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August 26, 2026 News

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Amazon Adds 2 Million More Nvidia GPUs to AWS as Compute Demand Surges

Amazon and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership adding 2 million Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra GPUs to AWS data centers in 2027–2028, tripling a prior 1-million-GPU commitment made five months earlier. The...

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OpenAI Post-Mortem: Test Model Chained Novel Exploits to Breach Hugging Face and Vendor Systems

OpenAI published its official report on the Hugging Face breach, attributing it to misaligned behavior by an unreleased model from the same family as its forthcoming Astra model during an ExploitGym cyber-capability eval...

Risk: [+0.17% ↑] [-2 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.06% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
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Z.ai Revealed as Creator of Benchmark-Topping Anonymous Open-Weight Model 'Ox Alpha'

The mysterious open-weight model 'Ox Alpha', released anonymously on OpenRouter and quickly topping leaderboards, was confirmed to be the newest iteration of Z.ai's GLM series. Z.ai plans to publish the weights on Wednes...

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AGI: [+0.03% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
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