AI News Archive: August 19, 2026 — Part 12
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- The Robo Report® Is Becoming Condor Capital's Digital Advice Report ™, Adding Independent Testing of AI Investing Tools
The Robo Report® Is Becoming Condor Capital's Digital Advice Report ™, Adding Independent Testing of AI Investing Tools azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Block Student Fellowship on AI and Society
Block Student Fellowship on AI and Society Carnegie Mellon University
- NEWSLETTER: AI firms can't yet contain what they've built, study finds
NEWSLETTER: AI firms can't yet contain what they've built, study finds Reuters
- Trustify Technology Launches DeviceDiag AI Platform™, Cutting Edge Security Camera RMA Resolution from Weeks to Minutes
Trustify Technology Launches DeviceDiag AI Platform™, Cutting Edge Security Camera RMA Resolution from Weeks to Minutes azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- An IT Leader’s Guide to Dreamforce 2026
Technology is evolving faster than ever, and IT teams are in the hot seat. Discover the keynotes, sessions, and hands-on experiences designed to help you securely scale AI across your enterprise.
- The Salesforce Architect’s Guide to Dreamforce 2026
Join us at Dreamforce 2026 in person or on Salesforce+ to experience the Agentic Enterprise. Powered by you, amplified by agents.
Score: 12🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://www.salesforce.com/blog/salesforce-architect-guide-dreamforce-2026/ - Fortune Tech: OpenAI presses pause; China's robot dogs; Apple's EU sacrifices
Fortune Tech: OpenAI presses pause; China's robot dogs; Apple's EU sacrifices Fortune
Score: 12🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://fortune.com/2026/08/19/openai-hits-pause-on-training-in-hugging-face-aftermath/ - Perceptis AI Brings a Consulting-Informed Approach to Executive Presentations
Perceptis AI Brings a Consulting-Informed Approach to Executive Presentations Entrepreneur Middle East
- GainTrace Launches AI Customer Success Platform as SaaS Retention Falls to 84%
GainTrace Launches AI Customer Success Platform as SaaS Retention Falls to 84% azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Queensland TMR senior leaders driving AI
Use case pipeline being progressed, including for ranking CVs.
- Key AI Innovators Announced for AI Governance World Conference in Las Vegas
Key AI Innovators Announced for AI Governance World Conference in Las Vegas azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Nvidia's Jensen Huang would like to explain a few things on X
Nvidia's Jensen Huang would like to explain a few things on X Business Insider
Score: 10🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-social-media-era-2026-8 - Arrive AI Resolves Streeterville Repayment Trigger, Strengthening Financial Flexibility and Focus on Execution
Arrive AI Resolves Streeterville Repayment Trigger, Strengthening Financial Flexibility and Focus on Execution USA Today
- PODCAST: Robot Rally
PODCAST: Robot Rally Reuters
Score: 10🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://www.reuters.com/podcasts/reuters-morning-bid/robot-rally-2026-08-19/ - From a Scholarship in Haryana to an Eight-Vertical AI Empire: The Vishal Arya Story
From a Scholarship in Haryana to an Eight-Vertical AI Empire: The Vishal Arya Story azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Morning Bid: Dancing robots, dumping bonds
Morning Bid: Dancing robots, dumping bonds Reuters
Score: 10🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://www.reuters.com/world/china/global-markets-view-europe-2026-08-19/ - AnyHauler Launches AnyHauler AI and Brings Doorstep Valet Trash Service to Columbus
AnyHauler Launches AnyHauler AI and Brings Doorstep Valet Trash Service to Columbus USA Today
- Public Sector Tech Report 2026: Federal Government
How federal government is building AI around trust.
- Public Sector Tech Report 2026: State Government
How state governments are making AI prove itself.
- Azumo Recognized Among Top LLM Fine-Tuning Companies in 2026 by Techreviewer.co
Azumo Recognized Among Top LLM Fine-Tuning Companies in 2026 by Techreviewer.co azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- 'Let's Pee On Computers': New Beer Ad Taps AI Data Center Backlash
'Let's Pee On Computers': New Beer Ad Taps AI Data Center Backlash PCMag UK
Score: 08🌐 MovesAug 19, 2026https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/166804/lets-pee-on-computers-new-beer-ad-taps-ai-data-center-backlash - Best Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Agencies August 2026: Prompt Insider Names the Top 10 AEO Agencies
Best Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Agencies August 2026: Prompt Insider Names the Top 10 AEO Agencies azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- Midnight Oracle Launches AI Tarot Reading Platform Built for the Questions People Ask at 3 A.M.
