ByteDance, Tencent Get Nvidia H200 Chips, but Beijing Wants Them in Hong Kong
ByteDance and Tencent each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips, but Chinese regulators want the hardware kept in Hong Kong, which lacks the power to run it.
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ByteDance and Tencent each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips, but Chinese regulators want the hardware kept in Hong Kong, which lacks the power to run it.
Meta launched a Mac app for Meta AI with screen sharing and Google Workspace access, aimed at creators and small businesses running campaigns on Facebook and Instagram.
Alibaba’s profit fell about 75% in the June quarter as AI infrastructure spending jumped 75%, even as cloud revenue grew 45% and the company touted its new Qwen3.8-Max model.
Nvidia has discussed investing in Mercor, a data-labeling startup that supplies expert data for its Nemotron models, in a round that would double the company’s valuation to $20 billion.
Anthropic’s ongoing system-prompt changelog now documents instructions for Claude Fable 5 and Opus 5, revealing how the company steers agentic behavior in its newest models.
Cursor launched Origin, a code-hosting platform built into its editor with GitHub sync, in early beta the same day GitHub suffered a major global outage.
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in its safety framework.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version with default safety protections, learning tools and parental controls, automatically applied to users it identifies as under 18.
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is working with WorldClaw, an AI platform offering restricted Chinese models, letting the family profit as its stablecoin is used for payment.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion at the end of July, a sevenfold jump in seven months, as the Claude maker prepares for a potential fall IPO.