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Your chatbot now has to tell you it is a chatbot in the EU
EU AI Act Article 50 chatbot disclosure rules took effect on 2 August 2026. What counts as compliance, what does not, and the 15 million euro ceiling.
AIJeff Dean left Google after 27 years and took three more AI pioneers with him
Discovery Loop is Jeff Dean's new startup after 27 years at Google. Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le left with him. Here is the plan.
ComputingSamsung raised chip prices by 15 percent, and China is paying the most
Samsung chip price increase 2026: 4nm, 5nm and 8nm nodes all rose by up to 15 percent, and Chinese designers are absorbing the steepest hikes.
EVs and EnergyUber and pony.ai are putting 2,000 robotaxis on European roads
A Chinese autonomous driving firm and Uber plan more than 2,000 robotaxis across Europe. European regulators are about to be tested properly.
ComputingNvidia is reportedly backing 100 billion dollars of OpenAI's debt
Nvidia is close to guaranteeing roughly 100 billion dollars in credit for OpenAI's next data centre. The chip seller is now underwriting the buyer.
ComputingNvidia's H200 reached China and HBM memory prices jumped 20 percent
Nvidia H200 China export approval pushed HBM3E prices up nearly 20 percent for 2026. Six memory stacks per GPU explain the whole move.
SecurityOfficials are warning that hackers are hitting water and energy controllers
Attackers are targeting the industrial controllers behind water, energy and manufacturing. The kit is old, exposed and rarely patched.
ComputingGoogle just bought its way deeper into custom AI chips
A deal that could hand Google a 12.2 billion dollar stake in Marvell puts real weight behind TPUs as a commercial alternative to Nvidia.
SecurityThree more vulnerabilities went on the actively exploited list this month
CVE-2026-18577 in N-able N-central joined CISA's exploited list alongside Cisco and Metabase flaws. All three are confirmed in use, not theoretical.
SpaceA black hole shredded a Super sun and something appears to have survived
AT2024wpp, the Whippet, released as much energy as 400 billion Suns when a black hole tore a massive star apart. Then the helium did something odd.
AIApple trained a separate AI model for China with Alibaba
Apple Intelligence in China will run on a custom model built with Alibaba. One phone, two AI stacks, decided by where you bought it.
SpaceWebb found water half a light year from the Milky Way's black hole
Webb found water near the Milky Way black hole, 0.55 light years from Sagittarius A*, in a region astronomers had assumed was far too hostile for it.
EVs and EnergyPony.ai robotaxi revenue jumped 691 percent and Europe is next
The Pony.ai robotaxi Europe expansion puts 2,000 vehicles on Uber across five cities, after robotaxi revenue rose 691 percent year on year in Q2 2026.
ComputingMeta youth harms trial opens in Oakland with 29 states lined up
The Meta youth harms trial opened in Oakland on 19 August. Four states go first, 29 are in the case, and Meta has floated over a trillion in exposure.
AIEtched's AI chip valuation doubled to $21 billion in under a month
Etched's AI chip valuation hit 21 billion dollars after a 700 million dollar round led by Jane Street, which tested the hardware before it invested.
Security3.6 million employee records are for sale and Microsoft was never hacked
An Azure employee records breach put 3.6 million staff details up for sale. No zero-day was involved, just valid logins harvested by infostealer ...
AIAI inference chip vs training chip: What actually differs
AI inference chip vs training chip, explained plainly: what differs in the silicon, why GPUs are overqualified for inference, and what an ASIC gives ...
SecurityWhat a privilege escalation attack actually is, and why it keeps happening
A privilege escalation attack is how an intruder turns a small foothold into full control of a machine. What that means, and why the bugs never stop.
AIThe UK caught two frontier models taking unsanctioned actions in a scripted test
A UK AI Security Institute model evaluation logged 19 unsanctioned actions from two frontier models across 10 runs. What that shows, and what it does ...
SpaceA galaxy from the early universe has three black holes inside it
JWST found three supermassive black holes in one early galaxy, two of them close enough to merge. It may explain how they got so big so fast.
SecurityShieldBreak is a Windows zero day that only works if Defender is switched on
The ShieldBreak zero day gives SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows, and it needs Microsoft Defender running to work. There is no patch yet.
AINvidia is guaranteeing 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Data centre
Nvidia is backing up to 105 billion dollars for one OpenAI Ohio data centre, an eight gigawatt campus where OpenAI has agreed to buy Nvidia chips ...
AIHow much power do AI data centres actually use, and where does it come from
How much power do AI data centres use? A gigawatt in plain English, why sites are built next to power stations, and what the grid queue actually ...
AIWhat is a Vision-Language-Action model, and why robots suddenly got useful
What is a vision language action model? One network takes camera input plus a spoken instruction and outputs motor commands, replacing the old ...
AIOpenAI IPO valuation: what the confidential S-1 actually shows
OpenAI IPO valuation estimates run from $730bn to over $1tn. The confidential S-1 shows a negative 122% operating margin against a $25bn annual run ...