👀In Case You Missed It
ChatGPT mobile app hits $2B revenue, averaging $193M/month.
USAi launches: U.S. federal AI platform for secure chatbots & coding tools.
Grammarly upgrades Docs UI with AI grader, proofreader & citation finder.
Paradigm unveils spreadsheet with an AI agent in every cell, raises $5M.
Apple planning AI hardware push: smart display (2026) & home robot (2027).
Lenovo gains from tariff pause: +30% AI PC shipments, +150% AI server growth.
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🧠 Cloud & Infrastructure Watch
Meta AI scandal explodes — leaked guidelines let bots flirt with kids, spread racist claims & false medical info; bipartisan probe now underway
Read MoreAlibaba’s Qwen launches Qwen-Image-Edit, an open-source model for precise AI image editing.
Read MoreGrammarly rolls out eight new AI writing agents for grading, citations, and plagiarism checks.
Read MoreGoogle Cloud survey finds 90% of game developers now use AI for testing, code, and gameplay.
Read MoreOpenAI launches ChatGPT GO in India at ₹399/month with boosted messages, images, and memory.
Read MoreMicrosoft Excel adds new Copilot cell-fill to auto-classify and summarise data inside sheets.
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💻 Hardware & Semiconductor Moves
Nvidia developing Blackwell-based B30A chip for China, more powerful than H20 but export-compliant.
Read MoreArm hires Amazon’s former chip director Rami Sinno, signalling move into AI chipmaking.
Read MoreSoftBank to invest $2bn in Intel, becoming its fifth-biggest shareholder.
Read MoreFluidstack to lease 160MW more capacity from TeraWulf, bringing total to 360MW.
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🧠 Insight of the Day
AI safety is no longer optional—it’s existential.
From Meta’s recklessness to Nvidia’s balancing act in China, today shows that every AI player is being forced to reconcile growth with governance. The firms that get it right will own the infrastructure; the ones that don’t will face regulators, lawsuits, and reputational collapse.
🏢 Sovereign and Data Centre News
Meta signs 100MW solar supply deal to power its South Carolina data centre.
Read MoreNorthC renews 25-year lease on Munich data centre.
Read MoreT-Mobile to acquire U.S. Internet to expand its fibre/data centre footprint.
Read MoreVantage Data Centers unveils a $25B AI mega-campus in Texas—1,200 acres, 1.4 GW capacity, 10 ultra‑dense data centres.
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🗓️ This Day in AI - August 20
🤖 2022 – Google releases the TextQuests benchmark, testing LLMs like GPT‑5 on long-horizon text-adventure games.
🚀 2023 – The first global AI Safety Summit convenes at Bletchley Park, uniting 28 countries on regulation and extinction-risk frameworks.
📜 2024 – The EU’s AI Act officially comes into force—regulating foundation models and high-risk AI systems.
🧠 2025 – Mistral AI rolls out Le Chat, a lightning-speed assistant capable of generating 1,000 words per second.
🔍 2025 – The newly launched Timeline of AI (1950–2025) helps users trace key breakthroughs, from AlphaFold to Apple Intelligence.
🏦 Global AI Investments
Databricks raises $1B at $100B valuation to expand into AI database and agent markets.
Read MoreEight Sleep raises $100M for AI-powered sleep tech with F1 backers like Charles Leclerc.
Read MoreFirecrawl raises $14.5M with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke as investor.
Read MoreUltrahuman acquires viO HealthTech for AI-driven women’s health tracking.
Read MoreU.S. tech stocks tumble amid AI hype concerns—Oracle, Nvidia, Palantir fall as investors question ROI and safety.
Read MoreS&P 500 forecast to stall, with 2025 closing around 6,300; trade worries and tariff jitters dampen AI optimism.
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🛠️ AI Tools To Keep An Eye On
🎨 Qwen-Image-Edit — Alibaba’s 20B parameter model for pixel-perfect edits & style transfers, beating rivals.
✍️ Grammarly AI Agents — Eight new helpers for citations, grading, plagiarism, proofreading, and writing feedback.
⚡ Perplexity Comet — Summarises threads & YouTube videos into instant posts, saving hours on social media.
🎹 Eleven Labs Chat Mode — Build text-only conversational agents for precise inputs & customer service.
🧑💻 Microsoft Excel Copilot Cell-Fill — GPT-4.1 mini auto-classifies, summarises, and generates text in cells.
🚀 Nvidia Nemotron Nano 2 — Compact reasoning models (9–12B) run 6× faster than peers.
👀What To Watch Next
Meta’s U.S. investigation — Congress demands full disclosure on AI-child chat guidelines.
Nvidia B30A China chip — Can it pass U.S. regulators without a trade backlash?
Arm’s chip push — Will its Amazon poach accelerate competition with Nvidia/AMD?
Databricks $1B raise — How it deploys capital into the “AI database” race.
AI regulation momentum — Expect probes to tighten worldwide after the Meta scandal.
🏁 Outro: Until Tomorrow…
That’s a wrap for today. 🚀 The headlines are a reminder that AI is now infrastructure, politics, and ethics all rolled into one. From hyperscale data centres to $1B war chests, the pace isn’t slowing—but neither are the risks. Stay sharp, keep questioning the hype, and don’t forget: sometimes the most important AI innovation is restraint.
