AI data centers: August 2026 announcements align 5 GW in Louisiana and 38.4 billion in Brazil
Meta, OpenAI and ByteDance dominate a month of projects where capacities are now expressed in gigawatts, and where Brazil and Finland enter the game.
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Meta, OpenAI and ByteDance dominate a month of projects where capacities are now expressed in gigawatts, and where Brazil and Finland enter the game.
The organization, which represents major Hollywood studios, has reached an agreement with ByteDance to protect intellectual property in its image and video generation models.
Combined with Sedaro's software stack, the Hivemind system drove imaging, diagnostics, batteries and orientation of a NOVI Space satellite over 24-hour windows.
ChatGPT Work, launched in July at $20 per month, claims 20 million users compared to ChatGPT's billion — and costs OpenAI three times the price of the subscription in tokens.
Called "Thomson" and built on an open basis for $40 million, the model is fed by Westlaw, Practical Law, Checkpoint and Reuters, and deployed in CoCounsel Legal.
The U.S. stock market regulator has sent subpoenas to the banks that oversaw the operations of the fund founded by Leopold Aschenbrenner, after losses of billions at the end of July.
Valor Equity Partners, Point72 Ventures and Seven Seven Six join the starter's round table, which has almost tripled in two months.
Testers, founders and security specialists are alarmed at the permissions requested by Instinct's personal assistant, able to act alone and already trapped by phishing during a test.
Matt Wolfe teste WorldClaw, le modèle de Tencent qui génère un monde 3D complet à partir d'une invite — et surtout chaque objet séparément, prêt à être manipulé.
Alibaba's video model is moving to general access the day after a $10.2 billion equity placement. It doubles the duration generated and accepts office documents as a source.
Anthropic replaces the message-by-message classification with a reading of the entire thread: the agent chooses between replying, opening a work thread, linking the subject to an existing site or remaining silent.
Tour d'horizon vidéo du 24 août 2026 : mise à jour de l'autonomie des robots Figure AI, World Humanoid Robot Games de Pékin et présentation d'Ox Alpha Stealth.
Eleven 5.7 GHz cores capable of switching between instruction sets in nanoseconds, with built-in inference accelerators and a preview of the next-generation Spyre AI chip.
The joint lab wants to run generative and embodied AI on energy-constrained components, relying on 18 nm FD-SOI and phase-change memory.
By exploiting all multispectral reflectance rather than chlorophyll-a alone, models estimate the pigments that make it possible to identify phytoplankton groups.
Ezekiel Emanuel and Neal Khosla argue that autonomous AI will eventually surpass any doctor-machine tandem, and that regulations should not freeze the requirement for human oversight.
The HK$80 billion offering, raised after strong demand, could become the largest secondary deal by a Hong Kong-listed company.
A review published in *Nature Cities* outlines the urban applications of generative models and emphasises the importance of context-based validation and the continued role of human judgement.
CloudSEK analyzed one exposed server: twenty compromised organizations in nine countries between April and July, with the AI Code Assistant as the attack co-pilot.
Sakana AI, UBC, the Vector Institute, and Oxford detail the system that produced the first fully AI-generated paper to pass peer review.