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AI news on 4 August 2026

21:42
SpaceX's first public earnings statement shows the financials of an AI company in 2026
Engadget+3
- SpaceX's AI spending unnerves Wall Street despite promises of quick payoffCNBC Technology
- SpaceX stock falls 8% as first earnings beat is overshadowed by $18B capexSiliconANGLE
- SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plansBBC Technology
10:22
OpenAI fires back at Apple's trade secret lawsuit with chat logs showing Apple employees kept texting their former colleague
The Decoder▴387+3
20:05
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
TechCrunch+2
- AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architectureVentureBeat
- Why the Next Phase of AI Infrastructure Will Require More Than Hyperscale DatacentersUnite.AI
15:42
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits
TechCrunch+2
- Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demandArs Technica
- Texas governor orders audit of new data centers after realizing over 400 gigawatts of power is a lotEngadget
00:00
New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
OpenAI+2
- Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPTTechCrunch
- ChatGPT dominates early AI spending in Congress as lawmakers weigh regulationCNBC Technology
21:58
Perplexity has successfully overturned Amazon's injunction on its AI shopping bot
Engadget+1
- US appeals court allows Perplexity's AI shopping agent back on AmazonThe Decoder
21:07
SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
TechCrunch+1
- SpaceX ramps up Tesla Megapack purchases in Q2 to power its AI data centersCNBC Technology
20:38
AMD's revenue climbs 50% and data center sales doubled, but the stock is down
CNBC Technology+1
- AMD’s AI engine shifts into higher gear as data center revenue more than doubles, Helios ramps & market is confusedSiliconANGLE
15:21
Anthropic locks in $10 billion of compute from Volta, a cloud startup that didn't exist six months ago
The Decoder+1
- Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup VoltaTechCrunch
23:11
OK, Well, There Are Even More AI Agent Hacking Incidents
WIREDlimited
23:10
People prefer stories written by AI—especially when told they're written by a human
TechXplore
22:10
'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition
BBC Technology
19:34
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
TechCrunch
19:28
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
TechCrunch
19:19
DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations
Engadget
19:00
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
OpenAI▴36
18:43
Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions
Engadget
18:00
World Bank warns developing countries to embrace AI or be left behind
TechXplore
17:26
This year's Pulitzer Prizes saw a record number of winners disclose AI use
The Decoder
17:16
AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
VentureBeat
17:01
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
Anthropic
17:00
AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development
SiliconANGLE
16:52
Obsidian Security raises $85M as AI agents create cybersecurity’s next major attack surface
SiliconANGLE
16:38
Google moves billions in Anthropic chip risk off its balance sheet
The Decoder
16:07
Red Hat, NVIDIA, IBM back project turning AI policy into code
AI News
15:50
Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership
TechCrunch
15:30
HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work
SiliconANGLE
15:20
Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls
TechCrunch
15:00
Nvidia open-sources cuFile API, accelerating GPU read/write capability for high-speed storage
SiliconANGLE
14:51
Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
IEEE Spectrum
14:30
Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about
VentureBeat
14:03
Microsoft Framework to Cut AI Agent Training Costs
AI Business
14:00
RL-100 framework helps robots refine learned tasks amid real-world disruptions
TechXplore
13:58
Deploy local agents everywhere with LFM2.5-2.6B
Hugging Face
13:38
Teaching AI to speak the language of pathology
Microsoft
13:00
Red Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance
SiliconANGLE
13:00
Convex reels in $57M for its AI-optimized application backend
SiliconANGLE
13:00
Ethyca launches Astralis to govern enterprise AI agents in real time
SiliconANGLE
13:00
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out
TechCrunch
13:00
The latest AI news we announced in July 2026
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