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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

Africa is already the frontier – Botswana president (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Africa

‘Dark' oil trade still flowing despite Hormuz disruption – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17

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

Israeli settler attacks terrorize last all-Christian village in West Bank (VIDEO) (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Israel

US and Türkiye opening ‘Pandora's box' with Ukraine arms deal – Moscow (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Ukraine

Israel wants ChatGPT to push its Gaza narrative – Politico (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Israel

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

WATCH hundreds of migrants demand asylum in Spanish enclave (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Immigration Spain

Russia rejects ‘screwdriver assembly' model for foreign business – Putin aide (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17 Russia Putin

Calculated Deception: How Israel uses Diplomacy to buy Time for Gaza's Destruction (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-17 Israel

Corruption: Big Oil Buys Congress Lawmakers (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-17

Trump reinvents the Portuguese Empire with Plan to make Hormuz US Territory (www.juancole.com)
2026-8-17 Trump

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

Mangione pleads guilty to stalking charges, admits shooting CEO (www.rt.com)
2026-8-17

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

Amazon's New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-8-17 Amazon

How US industrial companies like Caterpillar, Cummins, Eaton, and Ford are pivoting their businesses to feed a booming AI data-center market for power equipment (www.wsj.com)
2026-8-17 AI Ford

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