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Seven Reasons I Wouldn’t Count Google Out
Gary Marcus argues against the narrative that Google has fallen behind in the AI race despite recent leadership departures at…
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General Catalyst Leads $1.1 Billion Round Into 2-Month-Old River AI
River AI, a startup founded by former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, secured $1.1 billion in combined seed and Series A…
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Munich Court Rules Against AI Music Generator Suno in GEMA Copyright Case
The Munich Regional Court ruled on August 5, 2026, that AI music generator Suno infringed copyright by using musical works…
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ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.5, a 30-Second Video-Generation Model
ByteDance has unveiled Seedance 2.5, its latest video-generation model, capable of producing a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single…
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xAI Launches Grok Bot, Always-On AI Agents With Their Own Cloud Computers
xAI introduced Grok Bot on August 11, 2026, an AI agent product that operates autonomously on its own cloud computer…
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ServiceNow Cuts Jobs Again as It Restructures Around AI
ServiceNow has carried out a second round of global layoffs in 2026, following earlier job cuts that affected hundreds of…
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Nvidia Partners With Wall Street Giants to Mobilize Over $500 Billion in AI Compute Financing
Nvidia announced strategic partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish independent compute financing platforms designed…
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Microsoft Filing Shows OpenAI Accounts for About 70% of Its AI Revenue
A Microsoft filing shows the company booked $24.1 billion in revenue from OpenAI during the fiscal year ending in June,…
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Anthropic, Macquarie and GIC Form Theseus Infrastructure to Build AI Data Centers
Anthropic has partnered with investment firms Macquarie Asset Management and GIC to establish Theseus Infrastructure, a venture focused on developing…
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Anthropic to Watermark Claude’s AI-Generated Text and Files Worldwide
Anthropic announced plans to embed imperceptible watermarks in text generated by its Claude models in order to comply with EU…
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The One Issue Unifying the American Public
In a Substack essay, Gary Marcus presents polling data showing rapidly growing, bipartisan opposition to local AI data centers. He…