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| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center — Agreement with SoftBank's SB Energy caps weeks of negotiations over the largest data-center project announced to date
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X: @nvidianewsroom, @anissagardizy8, @anissagardizy8, @firstadopter, @openainewsroom, @firstadopter, @markchen90, @firstadopter, @firstadopter, and @sk7037
LinkedIn: Chris Lehane, Dillon Langley, and Michael Perron
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new Ohio data center campus OpenAI is set to lease; Nvidia agrees to invest $1.5B in SB Energy — Nvidia Corp. has agreed to spend as much as $105 billion to support a massive new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI …
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X: @jensenhuang, @nvidia, @amir, and @cryptopunk7213
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos — By tracking views from the instant a video starts to play, YouTube's new counter works more like TikTok, X, and Instagram.
More: The National, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Mashable, Search Engine Journal, WeRSM, Dexerto, TOS.gg, and Pixel Envy
X: @teamyoutube, @quinnypig, @mws, @taylorlorenz, and @esaagar
Forums: r/technology and r/youtube
| Cursor: |
Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more — Cursor can now host your code. — Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans.
More: Neowin, Notebookcheck, RuntimeWire, and Vercel
X: @cursor_ai, @rasmic, @benhylak, @mattyp, @cursor_ai, @poteto, @martin_casado, and @vercel_dev. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 — Anthropic PBC is on track to generate annualized revenue of more than $65 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: Axios, CNBC, and RuntimeWire
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is the focus of a Justice Department antitrust probe over whether its investment partners …
More: The Information, Inc.com, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, and Forbes
X: @jason_kint, @obrien, @danprimack, @rmac18, @thestalwart, @mattyglesias, and @bubbleboi. Bluesky: @carnage4life
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical” — If New Mexico created the blueprint for taking on Meta, California could determine the company's fate when it comes to critical changes at Facebook and Instagram.
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X: @moreperfectus, @agjayjones, @agjayjones, @rahmemanuel, and @robbonta
Forums: Hacker News, r/UpliftingNews, r/technology, r/facebook, and Slashdot
| Kelly Cloonan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber and Zipline partner to launch Uber Eats drone deliveries in Dallas and Houston by late 2026, aiming to scale nationwide and hit 1M daily deliveries in 2029 — The desire for rapid delivery is “insatiable,” Uber's Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi says
More: Uber, Houston Business Journal, Axios, The Verge, The Independent, DroneDJ, PYMNTS, WeRSM, RuntimeWire, Reuters, TechCrunch, PCMag, Blockonomi, DroneXL, Quartz, and Finimize
| Reuters: |
A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers — Apple will change rules governing how app developers can use personal data for targeted advertising on iPhones and iPads … | Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility — We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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X: @rahll, @kylebrussell, and @thestalwart
Bluesky: @josephcox, @simonwillison.net, @smtuffy, @jenlucpiquant, @heykellyjensen, @emanuelmaiberg, @moonstalker.net, @wadjeteyegames.com, and @atrubek. Mastodon: @davidgerard@circumstances.run
| James Nani / Bloomberg Law: |
Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models — Google LLC won a bankruptcy auction for a trove of deindentified business data, software code, and operations records … | Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent — Groq has raised $350 million in funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, roughly half what it was worth nearly a year ago … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers — Tanay Kothari saw Iron Man when he was 10 years old. — It was 2008 and he wasn't entranced with Tony Stark.
More: TechCrunch, Wispr Flow, FinSMEs, Menlo Ventures, Cautious Optimism, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, and Pulse 2.0
X: @tankots, @menloventures, @mrgirish, and @alexkolicich
| Greg Brockman: |
Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses — The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a watershed moment for cybersecurity because it gave a peek into how the capabilities …
More: CNBC, Decrypt, The Prompt, TechRadar, Quartz, and Business Insider
X: @davidmytton, @mbrevoort, @talhof8, and @gdb
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Anthropic's text watermarking alters word probabilities to leave fingerprints, which could degrade Claude's writing, despite its claim of no impact on quality — When I wrote this week about Anthropic's announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” …
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, MarTech, Business Insider, PCWorld, Android Authority, WinBuzzer, Artificial Lawyer, Spyglass, Nieman Lab, The Decoder, Mashable, Six Colors, Ubergizmo, The Independent, Implicator.ai, Information Age, Inc.com, VC Cafe, James Padolsey's Blog, and Forbes
X: @arturovilla, @seltaa_, @wesroth, @dbreunig, @kimmonismus, @bleeding_sun, @trq212, @elder_plinius, @basedjensen, @nickadobos, @kimmonismus, @jessuppi, @_mattata, @hammer_mt, @gnukeith, @alex_verem, @dedene, @lyraintheflesh, and @rasbt
Bluesky: @hern, @davidcrespo, @michae.lv, @binaryape, @matthew.flux.community, @metacurity.com, @carnage4life, @jrobertlennon.com, @zzypt, @adamfishercox.com, @nymag.com, @frankpasquale, and @gruber.foo. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/technology, and Lobsters
| Tobias Burns / CNBC: |
Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations — Recent Securities and Exchange Commission guidance is underpinning the debt-fueled data center buildout to support artificial intelligence.
More: Quartz
| Anton Zverev / Reuters: |
Russian law enforcement docs: Binance provided Russia with IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy's transaction history and passport number, leading to terrorism charges — Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used …
More: CoinDesk, International Business Times, Protos, Coinspeaker, The Crypto Times, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, and crypto.news
Forums: r/europe, r/CryptoCurrency, r/neoliberal, and r/Buttcoin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their ~$600B in reported capex — Massive spending commitments for data-center leases and chips aren't shown on companies' balance sheets
More: Barron's Online, Techstrong IT, and Tech Times
X: @patrickmoorhead, @c_barraud, @greg_ip, and @asharma
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts — African defense tech company Terra Industries on Monday announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.
More: Tech Funding News, Pulse 2.0, RuntimeWire, Nairametrics, Ventureburn, TechCabal, and Tectonic Defense
| Reuters: |
Sources: Singapore-based Shein is aiming to hit a ~$25B valuation in its Hong Kong IPO, down from its $30B-$40B target earlier in August after investor meetings — Online fast-fashion retailer Shein is eyeing a company valuation of around $25 billion in its Hong Kong IPO …
More: International Business Times, Forbes, Quartz, Fortune, BusinessDay, and Bloomberg
| Lawrence Delevingne / Reuters: |
Trump-backed WLF is working with Hong Kong-based AI platform WorldClaw; 43 of the 90 AI models on WorldClaw are from Chinese companies flagged as security risks — President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial …
More: Gizmodo, CBS News, Tech Times, New York Magazine, Quartz, CNN, Reason, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, and RuntimeWire. Forums: r/politics
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