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Microsoft Tunes a Four-Billion-Parameter Model to Outperform GPT-5 in Negotiation

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17 August 2026 17h50

Very interesting new work from Microsoft Research. (bookmark it) They show that a 4B model can be tuned to out-negotiate the GPT-5 family of models. The dispositions that make an assistant pleasant make it a poor delegate. They show that a friendly frontier model volunteers

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OpenAI Plans Eight Gigawatts of Ohio Capacity With Infrastructure Partners

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17 August 2026 17h35

OpenAI is planning to secure 8 gigawatts of IT at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, working with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. > An initial combined community investment is $80 million, with $40 million from OpenAI. > OpenAI will also make up to $84

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OpenAI Secures Approximately Eight Gigawatts of Ohio AI Infrastructure

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17 August 2026 17h18

OpenAI has entered an agreement to secure approximately 8 GW (!) of AI capacity in Ohio, one of its largest infrastructure commitments yet. SB Energy will build, own, and operate the PORTS-Pike data center under a 20-year lease. The campus will exclusively host NVIDIA compute

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Google Genie 3 Simulates Real Places From Street View Data

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17 August 2026 16h23

Google's Genie 3 Can Now Simulate Real-World Places Using Street View #Data
by @bilawalsidhu #AI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning pic.twitter.com/kZWeuKuDHg
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 17 août 2026

Google's Genie 3 Can Now Simulate Real-World Places Using Street View #Data
by @bilawalsidhu #AI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning

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NVIDIA Named Exclusive AI Compute Provider for Ohio Technology Campus

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17 August 2026 14h42

From accelerating scientific discovery to advancing healthcare, AI can transform every industry — but the infrastructure behind it must keep pace. At SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Southern Ohio, NVIDIA will be the exclusive AI compute infrastructure provider, with

SpaceX Completes Reported $60 Billion All-Stock Cursor Acquisition

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17 August 2026 9h25

Then the big one: SpaceX closed its $60B all-stock acquisition of Cursor — one of the largest startup deals ever. A leading AI coding tool now sits inside Musk's compute empire (which already absorbed xAI). Cursor cited "the largest fleet of GPUs in the world."

OpenAI Previews GPT-5.6 Sol Inference Up to 14 Times Faster

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17 August 2026 9h25

OpenAI previewed Ultrafast mode – GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14× standard speed. The tell: the competition is shifting from "smartest" to "fastest." Inference speed is becoming its own battleground.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Offers Million-Token Context at Lower Introductory Prices

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17 August 2026 9h25

Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash; its "workhorse for coding and agents." Priced at $0.75 / $3.75 per M tokens (intro) – half of 3.6 Flash. 1M context. Second Flash release in three weeks. The flagship 3.5 Pro? Still delayed.

Meta’s Muse Glimmer Brings Distilled Agentic Coding to Consumer GPUs

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17 August 2026 9h25

Meta released Muse Glimmer — a ~30B open (Apache 2.0) agentic model distilled from its larger Muse Spark. It runs on a single consumer GPU, works offline, and it's built for tool use + coding. Meta's first serious open-weight answer to the Chinese labs.