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A team from Dharma-AI reports a constraint-aware GPU allocator that, in benchmarks, increased utilization by up to 33 percentage points and raised priority-weighted output by as much as 105% versus a FIFO scheduler. The authors tested identical workloads on identical hardware.
OpenAI announced grants to 14 independent projects to explore how AI can broaden economic opportunity and strengthen societal resilience. The announcement follows the April 2026 Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age and includes $1M in funding plus up to $1M in API credits.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate exceeded $65 billion at the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B at year-end, Bloomberg reported. Investors expect 2026 revenue of $100–$120B, and the Financial Times says Anthropic is targeting a $2 trillion+ IPO valuation.
Google said Gemini and Pixel have signed long-term partnerships with Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC and Paris Saint-Germain to deliver match insights, behind-the-scenes content and club wallpapers on Pixel 11 devices.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back against investor Gavin Baker’s claim that his warnings fueled an AI backlash, saying his public commentary balances risks and benefits. Amodei called the backlash a broader crisis of trust and defended Anthropic’s regulatory proposals.
Bloomberg reports Stripe has agreed to buy AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B in May at a reported $1.3 billion valuation and says it serves 8 million users and offers access to 400+ models.
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay titled “The Future is for Everyone” outlining personal AI assistants and devices. Hosts on the Equity podcast raised doubts about trust, accessibility and Meta’s track record, citing comments from Russell Brandom, Rebecca Bellan and Kirsten Korosec.
Anthropic published a blog post explaining how it will watermark Claude’s outputs to comply with the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code. The company said it will use the SynthID-Text approach, offer a detection API, and warned light edits may not fully remove watermarks.
SpaceX has completed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, the companies announced on August 15, 2026. The April deal had given SpaceX an option to buy Cursor for $60 billion; Cursor said the move gives it access to SpaceX’s GPU fleet and computing infrastructure.
OlmoEarth Studio can now compute and export embedding vectors from open-source OlmoEarth foundation models as COGs. The OlmoEarth team (published August 12, 2026) describes use cases including similarity search, few-shot segmentation (F1=0.84) and change detection.