.’s stake in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has grown to $3.13 billion.

  14. Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Amazon.com Inc. will add an additional 2 million Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units to its data center fleet in the next two years

  15. AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

    Ars Technica · 2026-08-26

    Report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

  16. NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Expands With NVHBM Custom High-Bandwidth Memory

    NVIDIA AI Blog · 2026-08-26

    The next wave of AI is placing new demands on infrastructure. As AI agents and trillion-parameter workloads become mainstream

  17. Agent Runtimes as Graphs: Nodes, Edges, and the State That Flows Between Them

    Towards AI · 2026-08-26

    Your framework is a 2010 Google paper wearing a trench coat. Understanding it is the difference between debugging your agent and guessing…

  18. Nvidia Is in Difficult Place Amid 'Healthy' AI Landscape, Cresset's Ablin Says

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Jack Ablin, founding partner and chief investment strategist at Cresset, says Nvidia is "sitting at the North Pole and any step they take is going to be a step south." Speaking on

  19. Nvidia’s Sales Forecast Fails to Meet Loftiest Estimates

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, delivered a sales forecast that fell short of the highest estimates

  20. Nvidia Predicts AI-Fueled Sales Surge Will Extend Into 2028

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Nvidia Corp., the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, gave a bullish sales outlook for fiscal 2028

  21. The Key Takeaways From Nvidia's Results

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Nvidia delivered a sales forecast that left some investors underwhelmed, adding to concerns about the momentum of AI spending.

  22. Deep Cogito Raises $43M Series A to Build the Post-Training Engine for Self-Improving AI

    Unite.AI · 2026-08-26

    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

  23. Greenberg Traurig Rolls Out Agentic CoCounsel Legal Across Global Offices

    Unite.AI · 2026-08-26

    Greenberg Traurig has deployed the next generation of CoCounsel Legal, Thomson Reuters' agentic AI for legal professionals

  24. Salesforce Gains on Growth Outlook, Anthropic Partnership

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    Salesforce Inc. jumped in extended trading after the software company gave an outlook for strong revenue expansion and deepened its partnership with Anthropic PBC

  25. Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-26

    Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

  26. CrowdStrike Beats Annual Revenue Forecasts as AI Threats Rise

    Bloomberg · 2026-08-26

    CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. forecast revenue figures for the full year that exceeded analysts’ estimates, as the cybersecurity industry continues to see demand driven by threats from

  27. TAI #219: AI, Cancer and the Future of Personalized Medicine

    Towards AI · 2026-08-26

    A new deep learning model, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford, has demonstrated a significant improvement in detecting early-stage pancreatic cancer from CT

  28. How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

    TechCrunch · 2026-08-26

    Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

  29. Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

    Ars Technica · 2026-08-26

    The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.

  30. What We Still Don’t Know About OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack

    WIRED · 2026-08-26

    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.