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Nvidia Backs $105B in Financing for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center — Its Largest Compute Commitment Yet
Cloud & Infrastructure

Nvidia Backs $105B in Financing for OpenAI's Ohio Data Center — Its Largest Compute Commitment Yet

Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations for a 10-gigawatt OpenAI data center campus in Ohio, plus a direct stake in developer SB Energy.

Aug 18, 20265 min read
Unitree's Shanghai IPO Was Oversubscribed 8,000x — China's Humanoid Robot Maker Debuts at $9B
Big Tech

Unitree's Shanghai IPO Was Oversubscribed 8,000x — China's Humanoid Robot Maker Debuts at $9B

Unitree prices its STAR Market IPO at 150.8 yuan a share, valuing the humanoid robot maker at roughly $9 billion ahead of its August 19 Shanghai debut.

Aug 18, 20265 min read
Anthropic in Talks to Buy Video-AI Startup Decart for $6B — Its Largest Acquisition Ever
Big Tech

Anthropic in Talks to Buy Video-AI Startup Decart for $6B — Its Largest Acquisition Ever

Anthropic is reportedly negotiating to acquire Israeli startup Decart, whose Lucy and Oasis models power real-time video editing and simulated environments for robotics training.

Aug 18, 20265 min read
GitLab Rushes Emergency Patch for Critical GraphQL Flaw Letting Anyone Delete Public Projects
Cybersecurity

GitLab Rushes Emergency Patch for Critical GraphQL Flaw Letting Anyone Delete Public Projects

CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4) lets unauthenticated attackers modify or delete public GitLab projects and user data via a GraphQL directive. Self-managed instances need to patch now.

Aug 18, 20265 min read
Alibaba Sells Gaming Arm Lingxi Games for Over $1.5B to Trustar Capital, Doubling Down on Its AI Pivot
Big Tech

Alibaba Sells Gaming Arm Lingxi Games for Over $1.5B to Trustar Capital, Doubling Down on Its AI Pivot

Alibaba is divesting its profitable Lingxi Games unit to private equity firm Trustar Capital, redirecting focus toward a $100 billion AI and cloud revenue target under CEO Eddie Wu.

Aug 17, 20264 min read
Anthropic's Q2 Revenue Hits $11.5B, Up 14-Fold Year-Over-Year, as It Courts Investors Ahead of an IPO
Big Tech

Anthropic's Q2 Revenue Hits $11.5B, Up 14-Fold Year-Over-Year, as It Courts Investors Ahead of an IPO

Anthropic posted preliminary Q2 2026 revenue above $11.5 billion, up from $787 million a year earlier and $4.73 billion in Q1, with positive adjusted operating income for the first time.

Aug 17, 20264 min read
Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for Over $7B — 5x Its Valuation From Three Months Ago
Big Tech

Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for Over $7B — 5x Its Valuation From Three Months Ago

Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, the routing layer that gives 8 million users one API to over 400 AI models, in a deal that values the startup more than five times its May funding round.

Aug 17, 20265 min read
DeepSeek Ships V4-Pro Out of Preview — a 1.6T-Parameter MoE With Native Anthropic and OpenAI API Compatibility
AI Models

DeepSeek Ships V4-Pro Out of Preview — a 1.6T-Parameter MoE With Native Anthropic and OpenAI API Compatibility

DeepSeek-V4-Pro 0813 has left preview after nearly four months, landing 80.6% on SWE-bench Verified with a mixture-of-experts architecture that cuts inference compute 73% at million-token context.

Aug 17, 20265 min read
Max-Severity SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw (CVE-2026-58231, CVSS 10.0) Under Attack Three Days After Patch
Cybersecurity

Max-Severity SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw (CVE-2026-58231, CVSS 10.0) Under Attack Three Days After Patch

An unauthenticated attacker can abuse a default Data Hub Adapter client to execute arbitrary code with no credentials and no user interaction. Honeypots caught exploitation attempts within 72 hours of the fix shipping.

Aug 16, 20265 min read

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