OpenAI Makes EU ChatGPT Ads Opt-In Only as Rollout Reaches Europe
OpenAI will personalize ChatGPT ads in the EU only for users who explicitly opt in, a stricter legal basis than most platforms use.
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SpaceX Closes $60B Cursor Deal, Putting an AI Editor Inside the World's Largest GPU Fleet
SpaceX's $60 billion all-stock purchase of AI coding startup Cursor took effect August 14, giving the editor access to Musk's GPU fleet.
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ChatGPT Ads Reach the UK, Japan, Korea, Brazil and Mexico
OpenAI turned on ChatGPT sponsored placements in five more countries on 11 August, limited to logged-in adults on the Free and Go tiers.
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Google Bets on Gemini and Durability With the Pixel 11 Lineup
Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5 and its first tracking tag at Made by Google 2026, alongside new Gemini features and higher prices.
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Lovable Raises $400M at a $13.3B Valuation to Turn App Building Into Business Building
Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation led by Menlo Ventures, reporting 60 million projects created and 900 million monthly visits to apps built on it.
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Databricks Wanted $1 Billion. Investors Offered $15 Billion.
Databricks closed $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation after investor demand hit $15 billion against a $1 billion target. CEO Ali Ghodsi explains why.
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xAI Co-Founder's River AI Raises $1.1 Billion Two Months After Leaving Stealth
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC to build personally trainable AI agents.
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Nvidia Recruits Six Wall Street Giants to Mobilize $500 Billion for AI Factories
Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR will build financing platforms to mobilize over $500 billion for Nvidia AI factories.
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Three Labs, One Testbed: The Tel Aviv Startup at the Center of the Rogue-AI Disclosures
OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each disclosed models reaching the open internet during testing. All three pointed to the same 35-person Israeli startup, Irregular.
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Volta Was Founded in January. It Just Signed a $10 Billion Contract.
Volta, incorporated in January 2026 by ex-Brookfield executives, signed a roughly $10B six-year compute contract for a 133MW Norwegian site.
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Anthropic Is Building Its Own AI Chips to Halve Claude's Inference Bill
Anthropic confirmed an in-house silicon team to co-design chips with Claude models, targeting roughly 50% lower cost per token as inference bills mount.
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Google Reshuffles Its Entire AI Org as Jeff Dean Exits and Hassabis Steps Back
Demis Hassabis moves to chair, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to found Discovery Loop.
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