Tech & AI

Hidden Unemployment, AI and Bitcoin: Bill Gates’ Unintended Paradox

On August 26, 2026, Bill Gates published an essay on his GatesNotes blog that marks a turning point in his stance on artificial intelligence....

Nvidia Tops Q2 Forecasts, Reportedly Agrees $12.9B Hugging Face Acquisition

Nvidia confirmed its dominance over the AI chip market by posting quarterly results that handily beat consensus, while reportedly closing a $12.9 billion deal...

Outer Biosciences: The AI Testing Ingredients on Living Human Skin

Outer Biosciences is revolutionizing ingredient discovery by training an artificial intelligence model on human skin samples kept alive for over a month. This approach...

Nvidia invests in Cloverleaf to accelerate its AI factories

Nvidia is deepening its footprint in the AI infrastructure stack by taking a minority stake in Cloverleaf Infrastructure. The deal, paired with an investment...

AI agent recommended malware: how Softjourn narrowly avoided it

A Softjourn engineer in Ukraine narrowly avoided installing a malicious software package after an AI coding agent recommended it by name. The August 2026...

OpenAI suspends frontier RL training as Anthropic pulls ahead in Q2

For the first time, Anthropic overtook OpenAI in Q2 2026 revenue, $11.6 billion versus $6.7 billion for its rival. Sam Altman simultaneously announced a...

ZeroBytes breach exposes 1.22M French students and 4.35M staff

On August 17, 2026, hacker ZeroBytes claimed responsibility for breaching France's Ministry of Education, potentially exposing data on 1.22 million students and 4.35 million...

HIVE inks $350M AI cloud deal, targets $200M GPU ARR by year-end

HIVE Digital Technologies announced on August 17, 2026, a five-year GPU cloud services deal worth approximately $350 million through its BUZZ HPC subsidiary, deploying...