Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3 billion parameter safety classifier under Apache 2.0 that runs on a single 16GB GPU and takes your policy as plain text at inference time. Moderation stops being an API call.
Bitdeer leased its Tydal campus in Norway to Volta for 4.7 billion dollars over 16 years, with Anthropic as the end customer. The fastest route to European grid capacity is buying a load that already exists.
A worm called ChainDrop poisoned 435 npm packages with 1,557 versions in a 124 minute window on 4 August. The libraries with the widest reach are caching helpers almost nobody installs on purpose.
Spotify crossed 300 million premium subscribers on 4 August. Its audience grew faster than its paying base, so the share of listeners who pay fell over the year. That gap is the ad inventory.
Base Power raised 1 billion dollars at a 13 billion valuation to install home batteries in two US states. Europe's residential battery market shrank 6 percent. The difference is not hardware, it is who owns the box.
Bending Spoons is paying 1.285 billion dollars for Airtable, a business with about 480 million dollars of recurring revenue. The multiple, not the press release, tells you what happens at your next renewal.
Alphabet's Q2 filing discloses 43.8 billion dollars of credit derivatives backstopping data centre payments, on terms up to 15 years. It never names who is being backstopped.
Ore Energy raised 43 million dollars on 4 August for iron-air batteries that store power for 100 hours. The number that matters is not the round. It is the 72 terawatt hours Europe already throws away.
Snap reported 19 percent revenue growth for the second quarter. Advertising, the part you buy, grew 9 percent, and management says the World Cup spending behind it normalizes in the third quarter.
Apple asked a California court on 3 August to bar two former employees and OpenAI from using its alleged confidential information, and to depose six parties on an expedited schedule. OpenAI answered a day later.
Krafton grew quarterly revenue 94.9 percent and still posted a net loss of 29.9 billion won. The company attributes it to non-operating losses from the acquisition that produced the hit. A lesson in reading a record.
The voluntary US frontier model framework met its 1 August deadline. The benchmark and the threshold deciding which models are covered are classified. Brussels published its equivalent line as a number you can compute.
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