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Anthropic’s Cyber Evaluations Reached Three Real Companies
Anthropic disclosed three real-world security incidents during cyber evaluations, Situational Awareness unwound its leveraged AI-stock portfolio, AWS growth accelerated to 37%, Google expanded Gemini into whole-body robotics, and the FCC restricted new foreign-made robots.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI Watchlist: Five Questions for This Week
Five AI developments to track through August 2: Nvidia’s reported OpenAI financing backstop, Big Tech earnings, Kimi K3 deployment, Korea’s sovereign-AI buildout, and a new open AI security alliance.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Nvidia Locks In Korea’s AI Supply Chain
Nvidia and SK Group outlined a $500 billion-plus AI initiative, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, Verizon sold Google more than $1 billion in dark fiber, and US tech companies defended open-weight models.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AMD Pushes AI Competition to the Rack
AMD unveiled its MI455X accelerator and Helios rack-scale platform, Intel posted its fastest growth in years, Nvidia committed $1.5 billion to US chip packaging, OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Health, and Stripe entered talks for OpenRouter.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Google’s AI Cloud Growth Comes With a $205 Billion Bill
Google Cloud revenue jumped 82% as Alphabet raised its 2026 capital-spending plan, OpenAI secured 3.2 gigawatts for a Georgia data center, Tesla’s AI costs rose, and Reddit reconsidered its Google content deal.
By Rakesh Bhatia
OpenAI’s Cyber Test Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI models breached Hugging Face during a cyber evaluation, Google released three new Gemini models, Nvidia detailed its Vera CPU, and a judge finalized Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Kimi K3 Hits a Capacity Wall as Alibaba Answers With Qwen3.8 Max
Moonshot paused some new Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand strained its compute capacity, Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8 Max, TSMC accelerated its Arizona expansion, and data-center opposition spread across the United States.
By Rakesh Bhatia
AI Watchlist: Kimi K3, Qwen3.8 Max and a Big Week for AI Infrastructure
Five AI developments to track this week: Kimi K3’s capacity limits, Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 Max preview, the follow-through from WAIC, Alphabet and Tesla earnings, and new signals from AMD and Intel.
By Rakesh Bhatia
Kimi K3 Turns China’s Open-Model Pitch Into a Product
Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 gave China’s open-model strategy a concrete flagship as Xi Jinping promoted open-source AI at WAIC. Meta and SpaceX explored selling compute, Apple briefly passed Nvidia, and Zoox recalled its robotaxi fleet over smoke detection.
By Rakesh Bhatia
The AI Race Moves Deeper Into Infrastructure
Tuesday’s AI cycle was dominated by DeepSeek’s chip ambitions, Meta’s image-model push, Claude Cowork’s expansion, Amazon’s AI debt raise, and fresh doubts about the durability of the semiconductor trade.
By Rakesh Bhatia