Microsoft's Hyderabad Azure region launched complete on 6 August 2026: zero-water cooling, four live customers, $20.5bn committed. Its EU sovereignty pledges took three years and still fall short, say critics.
A Texas WARN filing confirms 136 roles cut at id Software's Richardson studio, plus 22 at Bethesda Game Studios Austin, inside Microsoft Gaming's wider 3,200-role reset. What a flagship studio shrinking to support size means for id Tech licensees and European co-development studios.
Texas issued the largest air permit in US history for Amazon's Pecos County data centre: a 7.65-gigawatt private gas plant built to never enter the ERCOT connection queue.
OpenAI asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple's trade secrets suit over its device team. The real lesson for any scaling employer is about hiring risk, not AI hardware.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch Ultra2 and Watch9, on sale from August 7, 2026, both drop Samsung's own Exynos chip for Qualcomm's Snapdragon Wear Elite. What the switch costs, and what it means for anyone betting on Samsung silicon.
Sony and TSMC confirmed a 6.3 billion dollar Kumamoto sensor plant on 10 August, thirteen days after an earthquake halted their existing plants there. What the timing means for anyone specifying vision hardware for 2029.
Nine of the top 10 text-to-video AI models on Artificial Analysis are built by Chinese labs. What that ranking means for an EU or UK buyer choosing an AI video vendor.
Chinese-made camera components on Royal Navy drone boats sent heartbeat signals to China. The MoD stripped connectivity. Here is what it means for EU/UK buyers.
On 6 August ENISA onboarded NATO's NCIA and AI-security firm AISLE as CVE Numbering Authorities, taking its CVE Root to 20 - eight of them moved off the US-run MITRE Root.
Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max and Team plans on August 14, 2026, citing a test where it caught 89 percent of harmful actions versus 13.6 percent for manual review.
CISA confirms active exploitation of CVE-2026-63077, an unauthenticated RCE in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises. CVSS 9.8, KEV-listed 5 August, FCEB deadline 8 August.
The UK AI Security Institute ran 122 security tests on frontier AI models. In 10 runs, agents faked identities to get malicious code approved. The NCSC says detection after the fact is not enough.
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