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Uber and autonomous‑vehicle maker Pony.ai announced a partnership to deploy 2,000 robotaxis across four European cities, expanding their commercial robotaxi service beyond Croatia.
AI startup B3IQ raised $21 million to provide on‑premise, rent‑to‑own AI compute machines for university researchers, addressing privacy and cost challenges in academic research.
Apple inaugurated a new Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston that offers free training and interactive labs for small‑ and medium‑sized businesses, while also beginning Mac mini production.
Microsoft published 421 vulnerabilities on August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 236 in Windows, with notable zero‑day exploits such as ShieldBreak and a high‑severity SharePoint RCE.
A massive leak of 153GB of credentials exposed thousands of corporate domains, including AWS, Samsung, Cisco, and Salesforce, after a LiteLLM supply chain breach.
Microsoft’s August 2026 Windows 11 update adds nine AI components, including a removable image‑generation feature, and explains how users can delete or disable individual components.
X releases the source code for its For You timeline algorithm and adds a transparency tool so users can audit how posts are ranked.
Amazon, which owns Twitch, has turned on a default setting that allows its AI models to use streamers’ content for training, prompting backlash from the community.
Fermi, an AI‑driven nuclear power startup, announced the appointment of a new CEO as it moves toward commercial deployment of its AI‑optimized reactors.
The Portugal‑based app distributor has re‑entered Google Play, allowing U.S. users to install third‑party app stores directly from the platform after a court ruling.
DeepMind’s new SL2T model brings multilingual sign‑language‑to‑text capability to Pixel 11, enabling real‑world sign‑language dictation on Gboard and Live Transcribe.
HSBC’s asset‑management arm backs Model ML, a London‑based AI automation startup for financial services, after the company raised over $100 million in total funding.
Microsoft plans to release its next‑generation Maia 300 AI chip in September, aiming to produce up to 300,000 units this fall as part of its custom silicon strategy for Azure AI workloads.
Microsoft’s Power Platform blog details new AI‑powered features, including a data grid modern control and AI‑assisted UI automation for Power Automate.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30‑billion‑parameter open‑weight model designed to power local AI agents on consumer hardware.
The fintech firm secured $40 million in strategic equity funding to expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure, targeting emerging markets.
Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race, but U.S. firms still hold a compute edge, sparking debate over global AI leadership.
TikTok announced a 250‑person layoff and the closure of its Nashville office, a move aimed at streamlining operations amid growing reliance on AI for content moderation.
Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to acquire Taalas, a startup that creates chips hard‑wired for specific AI models, expanding its AI inference portfolio.
Stanford researchers used AI to design 16 novel bacteriophage viruses, raising biosafety concerns while offering potential new treatments.