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YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-18 YouTube Instagram

Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-18 AI Nvidia

OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-18

Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust' (slashdot.org)
2026-8-18 AI

Monzo chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board's decision to remove TS Anil as CEO (www.ft.com)
2026-8-18

A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT after finding it gave Apple's apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-18 Germany Apple

Microsoft says GitHub is down worldwide, with its website, API, Actions, Pull Requests, and other services impacted; GitHub confirmed the outage at 13:40 UTC (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18 Microsoft GitHub

Certighost and the Privilege Hiding in Your Certificate Authority (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-18

Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-18 Energy Nvidia

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (www.404media.co)
2026-8-18 Amazon AI Vegas

ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (siliconangle.com)
2026-8-18 Robot ETH

Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029 (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 Uber Drone

Trump-backed WLF is collaborating with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of its 90 AI models are developed by Chinese entities flagged as security risks (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Trump China Hong Kong AI

Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses (blog.gregbrockman.com)
2026-8-17 AI

Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-17 Nvidia

OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 Energy Nvidia

Microsoft working on Defender patch for ShieldBreak zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17 Microsoft

Philips and GE investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

Own a learning bundle that connects AI & Six Sigma for just $40 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17 AI

French tax authority data breach affects 678,000 individuals (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17 France Tax

Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support in 60 days (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-17

Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-8-17 Startup Nvidia

EFF's Position on Flock Camera Database Searches: 'Get a Warrant First' - and Police Use Should Be Restricted By Law (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Database

Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (fortune.com)
2026-8-17 Startup AI

Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with transaction records and passport copies of IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy, leading to terrorism charges (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Russia Terrorism

Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Alphabet

An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-8-17

Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B goal earlier in August after investor meetings (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-17 Hong Kong IPO Singapore

AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (www.theguardian.com)
2026-8-17 China Startup AI

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