Google hands its AI reins to Koray Kavukcuoglu as Demis Hassabis steps back to chairman, deepening the race against OpenAI and Anthropic. Plus Nvidia's $500 billion Wall Street financing push, Anthropic's $9.1 billion Riot Platforms deal, and a wildcard: bacteria that lock toxic uranium into a stable form.

Kai Nicol-Schwarz · Aug 12

Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind operations as Demis Hassabis steps back to chairman and Alphabet chief scientist.

Bloomberg · Aug 11

Anthropic signed a 20-year, $9.1 billion deal for 191 megawatts of compute capacity from bitcoin miner Riot Platforms.

Ryan Browne · Aug 10

Nvidia partnered with six Wall Street asset managers, including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, to mobilize $500 billion for AI infrastructure.

Beatrice Nolan · Aug 11

Anthropic plans to embed a machine-readable watermark in Claude's text output to help distinguish AI writing from human writing.

Daniel Levi · Aug 10

Palmer Luckey's crypto- and AI-friendly bank Erebor is raising $1.5 billion at roughly double its prior valuation.

OpenAI · Aug 6

OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Luna the default free-tier model with unlimited text chats and updated GPT-5.6 Sol for paid users.

Noah Smith · Aug 8

Argues that while data-center limits might make long-term sense, near-term bans would destabilize the U.S. economy.

Simon Willison · Aug 11

Willison highlights Sophie Alpert's essay arguing every AI rewrite of your text quietly changes its intended meaning.

Gina Cornelison · Aug 11

Denver's July housing data show rising concessions and rate-sensitive buyer behavior as mortgage rates hover near 6.5%.