On Monday, Nvidia announced it would invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data-center developer already backed by SoftBank and OpenAI. TechCrunch reported the news in an In Brief at 8:16 AM PDT on August 17, 2026, citing documents filed with the SEC by Nvidia. There is
On August 14, 2026, Google began rolling out a new setting in Gemini and in Flow, its AI video tool. The setting is named Media watermark. If you turn this off it will stop Google adding a visible sparkle to the bottom right of media you create. The sparkle is
(Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is āfundamentally a crisis of trustā) TechCrunch reporter Anthony Ha reported on August 16, 2026, that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and investor Gavin Baker had a public argument. Amodeiās warnings about AI risk have helped fuel a backlash in the US, especially against data
(Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation) The Netherlands National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) said this week that a āhighly dangerousā bug in macOS is already being exploited. This warning applies to computers where Screen Sharing is enabled and TCP port 5900 is open to the
DeepSeek releases early open source developer preview of its agent harness . The Register, August 14, 2026. Everything is a plugin, the company said in a single sentence. Plugins can be models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, filesystems, loops, orchestration or UI. You can pair them, mix them, replace them, make them
On August 14, 2026 Waymo announced that it had been granted approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to expand its self-driving taxi service. The company said the news was three firsts: first-time service in Sacramento and San Diego, plus room to grow in the Los Angeles