Midnight Oracle Launches AI Tarot Reading Platform Built for the Questions People Ask at 3 A.M. azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- We asked AI to pick wins and losses for the Steelers regular season
We asked AI to pick wins and losses for the Steelers regular season Steelers Wire
- Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence The Telegraph
- A.I. at Work
A.I. at Work University of Oxford
- AI and Innovation
AI and Innovation Fortune
- VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push
Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival is the next step in a deliberate move at VentureBeat toward deeper specialization: analysis built for the technical decision-makers — the directors, VPs, CIOs, and CTOs — who are evaluating, buying, and deploying enterprise AI. The enterprise AI stack is being rewritten in real time, and the decision-makers I talk with are starved for objective, defendable data. Rob Strechay has the mix of technical rigor and operating experience needed to dissect the architecture behind the next phase of enterprise AI deployment. The questions enterprise technology leaders are asking have changed. As organizations move past experimentation with generative AI toward production deployment, they want to know how to orchestrate multi-vendor environments, where the security gaps in their agentic pipelines sit, and how to fix the utilization problems draining their infrastructure budgets. Answering those questions requires more depth than news coverage alone provides, and that is the gap this research offering is built to fill. An analyst who has sat on every side of the table Strechay brings nearly three decades of experience as a practitioner, product executive, and industry analyst. Before becoming an analyst, he was an executive at numerous startups, including Zerto; he joined Amazon Web Services to help build a new analytics service; and he held executive roles across enterprise infrastructure. He later served as a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group and most recently as managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research and SiliconANGLE, where he hosted executive interviews and analyzed the evolution of cloud, data, and AI infrastructure. Strechay will initially focus his coverage on cloud infrastructure, advanced data infrastructure, platform engineering and DevOps orchestration and observability, and the intersection points where AI and enterprise security collide. Already at work: GPU utilization and the VB Pulse surveys Strechay has already been contributing to VentureBeat's research . In May he published an analysis of enterprise GPU utilization , examining the compute waste sitting inside enterprise AI infrastructure, and he provided a substantive review of our AI Infrastructure & Compute survey before it went into the field. His infrastructure-level focus complements the research engine VentureBeat has built around its monthly VB Pulse surveys, which track five areas of enterprise AI adoption: agentic orchestration, agent reliability and evals, agentic security and identity, AI infrastructure and compute, and context layers, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Our June report on agentic orchestration , drawn from a survey of 145 enterprises, found that two-thirds of those enterprises had hedged their AI model strategy rather than committing to a single provider — a posture whose value the June outage of Anthropic's Claude models made plain. VB In Conversation: The first vehicle A core vehicle for this expanded research footprint will be a deepening of VentureBeat's existing VB In Conversation video interview series, which Strechay will host. Rather than high-level industry overviews, the series will bring architectural blueprints, actual deployment barriers, and back-end infrastructure realities to light through in-depth technical interviews with the architects and product leaders behind leading enterprise AI systems — an unvarnished look at which tools perform under production-grade pressure. "VentureBeat has built an audience of enterprise builders and technology buyers that any analyst would want to serve," Strechay said. "My goal is to use deep empirical metrics and VentureBeat's proprietary tracking data to help enterprise buyers and the people building for them make sound platform and infrastructure decisions during the most disruptive transition enterprise technology has seen." The expanded VB In Conversation series will appear on VentureBeat and on VentureBeat's YouTube channel , alongside Rob's written analysis on the site. Enterprise practitioners who want to take part in our monthly VB Pulse surveys, or arrange an analyst briefing with Rob, can reach the research team here .
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- Unitree soars 6x in Shanghai debut, a landmark for China's humanoid robotics
Unitree soars 6x in Shanghai debut, a landmark for China's humanoid robotics DealStreetAsia
- Humanoid robot maker Unitree soars in Shanghai debut
Shares in Unitree, China's best-known humanoid robot maker, soared nearly six-fold in its Shanghai trading debut, in a landmark moment for the country's robotics sector which has become a key battleground in the Sino-US tech war.
