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The changelog from August 19 promoted Admin API, Files API, Agent Skills, and Managed Agents to general availability. This package addresses most governance objections that delayed corporate contracts.
On August 19, Bloomberg extended ASKB to iOS and Android with real-time session synchronization to the desktop Terminal, placing the AI agent in the decision-making flow outside the desk.
Bankruptcy auction awarded Google 100 million emails, 500 million Teams messages, and decades of operational data from Spirit Airlines. This is the first time a corporate estate has been explicitly sold to train cutting-edge AI.
The incident began at 1:40 PM UTC on Monday, affecting Actions, Pull Requests, API, and Copilot, and ended only at 9:15 PM. The technical cause has not been disclosed.
Nvidia commits to up to $105 billion in credit for the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio. SoftBank's SB Energy builds and operates; OpenAI leases for 20 years with exclusively Nvidia hardware.
HSBC announces a global AI center in Singapore with over 100 specialists and invests in Model ML. This move seals the bank's agentic banking agenda and pressures global rivals in Asia and Europe.
Alibaba's open models reach 3 billion downloads in six months, becoming the default for developers. CIOs weigh cost, governance, and Chinese origin in each rollout.
Reuters revealed that Apple trained its own model for China with the support of Alibaba, after the CAC registered the service in July 2026. This is the first approval of its kind granted by the regulator to a foreign company.
Chinese startup has officially launched the V4-Pro-0813 with a context of 1 million tokens and is repricing the API effective August 16, marking the end of the aggressive pricing phase that brought it into the spotlight in 2025.
The Pixel 11 starts at $899 with Gemini Intelligence executing actions between apps without manual command. Rick Osterloh says Google and Apple have taken 'very different directions.'
The manufacturer signed MOUs with six Wall Street firms to mobilize third-party capital that finances GPUs instead of drawing from clients' balance sheets. Jensen Huang says Nvidia can provide a $125 billion backstop.
Distilled model from Muse Spark arrives under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and Ollama. It's Meta's answer to Anthropic and OpenAI's dominance in agentic code.