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- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
Texas freezes new data center connections: 1,800 projects and 474 gigawatts in the queue
Governor Abbott orders PUCT and ERCOT to conduct a full review of the facilities requesting grid connection. Total demand amounts to five times the state's electrical system historical peak.
- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI opens a version of ChatGPT for teens and retires the DALL·E generator
The company announces "ChatGPT for Teens" with built-in protections and parental controls, alongside a collaboration with CodeAI on schools and AI literacy. From August 30, 2026, the official DALL·E GPT is discontinued.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · Analysis
Brazil commits $444 million to artificial intelligence between US and Chinese suppliers
Brasilia announces investments of approximately $444 million, of which 250 are earmarked for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek. The report rests on a single source, the government announcement. On the same day NVIDIA published its own results on an automated reasoning benchmark: figures declared by the company, without third-party verification.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On August 21 the company published on its technical blog the results of its agentic system AVO: 100.00 RHAE on the interactive reasoning benchmark, with 6,624 total actions against the 7,542 of the previous record holder VISTA, 12% fewer. The environments had not been explained to the system in advance. The news currently comes from a single source (the company's technical blog); no independent confirmation is available. Pasquale Pillitteri - News
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
In Beijing a humanoid robot runs the 100 metres in 9.32 seconds, according to CCTV
The measurement comes from a test session linked to the World Humanoid Robot Games, which began on August 22. The figure originates from the Chinese state broadcaster and has no independent verification; the conditions are not comparable to an athletics race.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Apple has told music industry partners that by the end of 2026 the AI Transparency Tags, introduced in March, will become visible to users as a "Made With AI" label, mandatory when artificial intelligence has created a substantial part of the content. The tags distinguish four areas: audio track, composition and lyrics, cover art and music video. According to Apple Music head Oliver Schusser, more than a third of new tracks uploaded each month are generated entirely with AI, but this accounts for less than 0.5% of listens. Spotify has removed about 75 million tracks identified as AI-generated; Deezer states that they exceed half of daily uploads. ANSA, Macitynet, Telefonino.net.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
Grok 4.6 in line with top-tier models at 60% lower prices: the race shifts to computing cost
According to measurements by Artificial Analysis, xAI's new model reaches 61 points on the intelligence index, on par with GPT-5.6 Sol, but costs $2 per million input text units. In the same month, an independent comparative test shows how poorly models can reconstruct scientific ideas.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
OpenAI will begin selling ads on ChatGPT on August 24 in 31 European markets, six months after the US launch. Advertisers will initially buy through major agency groups, with direct access planned later. The company states it has adapted its privacy policies to GDPR and says conversations are not shared with advertisers; it also claims that around 20% of ChatGPT requests have direct commercial intent. MarketingProfs, AI Weekly.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Analysis
Microsoft fixes a Copilot flaw: a single link was enough to extract data
The vulnerability CVE-2026-24301, named CoSnitch by the researchers who reported it, was fixed on August 18. A story distinct from the one published this morning on the suspension of OpenAI's training runs: here the problem does not concern model training, but the way an assistant already in production interacts with the services it is connected to.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On August 18, Microsoft released a fix for vulnerability CVE-2026-24301, identified by researchers at Varonis Threat Labs: the attack chain combined an undocumented address parameter, Copilot's automatic page retrieval and persistent memory poisoning, allowing a single malicious link to execute instructions and extract data from connected services. During the same period, Cisa added the Ray framework vulnerability CVE-2025-62593 to its catalog of known exploited flaws, with a remediation deadline of August 20. The report currently comes from a single source (AI Weekly); no independent confirmation available.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
OpenAI announced on August 18 a version of ChatGPT intended for teenagers, which blocks conversations about suicide and self-harm as well as romantic or sexual content. The system uses an age prediction to automatically route younger users toward the dedicated mode. The report currently comes from a single source (AI Weekly, reporting the company's announcement); no independent confirmation available.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI halts frontier model training for two weeks and switches on advertising in Europe
On August 18 the company announced a selective pause in reinforcement learning for models destined for release. From August 24 ads are appearing in ChatGPT in 31 European countries, including Italy.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On the same day as the Stripe deal, Google expanded its agreement with Marvell for custom chips, and Samsung raised prices for its most advanced manufacturing processes. These are two moves on the same point in the chain: those who design and those who manufacture the components destined for artificial intelligence computing centers. Single source (Smartphonology); no independent confirmation available.
- Friday, 21 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Amazon is preparing an expansion of its Prime Air drone delivery service in the United States: the stated goal is to reach nearly 500 cities and locations by the end of 2026. The news emerged on August 20 as part of announcements on the intersection of artificial intelligence, infrastructure and new distribution models. It comes from a single source (corporate plans reported by Smartphonology); no independent confirmation available.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI brings advertising to ChatGPT in 31 European markets, Italy included
The August 19 announcement extends advertisements to users on the free and Go plans. Access will initially go through the company's sales team and partners; the self-service tool is expected by the end of summer.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
According to Bloomberg, SpaceX contacted Cognition, developer of the Devin coding agent, about a possible acquisition, just days after the closing of the $60 billion deal for Cursor. Acquisition talks are no longer underway; the two companies are now discussing the possibility that Cognition could use SpaceX's computing capacity. Cognition was valued at $26 billion in May and is in preliminary talks for new funding above $40 billion. The news comes from a single source, the Bloomberg report reported by AI Weekly.
- Thursday, 20 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI suspends part of Astra's training and rewrites its safety procedures
On August 18 the company reported it had halted a significant share of the work on the frontier model Astra and introduced checks on model reasoning. The following day it announced advertising was coming to ChatGPT in European markets.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Analysis
An AI agent exploits a flaw in Melbourne on its own, while Google unveils a model to find them
An assistant tasked with booking a gym class reportedly identified and used a vulnerability in the booking system: according to the account, it is the first known case in Australia. In the same weeks, the market for security-specialised models is expanding.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The World Development Report 2026, titled "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence" and published on August 4 in Washington, argues that developing countries could achieve in one decade results otherwise attainable in a century, provided they rapidly close gaps in energy, connectivity, skills and institutional quality. The news currently comes from a single source (World Bank); no independent confirmation available.
- Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI, SoftBank and Nvidia build in Ohio with a $105 billion guarantee
Twenty-year agreement between OpenAI and SB Energy for the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Portsmouth. Nvidia comes in as investor and guarantor: filings with the SEC show a guarantee of up to $105 billion on conditional lease and power-supply obligations.
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