


👀In Case You Missed It
🚀 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
Read more here
🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
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.
SourceMicrosoft’s Edge browser launches “Copilot Mode”, allowing AI to search open tabs, manage bookings, and summarize tasks directly in-browser.
SourceMeta appoints Shengjia Zhao, GPT-4 co-creator, to lead Superintelligence Labs, signalling a deep move into frontier AI infrastructure.
SourceGoogle Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries, summarizing reviews to guide shoppers — a play to regain dominance amid rising Amazon AI pressure.
SourceNetflix used AI to generate VFX in new sci-fi series, achieving 10× speed boost while audience couldn’t tell the difference.
SourceGoogle processes nearly a quadrillion tokens in June, doubling from May — hinting at growing infra strain and inference scale.
Source
💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
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.
Source$1B worth of banned NVIDIA AI chips reportedly reach China, with resellers earning up to $100K per rack — exposing a massive black market gap.
SourceU.S. veterans urge halt to NVIDIA H20 sales to China, calling it a strategic blunder that could boost China’s AI edge.
SourceHuawei launches CloudMatrix 384 server, a sovereign alternative to NVIDIA-based AI infra.
SourceAnthropic imposes new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max subscribers starting late August.
SourceMistral AI publishes lifecycle assessment of a large language model, showing environmental and scaling trade-offs.
SourceGoogle’s Hunyuan3D model debuts to generate detailed, interactive 3D virtual worlds — positioning itself as a gaming & VR infrastructure leader.
Source