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- The data center backlash is sending AI infrastructure to some unexpected places
On July 18, 142 protests were held across 42 states . They all shared one goal: to stop data center development in American communities. The protests are part of a growing movement to keep data centers out of towns across the country. Already, 183 U.S. towns have data center moratoriums or bans , according to the U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker. Little wonder why. Many Americans are unhappy about having the mammoth facilities nearby, citing concerns about their enormous electricity and water demands, unfulfilled promises of job creation, and noise. A March 2026 Gallup poll found that 70% of surveyed Americans oppose the construction of AI data centers in their local areas. As local governments make it more difficult to build AI infrastructure, some companies, both domestic and international, are looking for real estate in unusual places. Big, blue, and perfect for AI infrastructure Portland, Oregon-based startup Panthalassa wants to bring data centers to the ocean. Following prototypes off the coast of Washington state, Panthalassa’s orb-shaped pilot model, Ocean-3, will float hundreds of miles into the Pacific. There, it will convert ocean waves into electricity by using pressurized seawater to spin an internal turbine. The generated energy will power a network of connected computers inside the sphere. Typically, data centers require huge amounts of water to cool their servers, a key point of contention for critics. But Panthalassa hopes to sidestep those concerns by using the naturally cool ocean environment to keep its system cold. The model has attracted $225 million in funding and a nearly $2 billion valuation before even launching. And Panthalassa isn’t alone. China’s Shanghai Lingang undersea data center, six miles off the coast of Shanghai, is the first wind-powered underwater facility of its kind. The project uses 95% green electricity, reducing power consumption by 22.8% , according to the Chinese government. The project’s wind-powered electricity, paired with natural ocean cooling, reduces water use by 100%. The project had received $226 million in investment as of October 2025. Reaching for the stars Y Combinator startup Starcloud is building data centers in space. The Redmond, Washington-based company launched its first model, Starcloud-1, into space in November 2025, making it the first company to train an LLM in space. Its extraterrestrial location sidesteps some of the environmental constraints facing Earth-based data centers. The system is powered by nearby solar energy and uses the vacuum of space to dissipate heat without water . Starcloud says its model offers 10 times lower energy costs, even accounting for hefty launch expenses. Its second satellite is set to launch in October 2026, with 100 times the power-generation capacity of the original. Founded in 2024, Starcloud became the fastest unicorn in YC history and raised $170 million in March 2026, according to YC. Other companies are working on similar projects. Axiom Space launched low-Earth-orbit data centers in January 2026 as part of a network of Kepler satellites designed to process data and power AI models from space. Big players are also looking beyond Earth. Elon Musk’s SpaceX filed with the FCC for a constellation of up to 1 million satellites to form a solar-powered data center. In March, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin filed plans to bring more than 50,000 data centers to space. Google is exploring the idea, too, through its proposed Project Suncatcher . Data centers in low places For Scandinavian tech innovators, the solution is the ground beneath their feet, literally. Norway-based Lefdal Mine Datacenter is located 197 feet below sea level and more than 2,000 feet inside a mountain. The former mine was converted into a 1.3 million-square-foot data center in 2017 and now houses projects from IBM and Norway’s national data-storage provider, Sigma2. It can support 80 megawatts of capacity , according to Data Center Dynamics. The facility is powered by hydro and wind energy and uses cold fjord water to cool its computer systems, reducing the energy needed for cooling. Lefdal is carbon neutral and plans to use heated process water from the facility to support a local salmon hatchery. Its underground location also keeps it largely out of sight, and Lefdal told DCD in December 2025 that it had yet to receive a complaint from locals. Swedish Bahnhof Data Centers operates seven facilities across Stockholm, Malmö, and Gothenburg, two of which are underground. Bahnhof’s Pionen facility is housed in a converted Cold War nuclear bunker, while one of its Gothenburg facilities sits inside an underground rock cavern. Pionen, Bahnhof’s largest facility, is built about 100 feet underground beneath Stockholm’s White Mountains and has 800 kilowatts of capacity. Heat from its servers is recycled into the local district heating network , according to Hirsch Group. Your newest roommate As financial and environmental tensions around data centers grow, California-based Span sees an opportunity to shrink the infrastructure itself. Through a partnership with Nvidia, Span has developed a cabinet-sized prototype that customers can install in their homes. Each unit has a 12.5-kilowatt capacity and uses liquid-cooled servers instead of fans, reducing the noise and physical footprint associated with large-scale facilities. For many people, concerns about data center infrastructure center on energy prices, which could rise by 6% over the next year as AI development expands, according to Goldman Sachs. But Span’s technology costs a flat monthly fee of about $150 , and taps a home’s underused electrical capacity, according to Fortune .
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- Openai Launches Teen Chatgpt
Openai Launches Teen Chatgpt Computing UK
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- Firefox Just Proved AI Browser Features Don't Have to Suck (or Spy on You)
Firefox Just Proved AI Browser Features Don't Have to Suck (or Spy on You) PCMag UK
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