WPP slashes humanoid robot training time from 24 hours to under one hour using NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs on Google Cloud, while a cutting-edge motion capture and digital twin workflow enables robots to mimic natural human movement with remarkable stability.
Mistral launches Regional Endpoints, a Priority Tier with SLA-backed uptime, and a bold European Compute Coalition targeting 1 GW of infrastructure by 2030, cementing its push for AI sovereignty across Europe and the US.
Google unveils the Pixel 11 at its Made by Google event, introducing AI-powered features like Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photo mode, and multi-step task execution, while strategically avoiding the 'AI' label and rebranding Android as an 'intelligence system' to shift smartphones toward goal-oriented interactions.
Google launches the Pixel 11 lineup starting at $899, bringing powerful Gemini AI capable of handling multistep tasks across 40+ apps and major camera upgrades including Magic Capture and faster Night Sight, with retail availability beginning August 20.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open AI model, paired with NeMo Switchyard, an open-source routing tool that dynamically assigns tasks to the most cost-efficient model available, slashing inference costs by up to 74% while maintaining frontier-level performance.
Nvidia launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a free, open-source AI model that runs on a single GPU, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic while companies like CrowdStrike and Harvey are already putting it to the test.
Databricks acquires Electric, the company behind PGlite, bringing full Postgres database power to phones, browsers, and AI agents via WebAssembly, enabling faster AI-assisted development on low-powered devices while syncing locally-run databases to enterprise cloud systems.
NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B parameter open Mixture-of-Experts AI model that activates only 3B parameters at a time, delivering up to 4x faster output speeds and completing 10,000 agentic tasks 30% faster than Qwen3 35B, with fully open weights released under OpenMDW-1.1 for deployment anywhere from local hardware …
Meta launches Muse Glimmer, a powerful 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model under Apache 2.0, designed for autonomous agents, capable of running on consumer hardware with 24GB VRAM, and outperforming key rivals on several agentic benchmarks.
Microsoft is unveiling its next-generation Maia 300 AI chip as early as September, with over 300,000 units ordered from TSMC for 2027 delivery, as the tech giant makes a bold push to reduce its dependence on Nvidia's GPUs for Azure cloud AI workloads — and is already courting Anthropic as …