California Rep. Ro Khanna didn’t wait for another local uproar. On August 6 he introduced a resolution that hands communities real tools to push back against the sprawling facilities powering the AI boom. The measure, formally H. Res. 1471, spells out what its backers term a Data Center Bill of Rights. Its provisions read like a direct answer to years of resident complaints.
Small businesses long stared up at marketing departments stocked with teams of analysts, copywriters and data scientists. Those operations spent freely on focus groups, eye-tracking studies and custom campaigns. Not anymore. Artificial intelligence has handed lean operators many of the same capabilities. The shift shows up in budgets, output and competitive results.
IBM struck a multi-year pact worth $240 million with Together AI. The deal sets up a large cluster of advanced Nvidia systems on IBM Cloud dedicated to running open models at scale. Availability won’t come until the first quarter of 2027. Yet the agreement already signals how the battle for enterprise AI workloads has shifted from raw training power to efficient, cost-effective serving.
Sam Altman woke up alive on August 12, 2026. Google told the world otherwise.
Anyone querying the OpenAI chief executive’s name that morning saw it right there in the Knowledge Panel. Died: August 12, 2026. The panel listed him as current CEO in one breath. Dead in the next. Short. Stark. Wrong.
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Google just launched its Pixel 11 series on August 12. The Pro models arrive with big promises around build quality. Yet one key test reveals a puzzling gap between marketing claims and real-world ratings.
Suspected China-linked operators turned a handful of open-source AI agents loose on Taiwanese government systems in early July. The result was a four-day operation that mapped networks, breached accounts and pulled sensitive personnel data with strikingly little human direction. Researchers call it the first observed end-to-end autonomous cyberattack against a government target.
Thieves in south-east London executed a swift operation. In just four days in mid-July they took the front emblems from at least 70 Volkswagens. The targets were not random. Each badge concealed a radar sensor essential for adaptive cruise control and other driver-assistance systems. Removal took less than five seconds in some cases. Owners discovered the damage the next morning. Their cars now flashed warning lights and lost key safety features.
Andrew Mark Brandon-Gordon sold shares worth nearly $935,000 last week. The transaction, disclosed in an SEC filing, involved 101,760 shares of Paramount Skydance Corporation at about $9.19 each. But this was no vote of no confidence. It was required to cover taxes on restricted stock units that vested.
Canva built an enviable record. The Australian design platform grew at a blistering pace while turning a profit. Few startups manage both. Generative AI changed the math.
Tim Cook steps down as Apple’s chief executive on Sept. 1. John Ternus takes over. The move ends a 15-year run that turned the company into a financial powerhouse.
Cook assumed the top job in 2011 after Steve Jobs. Expectations ran high then. They run high again now. Ternus leads hardware engineering today. He joins a firm posting its strongest quarter yet.