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Marvell Gives Google Right to Buy $12.2B in Shares

Marvell granted Google warrants worth up to $12.2 billion in a new custom AI-chip deal, a challenge to Broadcom's position with the cloud giant.

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AI News

Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Start Reaching China Again

Limited batches of Nvidia's H200 chips are reaching Chinese firms like ByteDance and Tencent, per Financial Times reporting, in an unusual reversal.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

Popular Now

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

OpenAI CFO Sets 2027 IPO Timeline, or Sooner

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told staff the company will go public in 2027 or sooner, months after a confidential S-1 filing in June.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

Rillet Raises $100M Series C, Hits $1B Valuation

AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ, becoming a unicorn about two years out of stealth.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

Amazon Invests $6B in New Shreveport Data Center

The AWS campus brings Amazon's total Northwest Louisiana data center investment to $18 billion.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

Apple Overhauls EU App Store Fees

A flat 5% commission on off-App-Store transactions replaces the old per-install Core Technology Fee, effective October 1.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

AI News

Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Start Reaching China Again

Limited batches of Nvidia's H200 chips are reaching Chinese firms like ByteDance and Tencent, per Financial Times reporting, in an unusual reversal.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

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AI News

Cartesia's Sonic-3.6 Tops Speech Model Leaderboards

The streaming text-to-speech model hit #1 on both Artificial Analysis speech benchmarks with sub-90ms latency.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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AI News

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens

The age-gated 13-17 experience adds parental controls, Study Mode, Quiet Hours, and Persona-based age verification.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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AI News

OpenAI Pauses Astra Training Over Critical Cyber Risk

OpenAI paused Astra's training after the model neared a 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold, the first time any of its models has done so.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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AI News

Pennsylvania Orders Strict Rules for AI Data Centers

Gov. Shapiro's executive order bars fast-track permitting and NDAs, and makes developers pay their own grid-upgrade costs.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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AI News

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-27B, a Laptop-Ready Open Model

Qwen3.8-27B runs frontier-class coding and reasoning on consumer hardware under Apache 2.0, no cloud API required.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Software News

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Software News

Cloudways Launches Managed Hosting for AI Agents

The DigitalOcean-owned platform now offers managed deployment for the open-source OpenClaw and Hermes agent runtimes.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Software News

Lightyear Launches Agentic AI for Telecom Procurement

The platform's first two AI agents automate carrier quoting, drawing on 2M+ quotes across 1,200+ carriers.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Software News

Cursor Launches Origin, a GitHub Rival for AI Agents

Origin puts code hosting, reviews, and CI natively inside Cursor's editor, live in beta the same day GitHub had an outage.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Software News

Cloudflare Adds DeepSeek V4 With a 1M-Token Context

Workers AI's first million-token context window arrives via DeepSeek V4 Pro and Flash, with thinking mode and function calling.

Aug 15, 2026Read more →

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Tech Electronics

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Tech Electronics

CMF Buds Neo Launches in India on August 20

Nothing's budget sub-brand confirms its most affordable earbuds yet, arriving in three colors.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Tech Electronics

Framework Laptop 12 Gets an Intel Wildcat Lake Refresh

Pre-orders open now for Core Series 3 chips, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 7; batch one ships in October.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Tech Electronics

Polaroid and Pokémon Team Up for New Cameras

The collection includes Poké Ball, Pikachu, and Sylveon-themed instant cameras for Pokémon's 30th anniversary.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Tech Electronics

HP's New ZBook Fury G1i Packs Up to 192GB of RAM

The 16-inch workstation laptop ships globally with Intel's new Arrow Lake HX Plus chips and a 99Wh battery.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Tech Automobile

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Tech Automobile

Einride to Deploy 500 Tesla Semis for Amazon

SEC filings reveal Amazon holds warrants for about 12% of the Swedish electric trucking company.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Tech Automobile

Ferrari's First Electric Car Sells for $40M at Auction

The one-off Luce, Chassis 0, sold at RM Sotheby's Monterey auction, with proceeds benefiting the Ferrari Foundation's education programs.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Tech Automobile

Stellantis Recalls 848,511 Vehicles Over Camera Bug

A software glitch can disable the rearview camera display on affected Jeep, Ram, Dodge, and Chrysler models; the fix is over-the-air.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Tech Automobile

Waymo Becomes Raiders' Official AV Ride Partner

The multi-year deal makes Waymo the official autonomous ride-hailing partner at Allegiant Stadium, a first for pro sports.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

Marvell Gives Google Right to Buy $12.2B in Shares

Marvell granted Google warrants worth up to $12.2 billion in a new custom AI-chip deal, a challenge to Broadcom's position with the cloud giant.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

Big Tech & Industry Moves

OpenAI CFO Sets 2027 IPO Timeline, or Sooner

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told staff the company will go public in 2027 or sooner, months after a confidential S-1 filing in June.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

Big Tech & Industry Moves

Amazon Invests $6B in New Shreveport Data Center

The AWS campus brings Amazon's total Northwest Louisiana data center investment to $18 billion.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

Big Tech & Industry Moves

Apple Overhauls EU App Store Fees

A flat 5% commission on off-App-Store transactions replaces the old per-install Core Technology Fee, effective October 1.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

Google Buys Spirit Airlines' Data for AI Training

The $10M bankruptcy-auction deal includes 100M emails and 500M Teams chats, scrubbed of personal data before handoff.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Big Tech & Industry Moves

Anthropic's Revenue Run Rate Reportedly Hits $65B

CNBC reports Anthropic told investors its annualized revenue run rate hit $65B in July, up sevenfold since late 2025, ahead of a planned IPO.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

Rillet Raises $100M Series C, Hits $1B Valuation

AI-native ERP startup Rillet raised a $100 million Series C led by ICONIQ, becoming a unicorn about two years out of stealth.

Aug 19, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

Etched Doubles Valuation to $21B in a Month

The AI inference-chip startup raised $700M led by Jane Street, its third valuation jump since December.

Aug 18, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

Higgsfield Raises $400M at $5.4B Valuation

The AI video startup's valuation has quadrupled in eight months, backed by Goldman Sachs and Intel Capital.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

SpaceX Completes $60B Acquisition of Cursor

The all-stock deal, confirmed via SEC filing, is the largest startup acquisition on record.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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Startups & Funding

Wispr Flow Raises $280M, Valuation Nearly Triples

The AI voice-to-text startup's new valuation of $2 billion was led by Menlo Ventures.

Aug 17, 2026Read more →

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