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Trump says communities that reject data centers will end up "backwards and poor" and that "China could not be happier with this anti Data Center movement" (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)

Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (Chris Metinko/Axios)

The challenges John Ternus inherits as he replaces Tim Cook on Sept. 1 amid rising component costs, staff retention issues, efforts to catch up in AI, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Anthropic signs out some Claude users, removes saved payment methods, and issues refunds after infostealer malware on their PCs hijacked sessions to drain usage (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Analysis: AI chatbots challenged or didn't respond to 90%+ of 15 false narratives spread by Russia, China, and Iran; AI overviews did it 60%+ of the time (Huo Jingnan/NPR)

Data center development is driving demand for acoustic consultants, as developers and neighboring communities hire acousticians to assess noise emissions (Sheena Meng/Bloomberg)

Job listings and other indicators: SpaceX is working on a Bastrop, TX foundry to build blades for large gas turbines, which could ease its AI power crunch (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)

Sources detail how Meta's $17.1B settlement with state AGs came together as Meta wanted to avoid going to trial following losses in cases in LA and New Mexico (New York Times)

Owner, which makes AI agents that manage restaurants' websites, marketing, and other functions, raised a $240M Series D at a $2.3B valuation (Joe Guszkowski/Restaurant Business)

Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft (Emily Graffeo/Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (The Information)

Source: Nvidia plans an employee-funded political action committee called NVPAC, as it seeks to step up its efforts to influence US policy (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale $45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

An ex-Meta staffer testified that less than 1% of teens used Instagram's opt-in "Take a Break" tool when it launched; the feature is now on by default for teens (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)

Mercury Research: AMD's share of x86 client CPU shipments tops 30% for the first time, hitting 30.3% in Q2, up from 21.1% two years earlier, vs. Intel's 69.7% (Michael Kan/PCMag)

The UK becomes the first foreign nation to gain access to Ukrainian combat data used to train AI models to strike Russian targets, as part of an AI partnership (Financial Times)

Sam Altman says AI could end up controlled by a few powerful players, partly because AI fears could push people to trade "a lot of liberty for safety" (Truman Dickerson/Business Insider)

Greg Abbott says data center companies "dug their own grave" by moving into communities without first gaining support, signaling growing Republican backlash (Axios)

Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B+, up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider)

Ramp data: Fable 5, launched in June, has plateaued at ~11% of spending on Anthropic tools, as companies shift to cheaper models; Opus 5 surpassed Fable 5 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

AI agents' growing capabilities are driving productivity FOMO among some startup founders, who feel compelled to work long hours managing and guiding the agents (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni and with $50M in seed funding, says its new Faraday agent beats GPT-5.5 at reproducing research paper findings (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)