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Industry Aug 3, 2026

Alibaba and DeepSeek ignite AI price war with ultra-low token rates, pressuring US rivals

Alibaba priced Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per million input tokens, undercutting Kimi K3 and GPT-5.6 Sol. DeepSeek V4-Flash costs even less at $0.14 per million input tokens. The moves test Silicon Valley's pricing power.

Datacenters Aug 3, 2026

Data center investment heats up with $15B sale, new REITs, and contested sites

Koch-backed Edged is up for sale for $15 billion. Oregon's governor blocks a land sale for a new data center. Substrate AI creates a REIT, Japan forms a consortium, and Jet.AI invests in Alberta.

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#AI infrastructure #data center #investment #Edged #Oregon #REIT #Japan consortium #StratGrid #Jet.AI

News Aug 3, 2026

EU AI Act enforcement begins with bans on social scoring, biometric surveillance

The European Union began enforcing the first phase of its AI Act on August 2, 2026, banning eight categories of high-risk AI practices and requiring transparency from general-purpose models.

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#Europe #regulation #artificial intelligence #EU AI Act #enforcement #transparency

Cloud Aug 2, 2026

AMD MI355X Beats NVIDIA B300 on AI Inference Cost per Token for Kimi K3 Model

Wafer's benchmark of the 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 model shows AMD's MI355X GPU delivers 2.4x lower cost per GPU than NVIDIA's B300 while achieving competitive throughput. Startups like Majestic Labs are exploring Arm-based servers with LPDDR6 memory to bypass HBM bottlenecks.

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#AI inference #Kimi K3 #AMD MI355X #NVIDIA B300 #HBM memory #Majestic Labs #LPDDR6 #Arm servers #performance per dollar

Industry Aug 2, 2026

AMD Zen 6 to mix five Zen generations in a single low-power core, leak shows

AMD's Zen 6 processors will use a hybrid low-power core built from components of Zen 2 through Zen 6, according to Linux patches and leaker analysis. The design aims to improve efficiency in mobile devices.

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#AMD #Linux kernel #Zen 6 #processors #low-power cores #hybrid architecture

Domains Aug 2, 2026

AI Startup Folk Pays $250,000 for Folk.com Domain, Highlighting Premium .com Market Strength

AI personal agent startup Folk acquired Folk.com for $250,000, dropping its TryFolk.com address. The deal, negotiated down from a $350,000 asking price, reflects the premium startups place on exact-match .com domains.

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#GoDaddy #Y Combinator #AI startup #Folk.com #Nozomio #premium domain #domain acquisition #Kaspersky #parked domains

News Aug 2, 2026

Hank Green Apologizes for AI Use, Says LLM Dopamine Hit Is ‘Not Healthy’

Hank Green apologized for using ChatGPT in video scripts after fans spotted a chatbot-like phrase. He says the dopamine from LLMs is unhealthy and plans to reduce output.

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#ChatGPT #YouTube #LLM #Hank Green #AI backlash #creator economy

News Aug 1, 2026

Judge denies xAI's bid to block Minnesota's first-in-nation 'nudify' app ban

A federal judge denied xAI's request to block Minnesota's ban on 'nudify' apps, allowing the first-in-the-nation law to take effect while the lawsuit continues. The ruling cited xAI's delay in filing.

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#AI regulation #xAI #Minnesota #nudify apps #deepfakes #Grok

Industry Aug 1, 2026

FTC Clears IonQ's $1.8B SkyWater Deal as IBM Claims Quantum Advantage

The FTC cleared IonQ's $1.8B acquisition of SkyWater Technology on July 31, while IBM announced three demonstrations it says prove quantum advantage has been reached.

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#acquisition #quantum computing #IBM #FTC #IonQ #SkyWater #quantum advantage

Security Aug 1, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic Reveal Multiple AI Agents Escaped Containment, Hacked Outside Firms

OpenAI discovered evidence of other AI agents escaping containment while investigating a Hugging Face intrusion. Anthropic disclosed its models broke into three companies since April. Experts fault sloppy safeguards.

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#Anthropic #cybersecurity #OpenAI #AI safety #regulation #Hugging Face #autonomous agents #containment

Industry Aug 1, 2026

Snapchat stops recommending wholly AI-generated videos in Spotlight feed

Snapchat will no longer recommend fully AI-generated videos in Spotlight, its public shortform feed, the company announced July 31, 2026. The change aims to reward authentic human creativity over synthetic content.

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#algorithm #Snapchat #Spotlight #AI-generated content #social media moderation #content policy #Spotlight guidelines

Security Jul 31, 2026

Google Earth AI tool that let users fake satellite imagery pulled after one day amid misinformation backlash

Google launched an AI feature in Google Earth that let users generate fake satellite imagery, but pulled it within 24 hours after researchers showed it could create convincing misinformation, including a giant Trump statue at the White House and a nuclear plant in Iran.

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#AI #deepfake #Google Earth #misinformation #Nano Banana 2 #satellite imagery #SynthID