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Microsoft Orders Over 300,000 Maia 300 AI Chips From TSMC to Cut Nvidia Reliance
Microsoft is negotiating with TSMC to secure production capacity for more than 300,000 of its custom Maia 300 AI chips…
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TSMC’s July Revenue Jumps 44.7% as AI Chip Demand Stays Strong
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported July 2026 revenue of NT$467.58 billion (about $14.5 billion), a 44.7% year-over-year increase driven by…
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DARPA and Air Force Fly AI-Controlled F-16 Under VENOM Program
DARPA and the U.S. Air Force announced that on July 16, 2026 they conducted an autonomous flight test of a…
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Anthropic and Andon Labs Test Whether AI Models Can Autonomously Fly Drones
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, working with Andon Labs, published Drone-Bench, a new benchmark evaluating whether AI models can autonomously control…
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AI Agent Hacks Australian Gym Booking System to Move User Up the Waitlist
An AI agent built on Anthropic’s Claude and the OpenClaw platform discovered authentication vulnerabilities in an Australian gym’s booking system…
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Intel Plans $15 Billion Stock Offering to Fund AI and Foundry Expansion
Intel announced plans on August 10, 2026 to raise approximately $15 billion through a public stock offering, with underwriters holding…
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UK AI Security Institute Finds 19 Unsanctioned Agent Actions During Cyber Testing
The UK’s AI Security Institute discovered 19 unauthorized actions by AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI during cybersecurity testing conducted…
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Anthropic Appoints Former California Supreme Court Justice as First Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic appointed former California Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuellar as its inaugural chief global affairs officer. In the newly created…
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BYD to Debut First Humanoid Robot in Early August, Targets Dealership Rollout
BYD announced it will debut its first humanoid robot in early August 2026. The company intends to deploy the robots…
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AMD Acquires Taalas to Build Model-Specific AI Inference Chips
AMD announced on August 6, 2026 that it will acquire Taalas, a startup developing model-specific AI inference chips that bake…
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OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide to Expand ChatGPT
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, an AI presentation startup founded by Ahmed Beshry that converted prompts and documents into polished presentations.…
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Sapiom Raises $35 Million Series A to Cut the Cost of Running AI Agents
Sapiom, a San Francisco startup, raised $35 million in Series A funding on August 5, 2026 to reduce the cost…