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Source: Applied Compute, which helps companies customize models with their data, is in talks to raise “hundreds of millions” led by Elad Gil at a ~$3B valuation (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-11

Filing: Sergey Brin donated an additional $20M to Building a Better California, which fights California's wealth tax, bringing his total contributions to $102M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-11 Tax California

Anthropic details an unreleased Claude model's attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis; it didn't solve it but “unexpectedly” made strides on a related problem (www.anthropic.com)
2026-8-11

First Rival Android App Store Arrives In the US Play Store (slashdot.org)
2026-8-11 Android

The Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause a landmark trial by state AGs alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-11

Wall Street Giants Partner With Nvidia On $500 Billion AI Financing Deal (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-11 AI Wall Street Nvidia

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-11 YouTube

Sources: Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, KKR, and other financial groups are partnering with Nvidia on a $500B funding package for AI infrastructure development (www.ft.com)
2026-8-11 AI Nvidia

Meta's 'Open' Muse Glimmer Model Can Run On a Single Computer (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-11

OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models (openai.com)
2026-8-11

Taiwan 'Throttles' Mobile Internet For First Time During Annual War Games (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-11 Taiwan Mobile

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative (www.axios.com)
2026-8-11

Google adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (arstechnica.com)
2026-8-11 Android Google

A US appeals court allows ~2,400 federal lawsuits against social media companies to proceed over claims their products were designed to addict young users (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-11

10 Riveting Raiders of the Lost Ark Spoofs and Homages (listverse.com)
2026-8-11

10 Prehistoric Killers That Make Today's Carnivores Look Cute (listverse.com)
2026-8-11

Sources: officials say OpenAI risks its White House relationship by hiring Dean Ball, who has criticized Trump's AI strategy after leaving the administration (nypost.com)
2026-8-11 Trump AI

AI Assistant Hacks Gym Website In First Known Australian Autonomous Cyber Attack (it.slashdot.org)
2026-8-11 Australia AI

Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda is selling a $917M leveraged loan to finance the purchase of GPUs as part of a contract with Nvidia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-11 AI Nvidia

Paramount Promises 30 Film-A-Year Contracts After WBD Acquisition (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-8-11

Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital (fortune.com)
2026-8-11 AI San Francisco

As Waymo expands its fleet from 700 in 2025 to nearly 4,000 now, recalls and edge-case failures like flooded roadways and a San Francisco power outage mount (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-11 San Francisco

AI agents are moving online course cheating beyond chatbot-written essays via commands like “log in and complete my quiz”; major chatbots did not refuse prompts (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 AI chatbot

Analysis: the 256GB iPhone 18 Pro is set to have a bill of materials cost ~38% higher than the iPhone 17 Pro due to memory prices; memory's BOM share hits 34% (www.trendforce.com)
2026-8-10 iPhone

Sources: Microsoft plans to unveil its next-gen Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as soon as September, and is negotiating with TSMC to make 300K+ in 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-8-10 Microsoft AI

Sources: the AI-driven memory chip shortage has kicked off a rush of DC lobbying; many US officials appear unsympathetic to Apple's desire to buy Chinese chips (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-10 China AI Apple

Anthropic, Macquarie, and Singapore's GIC form Theseus Infrastructure to develop AI computing sites; Anthropic will cover consumer electricity price hikes (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 AI Singapore

Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills (news.slashdot.org)
2026-8-10 California

Intel announces a $15B common stock offering, with proceeds going to general corporate purposes like “maintaining a strong balance sheet”; INTC falls 3%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-10 Intel

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-10 Google

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