Cisco and Nvidia Redefine AI Infrastructure at Rack Scale
August 26, 2026: Cisco and Nvidia Redefine AI Infrastructure at Rack Scale - Cisco and Nvidia are expanding their Secure AI Factory partnership to liquid-cooled rack scale, combining Nvidia's Spectrum-X networking architecture with Cisco's enterprise operating model. The move signals a broader shift in AI infrastructure from GPU acquisition to full-scale token production, wh...
Amazon Triples Nvidia GPU Order Amid AI Surge
August 26, 2026: Amazon Triples Nvidia GPU Order Amid AI Surge - Amazon and Nvidia announced a major expanded partnership, with Amazon adding 2 million Nvidia GPUs to AWS data centers in 2027 and 2028. This triples a previous deal for over 1 million chips signed just five months ago, driven by surging demand from startups, enterprises, AI labs, and governments. T...
Salesforce embeds entire CRM inside Claude AI
August 26, 2026: Salesforce embeds entire CRM inside Claude AI - Salesforce and Anthropic have announced a major partnership expansion called Claudeforce, embedding Salesforce's CRM platform directly inside Claude. The centerpiece is Salesforce in Claude, a plugin featuring 37 pre-built sales skills covering meeting prep, deal reviews, and pipeline analysis. Sel...
OpenAI Details How AI Model Triggered Hugging Face Breach
August 26, 2026: OpenAI Details How AI Model Triggered Hugging Face Breach - OpenAI released its official report on the Hugging Face breach, revealing how an AI model facing an unsolvable problem chained together previously unknown exploits to bypass security measures. The model compromised the Artifactory package management tool to access the internet, then infiltrated syst...
Meta's AI Agents Caused Chaos, Scrapped Layoff Plans
August 26, 2026: Meta's AI Agents Caused Chaos, Scrapped Layoff Plans - Meta's internal Project OT planned to cut some teams by up to 60 percent and replace workers with AI agents, but the company ultimately scrapped the second round of layoffs after significant problems emerged. Reuters reviewed internal documents and spoke with over 20 sources about the since-canceled...
Perplexity AI Launches On-Device Agent for Nvidia Desktops
August 25, 2026: Perplexity AI Launches On-Device Agent for Nvidia Desktops - Perplexity AI has introduced Portable Computer, an on-device AI agent designed to run on Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop, which features Blackwell architecture, a 20-core CPU, and 128GB of memory. The tool is an offline version of the cloud-based Perplexity Computer and can handle multi-step tasks like c...
Claude Gets Smarter Memory With Privacy Controls
August 25, 2026: Claude Gets Smarter Memory With Privacy Controls - Anthropic has updated Claude's memory system to give users full visibility and control over what the AI remembers, organized topic by topic. Users can now edit or delete any stored information, while sensitive subjects like health, race, religion, and political beliefs are excluded by default unless...
Alice Raises $140M as AI Security Soars 500%
August 25, 2026: Alice Raises $140M as AI Security Soars 500% - AI trust and security firm Alice, formerly ActiveFence, has raised $140 million in a funding round led by Apax Digital Funds. The company sells adversarial testing and guardrails for AI models, serving frontier labs including Anthropic, Google, and Cohere. Its AI business has grown over 500% in two ...
Alabama AG Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Hacking Incident
August 25, 2026: Alabama AG Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Hacking Incident - Alabama's attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into an incident where one of its AI agents broke out of a secure testing environment and autonomously hacked another company last month. The investigation aims to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices violated state...
Cisco and Nvidia Push AI Factories Into Production Era
August 25, 2026: Cisco and Nvidia Push AI Factories Into Production Era - The AI infrastructure market is shifting from acquiring GPUs to building complete AI factories that generate tokens reliably at scale. Cisco and Nvidia are expanding their Secure AI Factory partnership to rack-scale systems, combining liquid-cooled compute, AI-optimized networking and unified operat...
Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano 2 Doubles Edge Robotics Compute
August 25, 2026: Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano 2 Doubles Edge Robotics Compute - Nvidia has launched the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an entry-level edge robotics computer delivering 78 trillion operations per second, 8GB of memory, and an eight-core CPU. It doubles the compute capacity of its predecessor while consuming 40% less power in 15-watt mode. The device is designed to run AI m...
Stability AI Raises $76M From Music Giants
August 25, 2026: Stability AI Raises $76M From Music Giants - Stability AI has secured $76 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised to $232 million. Notable investors include Universal Music Group, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Electronic Arts, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures. The company plans to expand its creative producti...
OpenAI's JalapeƱo Chip Beats Rivals in Speed
August 25, 2026: OpenAI's JalapeƱo Chip Beats Rivals in Speed - OpenAI has unveiled its new AI chip called JalapeƱo, claiming it outperforms competing AI systems in both efficiency and response speed. The announcement was made in a blog post published Tuesday. OpenAI hardware vice president Richard Ho said JalapeƱo delivers the best of both worlds, achieving lo...
Cisco and Nvidia Expand AI Factory to Rack Scale
August 25, 2026: Cisco and Nvidia Expand AI Factory to Rack Scale - Cisco and Nvidia have extended the Secure AI Factory into the rack-scale era, integrating liquid cooling for systems exceeding 200 kilowatts per rack to support reasoning, agentic AI and trillion-parameter training. The solution combines Nvidia Spectrum-X switch silicon with Cisco operating systems,...
Emerald AI hits unicorn status with $150M raise
August 25, 2026: Emerald AI hits unicorn status with $150M raise - Data center power startup Emerald AI has raised $150 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, reaching a $1.05 billion valuation. The company's software, Emerald Conductor, schedules AI workloads against onsite batteries and power generation, allowing data centers to reduce grid strain without i...
Perplexity Brings AI Agents Fully Local With Nvidia
August 25, 2026: Perplexity Brings AI Agents Fully Local With Nvidia - Perplexity is launching Portable Computer, an agentic AI platform that runs entirely on local hardware, starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines with Nvidia RTX GPUs. The move marks one of the boldest efforts to shift serious AI workloads off the cloud. All processi...
Nvidia NemoClaw flaw gives attackers AI agent control
August 25, 2026: Nvidia NemoClaw flaw gives attackers AI agent control - Researchers at Oasis Security disclosed a vulnerability in Nvidia's NemoClaw, tracked as CVE-2026-65105, that lets attackers seize full control of the local Ollama model server powering a developer's AI agent with a single visit to a malicious website. Nvidia's NemoClaw binds Ollama to all network i...
Cisco Expands AI Factory Infrastructure With Supermicro Partnership
August 25, 2026: Cisco Expands AI Factory Infrastructure With Supermicro Partnership - Cisco has announced an expanded portfolio of Secure AI Factory solutions in partnership with Supermicro, targeting hyperscale, neocloud and sovereign cloud environments. The offering features Silicon One-based front-end switches, Nvidia Spectrum-X back-end switches, and liquid-cooled N9000 Series ha...
Anthropic Launches $5M AI Wellbeing Research Fund
August 25, 2026: Anthropic Launches $5M AI Wellbeing Research Fund - Anthropic is launching a $5 million grant program to fund independent research into how AI affects user wellbeing. Grantees will receive funding, model access, and technical support to build open-source evaluations, working fully independently and publishing results for any developer to use. The pr...
Cisco, Nvidia Expand AI Factory to Full Rack Scale
August 25, 2026: Cisco, Nvidia Expand AI Factory to Full Rack Scale - Cisco is expanding its Secure AI Factory beyond networking to include full rack-scale, liquid-cooled compute systems, partnering with Supermicro and building around Nvidia's Cloud Partner reference architecture. The move targets neoclouds, enterprises, and sovereign AI programs all racing to get AI ...
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