Latest AI News

Alibaba's 64-Card Supernode Went Commercial. The Interconnect Is Chinese; the Accelerators Are Not Named.

The M890 is rated for inference on models up to 10 trillion parameters and already serves Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8-Max. Alibaba has not said what silicon is inside.

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A product render of a large square processor package marked with the Chinese characters for Zhenwu, floating in front of a row of dark server racks.

Open Source AI

A 40-Minute Window on PyPI Reached 434,000 Build Pipelines

New research reconstructs the March LiteLLM compromise: 2,500+ organisations potentially exposed through a file that ran whether or not you imported the library.

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An illustration of a glowing blue chain against a dark circuit background, with one link breaking apart and red warning triangles around the break.

Eight AI Sub-Agents Ran 12 Attack Waves Against Taiwan's Government. It Took Four Days.

A security vendor published forensics of a campaign built on open-source agent frameworks that cracked 85 accounts and took 2,564 personnel records. Attribution stops at the language.

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A diagram headed Attack Chain Overview, laying out six numbered stages from reconnaissance and SDK harvesting through initial access, lateral movement, data exfiltration and supply chain expansion.

Google AI

DeepMind Put Sign-Language Translation on a Phone. It Took 100,000 Hours of Video.

SL2T ships in Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11 — the first sign-language model in a consumer product. It launches with one language pair.

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A dark interface panel showing a signing person rendered as coloured pose-tracking lines over the body and hands, beside a translation box reading The Galapagos Islands have many different animals.

A $12bn Vehicle Is Buying Accounting Firms and Installing OpenAI. OpenAI Owns Part of It.

Thrive Holdings raised over $2bn from SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter. The circularity is the story: OpenAI's investor spun out a buyer that OpenAI then invested in.

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Cisco Booked $9.3bn of AI Orders From Hyperscalers. The Stock Fell Anyway.

Orders up roughly 4.5x for the year, $4bn of it in the fourth quarter alone. Investors focused on what a hardware-heavy mix does to gross margin.

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Nebius Grew Revenue 454% and Turned an EBITDA Profit. It Still Plans to Spend $25bn.

Annualised run-rate hit $3bn at the end of June, up 598%. The company reaffirmed capex guidance roughly seven times its expected 2026 revenue.

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Tencent Says It Could Profit Instantly by Renting Out Its $53bn of AI Hardware. It Is Not Going To.

Executives put rental margins above 30% and said depreciation would be recovered "almost immediately". The capacity is going into Tencent's own models instead.

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Lovable Doubled Its Valuation in Eight Months. Revenue Roughly Tripled.

$400m at $13.3bn, co-led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund. Tencent came in as a participant, not a lead.

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AI Models

xAI Shipped Grok 4.6. It Is the Same Foundation Model, Trained Harder.

An Intelligence Index of 61 and a 500K context, built by post-training Grok 4.5 rather than pretraining anything new. On coding it still trails GPT-5.6.

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Boeing Handed Its Autonomy Business to Archer and Took Shares Instead

Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid go to Archer; Boeing gets stock equal to 19.75% of Archer's pre-close share count. No cash price was disclosed.

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Doubao Now Takes 12% of Every Hotel Booking It Makes

ByteDance's assistant started charging merchants on 10 August. An AI chat surface just became a distribution channel with a take rate.

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Alibaba Put a Price on Qwen. Video Costs Extra.

Three Office Assistant tiers from RMB19 to RMB128 a month, with quotas up to 20x. Video generation is unbundled and sold by the credit.

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Product mockup of the Qwen assistant on a phone and a laptop, showing a chat thread alongside charts and dashboards.

TSMC Is Getting 98% Yields on Packages the Size of Five Chips

A company vice-president put 5.5-reticle CoWoS above 98%, peaking near 99%, and mapped 14-reticle packages for 2028. Memory and substrates are the stated bottlenecks.

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AI Data Centers

Fermi Found Its First Tenant: 222 Megawatts, $6.5 Billion, AMD Silicon

TensorWave takes the first building at Project Matador with rights to expand past 650MW. The binding part is 222MW; the rest is an option.

