SpaceX’s Terafab Tax Deal Requires $5 Billion, Not $16.8 Billion
Terafab’s announced $16.8 billion investment is not an enforceable $16.8 billion obligation: Grimes County’s executed agreements require Space Exploration Technologies…
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Google Just Reassigned Its Top AI Operators
Google DeepMind moved day-to-day operating control to Koray Kavukcuoglu on August 5, 2026, while Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals,…
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AI Image Generators Inject Hidden Tags. Most of Them Anyway
fal.ai’s fast-sdxl endpoint was the one image-generation endpoint in this 4 August 2026 spot check that did not deliver machine-readable…
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Google’s AI Search Is Now the Main Path
Google’s AI search is becoming the default experience. Similarweb says AI Overviews now appear on more than 40% of U.S….
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Monday.com Cut 620 Jobs for Its AI Rebuild
monday.com said on July 22, 2026 that it would cut about 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 620 people,…
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Kimi K3 Forced Open-Weight AI Into Washington’s Fight
Chinese open-weight AI models are gaining ground in the U.S. developer conversation, and this week that shifted from theory to…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Custom AI Chip With Samsung
Anthropic has reportedly begun preliminary work on a custom AI chip and is discussing Samsung Foundry as a manufacturing partner,…
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Arena Turned Its Chatbot Leaderboard Into a Paid AI Evaluations Business
Arena, formerly LMArena and best known for the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, is a venture-backed company that runs a crowdsourced AI…
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OpenAI Did Slow GPT-5.6, and the White House Now Looks Like a Gatekeeper
OpenAI did slow GPT-5.6: on June 26, 2026, it launched the model only to a small group of trusted partners…
