AI — August 2026

Anthropic warns hackers are hijacking Claude logins

Malware is stealing people's active login sessions and using them to drain their paid Claude usage, Anthropic says.

Sony, Warner sue Anthropic over AI music copyright

Sony Music and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic of training Claude on pirated songs, calling it one of the largest copyright thefts ever alleged.

OpenAI ends Cursor deal after SpaceX buys coding startup

OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's access to its AI models on Nov. 12, saying it doesn't trust SpaceX, the coding tool's new owner, to follow its rules.

Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist unlawful

A federal judge said the Pentagon broke the law by punishing Anthropic for criticizing it, calling the sanctions illegal and unconstitutional.

Nvidia reportedly agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B

The Information reports Nvidia has agreed to acquire the open-source AI hub in a deal valued at $12.9 billion.

Nvidia's hold on AI chips just faced its first challenge

OpenAI, working with Broadcom, showed its first custom chip beating Nvidia's top AI chips in independent-style speed tests.

Hugging Face reportedly weighs $13B sale

The AI open-source hub could sell for nearly 3x its 2023 valuation, but its founders' devotion to the developer community may block a deal.

Nvidia tells customers AI server prices jumping 15%+

Memory chip shortages are pushing Nvidia's AI-server prices up more than 15%, Bloomberg reports, as every tech giant races to build data centers.

Starcloud raises $250M to build AI data centers in orbit

A $250 million round, backed by Nvidia, bets space — not Earth — is where AI computing goes next.

Anthropic aims to match or beat SpaceX's record IPO

Anthropic is reportedly targeting an IPO big enough to match or beat SpaceX's roughly $75 billion raise, with a filing possible by month's end.

Anthropic beats OpenAI in revenue for the first time

Anthropic's Q2 sales hit $11.6 billion, passing OpenAI's $6.7 billion, as both race toward IPOs.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens amid lawsuits

The new teen mode limits sensitive topics and follows lawsuits blaming ChatGPT for harming young users.

Nvidia to finance $105B OpenAI data center in Ohio

Nvidia will back OpenAI's massive new Ohio campus with up to $105 billion, the AI boom's biggest financing deal yet.

Dario Amodei says AI's real problem is trust, not fear

Anthropic's CEO pushed back on claims his own warnings fueled the AI backlash, calling it a deeper problem: nobody trusts big companies.

Nvidia eyes $3B stake in OpenAI's data center

Nvidia is reportedly weighing a $3 billion stake in the company building OpenAI's huge new data center.

Nvidia scales back its $250B OpenAI data center guarantee

Nvidia is cutting the financial backstop for OpenAI's giant Ohio data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion, WSJ reports.

Anthropic investors eye $2 trillion IPO valuation

Investors reportedly expect the Claude maker to go public in October at $2 trillion or more — the biggest IPO ever.

Old Berkeley Lab site in Oakland becomes an AI hub

Behring Companies is turning a former supercomputer facility into a 20-megawatt AI data center downtown.

ChatGPT and Gemini both cross 1 billion users

Google's Gemini hit 1 billion monthly users; OpenAI's ChatGPT crossed 1 billion weekly users around the same time — different measures, same scale.

Nvidia lines up $500 billion from Wall Street for AI

Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone and other Wall Street giants are raising the cash so AI firms can keep buying Nvidia's chips.

Apple tests Chinese CXMT chips amid AI memory crunch

AI data centers are buying up so much memory chip supply that Apple is testing a cheaper Chinese source instead.

AMD buys Taalas, a chip built to run just one AI model

The Toronto startup's HC1 chip skips the memory bottleneck that slows down every general-purpose GPU.

OpenAI slows its next AI model over hacking fears

Internal tests suggested Astra could independently exploit software flaws — a first 'Critical' rating under OpenAI's own safety rules.

OpenAI's first gadget: a hockey-puck smart speaker

Jony Ive's design firm built OpenAI a $300-400 doughnut-shaped speaker with no screen, coming in 2027 — while Apple sues over how it was made.

Jeff Dean leaves Google after 27 years for AI startup

Google's chief scientist and three top AI researchers quit to build Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate scientific discovery.

Claude and GPT models tried to hack real systems in UK test

The UK's AI safety watchdog says Anthropic's and OpenAI's models faked identities and tried planting malicious code during a hacking test.

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max claims to rival Anthropic, OpenAI

Alibaba's newest AI model scored near the top of independent benchmarks, adding pressure to the US-China AI race.

Minnesota's AI 'nudify' ban survives xAI lawsuit

A federal judge let the first state ban on AI nudification apps take effect over xAI's objections.

Google pulls AI tool that faked satellite images

Google Earth's new AI image generator got pulled a day after launch, once researchers showed it could paste fake scenes onto real satellite photos.