Wednesday, 5 August 2026
Anthropic confirms in-house AI chip team
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Anthropic publicly confirmed it is building custom chips for Claude, hiring senior chip engineers at salaries up to $485,000 as part of a multi-chip strategy.
Texas freezes new AI data center hookups
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Governor Abbott ordered a halt on new data center grid connections pending audits, after requests hit 474 gigawatts, five times Texas's peak demand record.
Court: user, not agent, accesses the site
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The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's Comet agent, ruling the user, not Perplexity, accesses its site under federal hacking law.
Convex raises $57M to harden agent backends
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Convex closed a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, betting that AI coding agents need a more reliable backend than what most app builders wire together.
Anaconda buys AI-security firm Enkrypt AI
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Anaconda acquired AI-security startup Enkrypt AI, adding red-teaming and MCP scanning after Enkrypt found 143,000+ flaws across 25,000 MCP servers.