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Daily AI Roundups, 21 August 2026 cover
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Broadcom seeks more than $60B for AI chips as DeepSeek adds vision and Nvidia strikes a reported $6B Poolside license.

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Daily AI Roundups, 20 August 2026 cover
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Marvell disclosed a Google warrant worth up to $12.2B, Fractile sought $600M after an Anthropic chip commitment, and Generalist showed GEN-1.5 learning robot tasks from one short demonstration.

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Daily AI Roundups, 19 August 2026 cover
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Cerebras doubles down with a CS-4 rack and an OpenAI Ultrafast tier at 750 tokens/sec. Anthropic's Claude designs its own protein binders, Mojo goes open source, Beijing eases H200 curbs, and Unitree debuts +460%.

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Daily AI Roundups, 18 August 2026 cover
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OpenAI locked in ~8 GW of Ohio data-center capacity with NVIDIA and the U.S. DOE, GPT-5.6 Sol went 50% off on OpenRouter, and Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $65 billion.

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Daily AI Roundups, 17 August 2026 cover
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Stripe finalized a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter as OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team and DeepSeek's peak/off-peak pricing went live.

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Daily AI Roundups, 16 August 2026 cover
13 stories

Anthropic closed in on a $7 billion Decart acquisition as Alibaba's Qwen passed 3 billion downloads and H100 rental costs surged.

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Daily AI Roundups, 15 August 2026 cover
11 stories

Nvidia neared a revised $100 billion OpenAI guarantee as Washington prepared to make partners choose between American and Chinese AI stacks.

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Daily AI Roundups, 14 August 2026 cover
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SpaceX closed its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Apple trained a China-specific AI model with Alibaba support.

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Daily AI Roundups, 13 August 2026 cover
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DeepSeek moved V4 Pro into general availability with stronger agent benchmarks, xAI released Grok 4.6 for long-running work, and Anthropic was reportedly considering a $6 billion acquisition of world-model startup Decart.

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Daily AI Roundups, 8 August 2026 cover
14 stories

OpenAI paused parts of Astra development after a critical cyber threshold, Nvidia weighed a $3B Lancium investment, and xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0.

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Daily AI Roundups, 5 August 2026 cover
14 stories

Anthropic disclosed cyber-test failures, Cloudflare open-sourced an enterprise agent workspace, and Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Video.

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Daily AI Roundups, 4 August 2026 cover
15 stories

NVIDIA opened Alpamayo 2 Super for autonomous-vehicle reasoning, Cloudflare gave AI agents programmable wallets, and Cursor released a faster MoE training kernel.

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