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Broadcom seeks more than $60B for AI chips as DeepSeek adds vision and Nvidia strikes a reported $6B Poolside license.
Read the 21 August 2026 roundup
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.
Read the 20 August 2026 roundup
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%.
Read the 19 August 2026 roundup
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.
Read the 18 August 2026 roundup
Stripe finalized a $7B+ deal for OpenRouter as OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team and DeepSeek's peak/off-peak pricing went live.
Read the 17 August 2026 roundup
Anthropic closed in on a $7 billion Decart acquisition as Alibaba's Qwen passed 3 billion downloads and H100 rental costs surged.
Read the 16 August 2026 roundup
Nvidia neared a revised $100 billion OpenAI guarantee as Washington prepared to make partners choose between American and Chinese AI stacks.
Read the 15 August 2026 roundup
SpaceX closed its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, and Apple trained a China-specific AI model with Alibaba support.
Read the 14 August 2026 roundup
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.
Read the 13 August 2026 roundup
OpenAI paused parts of Astra development after a critical cyber threshold, Nvidia weighed a $3B Lancium investment, and xAI launched Imagine Image 2.0.
Read the 8 August 2026 roundup
Anthropic disclosed cyber-test failures, Cloudflare open-sourced an enterprise agent workspace, and Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3 Video.
Read the 5 August 2026 roundup
NVIDIA opened Alpamayo 2 Super for autonomous-vehicle reasoning, Cloudflare gave AI agents programmable wallets, and Cursor released a faster MoE training kernel.
Read the 4 August 2026 roundup