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Aug 27, 2026 55

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

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Aug 27, 2026 63

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

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Aug 27, 2026 50

A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette ...

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Aug 27, 2026 37

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both ...

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Aug 27, 2026 50

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

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Aug 26, 2026 69

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches...

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Aug 26, 2026 46

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $1...

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Aug 26, 2026 46

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

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Aug 26, 2026 40

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agen...

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Aug 26, 2026 62

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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Aug 26, 2026 67

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

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Aug 26, 2026 47

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.