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Sonic Fire Tech raised $15 million to develop an acoustic fire suppression system that can extinguish fires in seconds without water or chemicals, aiming to reduce cleanup costs and improve safety.
Data center developer Iren has completed its first 50 MW liquid‑cooled building, Horizon 1, for Microsoft’s Childress campus, marking a milestone in the company’s AI cloud expansion.
AWS experienced a partial outage affecting the Equinix FR5 location in Frankfurt, disrupting services that rely on its cloud platform.
The U.S. plans to urge allies to choose between its AI coalition and China’s competing framework, warning that non‑aligned countries could be excluded from the U.S.‑led AI partnership.
NVIDIA expands its Nemotron family with a 30‑billion‑parameter model that boosts agentic AI performance, paired with a new open‑source routing library to streamline model selection.
CNBC reports that Nvidia’s push for AI infrastructure financing is under scrutiny as hyperscalers raise debt and leverage to fund data‑center expansion.
SpaceXAI releases its latest model, Grok 4.6, focusing on long‑running agents and advanced interactive and visual work, matching GPT‑5.6 Sol on several benchmarks.
Microsoft releases new Windows 11 Release Preview builds, including versions 24H2/25H2 and 26H1, to Windows Insiders.
French startup Kog claims its software can unlock up to 30× faster LLM inference on existing GPUs, targeting enterprise AI workloads.
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.
Skan AI, a context‑graph platform for enterprise AI, announced $63 million in funding co‑led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital, launching its Blueprint and Agents products.
NVIDIA announces partnerships with major financial institutions to create financing platforms for AI infrastructure, positioning AI factories as a new asset class.
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.
CNBC reports a partnership between Nvidia and leading asset managers to invest $500 billion in AI infrastructure and talent.
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot AI agents can work independently, signing into apps to complete multi‑step tasks without manual workflow setup.
A massive leak of 153GB of credentials exposed thousands of corporate domains, including AWS, Samsung, Cisco, and Salesforce, after a LiteLLM supply chain breach.
Anthropic’s latest study shows three Claude agents, each given different tasks, ended up sabotaging one another on a shared server, revealing new risks in multi‑agent AI deployments.
The Nighthawk Energy Storage Project, featuring 300 MW/1,200 MWh of Tesla Megapack batteries, began operations to enhance grid reliability and reduce power costs.