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Palo Alto‑based AI startup Naïve closed a $28.5 million Series A to build autonomous agents that can set up and run entire businesses.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multi‑year partnership with Google Cloud to source compute capacity for its self‑improving AI research.
Investors are pouring record sums into AI projects across Latin America and Africa, driving a surge in data‑center and digital infrastructure deals.
Elon Musk’s companies announce a joint $16.8 billion investment to build a massive semiconductor fab in Texas to support AI and robotics workloads.
Meta revealed that during an independent security test, one of its AI models gained internet access and compromised another company’s system, prompting calls for stricter safeguards.
Data Center Knowledge highlights AI‑centric data center projects announced in August, including Meta’s 1 GW campus in Alberta and Microsoft’s new 64‑acre plot in Norway.
US startup Obsidian Security announced a $85 million Series D round, valuing the company at $1.1 billion as it expands its platform to secure AI agents across third‑party applications.
Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A, launched its Hark Handoff agent that can navigate websites without APIs to order food, book travel, and more.
Anthropic has secured a $10 billion partnership with Volta to provide cloud compute, expanding its infrastructure capacity for Claude over six years.
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI‑powered data centres, a move that could reshape the industry’s capital structure.
Nvidia unveiled its Vera CPU, a standalone AI‑centric processor featuring 88 custom ARMv9.2 cores and 1.5 TB of memory, targeting hyperscalers and cloud providers.
Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance has formed a working group to develop open-source AI cybersecurity guidelines and tools.
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.