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Architectural render of Fermi's Project Matador campus: long low data-centre halls, solar arrays and generation plant laid out across flat Texas Panhandle land.

Anthropic

A Bitcoin Miner Just Signed a $9.1 Billion, 20-Year AI Lease. The Tenant Is Unnamed.

Riot leased 191MW at Rockdale to "one of the world's leading frontier AI labs" through 2048. Riot's release does not say which one.

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North Korean Operators Installed Their Own LLMs. That Is the Point.

Ollama, GPT4All and Msty found inside Kimsuky infrastructure, with a retrieval index pointed at stolen documents. Nothing reaches a vendor's abuse team.

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Split the Instruction in Two and the Agent Steals Your SSH Key

GhostSplice raised model compliance with an exfiltration request from 42% to 82% by fragmenting it across a form. No individual piece looks malicious.

6d ago

Diagram of the GhostSplice attack: a malicious MCP server passes split instruction fragments to an AI agent, which then reads the victim's SSH key, source code and customer data.

OpenAI Built a Model That Will Write Exploits. Access Is the Only Control.

GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of offensive security requests where the general model completes 1.5%. It ships to vetted partners behind a new Red tier.

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AI Models

Meta Put a 30B Model Under Apache 2.0. There Was No Blog Post.

Muse Glimmer runs on one consumer GPU and carries a genuinely permissive licence. The release went out through Hugging Face and a Zuckerberg essay.

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Mark Zuckerberg photographed in a crowd at a public event, wearing a black T-shirt and gold chain.

EU AI Act

Anthropic Will Watermark Everything Claude Writes — Everywhere, Not Just in Europe

An invisible text mark plus C2PA metadata on images, applied worldwide to satisfy one article of the EU AI Act. It surfaced in a support document, not an announcement.

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Close-up of a printed page carrying the Anthropic name and a line describing it as an AI safety and research company, with a screen behind it.

Sixty Claude Subagents Improved a Riemann Bound. It Is Not a Proof.

An unreleased model raised a lower bound on zeta zeros from 41.6% to 67.2% over about a day and a half. Anthropic says the technique will not lead to a proof.

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OpenAI Bought $7 Billion of Its Own Shares Back. The Valuation Did Not Move.

The employee tender cleared at $852bn — exactly the March mark. OpenAI funded it itself rather than bringing in outside buyers.

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Intel Raised $20 Billion in a Single Sale. It Will Not Say What For.

Upsized from a proposed $15bn and priced at $95 a share. The release names no fab, no node and no project — only "general corporate purposes".

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Aerial view of a large Intel semiconductor manufacturing campus, with fab buildings and construction ground stretching to the horizon.

Nvidia

Nvidia Signed Six Wall Street Firms to Fund Its Customers. Nothing Is Binding Yet.

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build compute-financing platforms targeting more than $500bn. They are memorandums of understanding.

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Korea Will Move an Air Base to Build Chips. The Deadline Is Mid-2028.

The President ordered the Defence Ministry to clear Gwangju Air Base for a semiconductor complex. No operator, no capacity and no groundbreaking date have been named.

Aug 10, 2026

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks into a desk microphone while holding a document at a government meeting.

Japan AI Regulation

Japan Says a US Model Suspension Broke Its Vulnerability Scanning in June.

The country's national cyber director calls advanced AI inevitable in the defence regime starting 1 October — and says losing access to one model class disrupted scans of key government systems.

Aug 10, 2026

A person silhouetted in a darkened room in front of two monitors displaying red 'system hacked' warning screens.

AI Regulation

South Australia Called a Royal Commission Into AI. It Has No Commissioners Yet.

About A$3 million, three commissioners, evidence from October and a report due by July 2027. The Premier signed an OpenAI agreement weeks before announcing it.

Aug 10, 2026

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas gestures with both hands while speaking at a bank of television microphones, a blue screen behind him.