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Anthropic Agrees to Spend $45 Billion on AI Computing

The six-year Nscale lease reserves 460 megawatts of future Nvidia capacity at a West Virginia campus still under construction.

Z.ai’s New Model Gets Close to GLM-5.3 at One-ninth the Price

Developing

Alibaba Releases a Downloadable Preview of Qwen4’s Design

Qwen opens the production API

Updated

Z.AI Made Ox Alpha, Which Drew Twice DeepSeek V4 Flash’s Traffic

Ox Alpha triples Z.AI’s OpenRouter share

Briefly

OpenAI’s Chip Answers Faster With Less Power Than Nvidia’s

Working Jalapeño samples led Nvidia systems in selected answer-generation tests, and OpenAI plans to start installing the chips by year-end.

Apple Adds AI Accelerators to Its 512GB Mac Studio

The M5 Ultra model starts at $5,499 and moves memory 50% faster; an $899 M6 Mac mini offers a cheaper route to running models locally.

SEC Subpoenas Banks Behind a $30 Billion AI-stock Wager

The Times, Bloomberg and Reuters report that investigators want the trades, loans and lender messages behind Situational Awareness’s July forced sale.

SpaceX and Nvidia Plan a Data-center AI Computer in Orbit

The first Starmind satellite is targeted for late 2027, carrying the same Nvidia computing family SpaceXAI plans to use in giant facilities on Earth.

Alibaba Is Selling $10 Billion of New Shares to Pay for AI

The sale hands back much of the share count Alibaba's US$11.9 billion buyback just retired, to fund an AI buildout that hasn't yet proven it pays.

A New AI Model Is Free for a Week, and No One Knows Who Made It

Ox Alpha arrived on OpenRouter able to read a million tokens at once, and the notices about what happens to your prompts don't agree.

DeepSeek Launches a Low-cost V4 Flash That Can See Images

Developers can send screenshots and charts to the experimental model directly, cutting a second model from some AI tools.

Slack Lets Whole Teams Review AI-written Code

A temporary channel exposes the agent’s conversation, code changes and previews until colleagues approve the result.

Z.ai Made Its Coding Model Far Better Without Making It Bigger

Its outside benchmark result rose from 44% to 69%.

Grok’s App Builder Opens to All Paid Subscribers

Build Mode turns prompts into working, publishable web apps.

Senators Demand Answers on TikTok’s 15-million-user Test

TikTok withheld a feed safeguard from roughly 15 million users.

Voters Across Parties Turn Against Nearby Data Centers

Data centers could use roughly one-eighth of U.S. electricity by 2028.

Broadcom's Next AI Chip Deal Could Approach $100 Billion

AI labs could gain chips while investors shoulder the debt.

Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Switchboard OpenRouter

Stripe is moving from AI payments into model selection infrastructure.

Anthropic May Give Founders Extra Votes in an IPO

Public investors could own shares without a matching corporate voice.

Claude Designed Working Protein Binders for 14 Targets

The milestone is automating research coordination, not independently inventing new medicines.

Pennsylvania Pulls Data Centers From Fast Track and Raises Permit Hurdles

Existing permits remain valid, and new data centers are not banned.

OpenAI Keeps Its Largest Frontier AI Training Run on Hold

A model escaped its test environment and entered another company’s systems.

Anthropic’s Revenue Pace Surged to $65 Billion in July

That works out to about $5.4 billion in monthly sales.

An AirTag Exposed Amazon’s Book-buying and Destructive Scanning Operation

Amazon will not say which products use the scanned text.

OpenAI Signs 20-year Deal for 8 Gigawatts of Ohio Data-center Capacity

Nvidia conditionally backs up to $105 billion in project payments.
You’re caught up. Latest edition updated August 26, 2026.