JUST IN: Anthropic triples compute guidance to $517B from $180B as its CEO asks labs to “pace the frontier”

Rumors are spreading like a wildfire that Google DeepMind has reached RSI. Lyra is part of the reliable and huge leaker community. But Id say its more than just rumors: Google says Demis Hassabis will focus his “full attention” on shaping AGI. Reuters reports in August Sergey Brin is directing resources toward RSI, while DeepMind’s strategy chief calls it key to the AI investment thesis.

If they truly believe the risk is that high, and I think they do, then we need 100x more research and understanding of it. That requires them to openly share their models, datasets, training code, and agent traces.

Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you @ClementDelangue for coming to me. NVIDIA is going to be a great home for Hugging Face, its community and the future of open models. 🤗 blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia…

Thinking about getting a pet? Adoption fees waived Saturday at Humane Society to ease overcrowding sandiegouniontribune.com/202…

MUSK SAYS A SPACE-OPTIMIZED VERA RUBIN WILL REACH SIGNIFICANT SCALE IN 2028, WITH A VERA RUBIN NVL72 SYSTEM FOR LAUNCH TO ORBIT IN Q4 NEXT YEAR

A new AI model called Ox Alpha is gaining traction among developers after appearing online for free, even as the identity of its creator remains a mystery bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

$NVDA SIGNS $6B POOLSIDE DEAL FOR U.S. OPEN-WEIGHT AI Nvidia will pay $6B to license Poolside’s AI technology and invest another $1B in the startup at a $12B pre-money valuation. More than 100 Poolside employees are expected to join NVIDIA and work on Nemotron, its open-weight AI model family. The goal is to build a U.S.-based open AI ecosystem capable of competing with Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Kimi, while also offering a lower-cost, customizable alternative to closed models from OpenAI and Anthropic. NVIDIA is betting Nemotron can rival leading frontier models within the next year. Source: WSJ

Congrats to the @SpaceXAI team on the release of Grok 4.6. Grok 4.6 brings frontier intelligence, running and trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 with NVLink to deliver exceptional performance, reliability and lowest token cost.

Introducing Grok 4.6. It delivers frontier intelligence and is a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.

A solar eclipse will be visible in much of the Northern Hemisphere today! A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes in front of the Sun. Those in the path of totality will see something like the left photo; others may see a partial solar eclipse like the right photo.

Now in preview: The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux. Use ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex where you already work and build, with your projects and browser workflows on supported Linux systems.

Introducing NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning⚡ An open 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, built for always-on agents to complete high-volume, specialized tasks faster. It delivers up to 4x the output speed of similar-sized models.

An hour of agentic computer use may now be cheaper than an hour of human labor: Computer-use agent: $6-8 Offshore outsourced talent: ~$10 US talent: $30-45 "The math only gets better - inference keeps getting cheaper, and open-source models are getting good enough for a growing share of these workflows." The data on computer-use agents, from @fabrisera2000, @seema_amble, and @zephratic: a16z.news/p/can-agents-use-a…

WSJ: CXMT HAS MAXED OUT ITS PRODUCTION CAPACITY THIS YEAR, LEAVING LITTLE ROOM FOR NEW INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS WSJ: HP AND ACER HAVE SECURED LIMITED QUANTITIES OF MEMORY CHIPS FROM CXMT AND ARE SEEKING TO LOCK IN MORE SUPPLIES FOR NEXT YEAR WSJ: MANY CXMT PRODUCTS ARE FETCHING PRICES ON PAR WITH, AND OCCASIONALLY AT A PREMIUM TO, THOSE OF MICRON, SOUTH KOREA'S SK HYNIX AND SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS WSJ: U.S. FEDERAL RULES MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR APPLE TO ORDER CUSTOM CHIPS FROM CXMT, LEAVING IT TO USE OFF THE SHELF COMPONENTS. USING STANDARD CXMT MEMORY CHIPS COULD FORCE APPLE TO REDESIGN CERTAIN PARTS OF ITS PRODUCTS

Mythos not available to the general public, Fable 5 excessively guardrailed and now concerns over Astra cyber capabilities slowing down release . In situations like this , Open Source/ Open Weight models become extremely important.

Open AI slowing down the release of Astra citing concerns over cyber capabilities. Axios axios.com/2026/08/07/openai-…

The July 2026 BLS report showed the national unemployment rate fell to 4.1% while the nonfarm payroll employment lost 23,000 jobs and labor force participation decreased. Average hourly earnings rose by $0.02, while the long term unemployed accounted for 25.5% of all jobless workers. Odds of a September rate hike plunged.

OpenAI's first consumer device is reportedly a doughnut shaped smart speaker that fits in your pocket . It is reportedly a small hockey puck sized, battery-powered device with no screen . It will have moving parts for personality and cameras for eyes & sensors making it more than your average smart speaker . Priced from $300 + and launching soon as a portable AI companion. mashable.com/tech/openai-sma…

Deep Seek raising prices and now Qwen moving away from Open Source. reuters.com/business/retail-…