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427 stories · page 42 of 48NVIDIA now takes a cut of the cloud, not just the chip
NVIDIA is moving to a new model - sharing revenue with AI clouds, not just selling them hardware. Sharon AI (an AI cloud services company) is heading toward 40,000 GB300 GPUs; Firmus (an AI data center company) is building a 360-megawatt campus in Indonesia.
Read →TESS found a planet in a way it wasn't built for
TESS caught a super-Jupiter 40,000 light-years away through gravitational microlensing - for a telescope whose normal range is 150 light-years, this is a first.
Read →Unitree got approval for a STAR Market IPO - about $619 million
Unitree got the green light from the Chinese regulator for an IPO. The robot maker plans to raise ~4.2 billion yuan at a valuation of around 42 billion - a rare profitable player in a sector that usually burns cash.
Read →The agent now has skills, procedures and a body
In the same week Figma taught its agent skills, ElevenLabs gave it working procedures, Stripe let it sell, and Figure sent it to work at BMW. The thread is one: the company's knowledge gets packaged for an agent.
Read →A critical hole in SimpleHelp lets an attacker in without a password - and it's already being used in attacks
CVE-2026-48558 bypasses the OIDC token check in SimpleHelp, a remote support tool. Arctic Wolf is seeing active exploitation with a credential stealer. CISA gave federal agencies until 2 July.
Read →Together AI raised $800M, the open-model cloud swelled to $8.3B
Together AI, a neocloud for open AI models, raised $800 million led by Aramco Ventures. Valuation $8.3 billion. According to the company, inference comes out up to 60 times cheaper than closed models.
Read →The US lifted controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5
On 30 June the export controls imposed around 12 June on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 fell away. Access is coming back - in exchange for a deal that Anthropic will monitor and report the risks.
Read →Claude Sonnet 5: agentic work just got cheaper
On 30 June Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 - its most agentic Sonnet yet. It doesn't just answer a prompt. It plans, uses a browser and a terminal, and runs on its own. 1 million tokens of context, close to Opus 4.8, at $2 input / $10 output.
Read →EU AI Act - the big framework goes fully into force on 2 August
On 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act comes fully into force. Four risk levels, banned practices, fines up to 7% of a company's global turnover.
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