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.
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California’s AI Watermarking Law Takes Effect for Major Generative AI Platforms
California’s AI Transparency Act became operative August 2, requiring large generative AI platforms to embed C2PA provenance in synthetic media and offer free AI-content detection tools.
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German Court Rules Suno Infringed Copyright by Training on GEMA Songs
Munich’s Regional Court found AI music startup Suno memorised and reproduced protected songs, granting injunctive relief to GEMA in the first major European ruling on AI training and music copyright.
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EU AI Act Enforcement Reaches GPAI Providers August 2, Exposing AI Giants to Billion-Dollar Fines
The European Commission’s AI Office gains formal enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers on August 2, 2026, with fines of up to 3% of global annual turnover and four separate violation routes that could apply simultaneously.
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Azure Crosses $100 Billion as Microsoft Copilot Hits 30 Million Paid Seats
Microsoft reported on July 29 that Azure revenue crossed $100 billion annually for the first time, with Q4 FY2026 cloud growth accelerating to 43%, while Microsoft 365 Copilot reached over 30 million paid seats — more than doubling in the quarter.