AI data centers drive copper demand higher even with 800V cuts; India’s import gap now threatens timelines and costs for its planned 12 GW buildout.
Google and UC San Diego turn 2,000 retired Pixel motherboards into a Kubernetes cluster, testing whether mobile chips can shoulder education loads without new.
The $25,000 London Classic purchase Atlas Ross banked another Gold score to reach C$142,550 undefeated, validating the McNair-Ross wager on a Big Jim colt.
Ethereum rose 1% to $1898 on Aug 17 as spot ETF absorption, Layer-2 settlement and short covering removed liquid supply beneath a modest print.
Unfunded ScitiX ships production multi-model inference on owned B200 H200 H100 gear, claiming 1 trillion tokens daily and hosting RadixArk workloads as.
Higgsfield closes a $380 million round at $5.4 billion with Goldman and Intel as $500 million run-rate revenue proves AI video as ad production infrastructure.
Gemini Take Notes expands beyond video to physical meetings with Docs summaries, action items and transcripts for eligible Workspace and AI plans.
Apple asked a federal judge for 5-15% on external App Store purchases after the Supreme Court cleared the path.
Shiprocket IPO allotment is due today after 102x subscription and ₹32 GMP, yet retail odds stay tiny while valuation banks on unproven growth bets.
Airtel and Starlink switch on Africa’s first commercial satellite-to-phone service in the DRC on 14 August 2026, limited to SMS and light apps on Android.