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Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-7

WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-7 AI

SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8B to build Terafab in Grimes County, Texas; combined demand from SpaceX and Tesla is forecast to top 1 TW (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 Tesla SpaceX Texas

How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-7 AI Browser

Sources: DeepSeek has resumed its funding round, seeking $8B at a $74B valuation, after pausing talks following the leak of Liang Wenfeng's remarks to investors (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-7

Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs (artificialanalysis.ai)
2026-8-7 Intelligence

Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (www.reuters.com)
2026-8-7 IPO AI Robot Shanghai

Ooredoo, Nvidia, Nokia, and Indosat launch Zankore, Indonesia's first dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform; Ooredoo, which owns a 49% stake, commits $800M (fortune.com)
2026-8-7 AI Indonesia Nvidia Nokia

Chainalysis: violent crypto attacks stole $30M+ in H1 2026, on track to exceed 2025's $58M total; France is the primary hotspot with 30 publicly known cases (www.theblock.co)
2026-8-6 France

Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (www.zdnet.com)
2026-8-6 Google

Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET (www.theverge.com)
2026-8-6 YouTube Netflix

Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-6

Enhance privacy on up to 10 devices with this 5-year AdGuard VPN deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-8-6 VPN

Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 IPO Robot Shanghai

FDA Approves First mRNA Flu Shot (science.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

China launches a formal national security review of Palo Alto Networks products sold in the Chinese market, citing a need to protect critical infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 China

Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37B Series D at an $8B valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260M Series C in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6

Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

SoftBank reports Q1 net profit down 18% YoY to ~$2.2B, above ~$761M est., an ~$8.2B gain on its Intel stake, and Vision Fund up $1.7B due to its ByteDance stake (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Intel

Sources: some Google researchers have grown frustrated over AI compute access for ambitious projects while Google Cloud sells TPUs to customers like Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Google AI

Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M (www.cnbc.com)
2026-8-6 Nintendo

BMW Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Ads (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-8-6

A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 AI

DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; it currently charges $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens for V4 Flash (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6

OpenAI says “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up for its failures to integrate AI into its products” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-6 AI Apple

OpenAI files a motion to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets, saying that the iPhone maker's allegations are meritless (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-8-6 iPhone AI Apple

An interview with TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn on the paid API for high-speed access to Truth Social posts, the pending $6B TMTG-TAE merger, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Interview

A researcher with access to North Korean hackers' servers says their operations have impacted 1,640 companies across 57 countries over the past 22 months (www.wired.com)
2026-8-6 Korea

How Trump's push for data centers is driving a boom in gas power plants, and a look at Meta's El Paso data center, which will have 813 gas-burning generators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-8-6 Trump

PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (www.ft.com)
2026-8-6 Google Startup AI

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