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Nvidia is in talks to invest in AI search startup Perplexity as part of an equity round valuing the company at more than $30 billion, The Information reported on Sunday. The valuation would be up more than 50% from a year ago, as Perplexity's annualized revenue has climbed past $750 million.
Yonyou Network published its 2026 semi-annual report, stating that enterprise AI has entered the stage of large-scale deployment. The signal from one of China's leading enterprise software vendors suggests corporate AI is shifting from pilots to systemic rollout across core business functions.
Zhongcheng Hualong held its 2026 GPU launch event in Beijing, unveiling the second-generation HL200 inference chip and a supernode computing cluster that scales to 10,240 cards. The company says single-card FP8 and FP4 compute reach 2P and 4P respectively, positioning the lineup as a full-stack domestic answer to large-scale AI inference deployment.
On August 24, Data Robotics released Hairui Cloud Brain 6.0 and the Taishi OS 1.0 operating system. The company, which raised a 3 billion yuan seed round — the largest for a Chinese tech startup — framed the launch as an “Android moment” for the robotics industry.
Micron's CEO said publicly that AI-driven demand for memory chips has no end in sight, signaling strong confidence in the sector's outlook. The comments land as AI data center buildouts become the strongest demand driver for memory.
On August 24, Alibaba officially launched Wan3.0, the latest version of its video generation large model, according to a report by QbitAI. Industry observers praised the release as “stable, realistic, and textured,” pointing to notable progress in generation quality and usability.
Salesforce has launched Slack Code, a new feature that lets development teams work with AI coding agents inside shared Slack channels. Available across all Slack plans, it supports agents such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and ChatGPT, with dedicated code channels for plans, diffs, and live previews.
According to a16z statistics cited by PANews, AI agents' token consumption has grown 14-fold since February and now stands at nearly five times the level of human users. The surge signals that autonomous agents are fast becoming the dominant driver of large language model inference demand.
OpenAI has acquired a GitHub agent startup with more than 10,000 stars, described as the "AI version of Firebase," and the entire team will officially join the company. The deal shows OpenAI absorbing popular open-source developer tooling to strengthen its AI agent ecosystem.
TRAE's AI Creativity Conference wrapped up in Shanghai after 37,000 registrations and 14,000 submissions, with the top three projects taking home up to 300,000 yuan in prize money. A 24-year-old former security guard reached the Top 20 by building a motion-sensing health game with TRAE, while a high school sophomore's AI badminton coach hit No. 22 on the App Store hot chart within 10 days of launch.
The Business Times reports that Hugging Face, the leading platform for hosting and sharing open-source AI models, is exploring a sale that could value the company at US$13 billion. A deal would mark one of the largest acquisitions in AI infrastructure and put a price tag on the leading open-source AI platform.
Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?. A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation.
A new report says Nvidia is expanding into AI model development while server prices are set to rise by about 15%. If confirmed, the moves would push the chip giant beyond hardware into the model layer and raise infrastructure costs for data center operators and AI companies.
Alibaba's AI cloud revenue jumped 45%, according to a new report, though the growth came amid rising costs. The surge underscores how strongly Alibaba Cloud is monetizing AI demand even as infrastructure spending weighs on margins.
Linkdaze has launched a smart digital calendar designed to run a household rather than simply track personal schedules. Unlike most rivals, it keeps features such as an AI meal planner free, with no paywall blocking access.
Anthropic is internally testing Hub Mode, a feature spotted in Claude's mobile app that appears to be a centralized control center for managing AI sub-agents. TestingCatalog found the hidden toggle marked as internal, while Claude Code on the web shows a Hub destination with a sub-agent list and task-board generation, pointing to a dashboard for coordinating multiple agents.
Alibaba Group plans to raise about $10 billion by selling shares, with the proceeds earmarked for expanding its artificial intelligence business, according to Business Standard. The move signals that the Chinese tech giant is stepping up AI investment as competition in the sector intensifies.
OpenAI has paused training on its frontier models in order to conduct a safety review, according to a BankInfoSecurity report. The move highlights how seriously leading AI labs are treating safety as model capabilities continue to advance rapidly.
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At WRC 2026, embodied AI startup Wujie Dongli turned its booth into a fully operating robot coffee shop, where a semi-humanoid robot waiter served and cleaned up in open crowds for five straight days. The company's K15 robot recently became the first embodied robot to earn EU industrial CE certification, with 700 million yuan in announced orders.
