Tech & AI
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- Saturday, 29 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On August 28, OpenAI announced support for multiple accounts for Gmail, Calendar and Contacts within the same conversation, allowing users to consult personal and work inboxes and calendars together. The feature is available globally on paid plans, on web, desktop, iOS and Android; the day before, additional controls for temporary chats had been introduced (OpenAI release notes, sole source).
- Friday, 28 August 2026 · Analysis
A hundred organizations, including OpenAI and Anthropic, call for a global commitment on cyber defenses
An open letter argues that AI-enhanced attacks will become more widespread in the coming months and names hospitals and water networks among the most exposed targets.
- Friday, 28 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The agreement reached by Meta with US attorneys general provides for a financial commitment of up to 18 billion dollars and new restrictions for teenage users on Instagram and Facebook: age requirements, nighttime blocks and expanded parental control tools. The two available sources diverge on the number of signatory jurisdictions — 52 attorneys general according to Smartphonology, 47 states according to laRegione — and the figure needs verification against the original document. Smartphonology
- Thursday, 27 August 2026 · Analysis
Meta accepts up to $18 billion and limits teen use to two hours
The agreement with a cross-party coalition of state attorneys general closes the lawsuit filed in 2023 by 29 states. Provisions include an overnight lockout, hiding of "likes," and age verification; $5.3 billion is contingent on TikTok and YouTube joining in.
- Thursday, 27 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2027, ended July 26, Nvidia posted revenue of $96.2 billion and adjusted earnings of $2.22 per share, against expectations of $91.9 billion and $2.08 per share; adjusted gross margin at 75% (Investing.com Italia, IG Italia). For the current quarter, the company guides toward $108 billion, with a 2% margin of variance; the stock fell 1.5% in after-hours trading following the release.
- Thursday, 27 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Ahead of the earnings release, the options market was pricing in a 4.99% move in Nvidia's stock, equivalent to about $257 billion on a market capitalization of roughly $5.2 trillion, according to data reported by Benzinga Italia. A year earlier, in the same quarter, the company's revenue had been $46.74 billion.
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
AWS Mechanical Turk will cease operations on September 30, 2026: Amazon informed workers and requesters. Launched in 2005, the service distributed micro-tasks — image labeling, transcription, surveys, moderation — to more than 500,000 people for a few cents each. New sign-ups had already been suspended on July 30, the day on which the company also closed SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI to new users. The reason given is a generic periodic review of the programs. The news currently comes from a single source (Amazon's communication as reported by Tech Startups); no independent confirmation available. (Tech Startups)
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
According to the company, the first inference chip developed in-house beats Nvidia's Blackwell systems on the ratio between artificial intelligence work and power consumption in benchmark tests. The claim comes from OpenAI and has not currently been verified by independent assessments: we record it as the party's position. On the same day, reports emerged of Moonshot AI seeking agreements with major U.S. compute providers and Samsung's plans on memory for artificial intelligence workloads. (Tech Startups)
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI launches a version of ChatGPT for teenagers and a deal with CodeAI on schools
The company announces a product dedicated to students with specific protections and parental controls, alongside a partnership to bring artificial intelligence training into classrooms. All information comes from company press releases.
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
The robotics subsidiary of Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng has closed a first funding round of more than $900 million. According to the company, the funds will go toward hardware and software research, AI training for physical systems, manufacturing infrastructure development, and international expansion. The deal accompanies the group's shift from electric vehicles to humanoid robots. (AIToolly, Tech Startups)
- Wednesday, 26 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On the same day it announced the teen version of ChatGPT, OpenAI made the GPT-5.6 model available on Kiro, a platform dedicated to software development. The information comes from the company's release notes: no terms of use, pricing, or market availability were specified. (Releasebot)
- Tuesday, 25 August 2026 · Analysis
China recalls over four million cars over retractable door handles
The market regulator announced on August 21 recalls involving eleven manufacturers. Tesla is recalling around 2.98 million vehicles, nearly three quarters of the total.
- Tuesday, 25 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
As of August 2, 2026, companies must mark as such video, audio, images and texts created to a significant extent using artificial intelligence, under penalty of substantial fines. On July 29, the national adaptation to the European AI regulation had entered into force. (Bundesregierung)
- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
Texas freezes new data center connections: 1,800 projects and 474 gigawatts in the queue
Governor Abbott orders PUCT and ERCOT to conduct a full review of the facilities requesting grid connection. Total demand amounts to five times the state's electrical system historical peak.
- Monday, 24 August 2026 · Analysis
OpenAI opens a version of ChatGPT for teens and retires the DALL·E generator
The company announces "ChatGPT for Teens" with built-in protections and parental controls, alongside a collaboration with CodeAI on schools and AI literacy. From August 30, 2026, the official DALL·E GPT is discontinued.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · Analysis
Brazil commits $444 million to artificial intelligence between US and Chinese suppliers
Brasilia announces investments of approximately $444 million, of which 250 are earmarked for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek. The report rests on a single source, the government announcement. On the same day NVIDIA published its own results on an automated reasoning benchmark: figures declared by the company, without third-party verification.
- Sunday, 23 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
On August 21 the company published on its technical blog the results of its agentic system AVO: 100.00 RHAE on the interactive reasoning benchmark, with 6,624 total actions against the 7,542 of the previous record holder VISTA, 12% fewer. The environments had not been explained to the system in advance. The news currently comes from a single source (the company's technical blog); no independent confirmation is available. Pasquale Pillitteri - News
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
In Beijing a humanoid robot runs the 100 metres in 9.32 seconds, according to CCTV
The measurement comes from a test session linked to the World Humanoid Robot Games, which began on August 22. The figure originates from the Chinese state broadcaster and has no independent verification; the conditions are not comparable to an athletics race.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · From Zero's Briefs
Apple has told music industry partners that by the end of 2026 the AI Transparency Tags, introduced in March, will become visible to users as a "Made With AI" label, mandatory when artificial intelligence has created a substantial part of the content. The tags distinguish four areas: audio track, composition and lyrics, cover art and music video. According to Apple Music head Oliver Schusser, more than a third of new tracks uploaded each month are generated entirely with AI, but this accounts for less than 0.5% of listens. Spotify has removed about 75 million tracks identified as AI-generated; Deezer states that they exceed half of daily uploads. ANSA, Macitynet, Telefonino.net.
- Saturday, 22 August 2026 · Analysis
Grok 4.6 in line with top-tier models at 60% lower prices: the race shifts to computing cost
According to measurements by Artificial Analysis, xAI's new model reaches 61 points on the intelligence index, on par with GPT-5.6 Sol, but costs $2 per million input text units. In the same month, an independent comparative test shows how poorly models can reconstruct scientific ideas.
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