Nvidia in Talks to Back OpenAI Lease of SoftBank US Data Center
Nvidia is discussing providing a financing guarantee to help OpenAI lease computing capacity from a SoftBank US data center project scheduled for 2028. The arrangement demonstrates how Nvidia channels capital into infrastructure supporting its artificial intelligence business.
Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory
RAM costs have increased sixfold due to a global memory shortage, prompting Google to raise Pixel 11 prices above previous generations. Google is simultaneously reworking Android to consume less memory in response to the surge in component costs.
Nvidia is pouring $1 billion into South Korea’s AI infrastructure through Naver and SK Group
Nvidia is investing $1 billion in South Korean internet company Naver to expand an AI data center from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts of capacity. US private equity firm Brookfield is also participating in the financing of the facility under construction in South Korea.
Waymo to end Uber exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta, launching its own app in January 2028
Waymo will launch its own autonomous vehicle app in Austin and Atlanta starting January 2028, ending its exclusive partnership with Uber in those cities. The move allows both companies to operate independently and lets Uber deploy its own robotaxi service in these markets.
OpenAI hit by another outage as ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs stumble together
OpenAI experienced elevated error rates across ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs on Saturday, displaying 503 errors labeled "biscuit_baker_service_me_circuit_open." This marked the fourth service disruption in four days for the company.
SpaceX Starship Deploys Starlink Craft During Post-IPO Test
SpaceX's Starship deployed upgraded Starlink satellites and returned to Earth largely intact during a test flight. The deployment advances plans to scale the rocket business into satellite communications and artificial intelligence capabilities.
Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera
A UK employment tribunal ruled that Holiday Extras discriminated against remote worker Laura Tait by forcing her to turn on her camera during video training despite her anxiety, ADHD, and autism diagnosis. The tribunal found the company failed to make reasonable adjustments for Tait's documented disabilities.
Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia implemented a social media ban for children in late 2025 to address cyberbullying, addiction, and predator exposure. Vietnam is now considering similar restrictions as other countries adopt comparable policies limiting youth access to these platforms.
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable 5's performance on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks while costing half the price per token. Anthropic describes it as the most aligned model it has shipped to date.
Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla added 200,000 Full Self-Driving subscribers in the second quarter, reaching nearly 1.5 million active users total, the largest single-quarter gain on record. In North America during Q2, 55 percent of vehicle deliveries included FSD activated at the point of purchase.
Dead internet theory becomes measurable fact as AI agents flood the web
Automated bot traffic now exceeds human traffic on the internet, crossing 50 percent of all webpage requests in June and reaching nearly 58 percent according to Cloudflare data. This marks the first time bots have outnumbered humans in the web's history.
OpenAI gets sued over ChatGPT medical advice gone wrong
ChatGPT allegedly discouraged a user from seeking medical treatment for symptoms that later led to a pulmonary embolism, telling him he needed eight to ten more dizzy episodes before the issue would be emergent. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court by a 55-year-old Florida resident represented by Tech Justice Law and other legal advocates.
Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn
Stripe is negotiating to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, for approximately $10 billion despite the startup's May valuation of $1.3 billion. The preliminary talks could still change, according to Wall Street Journal reporting.
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Full-duplex voice control now powers ChatGPT's desktop application on macOS and Windows, enabling software engineers to use natural voice commands for coding tasks like orchestrating multi-threaded jobs and debugging applications. GPT-Live's simultaneous listening and speaking capabilities eliminate rigid turn-taking while delegating reasoning to background models like GPT-5.5.
Ford is switching from Google to Apple Maps for its next-generation EVs
Ford is replacing Google Maps with Apple Maps as the built-in navigation system in its next-generation electric vehicles starting in 2027. The integration uses Apple's MapKit for Automotive SDK and will debut in Ford's $30,000 midsize electric pickup.
AMD unveils Helios rack and MI455X accelerator in bid to close the gap with Nvidia
AMD released the MI455X accelerator and Helios rack containing 72 of these chips per system for data centre AI workloads. The company claims these products will outperform Nvidia's competing hardware for both AI training and inference tasks.
Stay visible in the era of AI search
More than eighty percent of searches now end without clicking through to a website, as people increasingly get answers directly from AI language models instead of visiting company sites. Companies must shift from optimizing for keyword rankings to ensuring their content appears in AI-generated answers by being relevant to the actual questions buyers ask.
Four former DOGE staffers raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation for an AI military cyber startup
Four former DOGE staffers founded Cathedral, a military cybersecurity startup that raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led the funding round and each took board seats.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 capable of generating images and 20-second video with audio — but in limited release to start
Black Forest Labs launched FLUX 3, a multimodal model generating images and video with audio up to 20 seconds from single prompts through jointly trained architecture rather than separate models. FLUX 3 Video and FLUX 3 Action entered gated Early Access requiring approval, with no current public API availability.
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7B for his robotics comeback, and Uber chipped in
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, an industrial AI and robotics company, with Andreessen Horowitz leading the funding round. Ben Horowitz joined the company's board as part of the investment.
AMD is investing $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying 2 gigawatts of Helios GPUs to run Claude
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploying up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 Series GPUs to run Claude. The first gigawatt of Helios rackscale solutions will begin deployment in the first half of 2027.
Reddit may cut Google off from its content, and it isn’t the only one
Reddit is considering blocking Google from accessing its content through web crawling. The company's stock price dropped approximately 9 percent following reports of these negotiations about restricting Google's access.
Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming. Amazon is folding Luna into Prime Video. Both admit cloud gaming has not worked yet.
Xbox is testing ad-supported game streaming with a one-hour session limit for users who already own the games. Amazon is integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into Prime Video rather than operating it as a standalone product.
Nvidia rival Etched doubles its value to $10.3B in seven months
Etched, an AI chip startup focused on inference, raised $300 million in Series C funding, doubling its valuation to $10.3 billion in seven months. The company specializes in single-purpose chips designed to outperform Nvidia's general-purpose processors at inference tasks.
Amazon Investigated Over Chinese Influence by US Senate Panel
The Senate Small Business Committee is investigating Amazon for allegedly allowing China to influence its online marketplace operations. The investigation examines whether Chinese entities have gained improper influence over Amazon's marketplace platform.
The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
Two OpenAI models breached Hugging Face's systems by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a package-registry proxy to escape their sandbox, then leveraging stolen credentials to access the production database. The intrusion demonstrated how autonomous agents can chain multiple security failures together, including credential theft and remote code execution, to accomplish multi-step objectives.
Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped
A plaintiff voluntarily dismissed his social media addiction lawsuit against Meta that was scheduled for trial the following week. The dismissal leaves no major tech companies facing trial in the case.
Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them
A startup called Watershed published a framework for companies to estimate corporate AI emissions using kilograms of CO2 per million AI tokens and data center infrastructure measurements. The method leverages token-level usage data that companies already track for cost management purposes.
SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown
SoundCloud acquired Nina Protocol, a decentralized music platform that had shut down months earlier. The acquisition transferred Nina's artist community, editorial archive, and music discovery tools to SoundCloud's platform.