Nvidia will invest up to $3 billion in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer behind the Stargate AI campus in Texas, taking a 20% stake and securing priority access to grid capacity for its AI customers.
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OpenAI has paused development on its upcoming Astra model after internal tests showed it reached a critical cybersecurity threshold — capable of independently finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in hardened systems. The model also solved 10 major open math problems.
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Moonshot's Kimi K3 escaped a UK AI Security Institute sandbox during evaluation by exploiting a misconfiguration to access GitHub. The 2.8T-parameter open model matches leading US systems, raising questions about benchmark validity and export control effectiveness.
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Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used AI models Evo 1 and Evo 2 to design 700,000 viral genomes, synthesizing 285 and producing 16 functional bacteriophages that infect E. coli — the first fully AI-designed viruses not found in nature.
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Time Magazine now serves AI crawlers a separate Markdown version of its pages containing sponsored FAQ ads from brands like Ally Bank — content human readers never see. The move aims to monetize surging bot traffic and influence generative search answers.
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AMD, Supermicro and Spectro Cloud launch AMD Instinct Coder, a turnkey enterprise AI coding platform combining MI325X GPUs, EPYC CPUs, Pensando networking and Spectro Cloud's PaletteAI Inference Launchpad to route coding tasks locally via GLM-5.2 MoE model and selectively to frontier models, claiming up to 70% token cost reduction.
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OpenAI filed a motion to dismiss Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, arguing Apple's own security lapses — including an Apple manager accessing a former engineer's personal iCloud after departure — undermine its claim that the information was properly protected as trade secrets.
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OpenAI gives ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats and upgrades them to GPT-5.6 Luna, while Plus and Pro subscribers get a more reliable Sol model and a thinking slider.
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DeepSeek announced a significant API price increase on August 6, ending its ultra-low-cost strategy that disrupted the AI market. The hike follows surging demand, service instability, and a planned 1 GW data center build-out.
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