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Nvidia's $500 billion AI data-centre financing platforms and GPU collateral

Nvidia's $500B AI financing deal, explained

Nvidia announced on 10 August 2026 that it is working with six of the world's largest capital managers. The goal is to mobilise more than $500 billion for AI data centres. Almost every report of that

Wed Aug 12 2026 · 6 min read · 124 views

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Chrome synced passkeys on Windows and the Pass-ta-key malware attacks

Are passkeys still safe after Pass-ta-key?

Passkeys are still safer than passwords. That is the answer, and the research behind the scary headlines says so too. On 3 August 2026, Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 published three techniques that let

Wed Aug 12 2026 · 6 min read · 8 views

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ChatGPT Business Premium and Standard seat pricing compared

ChatGPT Business Premium: $125 a Seat, Worth It?

OpenAI announced Premium seats for ChatGPT Business on August 11, 2026, at $125 per user per month, or $100 per user per month billed annually. A Premium seat carries five times the usage of a

Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 14 views

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Claude Code auto mode becoming the default permission mode

Claude Code Auto Mode Goes Default August 14

On August 14, 2026, auto mode becomes the default permission mode for new Claude Code sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans. The agent stops asking before each step and simply proceeds, unless the

Wed Aug 12 2026 · 5 min read · 4 views

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Comparison of AI API token prices against real cost per completed task

The cheapest AI API is not the cheapest to run

Every comparison chart ranks AI APIs by price per million tokens. That number does not tell you what a task costs. A model with a lower list price can finish a job for more money than a pricier one,

Sat Aug 08 2026 · 7 min read · 3 views

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Developer reviewing AI API provider data-use terms before choosing a free tier

Does the free AI API tier train on your data?

Yes, on most of them, and the answer depends on which tier you are on. Under Google's unpaid Gemini API terms, "human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output," and Google

Sat Aug 08 2026 · 7 min read · 8 views

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Chart of named senior Google DeepMind departures by month in 2026, rising from one in February to four on August 5

Why Demis Hassabis stepped back from DeepMind

Hassabis left DeepMind's day-to-day role on August 5. Here is what Google said, what staff told Fortune, who else left, and what it means for Gemini.

Sat Aug 08 2026 · 7 min read · 5 views

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Executive Order 14409 creates a voluntary federal review for frontier AI models with no approval step before release.

Does the Government Have to Approve AI Models? No.

OpenAI showed off its next model family on August 1. One claim spread fast: Astra must pass a federal review before it can ship. Some reports said models now get "submitted to the federal government

Mon Aug 03 2026 · 7 min read · 5 views

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