🚀 GPT-5 Launches in August with Multi-Step Reasoning

💡 Google Opal Launches Vibe Coding Revolution

🏗️ Crusoe Reveals Massive 1.8GW U.S. Data Center Campus

👨‍💻 Lovable Raises $200M, Hits $100M ARR with Autonomous Agent

China’s AI Action Plan calls for global AI cooperation, proposing a multilateral development body, shared R&D infrastructure, and open-source alignment to counter U.S. dominance.
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Microsoft’s Edge browser launches “Copilot Mode”, allowing AI to search open tabs, manage bookings, and summarize tasks directly in-browser.
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Meta appoints Shengjia Zhao, GPT-4 co-creator, to lead Superintelligence Labs, signalling a deep move into frontier AI infrastructure.
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Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries, summarizing reviews to guide shoppers — a play to regain dominance amid rising Amazon AI pressure.
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Netflix used AI to generate VFX in new sci-fi series, achieving 10× speed boost while audience couldn’t tell the difference.
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Google processes nearly a quadrillion tokens in June, doubling from May — hinting at growing infra strain and inference scale.
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Tesla signs $16.5B chip deal with Samsung to produce next-gen AI6 chips for Optimus, data centers, and self-driving — the chips will be built in Texas.
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$1B worth of banned NVIDIA AI chips reportedly reach China, with resellers earning up to $100K per rack — exposing a massive black market gap.
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U.S. veterans urge halt to NVIDIA H20 sales to China, calling it a strategic blunder that could boost China’s AI edge.
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Huawei launches CloudMatrix 384 server, a sovereign alternative to NVIDIA-based AI infra.
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Anthropic imposes new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max subscribers starting late August.
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Mistral AI publishes lifecycle assessment of a large language model, showing environmental and scaling trade-offs.
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Google’s Hunyuan3D model debuts to generate detailed, interactive 3D virtual worlds — positioning itself as a gaming & VR infrastructure leader.
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Vantage plans 1,000-acre AI data centre in Texas, expanding its U.S. footprint aggressively.
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Starwood’s Echelon and Iberdrola launch Spanish DC venture, aiming for a 230MW campus near Madrid.
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San Jose signs power guarantee deal with PG&E, a first-of-its-kind arrangement to secure power for future data centre expansion.
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TalkTalk secures £100M investment as UK telcos scale toward more AI‑ready infrastructure.
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Blueprint Projects receives greenlight for Texas data centre, further cementing the region’s AI compute boom.
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Nxtra inks 125.65MW renewable power deal in India, via AmpIn, to support DC sustainability goals.
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Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked, grounding flights and “destroying” systems — exposing fragility of sovereign infra.
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DOGE proposes AI tool to eliminate 50% of U.S. federal regulations, sparking legal and ethical debate on AI’s role in policy streamlining.
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Z.ai releases GLM-4.5, an open-source agentic model with 355B parameters — claimed to rival Grok 4 and o3 in reasoning and performance.
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IMAX partners with Runway AI to screen AI-made films in theatres across the U.S. this August.
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OpenAI warns of AI fraud crisis yet urges no regulation — a contradiction as it continues to scale monetisation.
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Alibaba releases Wan2.2, a cinematic-grade video model that beats Kling and Seedance on aesthetics, scene control, and camera dynamics.
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AI referrals to websites rise 357% YoY, surpassing 1.13B in June, showing AI-native search is reshaping traffic pipelines.

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Samsung confirms major chip delivery to Tesla, boosting South Korea’s status as an AI chip hub.
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GPT-5 official launch confirmation: All signs point to an early August drop—watch for OpenAI blog posts or LM Arena test log leaks in the coming days.

Meta Superintelligence Labs first output: Now fully staffed, expect early research papers or benchmarks hinting at Meta’s AGI trajectory.

Google Opal rollout beyond U.S. Labs: If Opal expands globally or integrates with Google Workspace, it could reshape low-code/no-code ecosystems fast.

DOJ or FTC response to Google AI search backlash: Licensing talks with publishers signal legal friction—expect regulatory commentary or media lawsuits soon.

China’s open-source AI offensive: Z.ai, Tencent, and SenseTime are escalating releases—keep an eye on GLM-5 rumors or surprise state-backed deployments in Southeast Asia or Africa.