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On August 24, 2026, OpenAI said the GPT-5.6 family—Sol, Terra, and Luna—is available in Kiro, AWS’s spec-driven software development agent. Joint testing claimed GPT-5.6 Terra completed successful Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks in Kiro at roughly an 82% cost reduction. Quotes from AWS’s Swami Sivasubramanian and OpenAI’s Colleen Kapase.

On August 24, 2026, Nvidia said SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs—the 88-core Olympus CPU Nvidia bills as built for agents—to orchestrate Grok’s next agentic workloads, scale Grok infrastructure on Vera Rubin toward gigawatts, and base its first-generation Starmind AI satellite on an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 rack.

On August 24, 2026, Nvidia said Groq 3 LPX—the interactive inference accelerator that extends Vera Rubin—is in full production. Artificial Analysis measured 3,431 output tokens per second on Gemma 4 31B at 100K context. Nebius is the first named cloud; Groq will follow with Dell. Each LPX rack holds 256 LP30 accelerators.

On August 23, 2026, The Information reported that Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity as part of an equity round that would value the AI search and agent startup at more than $30 billion. Reuters relayed the exclusive Sunday night. The round is talks, not a signed deal; Nvidia had also considered a licensing-plus-hire structure.

On August 22, 2026, Bloomberg reported that contract builders for Microsoft, Google, and Oracle have notified hyperscalers that servers with Nvidia AI chips—including Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell—will cost more than 15% extra on many configurations shipping early next year, driven by DRAM/HBM. Nvidia did not comment; Reuters could not independently verify. Earnings are due August 26.

On August 21, 2026, SpaceXAI made Grok 4.6 available on Google Enterprise Agent Platform via Model Garden at $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per million tokens—the same list as Bedrock two days earlier—with a 500k context window and low through xhigh reasoning effort.

On August 21, 2026, SpaceXAI expanded Grok Bot from the August 11 Heavy/Ultra/Teams Premium beta to SuperGrok Plus, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and all Cursor Teams plans. Enterprise remains on a waitlist. Same product line as the beta, new seat map.

On August 20, 2026, Newcomer published Poolside’s investor letter: Nvidia will pay $6 billion for a non-exclusive license to Model Factory, invest $1 billion at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, and offer jobs to 109 Laguna engineers. Founders stay; Poolside says it is not an acquisition. Bloomberg and The Information confirmed August 21.

On August 20, 2026, Anthropic moved computer use, the Skills API, and the Files API to general availability on the Claude Platform and added a browser-use tool that reads page structure, not just pixels. Computer use now supports multi-action turns and HIPAA-eligible workloads under Anthropic’s BAA; Files API gets automatic expiration, 5× rate limits, and 1 TB of org storage.

On August 19, 2026, Marvell disclosed an 8-K: Google received a warrant to buy up to 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58—about $12.18 billion if fully exercised, roughly 7% and fifth-largest holder—vesting against custom-chip purchases through fiscal 2033. Commercial terms were signed July 29; Wednesday is the securities disclosure.

On August 19, 2026, Google opened Back to School 2026: eligible U.S. college students get 12 months of Google AI Pro ($19.99/mo value) with 4× Gemini limits, Spark, 5 TB storage, and Health Premium; students in 140+ other markets get Google AI Plus. Redeem by December 31, 2026, with SheerID verification. A student hub, study notebooks, 3D visualizations, and Deep Research inside Gemini Live roll out to all Gemini app users the same day.

On August 19, 2026, SpaceXAI made Grok 4.6 generally available on Amazon Bedrock at the same $2 / $0.50 cached / $6 per million tokens as the first-party API, with a 500k context window and low/medium/high/xhigh reasoning effort, in supported AWS Regions.

On August 19, 2026, SpaceXAI moved Grok Build out of SuperGrok Heavy early beta: describe an app, game, site, or dashboard in Grok and it builds live in chat on web, iOS, and Android, on every plan. Publish to grok.me, remix, custom domains, GitHub export, and in-app SpaceXAI APIs ship the same day.

On August 18, 2026, OpenAI said ChatGPT Ads will expand next week to 31 European countries including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy—still Free and Go only—after the February U.S. test and the August 11 five-market international launch; self-serve Ads Manager follows later this summer.

On August 18, 2026, OpenAI shipped ChatGPT for Teens, a 13–17 experience that age-prediction routes automatically: Study Mode and homework reminders by default, parental Quiet Hours, and stronger blocks on self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and romantic or sexual roleplay—paired with a CodeAI literacy partnership.

On August 17, 2026, Groq announced a $350 million Series A led by Disruptive with planned Nvidia participation, valuing the inference operator at $3.5 billion—about half its 2025 peak after Nvidia’s licensing deal hired away founder Jonathan Ross—and bringing 2026 capital to $1 billion as it targets 200+ MW in 2027.

On August 17, 2026, Nvidia and OpenAI confirmed a signed Ohio campus deal: Nvidia invests $1.5 billion in SoftBank’s SB Energy, takes exclusive compute at PORTS-Pike, and—per Reuters, CNBC, and Nvidia’s 8-K—provides up to $105 billion of credit support for an initial 4.25 IT-GW with an option on 3.75 more; OpenAI is the 20-year tenant for about 8 IT-GW.

On August 16, 2026, Bloomberg reported Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI model-routing startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion—about 5.4× OpenRouter’s $1.3 billion May Series B—while Stripe declined to comment on the report.

On August 15, 2026, The Information reported Nvidia is negotiating up to $3 billion of equity in SoftBank’s SB Energy—the developer of OpenAI’s planned 10-gigawatt Ohio data-center campus—with half at deal signing and half at a planned SB Energy IPO, alongside the ~$100 billion credit wrap already in talks.

On August 14, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion—down from the $250 billion discussed in July—for OpenAI’s proposed 10-gigawatt Ohio data-center lease, with the two sides nearing a first-phase backstop; The Information later put the figure at about $100 billion.

On August 14, 2026, SpaceXAI said Grok 4.6 is live in GitHub Copilot across VS Code, cloud agents, and the Copilot CLI, with some businesses needing to enable the model in Copilot settings; API pricing remains $2/$6 per million tokens.

On August 13, 2026, Databricks said it closed a $5 billion strategic round at a $190 billion valuation—led by Coatue, with Blackstone, MGX, T. Rowe Price, and new investor Sixth Street—after Q2 growth above 80% year-over-year pushed its revenue run-rate past $7 billion.

On August 13, 2026, DeepSeek said it will raise API prices for V4-Flash and V4-Pro and introduce peak and off-peak rates—increases Reuters put in a 50% to 1,100% range depending on model, token type, and hour—effective 16:00 UTC on August 16.

On August 13, 2026, IBM announced a strategic partnership embedding OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage, launching a dedicated OpenAI Practice and joining OpenAI’s Elite partner tier—terms undisclosed, and distinct from IBM’s earlier Anthropic alliance.