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Cloudflare unveiled Meerkat, a new globally consistent control‑plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, enabling leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency across its network.
AMD unveiled Instella‑MoE‑16B‑A3B, a 16B parameter open‑source Mixture‑of‑Experts language model that activates only 2.8B parameters per token, trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs.
AWS recorded a 37% sales surge in Q2, driven by AI services and high margins, reinforcing its position as a cloud leader.
Google Cloud’s monthly blog highlights new AI infrastructure releases, including managed Lustre, C4N VMs, and GKE Dataplane V2, all announced on July 31, 2026.
Gemini Robotics 2 can now command a humanoid robot from feet to fingertips, enabling more complex, real‑world tasks.
American startup Arcee released Trinity Large Thinking, a 400‑billion‑parameter open‑source language model, positioning it as a Western alternative to Chinese AI offerings.
Microsoft announced a new AI model that reduces cybersecurity expenses by half, leveraging specialized models for threat detection and response.
Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services hit a record $143.4 billion in Q2 2026, driven by generative‑AI workloads and expanding hyperscale and neocloud providers.
OpenAI announced a 20% price cut for GPT‑5.6 Terra and an 80% cut for GPT‑5.6 Luna to address cost concerns and stay competitive with other AI providers.
Tesla has built its 10 millionth electric vehicle, a milestone that brings it closer to its CEO Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package goals.
British AI neocloud Nscale announced a $1.65 billion acquisition of Anyscale, a startup that scales AI workloads across data centers.
A Currence report warns that 30‑50% of announced 2026 data‑center capacity may be delayed due to power constraints and construction bottlenecks.
Cricut launched its new AutoPress 2 heat press, featuring a larger plate and adjustable pressure for bigger apparel and batch projects.
IMAGE Studios announced Gorgeous Collective, a franchise platform aimed at scaling beauty and wellness brands while preserving their unique identities.
Cybersecurity startup Spur raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners to enhance its bot‑detection platform for enterprises.
Amazon is overhauling its AI portfolio, phasing out flagship Nova models and focusing on frontier‑model research.
The cloud‑security startup Act Security has secured $60 million to launch an action‑centric platform that protects enterprises from AI‑agent access risks in large‑scale cloud environments.
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Enigma, a research lab set to emerge from stealth, wants to study how humans engage with robots to create intuitive interfaces.
Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, announced a partnership with Nvidia to access its Vera Rubin GPU platform.
The former Uber founder’s industrial AI venture raises a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to automate mining, food production, construction and transport.
A proposed law would grant U.S. officials the power to shut down AI systems that could cause catastrophic harm, requiring AI makers to embed technical kill switches.
The report outlines Google Cloud’s latest AI infrastructure capabilities, including the Agentic Data Cloud and new time‑slicing techniques for reinforcement learning.
Fly.io announced a $25 million investment to accelerate its compute platform designed for AI agents, positioning it as a key player in AI infrastructure.
The AI research lab Prentis, founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking a $100 million round to accelerate its AI development and commercialization efforts.