Monday, Aug 24, 2026
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2026-08-24- openaiOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is shifting the company toward a platform-centric model focused on APIs and AGI interfaces, admitting that GPT-4's economic disruption was slower than anticipated due to economic inertia.+1
- huggingfaceHugging Face is exploring a potential sale with a target valuation of at least $13 billion.
- nvidiaNvidia is in discussions for a traditional equity investment in Perplexity, which could value the startup at over $30 billion.
- roboticsHumanoid robots from China set new world records in 100m and 400m sprints at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
- xpengXPeng Robotics raised $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to accelerate the commercialization of its humanoid and quadrupedal robots.
- chipsMicron CEO predicts a structural memory shortage lasting until 2028 due to massive AI data center demand.
- samsungSamsung announced a new AI memory roadmap featuring zHBM, which aims to reduce power consumption by 70% compared to HBM5.
- xiaomiXiaomi unveiled the AI Cube, a local inference hardware prototype, and introduced new in-house Xring chips manufactured by TSMC to reduce reliance on Qualcomm and MediaTek.+1
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