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Nvidia announced the open‑source cuFile API, which enhances GPU read/write performance for high‑speed storage systems, improving data throughput for AI and HPC workloads.
European AI startup HappyRobot raises $150 million to expand its agentic AI platform beyond logistics into insurance, energy, telecoms and more.
Microsoft’s Project Helix could run games from all Xbox generations, potentially turning the console into a universal library of titles.
Ethyca launches Astralis, a platform that embeds data governance into AI systems, enabling real‑time policy enforcement at enterprise scale.
SpaceX will announce its Q2 2026 earnings, with a focus on AI services and data‑center investments, amid a steep post‑IPO decline.
Samsung has removed smart TV apps that route users’ internet traffic through residential proxy networks, citing security risks after research by Mnemonic.
Onton’s new Ontology 1 model outperforms Google Shopping and Amazon on a multimodal product‑search benchmark, using a neurosymbolic knowledge graph to reason about vague queries.
Agave 4.2 cuts on‑chain rent by ~90%, increases transaction size, and halves slot times, reshaping Solana’s network economics and performance.
Google Cloud announced a new version of its Network Load Balancer that supports global external passthrough, improving latency and cross‑region failover for real‑time applications.
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.
Amazon closed its San Francisco AGI lab and redirected resources toward enterprise AI deployment, signaling a shift from frontier model research to customer‑centric solutions.
The U.S. AI chip startup Etched announced a $10.3 billion valuation after securing backing from SK Hynix, positioning its custom processors to address power‑efficient inference workloads.
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.
NXP Semiconductor is negotiating to buy Ambarella, a key player in autonomous‑driving camera chips, potentially reshaping the automotive AI chip market.
A Katalyst Space robot tasked with raising the Swift Observatory failed to stabilize, raising questions about private‑sector space operations.
Antares Nuclear, a small‑modular‑reactor startup, secured $470 million in a Series C to support the construction of reactors for U.S. military bases, driven by data‑center power demand.
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.
Microsoft reported strong cloud revenue growth and a robust capital‑expenditure forecast, underscoring the financial impact of its AI investments.