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Türkiye's AI Action Plan enters the Official Gazette
The 2026-2030 plan took effect on August 18. Targets include AI training for 5 million people, $10 billion in investment and 1 GW of data centers.
Read News · Funding 1 min readWispr raises $280 million at a $2 billion valuation
The Menlo Ventures-led round values Wispr at $2 billion. The company also previewed Canto, its own speech recognition model.
Read News · Models 1 min readDeepSeek V4-Pro goes live, then adds peak-hour pricing
Previewed in late April, V4-Pro became generally available on August 13. Since August 16 its price doubles for seven hours a day.
Read News · Funding 1 min readSpaceX closes its $60 billion purchase of Cursor maker Anysphere
The all-stock deal is the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup on record. Cursor now sits in a new SpaceXAI division.
Read News · Funding 1 min readDatabricks raises $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation
Databricks wanted $1 billion, investors offered $15 billion, and they settled on $5 billion for AI agent products.
Read News · Models 1 min readGemini 3.7 Flash arrives three weeks after 3.6 at half the price
Google calls it its most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents. The introductory price runs to the end of the year.
Read News · Funding 1 min readLovable raises $400 million, doubling its valuation
Lovable, which lets people build apps with AI, is now valued at $13.3 billion. It hit a $500 million annualised revenue run rate in June.
Read News · Models 1 min readPixel 11 arrives with Tensor G6 and on-device Gemini Nano
Google introduced four phones at Made by Google on August 12, all with the Tensor G6 chip running the latest Gemini Nano on device.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readMost power requested for US data centers won't be connected
Wood Mackenzie expects US utilities and grid operators to commit to about 28% of the 1,066 GW requested for data centers.
Read News · Models 1 min readxAI ships Grok 4.6, Grok Bot and Image 2.0 in five days
Grok 4.6 launched on August 12 with a 500,000-token context window. A day earlier Grok Bot, an AI teammate you hand work to, entered beta.
Read News · Search 1 min readThe Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users
The app generates more than 150 million images a day, and Google's open model Gemma has passed a billion downloads.
Read News · Models 1 min readOpenAI shuts Atlas; agentic browsing moves into ChatGPT
Launched for macOS last October, Atlas closed before its first birthday. Multiple tabs, downloads and account login are moving into ChatGPT and Codex.
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