ByteDance's Doubao is reportedly preparing an intelligent work product in the mold of Microsoft's WorkBuddy, with a decade of Feishu capabilities being componentized to support it. The move signals ByteDance is packaging its office-software expertise into enterprise-facing AI agent products.
According to finance.biggo.com, Nvidia has spent roughly $7 billion to enter the open-weight model race, taking direct aim at DeepSeek and OpenAI. The move signals that the world's leading AI compute supplier is extending from chips into the model layer, where it will compete on both the open and closed frontier.
An AI agent was used to hack a gym's system and jump the waitlist, according to Fox News. The incident highlights how easily autonomous agents can manipulate third-party services, and it is renewing questions about the security boundaries of agent access.
Google has confirmed that Gemini 4 will fully replace Gemini 3.5 Pro, retiring the older flagship from its model lineup rather than keeping the two in parallel. Developers and enterprises still running on Gemini 3.5 Pro now need to treat migration to Gemini 4 as a priority.
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An anonymously released large language model called "Niulai" has been traced back to Chinese AI firm Zhipu, with analysts citing telltale signs in its tokenizer, video encoding, and API error messages. Separately, speculation is growing that Cursor may have trained on the open-source GLM models, though no direct evidence has emerged.
NVIDIA has told some of its biggest customers that AI servers delivered in early 2027 could cost 15% or more, with some GB300 and Vera Rubin 200 systems reportedly rising about 17%. A 1GW AI data center could see at least $5 billion in added costs as surging memory prices squeeze GPU supply chains.
A robot has faced a human tennis player in what QbitAI calls a world-first matchup, pulling off extreme ball saves and instantly springing up after falls. The "AstraTennis moment" highlights advances in motion control and dynamic balance that could ripple into service and industrial robotics.
A startup founded by several PhD students is betting on an integrated brain for bipedal humanoid robots instead of following Silicon Valley's playbook. In its latest demo, a robot drives a go-kart through consecutive corners fully autonomously in a single unedited take.
AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a project aimed at establishing governance rules for AI agent tool calling. The move targets the growing complexity of agent ecosystems, where reliable and controllable tool use is becoming a key bottleneck for real-world deployments.
An OpenAI leader has warned that AI-driven cyber attacks are entering "a different chapter," with threats set to become increasingly "persistent." The warning, reported by The Guardian, underscores growing concern inside leading AI companies about automated and agent-powered offensive operations.
Shangwei New Materials' Qiyuan Robot opened pre-orders on August 23 for its Qiyuan Q1 and Qiyuan T1 personal robots, with first shipments expected in September 2026. The move takes consumer humanoid robots from sample displays to real purchases, marking a key step toward home-robot commercialization.
Alibaba announced plans to place new shares with non-U.S. persons outside the United States, targeting total proceeds of HK$80 billion in its first placement since its 2019 Hong Kong listing. Net proceeds will be used entirely to invest in full-stack AI capabilities and strengthen AI infrastructure, cementing the company's lead in AI.
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha has sparked global buzz, and reporting by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo traces its origin to a Chinese developer. No specific company has been named, and observers are watching whether the developer will formally claim the model or release technical details.
OpenAI has convened a summit on the future of AI and mathematics, bringing together roughly 40 leading mathematicians, according to media reports. The gathering comes as major labs race to strengthen reasoning and math capabilities in their models.
The founding lead of Google's TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) program has joined Anthropic, according to a report from Chinese outlet Sohu aggregated via Google News. The move has fueled speculation about Anthropic's future compute and infrastructure strategy.
The 2026 AI Creator Festival concluded in Bali, bringing Wan3.0 and creators from around the world together around the new frontier of AI video generation. As The Manila Times reported, the event showcased how AI video tools are being applied in real creative workflows, offering a window into the growing creator ecosystem for video generation models.
Fujian Province held its artificial intelligence innovation and development exchange event in Fuzhou, where three major AI industry actions were unveiled on the same stage. Local media reports confirm the simultaneous release, though the specific names and details of the three actions have not yet been disclosed.
OpenAI is again hiring AI coding infrastructure talent: the entire team of YC-backed unicorn InstantDB is reportedly joining the company, per BlockWeeks. The report describes the move as a major technical upgrade and the latest step in OpenAI's push to absorb developer-infrastructure teams.
Databricks has showcased Omnigent, an open-source AI agent orchestration layer, as reported by TipRanks. The open-source approach could let developers self-host and customize agent orchestration while drawing more enterprise workloads into the Databricks ecosystem.
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