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Google Research Unveils 'Nested Learning' To Beat Catastrophic Forgetting — Aug 30, 2026 — Google Research introduced Nested Learning, a new machine-learning paradigm that treats a model as a hierarchy of nested optimization problems, and a...Trump Weighs Chip Tariffs On Laptops And AI Servers, Pegging Duty-Free Quota To US Fab Investment — Aug 30, 2026 — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick favors extending semiconductor duties to laptops, gaming consoles and AI servers — with a duty-free quota pegged to...Nvidia Q2 FY27: Record $96B Quarter On Blackwell Ultra Ramp — Aug 29, 2026 — Nvidia posted record fiscal-Q2 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion — up 106% year-over-year — on the ramp of its Blackwell Ultra AI platform, and guided cur...TITAN Ransomware Pitches AI That Sorts 700GB Of Stolen Data Per Hour — Aug 29, 2026 — The TITAN RaaS group is marketing an on-prem GPU-powered classifier that ingests up to 700GB of stolen corporate files an hour to accelerate double-ex...Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — Aug 22, 2026 — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...Anthropic Eyes Mega IPO That Could Rival SpaceX's Record Debut — Aug 22, 2026 — Anthropic is preparing to file its S-1 as soon as end of August with a mega IPO that people familiar say could match or top SpaceX's record listing.Google Wins $10M Bid for Spirit Airlines' Data to Train AI — Aug 18, 2026 — Alphabet's Google agreed to pay $10 million for a scrubbed corporate dataset from bankrupt Spirit Airlines, adding roughly 100 million emails and 500...Waymo Kills Dallas Waitlist, Opens Robotaxis To Anyone — Aug 16, 2026 — Waymo dropped its Dallas robotaxi waitlist on August 4, 2026, opening the fully driverless service to any rider on the Waymo app after 150,000 people...Google Ships Gemini 3.7 Flash At Half Price To Chase AI Agents — Aug 14, 2026 — Google's new Gemini 3.7 Flash beats Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5.6 Terra on FrontierCode and DeepSWE, and launches at 50% off the price of the model it r...Sundar Pichai Says Gemini App Has Crossed 1 Billion Monthly Users — Aug 13, 2026 — Sundar Pichai says Google's Gemini app now has more than 1 billion monthly active users, catching ChatGPT's mark and generating 150 million images a d...TSMC To Lift Chip Prices Up To 10% From 2027, HPC Orders Face Extra 10-15% Surcharge — Jul 26, 2026 — TSMC has told Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and other lead customers it will raise wafer prices by 5-10% across advanced and mature nodes starting Janu...Chaos Ransomware msaRAT Backdoor Tunnels C2 Through Chrome And Edge, Talos Warns — Jul 24, 2026 — Cisco Talos has documented msaRAT, a Rust backdoor used by the Chaos ransomware gang that hijacks headless Chrome or Edge sessions and routes command-...AegisAI Lands $36M Series A From Battery Ventures To Fight AI-Driven Spear Phishing — Jul 24, 2026 — AegisAI, founded by former Google security leaders Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures with Accel and Foundation...Etched Doubles To $10.3B Valuation With $300M Series C For AI Inference Chips — Jul 24, 2026 — Etched, the Harvard-dropout inference-chip startup, closed a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, with SK Hynix, Andreessen Horowitz,...IBM Q2 2026: $17.2B Revenue, Software Up 5% As Guidance Trimmed — Jul 23, 2026 — IBM posted Q2 2026 revenue of $17.2B with software up 5% and Red Hat accelerating to 11%, while trimming its full-year constant-currency growth range...Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — Jul 22, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash lands with 17% fewer output tokens and higher coding scores, alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50 and a security-tuned 3....LG Energy Solution Wins Battery Deal For Google's 2.9 GWh Steel River Center — Jul 17, 2026 — LG Energy Solution will supply its U.S.-built JF2 DC Link LFP energy storage systems for Google and Cypress Creek Energy's Steel River project — Googl...WAIC 2026 Opens in Shanghai With Xi Jinping, 300+ Product Debuts and a China-Led AI Governance Push — Jul 17, 2026 — The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 17 with Xi Jinping in attendance, 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 global product d...Grenergy Signs 15-Year, 1 TWh Night-Time PPA For 3.5 GWh Elena BESS In Chile — Jul 15, 2026 — Grenergy's 3.5 GWh Elena battery in Chile's Atacama has locked in a 15-year, 1 TWh-a-year night-time PPA — the largest battery-backed offtake deal the...QuiX Quantum Unveils Carina, First Universal Photonic Quantum Computer For Data Centers — Jul 15, 2026 — Dutch-German QuiX Quantum has delivered Carina, the world's first universal photonic quantum computing architecture designed for customer data-center...