Google unveiled Pixel 11 with 120x Super Res Zoom, AI sign language transcription via DeepMind, and Gemini Intelligence automating tasks across more than 40 apps.
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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, a 30-Billion-Parameter Open-Weight AI Agent
Meta’s Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI agent running locally on consumer GPUs under Apache 2.0, paired with Mark Zuckerberg’s broadside against closed-AI-lab strategies.
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Intel Raises $15 Billion in Its First Public Share Sale Since 1971
Intel’s $15 billion equity offering — its first public share sale since its 1971 IPO — will fund AI chip production, advanced packaging and foundry expansion, with underwriters able to add $2.25 billion more.
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Apple Tests Chinese CXMT Memory Chips for iPhones as Senate Warns Against the Move
Apple is evaluating DRAM from China’s CXMT for use in iPhones and MacBooks, according to reports from August 9, while bipartisan US senators warn against sourcing chips from Chinese suppliers.
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Google’s $1.5 Billion Mechanize Bid Follows Its Playbook to Skirt Antitrust
Google is in talks to pay $1.5 billion to license AI startup Mechanize’s coding-agent benchmarks and hire its team, using a structure designed to sidestep antitrust review of outright acquisitions.
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Tesla and SpaceX Announce $16.8 Billion Terafab Chip Factory in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX are jointly developing a $16.8 billion semiconductor campus called Terafab in Grimes County, Texas, to produce memory and logic chips for vehicles, Optimus robots and spacecraft systems.
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AMD Data Centre Revenue Doubles as Helios AI Platform Enters Production
AMD’s Q2 2026 data centre revenue doubled to $6.7 billion as the Helios AI platform entered production with Anthropic and Microsoft as launch customers.
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DeepSeek V4-Flash Exits Preview at $0.14 per Million Tokens
DeepSeek’s efficiency-focused V4-Flash model reached general availability on July 31, priced at 9.5 times less than its Pro sibling and outperforming it on at least one coding benchmark.
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Japan Makes AI Watermarking Mandatory for Synthetic Political and News Content
Japan’s AI Strategy Council published updated guidelines on August 5 requiring mandatory watermarking for AI-generated synthetic media used in political or news contexts, diverging from the country’s otherwise voluntary AI governance framework.
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EU AI Act Delays High-Risk System Enforcement to December 2027
The EU AI Act’s most consequential enforcement provisions were postponed to December 2027 even as the August 2 deadline formally took effect.