Australia has quietly produced one of the AI boom's largest infrastructure players, and on Friday it got a lot bigger.
Tesla and SpaceX confirmed Terafab, a $16.8B, 100M-sq-ft chip fab in Texas, betting on vertical integration.
AMD is buying Toronto startup Taalas, which etches AI models into silicon, to sharpen its inference fight with Nvidia.
Lumilens emerged from stealth with $700M at a $5.51B valuation to swap data-center copper for light.
Cloudflare shares soared after Q2 revenue hit $696.1 million, up 36%, as AI agent traffic reshapes its business.
Radar raised $170M at a ~$1B valuation for ceiling sensors that give physical stores real-time inventory data.
ByteDance is pre-training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, a reported bid to reach the AI frontier.
Suno will embed watermarks and fingerprints in every AI track so platforms can identify its music after it leaves Suno.
OpenAI's first gadget with Jony Ive is a screenless, hockey-puck-sized smart speaker expected in 2027 for over $300.
Anthropic still leads the August boards at 83.04, but Kimi K3, GLM-5.2 and MiniMax M3 have pulled open-weight AI to the edge.
For billions of years, the genetic code of viruses was written by evolution. This month, some of it was written by an algorithm.
Xiaomi enters the robot foundation model race with XR-1, a VLA model trained on 100,000+ hours of manipulation data.
Nvidia's new open Isaac GR00T and Cosmos models push its physical-AI stack deeper into robots, from humanoids to factory arms.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to fund a $567M youth mental health remedy and overhaul its platforms for minors.
While Washington stays gridlocked, states enacted 100-plus AI laws in 2026, led by a wave of companion-chatbot rules.