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WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 Australia

Sources: Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 Samsung AI

Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reach end of support in 2 months (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-19

CISA: Medusa ransomware hit over 500 critical infrastructure orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-19

US tech companies are offering community investments, guaranteed jobs, and hosting open houses to address concerns and win public support for AI data centers (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-19 AI

AI evaluation lab Irregular's report on its role in hacking incidents involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta models faces criticism over unanswered questions (therecord.media)
2026-8-19 AI

Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19 Quantum

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-19 AI Nvidia

Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-19 AI

FDM CCS Insight: ~134M travel eSIMs will be used in 2026, up from 101.8M in 2025, challenging established carriers that generate 3%-5% of revenue from roaming (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19

Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 (venturebeat.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Top Album Releases Linked To Rise In Fatal Crashes (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 AI

OpenAI says the changes to its model training will increase compute overhead by 20% of observed inference workload; the increase will not be handed to customers (www.theregister.com)
2026-8-19

Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (www.ft.com)
2026-8-19 China Tencent Nvidia

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19 China IPO Robot Shanghai

Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-19

Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+ (fortune.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-8-19 U.S. AI

Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-19

Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-19

Cursor Launches 'Origin' Code Hosting Platform As GitHub Alternative (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19 GitHub

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (x.com)
2026-8-19 AI Intelligence

Comcast Is Turning Millions of Its Routers Into Motion Detectors (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they “could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-19 AI

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signs an executive order imposing new requirements on data center projects, including getting approval from local officials (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-8-19

In opening arguments, US state AGs said Meta intentionally sought to addict children to Facebook and Instagram in pursuit of profit; Meta rejected the claims (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-19 Facebook Instagram

Disney, ABC Sue FCC Over Threats to Broadcast Licenses (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-19

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